This is so classic. My mother and I watched this when it first aired and died laughing. This was visiting my grandparents, her parents, in Miami. Sleeping on the sofabed and NO air conditioning. They had it, they just wouldn't turn it on. And that was my grandfather with the driving directions! Whoever wrote this knew their material!
I have a friend who never turns on the ac in his car. NEVER. And he smokes. You would thing that he isn't such a scrooge to spend a couple more dollars on gas to drive in comfort and not turn into a sweaty monkey.
not true. Most older houses in the south were built in the tree shade and there is always a breeze from the Gulf. Temperatures are in the high 70s in that setting year round, AC is just to remove humidity out of it. But in the direct SUN, about 150F
In S. Florida, where Boca is and where Sienfeld's parents live in this tv show, it is only cool enough o go w/o a/c in the winter. Otherwise it will be hot and muggy as hell. Now maybe some do live w/o a/c but their home would be very stinky believe me. Because it would be like living in a hot house.
Y10Q,You don't know shit about living in Florida if you think Boca condo living is either old construction or built under shade trees. Those condos will be like a sauna except in the winter for 2 months maximum and that is if it is a normal year. And to think the homes built in Florida in the old days were all under shade trees is another falsehood.
They live in a retirement community that's fairly new. My great uncle lived in one that was similar, and some days were cool, but it could get hot and humid as hell.
People from the north know this all too well. Sleeping upstairs as a kid in the summer with no AC, one of the worst things anyone will ever go through.
My siblings and I (there are 6 of us) would fight over who got to sleep on the couch and loveseat downstairs... and eventually everyone else would make their way downstairs with a blanket and pillow and sleep on the floor. And my parents still refused to do anything besides crack a window, which just let in more heat. Miserable.
I told my mother my wife and I were going to stay in a motel. She complained about what a waste of money that would be and I told her it was my money and I want to fuck in comfort!
If she slept with a tank top and shorts and no blanket she woudnt be hot. She's was dressed like an amish person. No that there's anything wrong with that.
David Stewart right I always wondered why she was dressed in those pajamas and kept the blanket on. Plus she could have solved her back problem by just sleeping at the other end of the bed so her feet would have been at the bar not her back
If I remember correctly, this is the only episode where George doesn't appear. Jason went to Larry and told him that if he did it again, he could write him out completely bc he would quit.
the funny thing is, the actor that played jerry's father changed though a more fair comparison would be spin city that switched from michael j fox to charlie sheen
This episode reminds me of when I visit my grandma at the retirement home 😂. I remember when my sister was begging my grandma to turn on the AC and my grandma told my sister she must be having heat flashes, It was August in NY. This episode is perfection and a classic.
0:18 "It's only for three days. Today's over, then we have tomorrow, then we leave on Sunday. It's one day really!" 1:14 "It's one day! Half a day really! I mean you subtract showers and meals it's like 20 minutes! It'll go by like that!" Lol
I always thought I was being a prick for never wanting to stay at other people’s houses.. but I guess it’s not just me. I like being comfortable and not at the mercy of other people’s choices
God, my parents are the same way. They are crazy about temperature. It's always too warm in their house, no matter what time of the year it is. No idea how they do it.
Mike Tayon Oh man, I could see my parents doing something like this so I don’t overstay my welcome. My day three I am ready to leave and they are ready to see me gone. :)
Open the bloody windows. I don't understand the common superstitious fanaticism to be afraid of "outside air", when it's just the purest default air...
This was me when I visited my grandparents in Florida 3 years ago!!!!! It literally felt like the slowest week of my life!!! My knee hurt from using stairs, my grandma had the air conditioner too high, and on top of that, my knee pain made it impossible to walk!!!!! This episode ALWAYS reminds me of it!!!!! Unfortunately my grandpa is now deceased.....I really wish I could visit him in heaven now
My favorite Seinfeld episode. Laughing until I'm crying. I used to joke about old people and their obsession with the air conditioner. Now, I'm old and always cold! I've become a mama Seinfeld!
This is so true once you have your own residence! You have relatives who expect you to stay over. You dread the thought. Because you’ll do anything to avoid other people’s quirks and have your own bed. 😂
YES! I need to choose my own temperatures, etc. I’m too shy to ask anyone to change it if their house is hot/cold. So I’ll just suffer. SUFFER I TELL YOU!
Never ever ever sleep in someone's house if it's not comfortable. Always insist on leaving to find a hotel or just plain go home! It's not worth it! Sleeping in an uncomfortable environment is a horrible reward for being polite. I'll never do it.
One of the greatest comedic scenes of all time, borne of truth, brilliantly written. My wife and I are at my parent’s place right now. It is as hot as balls in here.
@josephmatt8173 I watched friends first and loved it. Then discovered Seinfeld and it's basically everything I like about friends but concentrated into a sitcom and better. Without the cheese and cringe. It's amazing.
My grandparents' place in Florida had this futon with a bar in the middle of it that was unpleasant. My grandparents also didn't use the A/C liberally. Always felt that this episode nailed S. Florida 55+ communities perfectly.
Like what the other person said, it's a habit. I remember going through a hurricane, the power went out for a month and for like a week I kept putting the blankets on me.
This happens to all older people from NY when they move to Florida. For the first few months the AC is on non-stop. Then they get acclimated to the heat and because they're always cold anyway 87 degrees becomes 'room-temperature'. I remember baking inside an older relative's house, fanning myself with a magazine while they were perfectly comfortable.
My grandparents live in The Villages in south Florida, and yup those are the sleeping conditions. Nothing more grueling than a 90° weather family Christmas.
most woman can be hot , if they take care of themselves. me im finished with woman , i haven touched or talk to a woman since 2004 best thing i ever did. its now 2019 just turned 45 and still could care less and i really dont miss it,woman are pretty boring ,just good to look at , but if i get urges i take care of it myself. usally once every few days.
Even as a 90s kid this was so relatable with a family full of elderly people. If I was going to someone's house for say, Father's Day, I knew I'd drop several pounds via sweat while being asked, "You're hot?" even though I appeared to have gone swimming.
My grandparents would live in Florida from November-March and it seems like they never used the AC, and oh yeah the pull out couch was comfortable in the slightest. This episode is bang on with the satire of South Florida.
@@Etobeeshawn Nobody wanted to use his invention at first because it was too expensive to install. Finally, a local movie theater decided to have it installed in their complex and suddenly they found their business booming. Afterwards, all business demanded to have AC installed.
I remember visiting my aunt's house a couple of summers ago. The air conditioning wasn't on and within five minutes of getting there I was sweating like I was in a sauna
I lived with some extended family for a few years, and the man of the house kept the AC set to 78 and would open the curtains and windows when it was 100 degrees out, and then get mad when I closed them. I lived on the second floor and it would be 90degrees in my f-ing room while he worked in the nice cool basement. I ended up buying a mini swamp cooler and putting towels at the base of my door to block the hot wind blowing throughout the house from outside. Crazy people!
Open thw window,no-one will care, and if they do, they are just crazy... In other words, no-one cares. But people don't get it. There is a common superstitious fanaticism of being afraid of outside air, like getting too much (or even enough), even if it's perfectly fine (and safe), is a problem. Nearly everyone is so goddamn stupid...
I live in Ireland so I can't really relate. When it gets too cold people just tell me to put on a jumper. I can put up with that. No what I hate the most is when its the middle of Winter and people open windows on the top floor of the bus. I go to college far away. It's a two hour bus trip and I have to get up very early and come home late so in the Winter its usually dark and therefore colder. The top floor of Dublin buses generally don't have heating. People get too warm though and instead of taking off their warm winter jackets, they open up the window at their seat. The part of the window that opens is above their head. Air streams out and cools them a little but the majority of flows in a bitter cold breeze to every seat behind their seat. So people who are already cold are getting blasted in the face by more cold. I'd sit downstairs where it's closer to the warm engine but than air travels in from the open doors every time the bus stops and it's worse. People who make everyone colder (or warmer) than their comfort to suit their own comfort when they could literally add or remove layers are evil.
One weekend years ago I spent the weekend with my grandparents and they would only use the air conditioning once in awhile. I got so hot I couldn't stand it and I begged them to turn it on. Older people, especially people in their 80's and 90's just don't feel the heat like younger people do and they don't understand.
Nancy Desch you are so correct. Their skin gets thin and not much insulation to keep them warm. They always feel cold even in hot humid areas. To them it’s comfortable
My grandparents lived in Georgia and refused to turn the A/C on until the dead of summer when the humidity outside was near 100% with 95+ degree temperature. When I lived with them during high school, I had to sleep practically naked with a fan pointed on me. Lmao
This was like when I stayed with my family at my parents friend’s house. It was 100 degrees F outside in Colorado. The house owner didn’t want to pay to have air conditioner on. I’m grateful for him letting us stay there, but Jesus Christ I could barely get up the stairs without having to take a breath. The water on my night stand was evaporating.
Had family like that --- Dreaded going to their house. Summer in north central California and it would be 100 degrees outside (But it's a 'dry heat' sweetie) and they would not so much as let a fan run, let alone the a/c. (A/C's are a scam -- They're just put in houses to make the utility company rich!) Finally my husband pointed out that it was, according to their thermostat, *98* *degrees* in their house???!!!!!! My family's response? Drink some water, it'll cool you off. When we moved to Florida, the house we bought was owned by a 98 year old woman and her 70 year old daughter. They had every square foot of the house covered in wall to wall carpeting. Including the garage and lanai, bathrooms and kitchen!!!! WTH?? The daughter explained to me that it got 'really cold in the winter'........... Ummm..... We were moving down from Minnesota, I said, did it get colder than -30 degrees? Heck when we lived up there, hubby would put on his parka and literally light up the BBQ when it was like 20 degrees! The old gal said that wasn't like a Florida cold.......... Yeah, sure. They call Florida 'God's waiting room' but I think it's closer to 'Hell's Antechamber'......... Because if some of these darling old folks think it gets cold in Florida, I bet if they went to Hell, they'd ask if they could turn up the heat!
Nia the Gulf Gypsy Wow! What a bunch of weirdos! Yeah try Massachusetts where it gets to -10 in the winter and they can tell me what cold is. So cold your feet are freezing and you have booger’s running down your face from the cold.
My mom (70) is the opposite. She’ll have the air con on 10C when it’s only 20C outside but until it drops to like 0C, she won’t turn on the heater and she REFUSES to have the heater on at night even when it’s below freezing, so I back when I lived at home, I had to wear wool socks and a sweatshirt to bed in the winter time and when I woke up in the morning, I could see my breath. No, my mom is not even a teensy bit poor. She’s got a terrific career and a great house in a wonderful neighbourhood. She’s just weird.
That's like how my in-laws' house was. They live down on the Texas/Mexico and refused to have AC in their house. It was ridiculous! The only thing they had was this thing called a "swamp cooler" which would throw mist out, so it was not only over 100 degrees, but was humid & moist. The swamp cooler was a breeding ground for mosquitoes, too, so it was like sleeping in the Amazon rain forest. I always wanted to stay at a hotel, but in a lot of TexMex families, hotels are out of the question. Why waste money staying in comfort & privacy, when you can stay in a mosquito hatchery?
This was just like staying at my aunt's house. She always kept the heater way to warm for SoCal in the winter and the AC barely used in the summer. I think everyone can relate to this episode.
My parents live in South Carolina. My dad keeps the thermostat at 78 during the summer. And it gets HOT down there. 78 is fine if you are in shorts a tee and literally don't move.
