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Jan 11, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

George’s parents are arguing about which vaccines to get. Frank insists that the J&J is the superior option since it’s only one dose. Estelle is outraged, thinking that a combination of one Pfizer and one Moderna is the only way to go. George skipped the lines, and already got his two doses of Moderna, but has to go with each of his parents to get them to the right appointments, only to show up at the CVS while the pharmacist is on break.

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please go to the new week 1 thread for pages 6-11

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why dos Estelle think that combing them is the way to go?

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Frank had been railing on the other vaccines for having “two half doses”, and there was no way she was going with his plan. She overhears a handsome man whom she automatically assumes to be a doctor talking about Pfizer being the strongest vaccination option, while she’s waiting in line for a COVID test.

She returns home, and tells Frank that she’s getting the STRONGEST option and getting Pfizer. She refuses to back down, claiming she did plenty of research and she HAS to have the Pfizer.

She calls George asking for help scheduling an appointment, adamant that it has to be Pfizer. George, attempting to avoid doing this, claims he only knows how to get a Moderna appointment so he can’t help her and she needs to do it on her own.

But if Moderna is good enough for her boy… she’s torn. She can’t ignore that handsome doctor, but George said he can help with Moderna…

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the handsome doctor is good ha -- we can use that

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Jan 18, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

At the Jan 6 riots, Kramer by mistake drops a business card - ‘Art Vandelay, Vandelay Industries’ it reads. After FBI investigations, Art Vandelay is believed to be the pseudonym for the head of QAnon who organised the riot. A nation wide search is undertaken to find this ‘Art Vandelay’.

Members of the public come forward to the FBI describing various interactions they’ve had with a so called Art Vandelay. A sketch artist produces a ‘Wanted’ poster which is broadcast over all the TV Networks - the sketch looks remarkably like George

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Jan 12, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Jerry runs into Bania on his daily “COVID walk”. Bania has a mask on but not over his nose. Jerry gestures to point this out to Bania, who ignores him and continues to test out “COVID material” for his set, saying that Jerry has GOT to hear his toilet paper bit. Jerry letter tells George and Elaine that Bania is a “Half-masker”. “Bania’s a HALF-masker??” George says. “Can’t STAND half-maskers!” Says Elaine. “Either do the full mask or don’t bother!”

George realizes that he is getting more female attention than usual, and only when he's wearing his mask. "I hope this pandemic never ends, Jerry! Now that the world has met Mask George, I can never go back to showing my face!"

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Bania has a half masker is great -- half masker is gold

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Absolute gold!

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please go to the new week 1 thread for pages 6-11

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whats your IG handle?

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@itsyaboyjoeybread

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Jan 12, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Jerry meets a woman after a performance, assumes she's vaccinated and asks her out. At a restaurant on their first date, Jerry and his date both provide proof of vaccination. At the dinner table, after presenting a vaccine card, Jerry's date makes a handful of anti-vaccine comments. The date goes well and Jerry wants to ask her out on a second date. To avoid confrontation, Jerry doesn't press his date for a yes/no answer on her vaccine status, but he is operating off the assumption her vaccine card was a fake.

Jerry turns to George and Elaine for advice; he's torn on whether or not he should go on a second date. Jerry's crush is attractive, they share common interests, and he's not had intimate relations since the outset of the pandemic. Elaine is initially sanctimonious, questioning how Jerry would consider going out with an anti-vaxxer. George can't get passed the length of Jerry's slump. After showing Elaine and George a picture of his date, Elaine changes her stance and now supports Jerry's second date. George also encourages a second date. He is now fixated on forging a vaccination card for Frank, who refuses to be vaccinated. (Frank believes a flu shot he received years ago gave him the flu.)

George visits his parents and presents them with a solution for Frank: a fake vaccine card. For the first time in George's adult life, Frank praises George for coming up with a "brilliant idea". Estelle is against George's idea, fearing George and Frank will be caught and wind up in jail. George and Frank move forward with the plan. George takes Frank to the local pharmacy. Frank is responsible for distracting the pharmacist while George will sneak behind the counter to steal blank vaccine cards. Frank and the pharmacist get into a verbal altercation which turns physical. The pharmacy's security guard runs over to break up the fight and catches George red-handed in the process. Police are called; George and Frank are put in cuffs and placed in the back of a police car. Ultimately they're un-cuffed and only George receives a summons for the offense.

J. Peterman moved to his ranch at the beginning of the pandemic and fell back in love with the American west. He his not returning to New York, and has entrusted Elaine to run the company in his indefinite absence, on one condition. Elaine must make a return to office mandatory for all J. Peterman employees. Elaine acquiesces and orders an immediate return to office. Elaine knows her decision is unpopular. Out of fear of hatred from her co-workers, Elaine encourages social distancing, but will not to enforce a mask mandate.

When going in for a hug at the beginning of their second date, Jerry's date sneezes and doesn't cover her nose. Jerry comments on her "naked sneeze". An argument ensues and the date abruptly ends. Later, at Jerry's, he tells George and Elaine about the incident. George is complaining about falling into Frank's bad graces and the fine he has to pay. Elaine is elated with how the return to office has gone thus far. Jerry coughs then sneezes right before Elaine and George leave.

A few days later, Jerry, Elaine, and George are sick, and quarantining. Jerry calls Elaine and George to see how they're feeling. He apologizes and is convinced the naked sneeze infected him. George is miserable laying in his childhood bed. We can hear Estelle and Frank berating him on the other side of his closed door. Elaine passes along the news that the entire office is infected. Jerry and Elaine pause and simultaneously say the same phrase to each other : Super-spreaders.

Jerry, Elaine and George turn on their TVs. Front and center on the screen are Kramer and crazy Joe Davola, getting ready to scale the facade and breach the Capitol.

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Mrmichaelbb. Thank you

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the Peterman stuff is gold

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there also has to be something about people removing their mask to sneeze. What's the point of the mask if you don't sneeze in it?

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Jan 12, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

I was thinking both sneezes occur in a location where a mask isn't required, like Jerry's apartment or a table at a restaurant. The thought of someone wearing a mask and taking it off to sneeze, so germs aren't trapped, is pretty great though

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Elaine, at the sink (in quarantine with J+G at Jerry's apt): "What song do you guys use when you're washing your hands? I'm getting tired of mine." Jerry: "I don't sing. I start counting all the gigs I've had to cancel." E: "How do you know when to stop?" J: "When I start to prune."

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Jan 16, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

@pomantini

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HA

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Jan 16, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Kramer meets Marjorie Taylor green, gets Kramer interested, he ends up going to the Jan 6 insurrection, Newman sees an ad on tv saying 5,000$ reward for any information on the events on Jan 6, and turns in Kramer.

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Jan 14, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Looking for a new business venture to rebound from the Man-sier failure, Frank and Kramer decide to repurpose their excess inventory of mansiers into specialized covid masks. Meanwhile, while watching one of Dr. Fauci's COVID updates on TV, Kramer claims that they're old friends, having played in poker league many years ago together. The gang doesn't believe him.

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Jan 13, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen, E.Z. Rinsky

George (as Art Vandelay) remarks about how he designed the new addition to the Capitol

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Jan 11, 2022·edited Jan 12, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Kramer and Crazy Joe set out to drive to DC but their car breaks down on the way. As a last resort they hitch a ride with a Chinese tourist group headed towards the capital. Joe and Kramer believe it’s all a conspiracy and try to stop the tourists from getting to D.C.

George moves back in with Frank and Estelle and is forced to quarantine with his parents. George can’t take it anymore and breaks out of the house to go to Jerry’s but experiences a lot of obstacles from Queens to Manhattan (argument with someone on the train about masks, George’s mask gets ripped off during the argument. A cop appears right after the scuffle and writes George a ticket for not wearing a mask and orders him to buy one. George goes to the pharmacy to buy a new mask but a strict store manager won’t let George into the pharmacy without wearing a mask! George pleads with passerby’s on the sidewalk to help him but doesn’t have any luck. A shady character approaches George and offers to shop for a mask for him for a $20 fee. George pays the guy. The manager catches the guy and doesn’t allow him to buy the mask. The guy makes off with the $20. The same cop from the subway walks by and sees George still not wearing a mask and writes him another ticket.

Jerry and Elaine think they have covid from close contact with someone who has covid. They go to get tested. Right after the test someone sneezes right in their faces.

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@rob_agri

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this is really good

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i can also see Estelle thinking George is an idiot no matter what and only agreeing with whatever the handsome doctor says

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please go to the new week 1 thread for pages 6-11

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Jan 16, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Kramer is the only one after all these years who has kids, he has 6, and with the most plain and dull Jewish woman ever.

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Jan 16, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Kramer ends up being a member of the trump White House cabinet

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Jan 16, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Jerry is only seen wearing a full hazmat suit, he mocks and judges Elaine for being too loose with Covid, so she takes the air tube off of his back and coughs straight into it.

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Jan 13, 2022·edited Jan 13, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Flash back scene

February 2020 -

Jerry's apartment, Frank Costanza is telling Jerry about his new investment in a restaurant New Pals, whose theme is eating dinner very close to strangers in order to make new friends. Kramer bursts through the door...

Kramer:. Oh you guys are talking about investments? H-h-have I got a story for you! Joe Devola had been doing some crazy stuff. Crazy, Jerry! He's importing animals from Chinese wet markets.

Frank: I do not like Chinese wet markets!

Jerry: wet markets?

Kramer: Wet markets! All kinds of crazy stuff... bats, monkeys, pangolins...

Jerry: [squints eyes] pangolins?

Frank: Pangolins?!

Kramer:. Oh you bet baby, pangolins!

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HA

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good on you for including dialogue

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Jan 13, 2022·edited Jan 13, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Jerry gets “canceled” for a Joke. The premise is “remember before the pandemic, before the mandates, you would see just one random Asian person on the train wearing a mask and not know what to make of it. Just an expressionless face behind a mask avoiding eye contact at all cost. But then you found out that they were wearing the mask because they were sick and it was to protect you. I guess that’s what they meant when they said we will all be Asian one day. By being considerate and avoiding each other” Now everywhere Jerry goes he’s ridiculed for the joke and gets fired from all his gigs.

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Jan 12, 2022·edited Jan 12, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Jerry appreciates mask culture not only because he's a germaphobe but also because now he doesn't have to fake smile when seeing neighbors or people on the street. Also they can "other" people who don't wear masks as non-maskers.

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HA

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Jan 12, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

I wrote a Seinfeld episode for a final paper in college and this project is the best idea in years.

Kramer only goes to DC for his own reason and not for the insurrection—whether it's checking in with the Smithsonian on the historical status of his Anthony Quinn undershirt; or checking with the patent office on the status of his claim to have invented cryptocurrency; or Newman is in DC for a postal worker's conference and is in a jam and needs Kramer to bring him The Mailbag again and so Kramer remembers Joe Davola is going and hitches a ride (that way Jerry can joke about how if all the postal workers are in DC, who's delivering the mail?).

As for Jerry, George, and Elaine - they caught the virus at a movie theater seeing a Chunnel reboot. Or Rochelle, Rochelle: Minsk 2 Milan. Or maybe a Contagion-type movie for irony. Jerry wore a mask, George wore a hazmat suit, and Elaine wore a mask, too, but kept dropping it to eat Jujyfruits.

When they're isolating together, George sleeps on the couch and Elaine sleeps in Jerry's bed with him ('we already have COVID, what are we gonna do, get MORE COVID?'). Watching tv, George says they should've streamed the movie and Jerry says they would've been watching it at his place anyway because George would never pay for a streaming service. jerry also makes a comment about how Elaine was always the most likely to bring the virus to them anyway since she's so pro-germ.

They see Kramer on the tv and George says, "Kramer?" like he does in The Summer of George—this time enjoying Jujyfruits with Jerry and Elaine.

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"They see Kramer on the tv and George says, "Kramer?" like he does in The Summer of George—this time enjoying Jujyfruits with Jerry and Elaine." -- YES

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Jan 13, 2022·edited Jan 13, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Minsk 2 Milan 😂

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You don't think Kramer could go there because Joe promises a great party? Free fresh squeezed orange juice for the first ten people to show up?

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Jan 13, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

As much as we know Kramer would jump for the freshest fruit or the cheapest 5-gallon bottle of windshield wiper fluid, we only see him leave New York the once, right (L.A.)? So I think it would take more than something simple, but still something very Kramer-like. Maybe Kramerica Industries came raring back and he wants to sign a government contract with him for his take on the in-shower garbage disposal he patented because now everyone is doing more at home and that obviously includes preparing meals in the shower. Or he figures he can kill two birds with one stone: go to the party and try to pitch some lawmakers on a law that stops cable installers from giving you a 4-hour window in which they're supposed to show up.

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this is a good point

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the cable installation point is really funny

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Jan 12, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

George doesn’t want to FaceTime his girlfriend but can’t think of an excuse because she knows he’s stuck at home. Jerry tells him to turn his Wi-Fi and data off so his messages send as green texts and she’ll think George bought an android. But he doesn’t want his other contacts to think he can’t afford an iPhone so he constantly has to turn his data on and off.

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isn't this saving him money too?

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Jan 12, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Elaine dates a guy who helps her set up her home with smart devices but every time they get in a fight through text he shuts her lights off

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not bad

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Kramer and George take hydroxychloroquine because they think they have covid George ends up in hospital only to find out it was just a stomach bug

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Kramer takes it before the riot? remember, he has to end up there in the ep

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Yea maybe it’s how he ends up at riot, so we Can amend. Kramer takes it maybe he goes to DC to find some takes it goes to hospital. While he walks out of hospital sees the crowd and sees signs and he says yay a parade. Ends up being Frontline of the riot

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Some sequence where they all start to argue and they say the same thing as the capitol riots on tv, they all stop for a second and start cracking up because of the irony

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by oldjewishmen

Newman gets fired for making a fake CDC vaccine card

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not bad

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