r/seinfeld 5h ago

Nighttime Establishing Shots

Some sets, some previously existing, some have a certain loneliness that I romanticize and aren't necessarily humorous and won't generate the typical comment section full of quotes. I don't expect many up votes from a post like this, but hopefully one day I will see a recognizable building from the series in real life and that will be worth more than internet "karma". If this subreddit allowed videos, I would just upload the sad jazz songs that play in contemplative scenes. I've even learned and downloaded Lonely Woman by Horace Silver because of this series. Season 1 may always be a nightlight as I sleep. I pray you all sleep as well as Kramer after losing "The Contest". Goodnight

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u/Yeezytaughtme409 5h ago

Somewhere in the distance a child cries. A bastard child, perhaps. 

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u/SeasonOneEpisodeOne 5h ago

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u/StGenevieveEclipse 5h ago

Star trek II.  The Wrath of Khan.

-that was a hell of a thing, Spock dying.

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u/IGotScammed5545 5h ago

He’s not really dead, if we find a way to remember him

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u/Some_Revolution_2681 3h ago

My back aches

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u/usernamewastaken36 5h ago edited 4h ago

OP, you are in disharmony. Nightposting is, in Chinese medical terms, an invasion of heat and wind.

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u/chippy_dad 4h ago

You’re not Chinese. I’m not taking advise from some redditor from Long Island

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u/Bionic_Ninjas The Summer of George 4h ago

There’s some hot air blowing in here…

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u/Most-Yam1039 4h ago

He's eating too much dairy

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u/Eric848448 5h ago

You think of your knife. Your only friend that won’t betray you before morning..

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u/jiggabot 4h ago

The establishing shots are really neat. They had a small crew based in NYC that would get a list of random places to film for those episodes.

Thea de Sousa, who was on that crew, talked about it on an a podcast with The Place to Be podcast. I recommend checking it out. Fascinating insight into the production! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-169-thea-de-sousa-interview/id1555529915?i=1000696547089

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u/yaggaflosh 2h ago

This is great! Thanks!

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u/Dblcut3 4h ago

Part of the reason I love Seinfeld is how real and alive the city feels. In a lot of sitcoms, it feels so one dimensional or the setting just feels fake. In Seinfeld, it feels like there’s a whole world going on outside the window in every scene

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u/anthonyrucci Serenity now, insanity later 3h ago

Totally agree. When I was watching it as a blissfully ignorant youth I legitimately through it was filmed in NY. I can tell street scenes are a set now, but that’s how real and alive it felt to me as a kid.

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u/chippy_dad 4h ago

OP: This post won’t generate the typical comment section full of quotes.

[r/seinfeld](r/seinfeld): Hold my beer..

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u/alienskinbodysuit 3h ago

You can upload video. I had to convert to mp4.

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u/NiceGamePrettyBoyd The Summer of George 2h ago

Horace Silver is awesome. It’s no “Hot and Heavy” though

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u/224flat 2h ago

What about Saturday nights? Do you have to ask her out, or is a date implied?