The Seinfeld Scripts by Jerry Seinfeld – this was one of the best comedy series ever, I am listening to Is This Anything these days and I get to hear many of the jokes from the show again – now for the plug: you can read or hear more than six thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists, together with other thousands of reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you have an opinion, you could even subscribe

 

The Seinfeld Scripts by Jerry Seinfeld – this was one of the best comedy series ever, I am listening to Is This Anything these days and I get to hear many of the jokes from the show again – now for the plug: you can read or hear more than six thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists, together with other thousands of reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you have an opinion, you could even subscribe

 

 

 

9 out of 10

 

Jerry Seinfeld must be terribly good to make even those who are not so sure about him enjoy the show, jokes, irony – he seemed arrogant, precious, superior – maybe he still does to me, and then a voice could explain – he has reason to be, multi-millionaire – maybe he has made a billion in the meantime – acclaimed…

 

He has had a stand up routine https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/stand-up-by-jerry-seinfeld.html - indeed, the Seinfeld episodes started, ended with segments on stage, where the hero would comment on social behavior, various crazy things people do – maybe you remember the one with the helmets

Sky diving is dangerous and could be deadly, the comedian speaks about the absurdity of putting on a helmet, for if anything happens, say a free fall, then ‘the helmet is wearing you for protection’, dark humor perhaps, but so accurate on this and other ‘analysis’, the dual zone climate control in the cars is another example

 

Surely a married man has invented this dual system, and then he mentions his spouse – quite often, he may try to get close to the status of the ultimate expert on relationships, John Gottman, who wrote the classic The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-seven-principles-of-making-marriage.html

If the spouse complains about freezing, or the heat, then she could dial up or down on the dashboard, except Seinfeld makes the good point that, in such a small place, it would be impossible to avoid mixing, and he makes it laughable by saying he has coffee and then black and cappuccino in the same cup, all at once

 

About happiness he may be less effective, though still amusing, in that he says in marriage, it is about the woman, which is good, because you (the man, he talks to his friends here, I think I remember) have now half the task, the man does not know about happiness, he only cares about what he does, he has nothing to do with merriment

Still, I would recommend one of the great books on positive psychology https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/happiness-science-behind-your-smile-by.html such as The Science Behind your Smile by Daniel Nettle, aware that the comedian is there to make one laugh, not to lecture on positivity

 

Nevertheless, Harvard Professor Tal Ben Shahar has inserted in his class a fragment from Seinfeld and other shows, because he makes some great points, on trash at the movies, the movies themselves, actors – he talks at an award ceremony and says the prize is useless, but then he argues that comedians should be rewarded:

They are working on their material, as opposed to actors, who ‘have nothing in their head’ – words to that effect – all they have to do is pretend to be Fred Jones (he used another name, which I forgot) and it is ‘you say what we have told you to say’, and voila, they act as if they are senators from Krypton and get Oscars…not his words, again

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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