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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 5, 2014 14:34:53 GMT
Does anyone else think that his episodes are like light-hearted, but poor man's versions of Larry David episodes?
The Apartment
The Nose Job
The Good Samaritan
The Virgin
The Visa
The Implant
The Smelly Car
The Masseuse
The Wife
The Hamptons
The Chinese Woman
The Scofflaw
The Sponge
The Shower Head
The Wait Out
The Soul Mate
The Money
The Yada Yada
The Betrayal
The Maid
Almost every episode on here is at least decent, some are almost classic but I don't consider any of them great (I find The Hamptons and The Yada Yada overrated). A few are lackluster and boring. He was good with down-to-earth plots and catch phrases, but I'm not sure that dialogue was his forte. Every episode he wrote definitely has that distinctive style, again similar to Larry David but less heavy I guess. Thoughts?
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 5, 2014 14:41:30 GMT
I don't really see how there's a "distinctive style" about his episodes. The only trait that seems to be common is that the plots get started RIGHT away.
There's an audio recording of him giving a lecture on how he writes episodes and one of his points is that he likes to get as many plots started as quickly as possible. Watch "the implant" for this. Jerry basically gets the whole thing started with just a few lines.
But other than that the list of episodes above has very little consistency, any of them could have been written by anyone.
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