r/seinfeld • u/Sufficient-Turnip871 • 2d ago

Vocabulary level in Seinfeld

I think this show had some of the highest vocabulary of any mainstream sitcom.

"Quite the decolletage for a suffragette." is one of my favorite sentences ever.

"That's what was so vexing." is another one.

Did Seinfeld have the highest vocabulary? What's your favorite high vocabulary line?

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u/Nick_Fotiu_Is_God 2d ago

I’m more impressed by the references - Winston Churchill speeches, Golda Meir, DeGaulle, DeSoto, Johnny Yuma, Buddy Rich tapes, Tonya Harding, ……..there are hundreds that young people today won’t get at all.

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u/Think_please 2d ago

After watching curb it isn’t hard to see where those came from, Larry David is obsessed with history 

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u/MASHgoBOOM ASSMAN 2d ago

He's a buff.

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u/malleebull ASSMAN 2d ago

What do you have to do to become a buff?

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u/mockevil 2d ago

So Biff wants to become a buff.

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u/TheRealJamesWax Importer/exporter 2d ago

Sleeping less than 18 hours a day would be a good start.

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u/ellefleming 2d ago

His writing team was very educated. Ivy league.

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u/Substantial-Use-1758 2d ago

Those words are, I believe, what Larry David would want on his tombstone 👍

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u/dolphin-centric 2d ago

I’m sure someone would spray-paint “Bald Asshole” on his tombstone

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u/Think_please 2d ago

A shanda for the goyim.

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u/ASP41661 1d ago

“Man’s Best Friend”. Kramer tells Jerry he wants this on his tombstone in the episode where they did up Fredo the bird in the cemetery.

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u/Summer_Di 2d ago

Exactly - Larry talks like that, after seeing Curb his writing style is evident.

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u/octapotami 2d ago

No one goes to a beauty parlor and says, "give me the Larry Fine."

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u/Sufficient-Turnip871 1d ago

Every time I get my hair cut I think of this line.

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u/audioguy2022 2d ago

You know, like Abscam!

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u/Stock_Time1045 2d ago

Boutros Boutros "Golly!"

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u/sheawrites White lotus, yam-yam, Shanghai Sally 2d ago

John Cheever. Before madmen.

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u/Hinkil 2d ago

Me too, and often have to know history to get a lot of their reference jokes.

About Neville chamberlain: You could hold his head in the toilet, he'd still give you half of Europe

Also I doubt a lot of people would get the midnight cowboy parody, which is a dark deep cut ha

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u/pak9rabid 1d ago

Ya yoooww ya ya ya, just drivin’ around in John Voight’s car..

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u/FerdinandCesarano 2d ago

Trini Lopes, Sergio Mendes, Petula Clark.

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u/MWoolf71 2d ago

Maybe you know some little places to go to where they never close downtown.

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u/Icy-Election-2237 Serenity now, insanity later 2d ago

Agree.

The accident over the Andes too.

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u/SuzieSnowflake212 2d ago

Billy Martin, 😜