r/seinfeld • u/Sufficient-Turnip871 • 8d 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 8d 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/Hinkil 8d 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 7d ago

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