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Title: The Dinner Party (03 Feb 1994)
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| Episode complete credited cast: | |||
| Jerry Seinfeld | ... | Jerry Seinfeld | |
| Julia Louis-Dreyfus | ... | Elaine Benes | |
| Michael Richards | ... | Kramer | |
| Jason Alexander | ... | George Costanza | |
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Fred Pinkard | ... | Newsstand Boy |
| Frank Novak | ... | Clerk | |
| Mark Holton | ... | David | |
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Suzy Soro | ... | Barbara |
| Kathryn Kates | ... | Counterwoman | |
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S. Marc Jordan | ... | Man in Bakery |
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Langdon Bensing | ... | Man on Street |
| Sayed Badreya | ... | Foreign Man | |
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Amjad J. Qaisen | ... | Hussein |
| Roger Eschbacher | ... | Man with Cane | |
En route to a dinner party, Jerry and Elaine stop off at a bakery and get held up when the bakery runs out of what they want to purchase. Meanwhile, George and Kramer, en route to said dinner party, stop off at a liquor store to buy a bottle of wine and have a hard time picking one out. Written by Anonymous
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Seinfeld
Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the creators, of the dream sitcom for every stand up artist is the milestone set as an example on how to use your humor as a part of narrative. The series was clearly ahead of its time and fixated within that time limit when it was aired- or maybe not even then. This is how the series both remains timeless and also fails to test against time. The concept of the series- in fact there is an episode, where the series takes an almost meta turn, whispering the secretive meeting held within the confound of NBC walls about the pitch- is to just joke, just talk, analyse with a mockery tone, bombing brutally on a subject from the most privileged position under that circumstances. There is no storyline, no character development, no arc, no rhythm to follow. Usually, a film like such becomes more than a film with such an idea; take the Life Of Brian series. And similarly the series refuses to participate in the expected or not even expected aspects of the storytelling.
There is no end, no beginning, it captures a brief period with an agenda in mind that you will have the time of your life. But this is where this coherent plan backfires. First the runtime itself. Something so monotonous cannot withhold its audience for nine years. It is simply preposterous. For the style of the joke, the humor, the vocab of these characters, if as-planned is intended to be the same, will grow natural or normal to the viewers. This makes the relationship between the viewers and the characters, similar to what the viewers have in the outer world, maybe a friend or a family member.
Basically it would never be interesting, sure some cases would come up, just as chapters does in here, but that too will carry the momentum of just that brief period of screentime. Another major challenge it faces is, in order to stay far away from the textbook sitcom structure, the character has to and does deny on getting on or blending in with the society. Now that's fine. But in order to last longer they had to create an unfair world that takes uncalled detours just for the laughs, ignoring both emotional and ethical aspect of it, resulting into a physical distance that you, as an audience, carry for the rest of the series. By the end, it gets difficult to survive and something so beloved, something so smart, Seinfeld is left under a dry heap of jokes.
The Dinner Party
Finally, they are out again. This is what reboots the series the best. Troubling others along with themselves, this partition is not only going strong but also weakened by their own team members, Richards is an avid reader, who'd have known.