Good News, Bad News
- Episode aired Jul 5, 1989
- TV-PG
- 23m
Jerry and George argue whether an overnight visitor Jerry is expecting is coming with romantic intentions.Jerry and George argue whether an overnight visitor Jerry is expecting is coming with romantic intentions.Jerry and George argue whether an overnight visitor Jerry is expecting is coming with romantic intentions.
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- TriviaJulia Louis-Dreyfus did not appear in this pilot episode. In fact, she was unaware that the episode existed until it was released as part of the DVD box set in 2004.
- GoofsJerry and George go to meet Laura's flight at Kennedy airport (JFK). Kennedy handles long distance flights - transcontinental (beyond Denver) or international. At the time of this episode, someone going to New York from Lansing, MI (on United, as shown) would connect in Cleveland or Chicago O'Hare and land at LaGuardia or possibly Newark (code EWR - like the yellow piece of paper stuck to Jerry's fridge).
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Jerry: I swear, I have absolutely no idea what women are thinking. I don't get it, okay? I, I, I admit it, I'm not getting the signals, I am not getting it. Women - they're so *subtle*, their little - everything they do is *subtle*. Men are not subtle, we are obvious. Women know what men want, men know what men want, what do we want? We want women! That's it! It's the only thing we know for sure, it really is. We want women. How do we get them? Oh, we don't know about that, we don't know. The next stop after that we have *no* *idea* - this is why you see men honking car horns, yelling from construction sites. These are the best ideas we've had so far!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Seinfeld: How It Began (2004)
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Written by Jonathan Wolff
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The characters themselves are already established. George is a bit more confident and self-assured than later, but you definitely can see the future George Costanza in him. Kramer, or Kessler, is already funny and Michael Richards's great. It is indeed quite unusual to see him knock on the door before entering, have a dog that miraculously disappeared and have a normal hairstyle. Of course Jerry never really changed at all.
What really carries this, and the early episodes is the dialog. Quite frankly, Seinfeld is the show in television history with the best and funniest dialog. David and Seinfeld are writing on an high level right from the beginning. Prominently featured is Seinfeld's stand-up routine. The opening speech is quite unfunny but he gets much better later on. He really has the time for longer stories in the early episodes, and not just a quick joke like it would be in the future.
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