Jerry, just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it.

July 20, 2010 2:44 PM

Serenity Now. (SLYT)

Seinfeld edited as an action-thriller.

posted by blue_beetle (26 comments total)

I totally misread the [more inside] and thought, "Isn't Serenity already pretty actiony and thrillery?"
posted by kmz at 2:46 PM on July 20, 2010

Yes.
posted by flippant at 2:49 PM on July 20, 2010

Was wondering how a Seinfeld/Firefly mashup would look. Considerably worse than this, I imagine. Neat find!
posted by EatTheWeek at 2:51 PM on July 20, 2010

Needs Serious-Voiced-Preview-Guy:

When someone tries to blow you up, not because of who you are but, for different reasons altogether...
posted by Joe Beese at 2:54 PM on July 20, 2010 [3 favorites]

Sort of a Cohen Brothers fiasco, isn't it?
posted by GameDesignerBen at 2:57 PM on July 20, 2010

Newman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by arcticseal at 3:00 PM on July 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

That worked for me. An explosion would've been nice. I'm guessing if there was an explosion in Seinfeld, they would of used it here.
posted by marxchivist at 3:02 PM on July 20, 2010

I was imagining Frank Costanza flying towards the center of the galaxy to find Colonel Kurtz, who was being worshipped by reavers as a God.
posted by condour75 at 3:06 PM on July 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

Hello...Newman.
posted by Electric Dragon at 3:08 PM on July 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

I hate it when the trailer gives away the plot of the whole movie.
posted by Nelson at 3:16 PM on July 20, 2010 [2 favorites]

An explosion would've been nice. I'm guessing if there was an explosion in Seinfeld, they would of used it here.

There was one - but it was offscreen. Uncle Leo left a spray can of oven cleaner in a hot oven. "It was a fireball!"
posted by Joe Beese at 3:17 PM on July 20, 2010

Reminded me of this.
posted by nath at 3:19 PM on July 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

This could have been very, very bad, but isn't.
posted by rhizome at 3:34 PM on July 20, 2010

The music is more ominous.
posted by Hicksu at 3:38 PM on July 20, 2010

"Chunky Dude" has it: "Funnier than the finale."
posted by L'OM at 3:47 PM on July 20, 2010

d'oh. I thought we'd have Mal journeying up a river solar system to look for Kurtz cannibals. Oh, wait...
posted by polyglot at 4:07 PM on July 20, 2010

So it's a movie about nothing?
posted by scalefree at 4:18 PM on July 20, 2010

While we're on the subject of Seinfeld, how have you guys been enjoying season 21?
posted by Lentrohamsanin at 4:23 PM on July 20, 2010

I gotta tell everyone to check out this youtube member's mentos clip.

To Do List: Check out this "HTML anchor tags" nonsense the kids are always on about.
posted by DU at 4:41 PM on July 20, 2010

A trailer called Serenity Now without this?
Shameless.
posted by NoraCharles at 5:07 PM on July 20, 2010

I kept expecting that one clip of the person driving the truck at the end of one episode as it catches on fire, but to no avail.

Still, well done.
posted by Navelgazer at 6:14 PM on July 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

One of the guys I used to work with would often stop, turn, look at me with narrowed eyes, and hiss, "Newman!"

Not having watched an entire episode of Seinfeld*, I didn't understand. Now I do.

(* I was in my obligatory hate-the-TV phase through most of the '90s. Space Ghost and Cowboy Bebop brought me back. If Wayne Knight were 6'3" and had callouses on his knuckles, yeah, pretty much me.)
posted by Slap*Happy at 6:53 PM on July 20, 2010

MeTa
posted by mlis at 7:49 PM on July 20, 2010

Nicely done!
posted by Kevin Street at 8:13 PM on July 20, 2010

Somehow I feel it should have ended with a voiceover of Michael Richards shouting "He's a nigger! He's a nigger! A nigger! Look, there's a nigger! Ooooh"
posted by nanojath at 11:33 PM on July 20, 2010

I enjoyed it. A surprising amount of action scenes pulled from the show.

(But, will anything ever beat "Shining" for pure, story-turned-on-its-head greatness?)
posted by Monster_Zero at 8:19 AM on July 21, 2010