Jerry and George hatch a plot to swap Jerry's girlfriend for her roommate. The clip is from #Seinfeld, Season 6 Episode 11: "The Switch". The song played midway through the video is "West Side Blues" by John Cameron.
Always my fave. He made this show IMO. You got it right. Jason Alexander was an awesome actor. Flawless. Really better than Jerry Seinfeld. Julia Dreyfuss was excellent too.!
Kirsi Laholer Not a 'guy', Kirsi -- the incomparable Jason Alexander. Along with Michael Richards' Kramer, one of the great comic creations in the history of television.
@@m.e.d.7997 I'm not sure I understand you, M. You praised Jason Alexander (and Julia) as being the best, but then said that George was no Kramer. Did you mean the reverse -- that Kramer was no George? I think Michael Richards' Kramer is great, too, in its own very different way -- just a more eccentric, quirky, oddball creation. Richards is a great physical comedian, in the tradition of Sid Caesar.
@@rickrose5377 George was IMO awesome. Not Kramer IMO. I thought he was acting like a jerk most of the time. The others played off him well though. He was NEVER as funny as George to me. Many loved him, I know.
@@angbaac He was right though. Jerry's not an orgy guy. He doesnt want to live in an apartment with thick shag carpeting and weirdo lighting, or wear robes and keep various creams and ungwents well stocked at all times. Besides, two women at the same time is overrated. I think on some level even George realized this, which is why he admits he wouldnt be able to go through with it either.
@@DDD-qt8bw I'll take one good over one good and one mediocre. Usually, you only really are interested in one especially out of the two anyway, the other is just lagniappe or is already old hat.
wow, this is the show that just keeps giving. I have probably watched the entire series over 5-6 times and I had never picked up on that. I always thought that might be a very sick idea that George has come up with and written on paper for Jerry to read, but the subtlety of it just being the check makes this so much better. Thanks for pointing it out fellow internet citizen.
Nice to see George putting all this effort into something that he doesn't benefit from. He actually just wants to do something for his friend. The pure excitement and triumph when he runs back into the apartment with a plan gets me every time.
George is a hollow invertebrate without the first ounce of honor to help a "friend", he acts purely out of emptiness in his own life. A Nexus 6 is more of a person than him.
When this episode originally aired in 1995 I was a senior in high school and watching it with my grandparents. My 76-year-old grandmother kept asking what a ménage a trois was. My grandfather was sitting in the chair next to her and pretended not to hear her but I know he knew. She kept saying ménage a trois over and over and we both finally told her we had no idea. During a commercial break I had to get up and leave the room to keep from laughing.
In the 80s I was in high school as well, and watching Letterman with my parents. Dave was holding up funny ads, and it was for a beauty salon, and it said "free blow job with every wash". Dave's joke was "don't forget to adjust the chair". My mom didn't get it....
How Jason Alexander never won an award for playing George on this show is one of the biggest snubs of all time! You can't watch an episode and not see some part of yourself in George, just an absolute great character acted out brilliantly!
@@ElvarMasson no I mean how as in he carried the first 2 seasons because Kramer wasn't himself yet, Jerry wasn't quite there yet and Elaine didn't have strong stories yet
@@jaymilo8425 Most of the stuff with Elaine was bizarre and beyond belief. Didn't help the show at all. It was her romantic inclinations and suitors that were funny enough to make the show better.
Can we talk about how adorable these two are as best friends? George taking up the fight with his best pal although it’s doomed to fail...them getting so mentally invested that they’re walking down the street fussing at each other, staying up late into the the night working out the plan until finally George has to announce, that’s enough for today...you’re tired...get some sleep...I’ll see you first thing in the morning. I love the friendship!
Ironically, this plan ended up working - the conclusion to this storyline is absolutely hysterical ;D. (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j6_pv_vRHKI.html)
They could have done a whole episode about Bania that didn't include the main characters, and it probably would have worked. Maybe some interaction with Kramer included, as a conclusion or something.
Not for the episode. He never won a single Emmy in 9 seasons of this show portraying one of the most iconic comedic characters in TV history. Disgraceful.
@@MsDudette21 thank you! A lot of time I would know the name of this song in this Seinfeld episode. I already put it in my playlist from Deezer. Cheers from Brazil!
I watched Seinfeld in prison, in the mid 90’s. It sounds crazy but we inmates would dissect these scenes and laugh about these episodes for days after watching them. Black, White, Latino, cliqued-up, not cliqued-up, it didn’t matter. We all kind of bonded over this show. It made the moments of abject violence, degradation and abuse that were always around the corner seem more tolerable.
You and I were cell mates. I recall staying up late many-a-night with you, holding you close, giving kisses on your head as you wept into my lap. Good times.
@@derp8575 Man, it’s great to hear from you. I owe you an apology. I know I sold you for a pack of cigarettes, but I felt I didn’t have too many options. I hope your time in Cell block C wasn’t as bad as they said it was.
One of my favorite parts of this is that at the imaginary phone call with Jerry and the roommate, George is there with him, lol. He is narrating that part of the plan, so he incorporated himself to the scene.
The competition was really strong. Michael Richards for 5 seasons (3 of which he won), and Niles on Frasier was not half bad either. Just tight competition and a dose of bad luck, methinks.
One of the most perfectly executed sequences in the history of television comedy: the writing, the direction, the acting -- inspired. "This is what I do."
@@seabrarafael I love his show. We'll never get television at this level of quality again. Truly lightning in a bottle, or as Jerry puts it, "dumb luck".
@andrion waser In the words of Charlie Harper who is not at all related to this show, an orgy requires six participants minimum. 1 is masturbation 2 is one-on-one 3 is a threesome 4 is two couples swinging 5 is two couples swinging with a looky loo 6 is an orgy
@@Russell_Rieckenberg But that's so different. He turned down a threesome with two guys and a girl. That is a bit more understandable. Jerry turned down a threesome with him and two women. They both may have been offered threesomes but those types of threesomes are very different.
I love the little scene of Sandy being "busy" at work,shes "busy" cos she looks really annoyed which links to another epic George episode.Of course later on George tries to get out of a relationship buy suggesting a menage a trois and the male flatmate is into it,freaking George out so the idea comes back to bite him
Just gave me a mental image of the male roommate closing in on George, and the episode ending with a close-up of him soundlessly screaming with his hands up, hahaha.
...and remember...in the next episode, S6E12, "The Label Maker", George tried to use the menage a trois suggestion to get out of a relationship, but it didn't quite work out as planned, lol
Is this the best episode? Come on every episode feels that way in Seinfeld. The writing is top notch! George's acting is out of the world. I laughed so much! When George says" You disappoint me my friend " Only George can deliver that in a funny way
I love these rare moments where George us an expert in how to navigate through the complexities of a woman,yet the majority of the time he just strikes out with them 😂
Except every plan inevitable backfires, so not sure how much of an expert he is. George is an interesting mix of delusion, overconfidence and insecurity.
“...Qualities prized by the superficial man” Been there and surprisingly how would I have worded it. You know, when you use verbosity to cover the degree of shame you feel for the less than holy thoughts that enter your mind about “the superficial man”
Of all the great lines in this sequence, that one's the best. Even 25 years ago, Seinfeld's creators/writers had the guts to not shy away from the existence of sexism, racism and homophobia, but the cleverness to avoid being accused of such labels. It's what will make the appeal of the show enduring.
I'm going through this show again, will make it the third time, and am on this season (six) now. From all the episodes that I've seen, which are fresh in my head, this episode is my favorite. It's very George and Jerry-centric but it showcases their personalities so well. Also, it's the most clear example I can think of so far of something the show really begins to establish as a trademark of it's philosophy - that no matter what the characters do to change/improve their lives, something different and unexpected will happen. Worth noting is that "The Opposite" was the last episode of season 5 so the writers were definitely aware of the "opposite" effect of their destinies. Love this show and episode.
Lol, does anyone find it odd that George grabs a jar of peanut batter at the end and then sticks his finger in it like it's a spoon? I mean I don't really do that with my own jar of peanut butter, let a lone someone else's.
Daniel Espinosa first of all I'd like to mention that the " let alone" you mentioned caught my attention and I googled the meaning. now I learned something from my beloved rich language . so thank you. 2nd I think what you mentioned about george's finger in the jar shows how dump is the character , because it happened at the moment when he said this is what do.
+ srmcd1 Is there like some kind of friends time statute that says you can grab your buddy's sandwich spread and just eat it out of the jar with your fingers? :) I'm friends with a guy whom I met in middle school, (15 years ago) and I couldn't imagine grabbing his jar of peanut butter and just digging my fingers in it, lol. I don't think that would go over so well. I also wouldn't appreciate it very much if he did that to me. #getaspoon
Being a geek here, but during roman empire. Rental plebian appartments were common. Mostly on top floors. They landlord had some bakery below and rent rooms on top. Many plebians accommodated and shared single rooms. They had no bathrooms or kitchen. Roman had public baths and toilets and lots of bakery where bread and other goods were cooked bought by people.
Jerry and George hatching a plan to swap Jerry's girlfriend for her roommate by proposing a threesome (menage a trois) are one of the best and one of the most funny parts from Seinfeld. But even more funny is that Jerry's girlfriend agrees to have a threesome (menage a trois) with him and a her roommate and Jerry is taking by surprise.
The music heard when they're initially concocting "The Switch "is reminiscent of that used in Taxi Driver when Travis is driving during the night scenes
I'm looking for the title as well. The same music is used in the episode with Kramer's mom. I think the music is also in an episode of My So Called Life.
It was different. They used similar montages before , when Jerry or George have had life changing decisions to make. When George pondered proposing to Susan, and when Jerry had to decide who to give up: his girlfriend or the voice "Helloooo!"
The thing about the Seinfeld foursome is they all had their moments. They all bought into playing the absurdity angle and the scripts got progressively more sublimly outrageous over the years. And the supporting characters were equally and memorably wacky.
@@after_midnight9592 Exactamundo, it's a totally a good plan from the get go, even the girls seems to be wanna be part of it, but at the end of the day, Jerry just ain't an orgy guy. So sad lol.😄😄😅
