There are some reveals that break into the cultural consciousness on the precise proper time and “Seinfeld” is little question certainly one of them. Making a sitcom that serves as a pillar of tv comedy whose hearth can by no means be extinguished is a testomony to the sharp writing of collection co-creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. Over three many years on, “The Contest” is rightfully upheld as one of many funniest sitcom episodes ever produced. It is all because of the teamwork of the present’s writers and the foursome ensemble, who have been usually an ideal storm of comedic genius. It is no accident that a few of the funniest bits, nonetheless, emanate from Jason Alexander.
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“Was that flawed; ought to I not have executed that” is a superb line to come back out of George Costanza in defending his resolution to have intercourse with the cleansing girl on his desk in “The Crimson Dot,” however the two second pause earlier than Alexander’s earnest supply makes it an all-timer gag. No marvel it is certainly one of his favourite moments in the whole collection. It is loopy to assume that one other certainly one of George’s most interesting hours might have been a catastrophe if not for Alexander’s dedication to his craft.
Within the season 5 episode “The Marine Biologist,” the B-plot entails George getting roped into yet one more lie he has to keep up with a view to impress a girl, however this time, the inciting incident is not completely his fault. Jerry slips up and tells Diane (Rosalind Allen), George’s school crush, that his finest buddy is a marine biologist. Of all of the avenues this premise might go down, having George step as much as save a beached whale is the proper capper to the episode. The sight of him slowly strolling into the ocean could be very humorous in its personal proper, however then Alexander delivers a monologue that doubles as a tv miracle.
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Jason Alexander knocked the golf ball monologue out of the blowhole
“The Marine Biologist” was written by Ron Hague and Charlie Rubin, however David and Seinfeld made an eleventh hour rewrite of the ending that gave the episode its well-known punchline. They figured the monologue about George saving the whale could be the proper alternative to tie within the non-sequitur of Kramer (Michael Richards) hitting golf balls into the ocean. The one difficulty was that Alexander did not have time to rehearse it, however in line with Seinfeld, he pulled off the final minute addition like a professional (through The Hollywood Reporter):
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“We present up the subsequent day. We hand Jason, who’s an effing genius, that speech. How lengthy is that speech? It is a web page, two pages. That is TV, OK? This is the reason movie sucks. You go to a TV actor like Jason and also you hand him two-and-a-half pages, and I’m going, ‘We have got to shoot this in a half hour. Memorize it.’ He goes, ‘No downside.’ That is TV. No preciousness.”
George’s monologue is a type of magic hour moments that solely comes alongside as soon as and when you miss it, you blow it. In that second, Alexander has the room in his throes. The honest wonderment on Seinfeld’s face is all too actual contemplating he was blown away that Alexander was delivering his last-minute addition as if he had the entire week to arrange. All of it comes all the way down to the reveal of the golf ball George faraway from the beached whale’s blowhole and Alexander’s sluggish reveal of it in his hand is masterful comedic timing.
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I will be damned if that second does not cement George as an honorary marine biologist.
You understand it is an important demonstration of Alexander as an actor as a result of somebody on the web quite amusingly eliminated the chuckle observe and changed it with “Laura’s Theme” from “Twin Peaks.” The swelling of that Angelo Badalamenti observe completely correlates with the golf ball in a captivating instance of a scene working underneath an entire different context. I’ve by no means been capable of watch that scene in fairly the identical approach.
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