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SEINFELD Season 7

With Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards
Directed by Andy Ackerman

Firmly cemented as one of the best American TV comedies, this DVD contains another 2 dozen cracking episodes from this trend-setting sitcom created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David (who went on to make the movie Sour Grapes and HBO’s hilarious fake reality series on himself, Curb Your Enthusiasm). In these 24 episodes George gets engaged in a bid to grow up, panics and tries to get out of it, continues his cushy job with the New York Yankees baseball team without really doing much, gets in trouble with an involuntary wink, refuses to give his fiancé his pin number, doesn’t want Elaine to make friends with his fiancé, buys a car once owned by “Jon Voigt”, has the usual flip-outs with his overbearing parents, made even worse when his fiancé moves more stuff in (one of it being a doll that looks like his mom), his childhood room is converted into a billiard room by his dad and Kramer, gets his boss hooked on Calzones, accidentally breaks up a married couple, and his efforts to get out of his own imminent wedding has nature throwing him a break...
Elaine is jealous of George’s engagement, dates a smalltime conductor who insists on being called “The Maestro”, her antique cupboard is stolen from Kramer off the sidewalk by two gay thugs, she’s attracted to a guy who doesn’t remember her, realizes she only has male friends, panics when her favourite birth control goes off the market (spawning the term “spongeworthy”), gets freaked out by her old nemesis who doesn’t wear a bra, hurts her neck, tests positive for opium, gets a job with J. Peterman (writing elaborate catalogue pieces for his clothing line), goes out with a guy who claims they’re not dating, and overbids on JFK’s golf clubs at an auction for her boss...
Kramer’s antics include trying to sneak his own coffee into a cinema and sues the coffee company when he’s burnt, introduces the gang to the legendary soup Nazi deli, wants to share his short cuts with the fire department, gets accidental wrong numbers for the movie info line and start to dish out his own brand of information, attends an AIDS walk, helps to rejuvenate an old movie theatre, buys a ridiculous amount of bulk food, uses a friend’s horse drawn carriage, gets golfing tips from a caddy, adopts Leonardo Da Vinci’s sleeping habits, torments the cable guy who always keeps him waiting, becomes an accidental pimp, bakes his clothes before wearing it, wears tight jeans that incapacitates him, and demands his bank reneged on their $100 offer that they’ll greet you with an “hello”... He also has team-ups with Newman, like trying to kidnap a dog keeping Elaine awake and attempting to run a truck of empty soda bottles to another state where the deposit return is double.
Naturally Jerry is the glue that keeps all of these storylines together, but also have his key bits like becoming obsessed with finding a place in Tuscany when “the maestro” says there is nothing available, tries to eat healthy, has to ensure a friend of Elaine that overslept at the Olympics isn’t late for a race n New York, chooses the fabulous soup over his girlfriend in the classic Soup Nazi, gets stalked by the pool guy at the gym, dates a woman who seems way too perfect, has to wear glasses as another ludicrous cover-up, steals the last marble rye loaf from an old lady to save George embarrassment with his future parents-in-law, he fixates on the fact that his new girlfriend seems to be wearing the same dress every day, tries to join the legendary Friar’s club, gets his vehicle car-napped by an obsessed mechanic, and meets a woman who is identical to him in every way...
Debra Messing (Will & Grace), Oscar winner Marissa Tomei (My Cousin Vinnie), Carey Elwes (Prcess Bride / Saw), Emmy winner Brad Garrett and Rob Schneider (The Animal / Deuce Bigalow) are some of the special guests in this 7th season.
Besides all the usual jam packed featurettes, deleted scenes, Sein-imation and bloopers, you also get a more close-up featurette on Elaine’s character (Queen Of The Castle), co-creator Larry David’s farewell from the series, and a look at all of his on screen and voice-over cameos throughout the first 7 seasons.

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