Avner Shavit
15/11/2021
Monday, 15 November 2021, 07:43 Updated: 07:59
The story behind one of the darkest episodes of "Seinfeld"
Screenwriter Larry Charles imagined George pushing people, and envied a co-worker who experienced a family tragedy.
And so was born "The Fire," the episode that illustrates that "Seinfeld" is not only a funny series, but also and perhaps mostly very dark.
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When you think of "Seinfeld" and screenwriters named Larry, you think of Larry David, but there was also Larry Charles, who wrote some of the best and darkest episodes in the series' history, and her hidden episode, which dealt with a particularly charged subject, literally - a weapon for self-defense
and was the "The Fire" (Season 5, Episode 20), which not only went on the air - but immediately entered the Pantheon. It started with an abstract image that Charles had in mind: George pushing people hysterically. It evolved into a plot called the episode. George, ever miserable, notices fire during his girlfriend's son's birthday party, panics and runs away from the scene as he pushes everyone away - including the clown, the happy groom's friends, the boy himself and his grandmother
Another idea that inspired the episode: Charles, selfish, petty and human like himself, once envied a colleague in his office, who experienced a terrible family tragedy and received a lot of attention as a result.
This spawned the plot line where Elaine is jealous of her colleague, who gets a warm hug from the rest of the office workers after experiencing a unfortunate toe accident and that unfortunate
toe accident also spawned a thousand lessons in screenwriting.
In an attempt to save the severed toe, Kramer flies with her to the hospital as he goes through a thousand-and-a-half-night adventure on a bus caught in a "speed" -style situation.
The original idea was to film it all, but then they filmed a monologue in which Kramer recounts the hardships and heroism, and the audience responded with such laughter and applause - that it was decided that there was no point in doing so.
Here is proof that sometimes it is better to actually tell, rather than show.
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In addition to all this, the chapter also presents a particularly large amount of trivia and anecdotes.
Oren Yossifovich and Avner Shavit discuss them all in another episode of the podcast from the podium dedicated to the cult series that recently aired on Netflix as well.
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