Series regulars who didn't appear in an episode for temperamental reasons
08-06-15, 11:29 AM
#51
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Series regulars who didn't appear in an episode for temperamental reasons
It was early in the show's run, and Jason Alexander was a stage guy so the show wasn't that important to him at the time. He told Larry David that if they don't need him for every episode, just write him out entirely. They never wrote George out of an episode again, but they did it to Michael Richards who was also missing from that same episode.
08-06-15, 06:40 PM
#52
DVD Talk Platinum Edition
Re: Series regulars who didn't appear in an episode for temperamental reasons
08-06-15, 07:15 PM
#53
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Series regulars who didn't appear in an episode for temperamental reasons
I just started reading Top of the Rock today.
In it, Alexander says that threatened to quit because he thought that doing episodes with just Jerry and Elaine signaled a different direction for the show--a direction in which George was superfluous. If NBC wanted to make Seinfeld a show about Jerry and Elaine as a couple, then they should let him out early because he signed up for a show about Jerry and George as best friends.
Spoiler:
In it, Alexander says that threatened to quit because he thought that doing episodes with just Jerry and Elaine signaled a different direction for the show--a direction in which George was superfluous. If NBC wanted to make Seinfeld a show about Jerry and Elaine as a couple, then they should let him out early because he signed up for a show about Jerry and George as best friends.
08-06-15, 07:19 PM
#54
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Series regulars who didn't appear in an episode for temperamental reasons
What episode had the first scene of Kramer at the coffee shop?
08-06-15, 11:14 PM
#55
DVD Talk Godfather
Re: Series regulars who didn't appear in an episode for temperamental reasons
I just started reading Top of the Rock today.
In it, Alexander says that threatened to quit because he thought that doing episodes with just Jerry and Elaine signaled a different direction for the show--a direction in which George was superfluous. If NBC wanted to make Seinfeld a show about Jerry and Elaine as a couple, then they should let him out early because he signed up for a show about Jerry and George as best friends.
Spoiler:
In it, Alexander says that threatened to quit because he thought that doing episodes with just Jerry and Elaine signaled a different direction for the show--a direction in which George was superfluous. If NBC wanted to make Seinfeld a show about Jerry and Elaine as a couple, then they should let him out early because he signed up for a show about Jerry and George as best friends.
08-07-15, 07:45 AM
#56
Re: Series regulars who didn't appear in an episode for temperamental reasons
Another one: Nora Dunn sat out the Andrew Dice Clay episode of SNL as a protest of his act's misogynist content.
And then the following week, in an act of pathetic copycatting... um, I mean solidarity, the key boardist, Star What's Her Face, boycotted the episode of the Arsenio Hall Show featuring Dice.
And then the following week, in an act of pathetic copycatting... um, I mean solidarity, the key boardist, Star What's Her Face, boycotted the episode of the Arsenio Hall Show featuring Dice.
Both such great loses from those shows i am sure.
08-07-15, 11:52 AM
#57
Re: Series regulars who didn't appear in an episode for temperamental reasons
... [Hill] left the show in 1967 after the end of the first season. As one of the few Orthodox Jewish actors working in Hollywood, he made it clear in advance of production that he was not able to work on the Sabbath (i.e., sundown Friday to dusk Saturday), and that he would leave the set every Friday before sundown. However, despite Hill's advance warnings, the show's producers were unprepared for his rigid adherence to the Sabbath, and on at least one occasion Hill left the set while an episode was still in the midst of filming.
