I don't know why, but the more I see this episode, the less I like it. Does anybody else feel the same way? I don't know, I think I just miss Kramer's good ol' fashion hijinx.

No Kramer sux.

But I like the ep pretty well.
I think it's a fine example of the show about nothing thing.
I know many of you had mentioned not liking the slow paced older eps, but I think 016 The Chinese Restaurant is pure Seinfeld. It never leaves the waiting room & is all about there dialog... like you mentioned, no [sit-commy] zanniness, but it was just pure seinstyle.

bits from 016:

Besides having no Kramer, this ep is also unique in that it is one of the 10 (or so) eps that do not feature 5A (Jer's apt).

Also it's on my "The Lists" for having a Larry David voice in.
This one is rarely makes usual LD lists, but when Elain goes to the old folks tables to munch a$50 eggroll, you can here Larry saying several times "What is she saying... what is she saying"

I still like it alot. Kramer didn't fit in this episode.

I know this show was supposed to be about nothing, but this episode REALLY WAS ABOUT NOTHING! LOL

This was probably one of the last episodes I saw in its entirety. I think it is worth a watch. The Cartright line is very funny as is George's serious, muted reaction to it. Also the confusion over the attempted tipping.

Kramer could have been in the episode and bailed out to get a Papaya King hotdog or something.

If your used to the many turns of the later episodes I could see how the one set location could get old. Overall I'd give it maybe a 5 on the Pez rating scale.

Don't get me wrong, I thought the ep was funny, I just don't think the entire episode holds up like the others. The Cartwright line was funny.

As wrong as it seems, whenever my dad and I go to a Chinese restaurant, we can't help but to blurt "Cartwright!" to each other and the ol "5 . . . 10 minutes" line comes up often.

Originally posted by MillenniumMan831
As wrong as it seems, whenever my dad and I go to a Chinese restaurant, we can't help but to blurt "Cartwright!" to each other and the ol "5 . . . 10 minutes" line comes up often.

:lol:

Originally posted by MillenniumMan831
As wrong as it seems, whenever my dad and I go to a Chinese restaurant, we can't help but to blurt "Cartwright!" to each other and the ol "5 . . . 10 minutes" line comes up often.
That is a good relationship to have.

I didn't even notice Kramer's absence.
I watched the Chinese Restaurant recently,and it is pretty damn funny in my opinion.

I like that episode. George was so good in it you didn't need Kramer.

I like that episode. George was so good in it you didn't need Kramer.

:rofl:
George: "For fifty bucks? I'd put my face in their soup and blow".

I also liked the line-I don't know it verbatim-but where Geroge asks Jerrry is he would be there to back him up if anything goes down. :lol:

... i found it hilarious after they give up and leave and then the chinese man says, "Seinfeld, 4?" The whole episode was great. One of the greatest season 2 episodes, along with "The Heart Attack" and "The Pony Remark."

pat

I love it.... it's brilliant. Better than "The Parking Garage" IMO.

I love it.... it's brilliant. Better than "The Parking Garage" IMO.

I liked that episode too,but preferred The Chinese Restaurant.I love the part where George gets completeld BURNNNNNT but a kid he was sticking up for!
Kid: You're ugly
George: No I'm not,you're ugly.
Kid: You're ugly
George: Thats what you think
Kid: Thats what I know! :rofl:

My favorite Chinese Restaurant quote...

Bruce - "Yes. I say 'you not here', she said curse word, I hang up." :)

My favorite Chinese Restaurant quote...

Bruce - "Yes. I say 'you not here', she said curse word, I hang up." :):lol: That is prob the best line :D

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"Cartwright!"

My favorite Chinese Restaurant quote...

Bruce - "Yes. I say 'you not here', she said curse word, I hang up." :)

:rofl: Oh yeah that was great!!

and George's explanation to Jerry about why he had to "extricate himself from the proceedings" during his little get-together with Tatiana is a great example of the incredible way of writing dialoge without using certain words and phrases...and his "Bat signal" line was great:


GEORGE: Well, it's this little place with this little bathroom. It's like right there, you know, it's not even down a little hall or off in an alcove. You understand? There's no... buffer zone. So, we start to fool around, and it's the first time, and it's early in the going. And I begin to perceive this impending... intestinal requirement, whose needs are going to surpass by great lengths anything in the sexual realm. So I know I'm gonna have to stop. And as this is happening I'm thinking, even if I can somehow manage to momentarily... extricate myself from the proceedings and relieve this unstoppable force, I know that that bathroom is not gonna provide me with the privacy that I know I'm going to need...

JERRY: This could only happen to you.

GEORGE: So I finally stop and say, "Tatiana, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I think it would be best if I left".

JERRY: You said this to her after.

GEORGE: No. During.

JERRY: Oh, boy.

GEORGE: Yeah.

JERRY: Wow! So...?

GEORGE: So I'm dressing and she's staring up at me, struggling to compute this unprecedented turn of events. I don't know what to say to reassure this woman, and worst of all, I don't have the time to say it. The only excuse she might possibly have accepted is if I told her I am in reality Batman, and I'm very sorry, I just saw the Bat-Signal.