Product Description
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All 40 episodes from the first three seasons of the
award-winning US comedy series. In the pilot episode, 'Good News,
Bad News', a girl who Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) met on the road
comes to stay at his apartment. In 'The Stakeout', Jerry and
George (Jason Alexander) stakeout the lobby of the apartment
building of a beautiful woman Jerry met at a party. In 'The
Robbery', Jerry considers moving after his apartment is burgled.
In 'Male Unbonding', Jerry wonders what to do after realising he
no longer has anything in common with a tenacious and extremely
irritating childhood friend. Jerry and George get some insider
information in 'The Stock Tip' - but do they have the mettle it
takes to ride the stockmarket's ups and downs? In 'The
Ex-Girlfriend', sparks fly between Jerry - and George's
ex-girlfriend. In 'The Pony Remark', Jerry's parents come to town
for a 50th anniversary party, and Jerry offends the guest of
honour by making a comment about children who own ponies. Jerry
has a colourful new suit in 'The Jacket'. In 'The Phone Message',
George regrets leaving a string of nasty messages on his
girlfriend's answering machine. In 'The Apartment', George tests
out the 'man with a wedding ring' theory to try to meet more
women. In 'The Statue', a statue Jerry finds in a box of things
left him by his grandher causes all kinds of trouble. In 'The
Revenge', Jerry plots his revenge on his launderette after $1500
he had stashed in his laundry bag goes missing. In 'The Heart
Attack', George ends up in hospital after believing himself to
have suffered a heart attack. In 'The Deal', Jerry and Elaine
(Julia Louis-Dreyfus) discuss whether or not they could ever be
more than just friends. In 'The Baby Shower, Elaine asks if she
can use Jerry's apartment to hold a baby shower for a friend of
hers - with whom George once had the worst date of his life. In
'The Chinese Restaurant', Jerry, Elaine and George head out for
dinner at a Chinese restaurant and a movie. In 'The Busboy',
George inadvertently causes a busboy to be fired and tries to
make amends - with disastrous consequences. In 'The Note', Jerry
asks his dentist friend to write a note - which later becomes the
subject of a fraud investigation. In 'The Truth', George hopes
his girlfriend, who works for the IRS, can sort out Jerry's tax
worries. In 'The Pen', Elaine regrets going along with Jerry to
visit his parents in Florida. In 'The Dog', Jerry ends up looking
after a wayward dog for a fellow airline passenger. In 'The
Library', Jerry gets in trouble at the library for a book he took
out in 1971 and never returned. In 'The Parking Garage', Jerry,
George, Elaine and Kramer (Michael Richards) are trying to find
their car in a huge multi-storey parking garage. In 'The Café',
Jerry makes a suggestion to help a local restaurant drum up a bit
more business. In 'The Tape', George is getting excited about a
new Chinese cure for baldness. In 'The Nose Job', Kramer tells
George's new girlfriend that she has a big nose, and she decides
to have a nose job. In 'The Stranded', Jerry and Elaine get stuck
at a party when George goes off with an attractive co-worker. In
'The Alternate Side', Jerry's car is stolen, and Kramer gets a
line in a Woody Allen film. In 'The Red Dot', Jerry unwittingly
causes Elaine's boyfriend to fall off the wagon. In 'The Subway',
everyone has their own unusual experience while travelling on the
subway. In 'The Pez Dispenser', Jerry makes Elaine laugh during a
piano recital by George' girlfriend. In 'The Suicide', Jerry's
neighbour attempts suicide - and his girlfriend hits on Jerry
when he goes to visit him in hospital. A faulty condom causes
problems in 'The Fix-Up'. In 'The Boyfriend (1)', Jerry wants to
make a good impression when he meets Keith Hernandez - but Keith
is more interested in Elaine. In 'The Boyfriend (2)', Elaine goes
off Keith when she realises he is a smoker. In 'The Limo', Jerry
and George 'borrow' someone else's limo. In 'The Good Samaritan',
Jerry tracks down a hit-and-run driver - and asks her out on a
date. In 'The Letter', Jerry finds out that his new girlfriend
plagiarised the sentiments she wrote him in a letter. In 'The
Parking Space', Jerry's car starts making a strange noise after
Elaine borrowed it. Finally, in 'The Keys', Jerry takes his spare
key back from Kramer after finding him too invasive.
.co.uk Review
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Seinfeld is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of
American sitcoms, and this long-delayed box set goes a long way
in demonstrating why. From the first episode of the first season,
it hit the ground running with its collection of oddball New
Yorkers: Theres stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who plays
himself; Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), his pushy ex-girlfriend;
his neurotic loser of a best friend George (Jason Alexander); and
Jerrys wacky neighbour Kramer (Michael Richards).
Co-written and co-created by Seinfeld and Larry David (who later
went on to plumb greater depths of misanthropy with Curb Your
Enthusiasm), it revolutionised American sitcoms with its cynical
and mature comedy, and its ability to find comic gems in the most
mundane situations (one classic episode is set entirely in a mall
car-park). Seinfeld was, as all involved frequently admitted, a
show about nothing. But this extras-laden collection--which
features extensive cast and creator commentaries, deleted scenes,
trivia tracks, outtakes, interviews and more--is most definitely
something. --Ted Kord
