Good News, Bad News
- Episode aired Jul 5, 1989
- TV-PG
- 23m
Jerry and George argue whether an overnight visitor Jerry is expecting is coming with romantic intentions.Jerry and George argue whether an overnight visitor Jerry is expecting is coming with romantic intentions.Jerry and George argue whether an overnight visitor Jerry is expecting is coming with romantic intentions.
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- TriviaJulia Louis-Dreyfus did not appear in this pilot episode. In fact, she was unaware that the episode existed until it was released as part of the DVD box set in 2004.
- GoofsWhen Kessler is walking over to the sofa with the sandwich in his hand, there is a reaction of shot of Jerry, sitting on the sofa looking at him and leaning forward to the coffee table, lifting the cereal spoon to his mouth. Kessler points at the newspapers to get Jerry to move them and in the next shot, Jerry is leaning back in the sofa, hands on this thighs, no spoon in his hand.
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Jerry: I swear, I have absolutely no idea what women are thinking. I don't get it, okay? I, I, I admit it, I'm not getting the signals, I am not getting it. Women - they're so *subtle*, their little - everything they do is *subtle*. Men are not subtle, we are obvious. Women know what men want, men know what men want, what do we want? We want women! That's it! It's the only thing we know for sure, it really is. We want women. How do we get them? Oh, we don't know about that, we don't know. The next stop after that we have *no* *idea* - this is why you see men honking car horns, yelling from construction sites. These are the best ideas we've had so far!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Seinfeld: How It Began (2004)
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Written by Jonathan Wolff
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From the very start this "show about nothing" opens with the sort of territory that it would do successfully for many seasons. The dialogue drives it forward as the two characters sum up the modern anxiety of day-to-day life and dating by over-analysing everything and over thinking a situation that is admittedly not the clearest or easiest. It is not hilarious but it is quite amusing and well written because while it does have exaggeration for comedy effect. The show pushes George to the fore in this episode while Jerry really does his best work in the stand-up sections. George is pretty good although he is more reasonable than in the full series and when he does act-up it feels forced. Kramer is here and seems mostly like he will continue to be, except with wilder hair. Elaine is absent from the pilot but this was still a work in progress.
Overall an amusing pilot that is entertaining but also serves as a look at how the show started and was pretty much doing what it wanted to do from the start.
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