Elaine unknowingly is dating Crazy Joe Davola, who has just left a threatening message on Jerry's recorder.Elaine unknowingly is dating Crazy Joe Davola, who has just left a threatening message on Jerry's recorder.Elaine unknowingly is dating Crazy Joe Davola, who has just left a threatening message on Jerry's recorder.
Harriett S. Miller
- Mrs. Reichman
- (as Harriet S. Miller)
Craig Adelberg
- Usher
- (uncredited)
Gerrit Graham
- Clown
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaCrazy Joe Davola (Peter Crombie) was named after Joe Davola, an ABC executive producer friend of Larry David's.
- GoofsThe cast continually refer to the character in the opera as 'Pagliacci'. This is the Italian plural form, which is the name of the opera, but a singular clown is 'pagliaccio'
- Quotes
Elaine Benes: You left your door open.
'Crazy' Joe Davola: I know. I like to encourage intruders.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 45th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1993)
- SoundtracksThis Is It! (Theme from 'The Bugs Bunny Show')
(uncredited)
Written by Mack David and Jerry Livingston
Sung by Jerry Seinfeld
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For me, this one was on the verge of being a 7, but it ultimately got the 8 rating.
For continuity of Season 4's world creation terms, we got the ending of Elaine's relationship with Crazy Joe Davola. Here Davola gets a lot of screen time and that, at times, can get a little underwhelming. Aside from that, we don't get any continuity of the actual arc of this season (the pilot) and we get just a Susan cameo in the end.
As many episodes of Seinfeld, The Opera revolves around a singular story for the four characters. It's not a bottle episode like The Parking Garage or The Subway, but the episode is all about that one event. And we finally got a more connected-with-the- gang Kramer. Up until this point in the season, Kramer's story lines developed outside and unconnected with the rest of the main protagonists. Here he is a main element in the story.
Getting technical, I believe there two things that made me hesitate about its rating. One being the somewhat cinematic style and the other being the fact that it isn't quite that memorable. Aside from the two part cinematic nightmare that was the season's opening episode, the cinematic style in directing decisions was complete erased with classic Seinfeld style coming back. But here it appears again (subtly). We get really anti-climatic editing decisions (concerning Davola's lifestyle) and weird scenes that are downright out of place (Davola fighting a street gang). Aside from that, the other problem is that there aren't a lot of memorable scenes or just really funny ones. It is a entertaining episode, there's no denying, but Seinfeld is comedy so if there are no funny scenes, there's something missing.
Having said that, and aside from Davola's anti-climatic side story, this is a very well handled episode and fits just right in Season 4's streak of great episodes.
For continuity of Season 4's world creation terms, we got the ending of Elaine's relationship with Crazy Joe Davola. Here Davola gets a lot of screen time and that, at times, can get a little underwhelming. Aside from that, we don't get any continuity of the actual arc of this season (the pilot) and we get just a Susan cameo in the end.
As many episodes of Seinfeld, The Opera revolves around a singular story for the four characters. It's not a bottle episode like The Parking Garage or The Subway, but the episode is all about that one event. And we finally got a more connected-with-the- gang Kramer. Up until this point in the season, Kramer's story lines developed outside and unconnected with the rest of the main protagonists. Here he is a main element in the story.
Getting technical, I believe there two things that made me hesitate about its rating. One being the somewhat cinematic style and the other being the fact that it isn't quite that memorable. Aside from the two part cinematic nightmare that was the season's opening episode, the cinematic style in directing decisions was complete erased with classic Seinfeld style coming back. But here it appears again (subtly). We get really anti-climatic editing decisions (concerning Davola's lifestyle) and weird scenes that are downright out of place (Davola fighting a street gang). Aside from that, the other problem is that there aren't a lot of memorable scenes or just really funny ones. It is a entertaining episode, there's no denying, but Seinfeld is comedy so if there are no funny scenes, there's something missing.
Having said that, and aside from Davola's anti-climatic side story, this is a very well handled episode and fits just right in Season 4's streak of great episodes.
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- juanmaffeo
- Jun 30, 2016
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