Aside from the truth that it makes about as a lot spacial sense as The Overlook Lodge, I’d argue that the weirdest factor about Jerry’s condominium in Seinfeld is the bookcase. For starters, there are a variety of unique Nintendo video games on there, together with Tetris and Sim Metropolis, which is odd as a result of we by no means see Jerry sit back and play the NES he apparently owns. Not one of the Seinfeld characters appear remotely enthusiastic about video video games, except for the time George risked his life for a Frogger machine.
Jerry additionally boasts essentially the most bafflingly chaotic assortment of films in human historical past. His VHS tapes, which memorably sandwich a Superman figurine, embrace the spider-based horror comedy Arachnophobia, Martin Scorsese’s basic mob film Goodfellas and Wired, the god-awful 1989 John Belushi biopic. what film Jerry doesn’t appear to have? Superman!
Jerry additionally has a Benny Hill tape, the justly-forgotten Groucho Marx film Copacabana, and never one however two copies of True Colours. Why a humorist in New York would personal a back-up copy of a John Cusack political drama was one thing the writers left to the viewer’s creativeness.
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I haven’t even talked about the truth that Jerry has Little one’s Play 2, however not the unique. And Again to the Future Half III, however not elements one or two. Who does that? To not point out the a number of golf movies Jerry owns, even if Kramer is the one golfer on the present (except we rely George’s fondness for frisbee golf, aka Frolf).
Whereas that simply might have been the top of our deep dive into Jerry’s film shelf, folks have additionally observed that early seasons of the present featured a really totally different assortment of tapes. They usually point out that Jerry could not have been the grasp of his area.
Eagle-eyed followers have identified that in Season Three, Jerry’s shelf isn’t filled with store-bought motion pictures like in later seasons, however relatively, dubbed VHS tapes with handwritten labels. Among the titles are innocuous sufficient like Gunfights and Cartoons, however there are additionally motion pictures like Ode to Need, Simple Love and Rug Burn.
Yup, Jerry’s shelf is stuffed with porno tapes. And he doesn’t even attempt to disguise them, he proudly shows his bootleg erotica as in the event that they have been bowling trophies.
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Clearly, somebody in Seinfeld’s Artwork Division was having a little bit enjoyable (one other one of many tapes is solely labeled “The Title”), probably not anticipating that streaming video and high-definition video would at some point be a factor that will enable followers to pore over the main points of a fictional character’s condominium as if it have been a real-life crime scene.
Nonetheless, because of this the character of Jerry Seinfeld canonically had a bunch of porn in his condominium. Though it disappeared within the early ‘90s, maybe as a result of he discovered how to hook up with the web on that desktop laptop he by no means appeared to make use of.
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