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44 Bits of ‘Seinfeld’ Trivia That Can Definitely Spare A Square

October 17, 2024

Since we’re sparing 44 square facts, the least you can do is pass one along to a stranger in need. So if some poor soul with their pants down reaches under your stall in the hopes of obtaining one single solitary fact, we hope you’ll do the right thing. Not like that Jane character. She can’t be trusted to pass squares of anything!

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JERRY STILLER

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM LARRY DAVID ORIGINALLY DIDN'T CHOOSE JERRY STILLER TO PLAY FRANK COSTANZA. They first hired another actor, John Randolph, but it wasn't working out and Randolph got fired after one episode. — Source

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COMEDY NERD At one point, they wanted Danny DeVito to play George Costanza in Seinfeld. Paul Shaffer, Steve Buscemi, David Alan Grier, Nathan Lane, and Larry Miller were some of the other actors they looked at- eventually, though, Jason Alexander got the role. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Seinfeld Acting was never one of Jerry Seinfeld's strengths but his impression of Kramer in the episode The Chicken Roaster is dead on. Probably the

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MEET Kenny KRAmeR. He gives reality tours of his life for $37.50 a pop-just like his Seinfeld counterpart Cosmo Kramer. He also enjoys cigars, golf, a — Source: 8 Characters You Won't Believe Are Based on Real People

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Seinfeld

COMEDY NERD Kramer from Seinfeld originally wasn't named Kramer-his name was Conrad. It was an allusion to Conrad Birdie from Bye Bye Birdie, and the name eventually turned into Cosmo. CRACKED.COM — Source

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JERRY ANd ELAINE GOT TOGETTHER In THE 2ND seAson OF senFeLd. BUT THEY'RE noT A COUPLE AnY more, AT THE START OF THE 3RD. Behind the scenes, Larry Davi — Source

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Seinfeld

Recycling presents became known as REGIFTING SEINFELD CRACKED.COM Elaine gives Tim the dentist a label maker for Christmas, who sends an idential gadget to Jerry as a thank you for Super Bowl tickets. I think this is the same one I gave him, cries Elaine. He recycled this gift. He's a regifter! — Business Insider

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Seinfeld George Costanza is Larry David. Jason Alexander based his performance on Woody Allen, until he realized George was a self-insert for the show's co-creator. When Alexander questioned a scene, David retorted: This happened to me, this is exactly what I did. CRACKED.COM — Jason Alexander interview (via YouTube)

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McDonald's sold like the Seinfeld tops, just joke. muffin NEW McCafé Muffin Toppers Elaine convinces her boss to open a shop that just sells the top of muffins. Decades later, McDonald's tested selling Muffin Toppers. CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Imitates Art: 13 Times Movies & TV Predicted The Future

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SEINFELD Elaine gets a gun. sigprp In The Bet, Elaine purchases a gun on a dare. However, despite getting the green light, the cast and crew refused — Source: EW

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Cringey Cameos Seinfeld Lori Loughlin The actress appeared in Seinfeld back in 1997, but by now she has become the poster child for privilege, entitlement, and corruption thanks to her better-known sitcom The 2019 College Admissions Bribery Scandal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kramer's first appearance on the pilot of Seinfeld was pretty odd: His name was Kessler, he was a shut-in who hadn't left the building in 10 years, he knocked when he entered Jerry's Seinfeld apartment, he dressed like a slob, and he had a dog. By episode two, he screeched through Jerry's door as the vintage-wearing, dogless Kramer we all know. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jason Alexander and Jerry Weren't Close During The Show's Run Although Alexander and Seinfeld had some of the best onscreen chemistry of any sitcom friends, Alexander has mentioned that they were really just work friends. Alexander elaborates, We had very different lives. But we really hung out with each other at the show. We were workmates. After nine years, when the show ended, we kind of went, 'Oh, bye, see ya! CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Lorelei From Gilmore Girls Was On Seinfeld Lauren Graham played Jer- ry's girlfriend Valerie on season 8 episode 20, The Millennium. She landed the role of Jerry's speed dial ob- sessed partner just 3 years before landing her most fa- mous role of Lorelei on Gilm- ore Girls. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The main cast of Seinfeld dated a grand total of 212 GIRLFRIENDS AND BOYFRIENDS over the course of the series. 27 73 50 62 CRACKED.COM — Source

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SEINFELD CRACKED.COM Wanting to end it before any ofthe funny was compromised, Seinfeld called it quits after 9 seasons on May 14, 1998. After almost being cancelled early on, it became the #1 show by the 1994-95 season, averaging just over 30 million viewers per episode. It rose back to #1 in season 9, and the finale brought in a whopping 76.3 million viewers. — Source

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SEINFELD Jerry's Dad CRACKED.COM PHIL BRUNS BARNEY MARTIN Bruns played Morty in season 1, but was passed over for the crankier Martin. — Source

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Noisy Neighbors: The Remake?

CRACKED $ 77 BONG JOON-HO BORROWED FROM SEINFELD. Bong's movie Barking Dogs Never Bite and the Seinfeld episode The Engagement both tell stories about people trying to get rid of their noisy neighbor's pet. Bong has admitted that Seinfeld had an influence on him. — Magnolia Pictures,
NBC
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A line so good they used it twice (to close out the series finale).

character introductions seinfeld Jerry seinfeld & George costanza Jerry's opening line, See, now to me, that button is in the worst possible spot sums up the entire show. A standup routine as conversation. A neurotic George gets paranoid that his coffee isn't decaf, then craves details about Jerry's dating life. CRACKED — NBC
YouTube

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What's the deal with "What's the deal?"?

Jerry Seinfeld never unironically said What's the deal with ... ? on Seinfeld. No, not even in the pre-intro stand-up sets. It's apparently associated with him just because he said it in a 1992 SNL skit where he played a game show host. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Conversation-Starting Facts We Never Knew

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM TERI HATCHER The Desperate Housewives Star was the subject of interest in The Implant in season 4. Jerry and Elaine had to know if they were real and if they were spectacular. — Source: IMDB

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Marcia Cross

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM MARCIA CROSS Before she was a Desperate Housewife she was saving lives as the stuck up Dermatologist in the episode The Slicer in season 9. — Source: IMDB

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Amanda Peet

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM AMANDA PEET Peet also shows up in the films A Lot Like Love, Saving Silverman and Gulliver's Travels after being Jerry's demanding girlfriend in The Summer of George in season 8. — Source: IMDB

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ON SEINFELD, JERRY AND ELAINE EAT NONFAT FROZEN YOGURT BUT GAIN WEIGHT. THEY DEDUCE THAT THE YOGURT ISN'T AS NONFAT AS IT CLAIMS. just a few months later, New York Magazine published a study of various desserts that claimed to be diet or nonfat. The frozen yogurt industry turned out to be just as dishonest as seinfeld jokingly portrayed. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment That Made Crazy-Specific, Crazy-Accurate Predictions

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In Seinfeld, George Costanza proposed to Susan Ross, and she said yes. Why would a rich and ambitious lady marry a neurotic idiot with anger issues? CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Onscreen Relationships That Should Never Have Existed

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Seinfeld

COMEDY NERD At one point, Steve Buscemi could have played George on Seinfeld. H но Не auditioned for the role, as weird as that sounds-but nothing came of it, obviously. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld would redo a bunch of Seinfeld episodes, if he could. Не doesn't believe in regret, he says, but if you forced me or you gave me a time machine, yeah, there's a few - I would fix some things. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Larry David thought Seinfeld would be a total dud when the pilot wrapped up. When he said goodbye to Jerry Seinfeld after filming ended, he was thinking that he probably wouldn't see him for the next few years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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NBC had to issue an apology over an offensive episode. CRACKEDG .COM NBC had to issue an apology over an offensive episode. In the episode The Puerto Rican Day, as the gang is stuck in traffic due to the titular parade, Kramer accidentally sets a Puerto Rican flag ablaze and has to stomp it out. Subsequently, for this and other reasons, the episode was taken out of syndication until 2002. — Source: NY Times

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Jerry's on-screen mother and grandmother were only 4 years apart. CRACKED.COM Liz Sheridan, who played Helen Seinfeld, was born in 1929, just four years after the late Billy Ree Wallace, who played Nana. — Source: IMDB

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Multiple television networks worked their programming around the airing of the finale. TV LAND EAST COAST HEADQUARTERS We're we're watching the last Fans episode TV of Seinfeld SO... Will return at CRACKED.co The series finale was such an event that TV Land honored the occasion by airing no programming during the show's timeslot, instead showing only a photo of a closed office door. — Source: TV Land

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The main cast had a ritual before every show in Jerry's bathroom. CRACKED.co The Circle Of Power involved the actors placing their hands in a circle and releasing them with a loud yelp. You can see a variation of the ritual in the episode The Contest. — Source: Variety

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Kramer and Monk swapped shows. MONK CRACKED.COM Tony Shaloub auditioned for the role of Kramer, which went instead to Michael Richards. Years later, Richards was considered for the title role in Monk, but that ultimately went to Shaloub. They would both go on to win three Emmys for playing their respective roles. — Source: Hollywood Reporter

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The fake Kramer actually wanted to be Kramer. CRACKED.co Although he didn't get the role of Kramer when he auditioned at the start of the series, actor Larry Hankin did get to star as Kramer in the failed show-within-a-show, Jerry. — Source: Vulture

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The first Elaine get out shove wasn't scripted. CRACKED.co Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus brought her own signature intensity to the role and the Elaine character, and the characteristic shove became a recurring theme. — Source: New Yorker

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Jerry Seinfeld sometimes thinks they shouldn't have done the Seinfeld series finale. He thinks comedy shouldn't be grand and expensive, but small and cheap and quick they had a lot of pressure to make the last episode really big. CRACKED.COM — Source: Esquire

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Seinfeld failed to be a comedy special. Unable to come up with 90 minutes' worth of material, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David made a half-hour pilot for a show instead. Then the show went on for nine seasons. — Source: Den of Geek

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'Roseanne Truth picked a fight with Seinfeld. Julia Louis-Dreyfus accidentally parked in Tom Arnold's spot, sparking a heated battle of notes. Team — Source: Vulture

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A famous guest Truth star threatened to kill Jerry. Lawrence Tierney, who played Elaine's father in what was meant to be a recurring role, pulled so — Source: ScreenRant

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The network wouldn't give Lie them a 10th season. SEASON 9 Seinfeld DYO NBC desperately wanted more Seinfeld. They offered Jerry $5 million per epis — Source: Mental Floss

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The Soup Nazi

The actor who played The Soup Nazi was nominated for an Emmy, after he paid the $100 application fee himself. He was still working as a bail bondsman. — Source: Hollywood Reporter

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Seinfeld was never pitched as a show about nothing. It was pitched as a show about how a comedian gets his material. CRACKED.COM — Source: Reddit AMA

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