About 2004, at Thanksgiving time, there was a musical 'Christmas Carol'. Kelsey Grammer was Scrooge and Jason Alexander was Jacob Marley. It was great and one of my favorite Holiday shows👍
LOVE the behind the scenes of Seinfeld. Interspersing these in the podcast is great, kind of like Fly on the Wall with SNL. Shows we love and admire brings us closer to it.
Wow, good timing. I just read about this story a few hours ago. And yes, we have a Festivus pole. I told my wife, next year we might have a clock in a bag on the wall. Happy Festivus, everyone!
When I was an undergrad, I was the President of my collegiate chapter of NORML. One year, all clubs and organizations were instructed to make their holiday parties secular (i.e. no mentioning of Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza, etc.). My then Vice President and I racked our brains to come up with a secular holiday party theme for weeks. Then, one evening, while smoking pot and watching Seinfeld, my VP suggested, “What about Festivus?!” We immediately knew that this was the way forward. As mentioned, we didn’t know what food items to get for the party, so we bought: a marble rye, a cinnamon babka from Trader Joes, bagels, two pizzas, a box of cereal, fun sized Junior Mints, and some soda. The last item needed was the pole. We walked around our entire campus looking for an aluminum pole, and as we were about to give up, we found a discarded pole in a crevasse under the main parking garage (we returned and reused the poll for subsequent Festivus parties). Suffice to say, the party was a success. We had a Feat of Strength and Airing of Grievances that inspired so much laughter that our party grew three times the size. We almost won an award for best themed holiday party. This episode has helped refine those memories, bringing insight and a deeper meaning to the event. Thank you for producing and sharing this podcast. I am grateful beyond words. 🙏
A very merry Christmas to you and yours. Thank you for the terrific podcast. This is a fascinating episode, I had no idea that the origins of Festivus were grounded in truth.
So both Santa and Fr Festivus were once much scarier than they are now. Amazing story, really. Thanks Dan, and also thanks to that actor from The Burning.🙂
I'm trying to get a read on what's going on in Jason's brain as he's processing all this new information. I'm just thinking he's trying to create some kind of formula out of it, traditionally or ceremonially to see if he can find any counterparts or parallels in his Jewish upbringing. 🤣🤣🤣
A true holiday institution at my house, Thank You. 😊 My adult children cringe like George at the thought of it, so mission accomplished. Anything is better than the over commercialized crap established as "normal" here in the US. Absolute genius! 😊
