Seinfeld, season 26, episode 1: 'Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee'

November 18, 2014 5:58 PM

Imagine if the Seinfeld universe continued running, even though regular broadcasts ceased in 1998. That's what you have in this episode of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, written by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, and directed by Larry David.
posted by paleyellowwithorange (23 comments total)

Brilliant! Note to self: Never avail oneself of the Wassersteins' master bedroom toilet.
posted by Renoroc at 6:09 PM on November 18, 2014

1998?

16 years ago?

That can't be right.
posted by 256 at 6:10 PM on November 18, 2014 [3 favorites]

As a big Seinfeld fan, I choose to pretend they didn't do this. It just fails.
posted by davebush at 6:13 PM on November 18, 2014 [5 favorites]

I feel like I've seen this before. On like, every possible level.
posted by turbid dahlia at 6:22 PM on November 18, 2014

I never thought I'd see 6 minutes of Jerry and George yakking and not laugh once. All the misanthropy, none of the comedy. Newman is looking well though.
posted by sobarel at 6:24 PM on November 18, 2014 [1 favorite]

Is it me or has Jason Alexander gotten more 'Bruce Willis'y in the face as he's gotten older? Maybe Dunstan Checked In one to many times and had to Die Hard.
posted by The Power Nap at 6:25 PM on November 18, 2014 [2 favorites]

https://twitter.com/Seinfeld2000/status/532275116580016128
posted by mysticreferee at 6:25 PM on November 18, 2014 [1 favorite]

This was originally shown as an ad during last season's Super Bowl.
posted by cvp at 6:30 PM on November 18, 2014 [6 favorites]

This was boring. When do we get another season of Curb Your Enthusiasm?
posted by TwelveTwo at 6:31 PM on November 18, 2014 [1 favorite]

That was really charming.
posted by ArmyOfKittens at 6:33 PM on November 18, 2014

Didn't this come out six months ago?
posted by waitingtoderail at 6:37 PM on November 18, 2014 [1 favorite]

In the Seventies, my mom had a Pacer that I would sometimes drive. The main drawback was that with so much visibility, passing a joint was problematic.
posted by breadbox at 7:28 PM on November 18, 2014 [2 favorites]

This is so boring, and the cars, ugh, I couldn't care less!
posted by Joe Chip at 9:56 PM on November 18, 2014

https://twitter.com/Seinfeld2000/status/534136970466041857
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 10:18 PM on November 18, 2014 [1 favorite]

1) We had a Pacer. It was brown and fun to ride in as a kid.

2) This made me feel old. Not like, "Wow has it been 20 years?"-old. I literally feel like I am 10 years older now than I was when I started reading this post.
posted by Room 641-A at 10:19 PM on November 18, 2014 [1 favorite]

> I feel like I've seen this before. On like, every possible level.

So do I. In fact, I saw it in 2009 in the UK series 'Carpool' which this is stolen from without so much as a credit as far as I'm aware.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 2:08 AM on November 19, 2014

The delicious touch of cringe in the humor in the 1990s was that they were youngish guys acting like curmudgeons. Here, as middle aged men, they've just come into their own, realized fully as curmudgeons -- no cognitive dissonance. THat isn't funny. Back then, curmudgeonly Stiller and Meara were funnier.
posted by third rail at 7:07 AM on November 19, 2014 [2 favorites]

Oh, I know what it is that made me feel old, it's seeing them in HD. In real life now, even with corrective lenses, my 50-yo eyes bathe everyone in a slight, flattering blur. This was impossibly harsh-looking.
posted by Room 641-A at 7:23 AM on November 19, 2014

> I feel like I've seen this before. On like, every possible level.

So do I. In fact, I saw it in 2009 in the UK series 'Carpool' which this is stolen from without so much as a credit as far as I'm aware.--GallonOfAlan

This is like: "The Tonight Show is such a ripoff. People sit in chairs and get interviewed. And they don't even give credit to the first show that did that!"
posted by eye of newt at 9:15 AM on November 19, 2014 [2 favorites]

I'm fine with it. Jerry's wearing blue shoes and not jeans and white sneakers), George has too much translucent powder on, but I'm fine with it.
posted by discopolo at 10:42 AM on November 19, 2014

No, it's nothing like a talk show. It's a tight concept dreamed up by a small time comedian ripped off by a famous one.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 2:08 PM on November 19, 2014 [1 favorite]

Huh. I never heard about Carpool before. Looks interesting.

But what's the problem with Seinfeld doing a similar show? Not baiting you, I genuinely don't see what the trouble is. Are Seinfeld and his guests stealing jokes from the Carpool show?

And Llewellyn doesn't seem bothered.
posted by paleyellowwithorange at 7:57 PM on November 19, 2014

This was tragically unfunny.
posted by DarlingBri at 1:14 AM on November 21, 2014