Hey everybody, this is Andrew, your favorite TV boy here to introduce a feed drop for another show that we think you might like. A friend of the show, Craig, who is also on my book podcast overdue with me, and our friend from college Chris, are doing a Seinfeld podcast called Seinfeld Triple X, which no, it's not pornography. It is, they are watching every episode of Seinfeld on 30th anniversary of its original air date, and discussing how it is hitting them as Seinfeld fans 30 years later. They also have pretty good segments at the end where they talk about things that were happening in the world at the time, pictures that were dominating at the box office.
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I'm Chris. And we are here to, as we said, celebrate three decades having passed since season two, episode six of the hit show Seinfeld. Nobody's giving episode Seinfeld. Nobody's giving episode.
We're going to be talking about episode two, episode six, The Statue, which originally aired on April 11, 1991, which is why we're here talking to you in April 2021. This was a Tom Sharon directed joint. He's the only guy who directs Seinfeld, the only guy who can stand it. Have we done an episode that has not been directed by Tom Sharon's?
I don't think so, except for, of course, Sano Confidential, which is its own can of worms. What's the deal with Tom Sharon's? We should try and get him on the show at the store. No, my secret hope is I want to get Kenny Bany on the show.
I'm going to say after who played Kenny Bany on the actual character of Kenny Bany. I'll take either one. And I'm saying it out loud so I can manifest it through the secret. I'm just going to start putting that out there.
Right now, anybody knows the guy who played Bany on the show? I don't even know his name. We will get him on the show. Yeah, he can come to us in character or not in character.
I think this was his first episode that aired, though he did write other episodes for season two. And he wrote that. He wrote the episode where Elaine buys a gun that they'd stop production on. Yeah, the bet.
It was called he did write The Baby Shower, which we'll air later this season. But he wrote, I think he writes a couple of those and the guests episode are Neri Kopel playing Rava, Michael D Conway playing Ray. Those are our two big guest stars. And this is really known as one of the first big like, what do we do with Kramer episodes?
Yeah, you saw the problem like Cosmo? I think this is the first episode where we see Kramer doing something on his own without any of the other three cast members around. That's a, I think you're right. I think you're right.
Him interacting with another character that is not one of our main ones. Yeah, that's a good point. Larry Charles liked the character. He kind of wanted to develop him and see where he could take him.
Apparently after this episode, Michael Richards went up to Jerry and was like, we should do more of that. Which of course, why not? You totally say that. He got a bunch of screen time and the cast and the team point to this episode.
And I think the next episode, the revenge as like watershed moments in the development of Kramer as a character, which culturally we need to memorialize. It's very important. Before we dive into the plot, Chris, you and I, we've alluded to this already. I don't think we like this one.
No, this is not the strongest season two episode. It's probably it's pretty weak. It's probably better than some of the season one episodes we covered, but I have seen every episode of Seinfeld multiple times. I had no memory of this one when I started watching it.
That's interesting. I do, I did remember parts of this episode, but it certainly doesn't have much that I remember as like a bit there. It doesn't seem to contribute despite what it does for Kramer. I think from a writing perspective, I don't think it like contributes to the broader vocabulary of the show.
No, and in a lot of ways, I think there's dead ends in this episode and things that they won't do in the future, especially with some of the secondary characters they bring in. Yes, for sure, for sure. So our opening stand up bit, we're still doing these. Jerry's doing, he's like, listen, everybody, I'm going to go have some news.
I got some mail the other day and I may be a big winner. I hated this. I hated it. Because he's a bad actor.
So to base your stand up routine on saying something that's untrue as if it's true anyway is bad. Yeah, and it's such like a dumb thing to joke about and everyone in the audience is eating it up and laughing at him and I hate it. Would you prefer that he just said the word sweepstakes seven different times? Well, that's what his style of humor is better at that.
Like he doesn't have any idea. No, he sweeps anything and nobody gets any stakes. Yes, laughing more already than this. Yeah, meanwhile, he's just telling you like that, oh, isn't it weird that they send you mail to tell you you could have won something.
Yeah, he wants letters sent to him saying like you're a loser. That's a better way to put it than what he says. He spends like 30 seconds to get to the punchline. It's really bad.
And it's not related to the rest of the episode, which is also stupid. This is not a show about how where he gets his material. It's just not an episode about him winning his sweepstakes. No, it's not.
It's an episode about him like cleaning out a box of his dead grandpa stuff. Yes, it's mostly, I don't know whose episode this is actually. It's not even a Kramer episode. It's no one's episode.
Yeah, there's all four of them as a group who are confronting the antagonist of the episode. Which is weird because later in the show, it becomes all of them have their own plot lines and the fun is always to see how they connect. And this is like all of them involved in one plot line at the same time. It's weird feeling.
They end up on the same team, basically. Yeah, which doesn't seem like it's in the spirit. Jerry and Kramer are lugging a dirty box up from the basement and George doesn't help them. He's doing a crossword.
It's a little bit about George not wanting to help them. It's full of what Jerry describes as grandpa clothes. It's his grandpa stuff that was left to him. Kramer wants some of it.
Yeah, I guess his grandpa died three years ago when he just hasn't dealt with the stuff. Like the show is not that morbid that they're immediately fighting over. Like Jerry's dead grandpa stuff. No, Jerry seems kind of like whatever.
We get like Kramer wants the clothes that are in the box and there's a callback to that later in the episode. But this is the thing that Kramer does a lot. We saw it in the episode the jacket. Like Kramer wants all of your hand me downs.
Yeah, there's an old trench coat, an old sort of gumshoe hat that's in there. Yeah, he says he looks like the guy from Braggnet. And he's very excited by it. But before we get to that, Jerry talks a little bit about how he needs to get his apartment cleaned.
Elaine's friend, Rava, who's an author is dating a student at Columbia named Ray, who's going to come clean Jerry's apartment. Yeah, it's a complicated series of relationships. But we need to say that the show needs to say that. You have a note here about George saying the word in Athamakris.
Yeah, and Jerry just sort of like looks at him and belittles him for using that word. You've been working a long time to put that in conversation. It's a good bit. It's a funny joke.
It's a good that's what the show is best at even in these weaker episodes where it's like, why'd you say that? I don't know. Moving on. Like this.
Kramer finds a statue of a woman in the box of clothes and immediately George is intrigued. Yeah, George freaks out as trying to grab the statue from him. And it turns out that this statue is identical to one that used to belong to George's parents that he broke when he was a kid. Yes, he was using it as a microphone while singing MacArthur Park.
And he broke it and he says his mom looked at him like he had smashed the 10 commandments. We have still not met George's parents yet. Yeah, but this is not like contradictory to anything about them once they show up. Like the groundwork for his parents to become characters.
And for him, for a lot of his relationship to his parents to be grounded in how he wronged them when he was a child. Yeah, and weird feelings of guilt that he's still very because of that. Yeah, Jerry doesn't have as much of that as George does. Again, George is Larry David's id unsheathed and revealed.
They do fight about it. Jerry breaks it up and they do a thing, which I think this comes up in other episodes. They do a schoolyard game to resolve the conflict. Incadink is what they do.
I don't know what Incadink is. It's not a real thing. I don't know because they also talk about doing potato man and they don't do potato man and I could not find what potato man is. But it's basically eating me, me, my name, mo as well.
It's another version of eating me, my mo. There are other episodes where they do a thing called a choose where you throw odds or even numbers and then whoever guesses odds or evens when you add up the two numbers gets it. This is a Seinfeld universe thing that these are like George and Jerry in particular are just children. But I sort of like here because then Incadink is where eating me, me, me, mo ends with and it is you and he points to George.
They immediately realize they don't know if he is a good thing or bad thing. It's just George is it. Kramer relinquishes the statue. He tosses it at George, which is a good little bit because we're just catching it nervously.
And then as they're leaving, Jerry's like, listen, you owe me. It is bad. So you were, you would have lost. Okay, whatever.
Then we just cut right back to Jerry's apartment, right? There's not an interstitial or anything. I don't think. Yeah, just like later on, we're back at Jerry's apartment and they're preparing for the student to come over and clean his place.
Yeah, so Elaine's got a plot line where this woman, Rava is from Finland. She's this like very like, she's not goth, but she's very like just like a weird tense. Yeah, European stereotype of like a chain smoking existentialist. Correct.
That's a good way to put it. And Elaine is going to publish her new book. And her boyfriend Ray is going to clean Jerry's apartment while he's away. What's the deal with Ray?
I think you like Ray maybe more than I do. I mean, what's the deal with Ray? I want to get into Ray because there's some some unsolved mysteries about him too. But I don't know.
Both these characters are very broad and very cartoony. Like I said, Rava is sort of the European stereotype. Ray is like straight out of a Renaissance fair, except he's sort of dressed like a high school or wearing a letter jacket. So the interesting thing about the Renaissance fair, so he's always calling Jerry a king.
He's sort of a strut saying it goes, you must be Lord of the better. Yes. And he calls Jerry the once and future King of Comedy. That's a good line actually.
But later when we see Rava and Ray in their apartment and it's clear that they basically hate each other. Like I don't really know what their relationship is. Yeah, like a little late showing up to clean Jerry's apartment and Rava just shrugs and says maybe he's dead and seems like not concerned at all. But she helps.
She demands that he like help her with the tea and he completely drops this like town crier persona and instantly just looks like a crushed man. No, I don't know how old he's supposed to be. He's referred to as a student. He looks 40, but that could just be the guy's face.
I don't really know. I think they call a grad student. So sure. Any age who knows he and Rava are funny, but the joke is on them this episode, whereas I think Seinfeld's more successful supporting characters.
The joke is usually on how Jerry and the group treats them. Like if there's even like a low talk or something or or thinking about even like something like the soup Nazi where the conceit of the character is supposed to be very funny. But the the innate qualities of our main characters create tension and humorous conflict with these outlandish people. And in this episode, they're just annoyed that there's weird people that they have to interact with and there's not really like a joke with those interactions.
Like Jerry is just annoying to keep speaking. Like why are you talking like that? There's a little bit of stand up about being guilty of having someone clean your place. It's not very funny.
It's we're starting to lay the groundwork of Jerry the neat freak as like part of his character. It's not quite part of this episode yet, but he is very stunned at how clean his apartment is made. Yeah, he keeps doing the thing where he's like, oh my god, he cleaned this part of the house. He cleaned this part of the house and his voice just keeps going up and up.
Like the parody of itself. Whatever. It's fine. There's a little exchange with Elaine where he's noting all of this stuff and he's like, he must be like Rubberman.
And Elaine goes, there's no Rubberman. Why did I think it was a Rubberman? It was a Rubberman. It's a weird show.
This is, why are we doing this? So then they all go over to a Rava's apartment. I forget why Elaine's gonna pick up the manuscript. Elaine's gonna pick up the book and Jerry legitimately just wants to like look Ray in the face and go, you did a great job.
How did you do this? Yeah, yeah. Jerry's a big fan and yeah, he cleaned the soap dispenser. He cleaned everything.
And the stakes for Elaine are that like, it's very clear that this is an up and coming author who people are excited about and she's clearly gonna get a promotion if she handles this well. Yeah, because Rava's very excited to have Elaine in particular edit her book. Yeah, so we go to their apartment. It's very over decorated and weird.
Yeah, I like the Paris-E Yeah, like you do. Sure. And the main conflict here after we watch the fact that Rava and Ray actually may or may not detest each other, Rava mentions that they have like incredible sex layers. So maybe that's what's keeping them together unclear.
Jerry sees the statue on the shelf in this apartment and immediately is like, well, he stole it. Yeah, Elaine's very confused. Yeah, I like Elaine has not been like briefed on this plot and she's like, it's when you have statues, it's what do you care about the statue? And Jerry is losing it and keeps talking about how this guy ripped him off and how he needs to take it back and he needs to confront this guy and Elaine is worried that it's gonna affect her career.
Yeah, so Jerry goes, he calls Kramer and there's a good little bit here where he's like Kramer, it's Jerry. Yeah, Jerry from next door. Yeah, Jerry's side felt which is very good. That's a good bit.
And then when he gets caught on someone's phone, he goes, oh, that was my mother. She forgot how to make French toast. We never address why Jerry was on the phone with his mother. Did he call her and then they got in the French toast conversation?
Did she track him down? I was by, it doesn't matter because Rava hates her mom. So yes, she's like, oh, my mother left us when we were little and we hated her. Yeah, I hope she did an alley somewhere.
Cool. Jerry then immediately can't take the social awkwardness and is like, I'm getting facial. I just remembered and he has to leave and raise like, hey, we should get dinner sometime and Jerry just goes, no, I don't eat dinner. Dinner's for suckers, which is sort of funny, but yeah, I don't know.
It's just there's not funny interactions, just very, Jerry being mean to these people who were weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cut to Jerry's apartment. The whole gang is there all at once.
There's no like people coming in and out. We're all just there. Jerry's on the phone with the cops. Multiple, this is like the second or third episode now where Jerry just calls the cops and they do whatever he wants.
Yeah. Well, they can't do anything here. It's his word against Ray's word. That's true.
That's true. I guess this is now missing from Jerry's apartment. This was not established before. Yeah, we never get a beat where Jerry's like, can't find it.
Yeah, there's none of that. I honestly didn't remember how this was going to go. And so we're going to get to that when we talk about your what's the deal, I think. But yeah, I thought that there was going to be a scene where they look for it and can't find it or something and no, it doesn't happen.
And Jerry's like, why would he steal that? I left my watch, my tape recorder, my stereo and Lauren and I both were like tape recorder. What are we talking about? Also, he has an Apple computer in the back.
He does. George is upset because he already told his parents that he's going to bring them something exciting. His mom's going to make some sick potatoes or something. Elaine's upset because of the potential like job implications.
Yeah, George doesn't even know who Rava is. He's also getting caught up with all of this. And then Kramer is like really menacing and angry. Like Kramer's just sitting in a corner pounding his fist together and saying like, I say, we go get him.
Let's go get him. Yeah. He doesn't really have a plot in this until the end. And I like that he has the least at stake here.
Like he has nothing to do with Elaine's career or George's parents or anything. He just wants to go beat up this guy who stole Jerry's statue. Yeah. These people that like, I don't know that any of them, I guess in the previous episode, Jerry said, Kramer, I love you, but you're not human, essentially is what he said.
And no one else on this show, I think actually likes Kramer yet. No, I think like George and Elaine have both expressed like worry when they have to spend time alone with Kramer. Serious reservation stuff, this person. But they get ahold of Ray on the phone.
Jerry uses again his cordless telephone with a giant antenna while the rest of them listen in on the house phone. This is a very 90s thing that you could do. And they set up a call, they set up a meeting at Monks because Ray didn't want Rava to know where he got the statue, no further details. And then we got what like kind of like, they're setting up a sting operation at Monks.
Yeah. Jerry and George are setting back to back and two different booths. So George can sit there and eavesdrop on Jerry's conversation. Yes.
And Ray shows up and there's an okay bit of comedy where Jerry and Ray are talking and George are just like mumbling to himself as a third part of this conversation that nobody can hear. Yeah. Jason Alexander was pretty good at showing like Silent Rage while Ray is talking about this. It only works because like George in this performance is just now Tanner's here charismatic.
You want to watch what he's doing most of the time at all times. Yeah. And he's fine with his angry like this. Yeah.
But the lines themselves aren't like particularly funny. It's just he's mostly just repeating what Ray is saying. Yeah. He's sort of like, well, also you did or something like that.
Ray says he got it from a pawn shop. There's like a little bit of confusion that they're actually that Jerry's actually accusing him of stealing it. Yeah. And then George causes a scene.
He just stands up and starts yelling. He starts guilty guilty guilty. And Ray is offended in his weird Renaissance fairway where he's like, good sir. How dare you slight me like this.
George apparently did like research on him and claimed apparently there's a lot of this episode that did not make it past initial draft. There were like other scenes where like Elaine is listening in on conversations and George is like following Ray to a bar or something. There's a lot of stuff that did not make it into this episode or even probably to the first table read. But George, you know, really takes it to Ray claims he's not who he is and Ray stands up and he's like, you're starting to make me angry.
And George goes, George immediately backs down and is like, well, that was bad. And then we got a weird scene at Elaine's job in the elevator. Yeah. I didn't love this scene either.
Well, the joke was super obvious as soon as you see where it's going where Elaine and Robin get into an elevator and there's Chummy and one of them says like, oh, let's not talk about that fight between Ray and Jerry, the elevator doors close. And you know when they open up again that Elaine and Robin are going to be fighting about the exact thing that they said they would be fighting about. Yes, Robin is smoking a cigarette because she's European. There's a sign on the wall that says no smoking.
Everyone is just yelling at her to put it out and she's ignoring them. She tells one man, maybe I should put it out in your face. And these elevator edits are like this weird black bar that moves up the screen. Yeah, I've heard a cool wipe with this black bar.
It's really bad and unnecessary. And yeah, it builds to Elaine and Robin just kind of yelling at each other about the nature of coincidence. I do like the argument about whether you can have a bigger small coincidence or if all coincidences are equal in size. Yes.
And they have a falling out. And then Elaine actually moves up another floor tosses the novel script into a, you know, janitor's refuse bag or whatever. And then we cut back to Jerry's apartment. Everybody's still upset.
George is talking to his mom on the phone. She's mad. George says this experience has changed me. Nothing's happened.
He claims to have lost faith in humanity. Elaine's really upset because her boss loves Rava. He likes Ray and he doesn't think your funny all she says to Jerry. Everyone's got a problem but Kramer but Kramer's still sitting in a corner just like threatening violence and being like we gotta get them.
So walk me through the big Kramer scene. So that is cut to the big scene. We're at Rava and Ray's apartment. Ray is like just staring at the statue by holding the statue.
It's like someone forgot to direct him. Like he's just standing there holding the main prop. He spends his spare time just admiring his furniture. And Rava has not mentioned this statue the entire episode.
If he stole it for her, that doesn't compute. Yeah, there's there's a lot of strange things about Ray. But Kramer person wearing his dragnet outfit from Jerry's dead grandpa. And he immediately says he's the police and throws Ray against the wall and starts shouting that he's going to be tried for like theft and murder.
And he starts like listening up all these crimes. And Michael Richards is just going nuts here. He's screaming very loudly. He's doing a lot of physical comedy the way he's throwing Ray around.
He's clearly relishing like dressing up in this weird outfit to do it. And the audience I think is eating it up. Yeah, it's very bizarre. It's not like anything the show's done before.
And it's not quite like what Kramer will be in the future. Like he doesn't really get this aggressive or no this into like pretending to be someone else. Like here he's really trying to imitate like a dragnet gumshoe. And he's using a bunch of like phrases you would find in a 50s police procedural.
I feel like in future seasons he's going to find himself in settings where he's being treated like a type of person. Like I'm thinking about there's an episode where he wears like a technical dream coat and someone thinks he's a pimp. You know, when Kramer has run-ins with the law and they treat him certain ways like that. The episode where he tries to stop the mail coming to his house.
Yes, yes, that's exactly what I'm thinking of. But this is one where he's like I'm going to literally commit a crime and pretend to be a police detective. And I'm going to assault a man in his own home. Make him stand in the corner steal the statue and then get out.
And then leaves. And you get a little bit of the like the break of the mask at the end, which is I think a funny touch. Yeah. Where he basically is like, well, yeah, don't because Ray is pleading with him like don't mention, you know, whatever happened like don't talk about this ever get like please keep me safe.
And Kramer's like, yeah, let's keep it that way. And then leaves. And the audience is losing it. This is the biggest laugh of the episode here is the edit like kind of shimmies back to Jerry's apartment.
But the audience is still laughing. You know, as if nothing funnier has ever occurred on the planet Earth is very I don't I don't think it's that funny. No, I don't think I don't buy the audience loves Kramer that much. No, and it's just him imitating some other thing.
I don't like he'll do bits of physical comedy later that I find a lot more impressive just like with very subtle things the way he opens the door and goes into an apartment. And here it just seems very over the top. Yeah, Kramer's excited to tell everybody did. He brings everyone in from the hallway in a bit of blocking that literally makes no sense.
And then he pulls out the statue. He gives it to George. Everyone's very excited. George says, Oh my God, I don't know how to thank you.
And he says, I'll think of something and he he claps George on the back. And what happens? George drops statue, statue breaks, cut to Jerry doing that set up. No, it should have cut on a freeze frame of everyone looking at the statue.
We need that flat base sticker there, right? And you get the bla bla bla bla bla bla bla like what the hell? It's so bad. Yeah, it's a pretty good final gag otherwise.
I think I do think personally, I think the the rhythm of the blocking is a little rushed, but I think it still works. Yeah, but again, I think it's rushed because they know they still have to get to the Jerry stand up at the end. They know they're not going to end their episode on freeze frame. So like the pop of the crash doesn't need to be as big as it could be.
And we want to see the freeze frozen bit. Yeah, we want to see the freeze frame of all four characters reacting to what just happened. Yes. And instead we cut to Jerry doing bad material about having stuff stolen from him.
I forgot everything he was saying instantly. I was angry. It's just awkward. It's so livid.
All right, we've had a lot to say about one of our least favorite episodes of the run of the show. So we should motor through the end. My what's the deal is what's the deal with new Kramer? Is he still goofy?
Is he is a menacing? He's a vigilante like Batman? He's not a hipster doofus? He does see all of his friends suffering and decides to do something about it, but he's not quite engaging in like bizarre schemes.
It's not the same version of Kramer that's like levels or pizza restaurant. Yeah, no, here he has a capacity for physical violence that doesn't really come up again. But we do see the Kramer that has the affinity for other people's stuff. Yeah, living by his own set of strange rules.
Yeah, do you want to talk about yours, Chris? I just do you think that race will the statue? This is not resolved in the episode. Really?
Is it actually the statues presumably missing from Jerry's apartment? Did you I think I think race stole the statue? Okay, he has a weird story about how he bought it from a pawn shop, but then the pop on a move to the Philippines. Yeah, but my only question is why does racing so confused when Jerry brings up the statue at all?
Yeah, I don't know. It makes sense what you said that the show episode was rewritten several times because it seems like the threat of what actually happened with Ray got lost somewhere in the re-race. Definitely. It felt like we skipped some information.
And yeah, and the show doesn't make note of the fact that we don't ever know. Like I think a later season Seinfeld episode would actually make a joke at some character's expense about the fact that we don't know. Yeah, or like the camera with show where the real statue was at the final stinger. Honestly, I was waiting for that to happen.
I honestly thought that happened in this episode. Like, Rayne was tricking me the entire time. And yeah, and you've mentioned how these couple is a bizarre entry in the one-off character. I don't think I'm surprised that Robin Ray do not show up ever again.
No, send them away back to Finland. All right, tell us a little bit about April 11, 1991. Yep. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 is no longer top of the box office.
Now we have a Steven Segal movie called Out for Justice at number one. Never heard of it. Nope, never heard of it either. It's actually a bit of a slow news week with the Gulf War winding down the Soviet Union continuing to collapse.
But these are all sort of long term news stories. No, nothing major has happened. Sure, sure. Cheers is still at number one in the Nielsen ratings.
Seinfeld finishes this week at number 15, which is still a fall from last week. But still better. I think it was like finishing the forties before this reboot. Well, that's because wings went away and cleared some room out, I guess.
Yeah, they're getting the post years bump for being on at 930. That's true. Miss Saigon opens on Broadway today. I noted in the New York Times, there's a full page ad for laser discs.
Do you remember laser discs? Sick. You can kill someone with a laser disc. Those things are huge.
It was like a DVD, except the size of an LP. Yeah, it was great. You were so fragile. And the Seinfeld synopsis in the New York Times is Jerry thinks a friend stole his statue.
Well, these are these continue to be vaguely inaccurate. I don't think Ray is a friend. No. But Jerry thinks is a pretty good summation of the episode.
That's just me. Seinfeld on at 930. Jerry thinks. Well, okay.
That's yeah. Well, people might watch this. I don't know why they do these synopsies because no one's going to be reading and be like, Oh, Jerry thinks a friend stole a statue. Got it tuned in for that one.
Yeah, it does. It seems like someone got forced into that job and just trying to make it fun for themselves. If you were doing that back in the 90s, please let us know. Send us an email at signfellow.xx at gmail.com his sub signfellow.x on Twitter.
You can find more episodes of show at signfellow.rocks. Next week, we will be talking about the revenge, a Larry David authored episode directed by our boy Tom Sharon. And we're going to spend some time at a laundromat, which I don't think that we've been back to the laundromat since maybe episode one. Yeah, not since the pilot.
Chris, what do we say at the end of every episode? Until then, no hugging, no learning. Why do we always have more to say about the bad episodes?