{"id":77525,"date":"2023-10-27T16:59:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T21:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=77525"},"modified":"2023-10-27T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T22:00:12","slug":"seinfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/seinfeld\/","title":{"rendered":"Seinfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"v2 ps2 s3 c2\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"v2 ps3 s4 c3\">\n<h4 class=\"p2 f2\">During Jerry Seinfeld\u2019s recent stand-up performance in Boston, he answered an audience member\u2019s question about the final episode of the <span class=\"f4\">Seinfeld<\/span>&nbsp;television show by saying \u201cSomething is going to happen that has to do with that ending. It hasn\u2019t happened yet,\u201d implying that he and co-creator Larry David are working on a possible sequel. However, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who played Elaine, subsequently said, \u201cI don\u2019t know what the hell he\u2019s talking about.\u201d Many&nbsp;<span class=\"f4\">Seinfeld<\/span> episodes had Jewish arcs, featuring a rabbi, circumcision, kosher food, Jewish singles night, babka, and more. Jason Alexander, who played George, usually loved the Jewish themes, noting, \u201cYou gotta go a long way to hit my Jew button. I give you Jews are funny, and you can be really sacrilegious with me, and I\u2019ll take every Jew joke you got, even the borderline offensive ones.\u201d But one Jewish-themed episode did cross the line for Alexander, who objected, ultimately leading Larry David to make some changes to the script. Which episode did Alexander object to?<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"shape2 v2 ps6 s7 c6\">\n<div class=\"shm5\">\n<div id=\"attachment_77526\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/seinfeld_actors_montage-382.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77526\" class=\"wp-image-77526 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/seinfeld_actors_montage-382-255x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/seinfeld_actors_montage-382-255x300.webp 255w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/seinfeld_actors_montage-382.webp 382w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77526\" class=\"wp-image-77526 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/seinfeld_actors_montage-382-255x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/seinfeld_actors_montage-382-255x300.webp 255w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/seinfeld_actors_montage-382.webp 382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-77526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seinfeld actors montage by TheCuriousGnome is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"v2 ps7 s8 c7\">\n<p class=\"p3 f7\">A.<span class=\"f8\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f9\">The Raincoats (Part II)<\/span><span class=\"f8\">, where Jerry and his girlfriend Rachel make out in the movie theater balcony during a showing of Schindler\u2019s List, with Jerry explaining that \u201cI couldn&#8217;t help it. We hadn\u2019t been alone together in a long time and we just kinda started up a little during the coming attractions and the next thing we knew, the war was over.\u201d Said Alexander, \u201cI mean, yeah, anything can be funny. But not really anything. Not the Holocaust. I told Larry he\u2019d be doing great harm to the show.\u201d While David left in the plot line, he did cut out some of the most obnoxious jokes which he had written about Schindler.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f10\">B.<span class=\"f8\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f9\">The Serenity Now<\/span><span class=\"f8\">, where Elaine learns what \u201cshiks-appeal\u201d is when her boss\u2019s son celebrates his bar mitzvah and tries to French kiss her, leading George to say&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cJewish men love being with a woman who is not like their mother.\u201d Said Alexander, \u201cI actually loved the concept of \u2018shiks-appeal\u2019 but the idea of Elaine and the bar mitzvah boy? It was just wrong.\u201d David mostly left the scene intact, but he did remove one shot where Elaine smiled at the bar mitzvah boy who was coming on to her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f11\">C.<span class=\"f8\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f9\">The Bris<\/span><span class=\"f8\">, where Jerry\u2019s job is to hold the baby at the bris of a friend\u2019s son, featuring a bumbling mohel who says \u201cI could have been a kosher butcher like my brother. The money\u2019s good. He\u2019s got a union, with benefits. And cows don\u2019t have families. You make a mistake with a cow, you move on with your life.\u201d Alexander said, \u201cThe character of the mohel was disgusting&#8230;to make one who is a child-hating, self-loathing, foul-mouthed incompetent, to me was antisemitic in a hurtful way.\u201d David ultimately cut out some of the most outrageous lines said by the mohel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f12\">D.<span class=\"f13\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f9\">The Shower Head<\/span><span class=\"f8\">, where Jerry\u2019s Uncle Leo interrupts Jerry to tell him that the cook at Monk\u2019s Cafe made his hamburger medium instead of medium-rare \u201cbecause he\u2019s an anti-Semite.\u201d Jerry responded, saying \u201cThe point I was making before Goebbels made your hamburger\u2026\u201d Alexander complained to David that \u201cyou just gotta be so careful with Nazi jokes,\u201d leading David to change Jerry\u2019s original response to Uncle Leo, which was \u201cThe point I was making before Hitler made your hamburger\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f14\">E.<span class=\"f8\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f9\">The Yada Yada<\/span><span class=\"f8\">, where Jerry\u2019s friend, the dentist Tim Whatley, converts to Judaism, as Jerry tells George and Elaine. \u201cHe looks at my tooth and he says, \u2018oy vey, you got tsuris.\u2019 I ask him why he\u2019s talking Yiddish, and he tells me that he met a Jewish girl, and yada yada, he converted to Judaism.\u201d Jason Alexander objected to the original script, where Jerry did a belly-wiggling Tevye dance while saying, \u201c\u2026and biddy biddy bum, he converted to Judaism.\u201d Alexander disliked the Tevye imitation, saying \u201cThere\u2019s no more beloved Jewish character than Tevye. I just don\u2019t think we should make fun of that,\u201d which led Larry David to change \u201cbiddy biddy bum\u201d to \u201cyada yada.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"f15\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rrrjewishtrivia.com\/answers-2023\/seinfeld-answer.html\">Click here for the answer.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Seinfeld\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5841],"tags":[4428,8790,8795,13413,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77527,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77525\/revisions\/77527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}