Lowest Common Denominator-It's about Nothing

[e-RICHIE]

JERRY: Just talking? Well what's the show about?
GEORGE: It's about nothing.
JERRY: No story?
GEORGE: No forget the story.
JERRY: You've got to have a story.
GEORGE: Who says you gotta have a story? Remember when we were waiting for, for that table in that Chinese restaurant that time? That could be a TV show.
JERRY: And who is on the show? Who are the characters?
GEORGE: I could be a character.
JERRY: You?
GEORGE: Yeah. You could base a character on me.
JERRY: So, on the show, there's a character named George Costanza?
GEORGE: Yeah. There's something wrong with that? I'm a character. People are always saying to me, "You know you're a quite a character."
JERRY: And who else is on the show?
GEORGE: Elaine could be a character. Kramer..
JERRY: Now he's a character. (Pause) So everybody I know is a character on the show.
GEORGE: Right.
JERRY: And it's about nothing?
GEORGE: Absolutely nothing.
JERRY: So you're saying, I go in to NBC, and tell them I got this idea for a show about nothing.
GEORGE: We go into NBC.
JERRY: "We"? Since when are you a writer?
GEORGE: (Scoffs) Writer. We're talking about a sit-com.
JERRY: You want to go with me to NBC?
GEORGE: Yeah. I think we really go something here.
JERRY: What do we got?
GEORGE: An idea.
JERRY: What idea?
GEORGE: An idea for the show.
JERRY: I still don't know what the idea is.
GEORGE: It's about nothing.
JERRY: Right.
GEORGE: Everybody's doing something, we'll do nothing.
JERRY: So, we go into NBC, we tell them we've got an idea for a show about nothing.
GEORGE: Exactly.
JERRY: They say, "What's your show about?" I say, "Nothing."
GEORGE: There you go.

(A moment passes)

JERRY: (Nodding) I think you may have something there.

[Erik.Lazdins]

8 years the show has been off the air - they need to bring it back, and instead of keeping the same green Klein hanging by the bathroom - rotate the bikes.

[Chief]

Interestingly, each episode can be identified with an event that we all have experienced in life one time or another. Since the show is about nothing, does it follow that life is nothing? :confused:

[e-RICHIE]

Interestingly, each episode can be identified with an event that we all have experienced in life one time or another. Since the show is about nothing, does it follow that life is nothing? :confused:

well this http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=16142
is now a f%$#en thread about nothing imho atmo cery yo cheers :beer:

[Grant McLean]

8 years the show has been off the air - they need to bring it back, and instead of keeping the same green Klein hanging by the bathroom - rotate the bikes.

Maybe Douglas could provide enough bikes for the show to go on forever...
...but I don't know about it coming back. Seasons 4-7 were the peak for me.
The last year and a half the show was going down hill like those Stalingrad HED'S.

-g

[SoCalSteve]

Not the other way around.

IMHO

Steve

[Dr. Doofus]

anyway

it wasn't a show about nothing

simply because something is driven by character, rather than plot, does not mean it is without unity or order

it was a satire about the ridiculous compulsions of myopic people, which more often than not included the audience -- and if you didn't find the last episode funny, then you were knave enough to identify with the characters, or fool enough not to realize that, in the end, the joke was on you....


just doof's swift-trained 2 cents

what are we talking about again?

[William]

http://www.crankyconsumer.org/archives/larrythomas-thumb.jpg



William ;)

[EPOJoe]

I think the real question in all this is why is Jason Alexander better at playing Larry David than Larry David?

[e-RICHIE]

I think the real question in all this is why is Jason Alexander better at playing Larry David than Larry David?


i don't trust anyone with two first names.
and ps, larry david should stick with the
mail order fruit gig.

[Erik.Lazdins]

Maybe Douglas could provide enough bikes for the show to go on forever...
...but I don't know about it coming back. Seasons 4-7 were the peak for me.
The last year and a half the show was going down hill like those Stalingrad HED'S.

-g

I think your bike would look even better than the green Klein. It would boost ratings big time as well. If Jerry is willing to do the show, will you provide the bike? That might be all he needs to commit.