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Character Analysis

Wayne Knight

Newman

Played by Wayne Knight

165 jokes across 41 episodes of Seinfeld

WAR

12.5

Total Jokes

165

Avg Craft

7.0

Avg Impact

6.8

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Best Jokes by Newman

All Jokes — 163 total

S3E15

That's your big boy.

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S3E15

I don't like to give out bites.

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S3E15

You know, they're so fragile.

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S3E17

Keith...Hernandez. Keith Hernandez! Keith Hernandez!

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S3E17

I hate Keith Hernandez. Hate him! I despise him.

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S3E17

June 14th, 1987, Mets-Phillies. We're enjoying a beautiful afternoon in the right-field stands...when a crucial Hernandez error opens the door...to a five-run Phillies ninth. Cost the Mets the game! Our day was ruined.

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S3E17

He spit on us! And I screamed out, 'I'm hit!'

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S3E17

Then I turned, and the spit ricocheted off him, and it hit me.

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S3E17

Well, my head...went back, to the left. Say that again. Back and to the left. Back and to the left.

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S3E21

Newman's entire scene as Kramer's apartment occupier

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S3E21

Hit me, Seinfeld, I got witnesses.

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S3E21

So he packed a grip and he split for the coast. La-la land. L.A.

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S3E23

Don't play coy with me, I'm not in the mood. Coy? I'm not being coy. Are you being coy? Yeah, coy. You're being coy.

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S3E23

So he packed a grip and he split for the coast. La-la land. L.A.

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S4E03

Are you reneging out of the deal? Are you reneging? - That's a renege. - Stop saying 'reneging.'

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S4E03

Because the radar detector, as I understand it, detects radar! With a series of beeps and flashing lights.

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S4E03

Oh, yeah, yeah. You better think again, MoJumbo.

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S4E03

Karma Kramer?

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S4E03

I never had an air conditioner.

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S4E03

I was never able to become a banker.

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S4E04

You wouldn't even be here today if it wasn't for me and my helmet. I saved your life. You would be dead. Dead. You would cease to exist. You'd be gone for the rest of eternity. Can you even begin to comprehend what that means?!

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S4E04

I never had an air conditioner. No. That's no reason to kill yourself. Why? It gets hot at night. You can't sleep.

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S4E04

I was never able to become a banker. So you're killing yourself because your dreams of becoming a banker have gone unfulfilled. You can't live without being a banker. Must be a banker!

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S4E04

An innocent person who wanted nothing more out of life than to love, to be loved, and to be a banker!

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S4E04

You were gonna ack-ka-ka-ka! You were dai-ya deh, wha-hey! To yourself! Remember, the banking?! The banking! Wha...! Ha! Hoo! Forget the banking?!

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S4E04

Hey, you're not gonna get away with this. I'll fight this! I've got witnesses. I saw the whole thing.

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S4E13

It's a little, brown, circular protuberance. What's the big deal?

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S4E13

Hey, everybody's got 'em. Look, I got 'em. / I got 'em too. See? Everybody's got 'em!

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S4E18

Aren't those the guys that always go crazy and come back with a gun and shoot everybody? Sometimes.

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S4E18

Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming. Never a letup. It's relentless.

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S4E18

Then the bar code reader breaks, and it's Publishers Clearing House day!

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S4E18

Those records are worth more than 5 dollars. He's gypping us. You're gypping us.

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S4E18

We'll be back, Jack. We'll be back... Jack.

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S4E18

You are nothing but a piece of crap. I find you extremely ugly. You emit a foul and unpleasant odor. I loathe you.

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S4E18

Make us. Make us. Make us. Make us.

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S5E04

What kind of snow blower did you get us mixed up with?

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S5E04

Who made you leader?

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S5E04

No, no, I don't like it. - What do you mean, you don't like it? - How could you not like it? - I like the thick tape.

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S5E04

Hey. What kind of nut are you?

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S5E04

Not to mention the picture of him on the toilet.

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S5E06

Let me use her once. Can't do it, Newman.

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S5E06

When you control the mail, you control information.

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S5E07

I wouldn't hear of it. I said, 'Nice try, granny' and I sent her to the back of the line.

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S5E07

I've been waiting for something like this my whole life, and it's finally here!

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S5E07

It was good! I was enjoying it. Had to interfere, couldn't leave well enough alone. I will get even with you for this. You can count on it.

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S5E08

Once I find a barber, I stick with him. I almost went to barber school. I always felt I had a talent for it.

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S5E08

Not everybody like Newman. So loyal. Yeah, just the way that I was raised. I'm special.

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S5E08

How you like a free haircut for six months? What's the catch? You're gonna get me a sample of Jerry's hair.

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S5E08

That job sounds like it might be worth... a year's free haircuts. And a comb.

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S5E08

I don't believe this. There's no hair in this thing! I've never seen a person that didn't have at least one hair in a brush. Unbelievable. Nothing!

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S5E08

I tell ya, this... Scissorhands is a hell of a barber. Gotta go! Oh, gee, I... I dropped a nickel.

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S5E18

He was moving on her like the stormtroopers into Poland.

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S5E20

He was moving on her like the storm troopers into Poland.

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S6E02

We used to go out. - Well, toodle-loo.

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S6E02

She just didn't do it for me. - What is wrong with her? - Well, if you're happy with her... that's all that matters. - You don't think she's attractive? - No. I need a really pretty face.

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S6E11

From what I hear, you postmen don't have to look too far. / Well, you know, sometimes it just has a way of finding you.

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S6E11

Ma! / Cosmo. / I'm sorry. We weren't... We didn't... / Cosmo?

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S6E12

I'm looking right at you, big daddy.

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S6E12

If only you'd known, you could have saved some time and given it directly to me.

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S6E12

I'm taking the Congo as a penalty.

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S6E12

Too bad about that Super Bowl ticket, huh, Newman? Yeah. I just hope Tim Whatley's electric bills don't suddenly get lost in the mail or it could be lights out for him.

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S6E12

No labels, Jerry. You know what that means? Freebies!

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S6E14

Because the mail never stops. Every day it piles up more and more and you gotta get it out... but more keeps coming in! Then the bar code reader breaks, and it's Publishers Clearing House day!

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S6E20

Don't sweat it, buddy. I used to have fleas. What did you do about them? What do you mean?

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S6E20

All right, I've got them! I'm rife with fleas!

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S6E20

You can't taste them, why waste them? Why not give them all to me?

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S6E20

Yes! Last day for the Mackinaws. I can still make it. Wait, Newman. Newman, wait. Sorry. Last one.

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S6E20

But if you want to suck the pit...

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S7E01

If you ask me, they have no business living amongst us. Vile, useless--

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S7E01

This vicious beast will never bother you again.

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S7E01

We'll kidnap it. We'll kidnap the dog, we'll drop him off upstate. Then he won't bother you anymore and he won't get hurt.

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S7E01

Fresh air, dandelions. We're doing this dog a huge favour.

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S7E01

This is the dog? But it's so small. Yeah, but he's a fighter.

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S7E04

Hello, Archie. Veronica. Mr. Weatherbee.

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S7E04

Like I'm gonna risk my job with the New York Yankees to make a few extra bucks. No, of course not.

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S7E08

Come on, Newman. Do it. No. He might die. Yeah. Maybe.

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S7E13

Hey, you're riding a girls' bike. Kramer. Kramer.

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S7E13

As a federal employee, I believe the law is all we have. It's all that separates us from the savages who don't deserve the privilege of mail. Stuffing parcels in mailboxes, where they don't belong.

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S7E13

We will cut the bike down the middle and give half to each of you. What? This is your solution? To ruin the bike?

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S7E13

Only the bike's true owner would rather give it away than see it come to harm. Kramer, the bike is yours.

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S7E13

Solid tires, reinforced seat post, heavy-duty shocks. But, baby, this is one sweet ride.

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S7E15

I couldn't feel my extremities. What extremities?

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S7E15

I'm not Newman.

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S7E15

Look, sister, go get yourself a cup of coffee, all right? Beat it.

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S7E15

Through a certain connection, I've been able to locate some black-market showerheads. They're all made in the former Yugoslavia. And from what I hear, the Serbs are fanatic about their showers.

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S7E15

That's the Commando 450. I don't sell that one. No, that's what we want, is the Commando 450. No, believe me. That's only used in the circus for elephants.

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S7E15

He couldn't handle that. He's delicate.

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S7E15

Food tastes better. The air seems fresher. You'll have more energy and self-confidence than you ever dreamed of.

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S7E15

That's the Commando 450. I don't sell that one. That's only used in the circus for elephants. Just give it to us. He couldn't handle that. He's delicate.

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S7E16

This is awful. I'm not Newman.

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S7E16

I have a private matter to discuss with my fellow tenants. If you don't mind.... Look, sister, go get yourself... a cup of coffee, all right? Beat it.

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S7E16

Through a certain connection... I've been able to locate some black-market showerheads. They're all made in the former Yugoslavia. And from what I hear, the Serbs are fanatic about their showers.

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S7E16

You have no idea how your life is gonna improve as a result of this. Food tastes better. The air seems fresher. You'll have more energy... and self-confidence than you ever dreamed of.

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S7E16

That's the Commando 450. I don't sell that one. No, that's what we want, the Commando 450. No, believe me. That's only used in the circus for elephants.

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S7E19

You hang out on the west side of the building with Seinfeld all day... just laughing it up, wasting your lives.

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S7E19

And three times a week, I shall require a cannoli.

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S7E19

You don't work in the rain? You're a mailman. Neither rain nor sleet nor... It's the first one!

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S7E19

I was never that big on creeds.

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S7E20

You overload your inventory, and you blow your margins on gasoline.

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S7E20

You tried it? -Oh, yeah. Every which way. Couldn't crunch the numbers. It drove me crazy.

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S7E20

No, an 18-wheeler's no good. Too much overhead. You got permits, weigh stations, tolls. Look, you're way out of your league.

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S7E20

Wait a second. Mother's Day.

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S7E20

The mother of all mail days.

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S7E20

9999 bottles and cans in the truck... At $0.10 a bottle and $0.10 a can We're pulling in $500 a man

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S7E20

Bottles below!

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S8E02

One perfect angel for whom we are put on this earth...One winsome tulip we ceaselessly yearn for

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S8E02

Your looks and my words will have built the perfect beast.

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S8E02

There really is no junk mail. Everybody wants a check or birthday card...It requires just as much manpower to deliver as their precious cards

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S8E02

Her bouquet cleaved his hardened shell and fondled his muscled heart

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S8E02

It's by an unknown 20th century poet...Oh, what's him name? Newman.

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S8E02

You really think you can manipulate that beautiful young woman like the half-soused, nightclub rabble that lap up your inane 'observations'?

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S8E05

Why would you do that? Never done it before. Why start? Why not?

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S8E05

Define 'rarely.' Frequently.

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S8E05

Uncle Leo?

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S8E05

Looks like you're breaking into it like an otter cracks open a clam.

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S8E05

How I've longed for this moment, Seinfeld. The day I would have the proof I needed... to haul you out of your cushy lair... and expose you to the light of justice as the monster that you are. A monster so vile...

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S8E05

This photo clearly indicates your involvement... in some ill-conceived mail-order pornography ring.

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S8E08

A man could really get some thinking done.

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S8E08

What is that, hickory? Yeah. It's the wood that makes it good. Really? Stop it. What's the matter with you?

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S8E08

Newman, you wouldn't eat broccoli if it was deep fried in chocolate sauce. I love broccoli. It's good for you. Really? Then maybe you'd like to have a piece. Gladly.

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S8E08

Vile weed!

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S8E10

The air is so dewy sweet, you don't even have to lick the stamps.

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S8E10

I'm still collecting checks, I'm just not delivering mail.

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S8E10

And yet it's perfectly legal to take a man's soul and crush it out like a stale Pall Mall.

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S8E10

There's no way I can handle eight in addition to my usual load of one.

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S8E10

We had an argument about me moving to Hawaii and he locked on to my ankle like it was a soup bone.

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S8E10

Just crease, crumple, cram. You'll do fine.

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S8E10

Too many people got their mail. Close to 80 percent. Nobody from the post office has ever cracked the 50-percent barrier. It's like the three-minute mile.

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S8E10

You're a disgrace to the uniform.

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S8E16

Newman uses his mail truck... to run fish for China Panda on the weekends.

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S8E20

Come celebrate the millennium with 'Newmannium.'

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S8E20

Think again, long shanks.

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S8E20

I started planning this in 1978. I put a deposit down on that restaurant that overlooks Times Square. And I booked Christopher Cross.

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S8E20

For me, the next millennium must be Jerry-free.

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S8E20

Newmannium!

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S9E01

sometimes I ponder this silly gulf between us... and I say, why? Are we really so different? - For what is broth... - I'm not the one doing the cooking. Damn you, Seinfeld. You useless pustule.

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S9E01

What you got there, the four volt?

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S9E04

Hello, Jerry.

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S9E05

But you don't know the half of what goes on here. So just walk away, Kramer. I beg of you.

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S9E05

A mail truck will slow beside you, the door will open. A mailman you know, maybe even trust, will offer to give you a lift.

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S9E05

There's another way. It's going down now! No, you said a mailman I know, and you're a mailman I know. I know you know, but you don't know what I know.

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S9E06

El Paso. I spent a month there one night.

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S9E08

They're meaningless.

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S9E08

Your invitation must have gotten lost in the mail.

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S9E12

To prevent an ambush. / Yeah. Now, I can peek in and see if anyone is waiting to jack me with a sock full of pennies.

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S9E12

I'm homeless. I'm gonna be out on the street, dancing for nickels. I'll be with the hobos eating out of a bucket.

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S9E12

That looks like a dead bear. / No. That's a fur coat.

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S9E12

Where did you learn to climb trees like that? / The Pacific Northwest.

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S9E12

Aside from this rattan piece, which seems oddly out of place.

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S9E12

This isn't about my opening your mail? / What? I don't. Never have. Anything I read was already open.

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S9E12

Sorry, climber's keepers.

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S9E12

How I've waited for this moment. But alas, my heart belongs to another man's wife.

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S9E12

Nice carryall. / It's European.

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S9E17

My, isn't this an awkward moment?

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S9E17

Now, that's the first sensible idea I've heard all day.

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S9E17

Like his bag of cans, or his other bag of cans.

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S9E17

To the idiot-mobile.

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S9E17

I mean, after all, it is a conveyance.

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S9E17

One spot, two spot, zigzag, tear, pop-dye, penny got, tennyum, tear, harum-scarum, rip them, tear them, te, ta, toe.

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S9E17

Smooth it out up there. Too much jostling.

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S9E17

Well, don't tarry, I'm behind schedule as it is.

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S9E22

She's lost all use of her muscles. She can only communicate by blinking. I would so love to see her. Bring a ray of sunshine into her tragic life.

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S9E22

When an evil wind will blow through your little playworld and wipe that smug smile off your face. And I'll be there, in all my glory, watching - watching as it all comes crumbling down.

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