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Seinfeld 9/11 spec script - "The Twin Towers"

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I easily pictured this in my head while reading it lol. Although it was Jerry from S3, Elaine from S7, Kramer from S4 and George from S6.
 
I think 9/11 is one of those few things for me that will never be acceptable comedy material, but yea...this was a pretty spot-on Seinfeld episode. Good enough that I had to read the whole thing to see how he'd tie it all together.
 
You know he was always talking about

how evil America was? Eventually I

told him, “Why don’t you do something

about it?” I thought he’d write to his

Congressman!
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This was too good.
 
This was absolutely great. You could actually see this as an episode in some alternate universe where they wouldn't be lynched for doing it.
 
Okay, this is too funny. Really nailed exactly which problems each character would run into with 9/11.

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This reminded me of this time when for some reason, I thought of a Seinfield episode for no reason when I never even really watched the show.

Costanza learns to whistle. It turns out he never knew how to whistle, but he took whistling classes, and he won't stop whistling for no reason. Not whistling a song, no, just spontaneous little "Woo" whistles, like when ordering food and pointing at the item, or when a pretty woman walks by, and Jerry will feel very uncomfortable and annoyed and all.

Jerry: "Whaaat? There are whistling classes? Who doesn't know how to whistle?"
George: "Many people don't. Jimmy Carter can't. Ronald Reagan couldn't until he learned how to in a whistling class, look it up."
Jerry: "Get out of here."
George: "Woo."

Later in the show, Elaine walks in, and instead of greeting her George whistles another short "Woo".

Elaine: "Uh?"
Jerry: "George took whistling classes and now he won't stop whistling".
Elaine: "Whistling classes? Who doesn't know how to whistle?"
Jerry: "I know!"
Elaine: "I know you do."
George: "Woo woo"

Kramer walks in looking all excited
Kramer: "Woo!"
Jerry: "What??"
Kramer: "Woo!" "Woo woo!"
George: "Oh you took the classes, great uh?"
Kramer: "Woooooo!"
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It writes itself! If the show had still gone on till now I think that episode would have actually happened.
 
Haven't read it yet, but I'm picturing the birthday party where George shoves everyone out of the way at the sign of a fire, but he's inside one of the towers.
 
Kramer bits felt kind of off to me and Uncle Leo felt a little shoehorned but overall I thought it was pretty great.
 
Loved it. Read the whole thing.

Sanjuro said:
That's basically season seven of Curb.
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Plus the intention of that season is to satire what Larry David thought was a very awful idea to bring back Seinfeld for a reunion and have them dealing with modern problems.
 
I'm not the biggest Seinfeld fan, an I'm only on page 27 of this script, but it's pretty damn good. Some of the characterization and dialog is a little off, but some of it is spot on. As a very dark, tasteless episode of Seinfeld, I think it works great. Some polish and rewrites, and input from the cast, and this could be a darkly classic episode. It's sooooo fucked up.

I don't like making light of 9/11, but this was some good comedy writing, especially comedy writing done in the style of an existing template. I'm also preparing to write some spec scripts, but not for comedy. This is an interesting piece of work to study. I'm impressed, and can see why comedians would eat it up because of its dark tastelessness.
 
Holy shit lmao that scene at George's with his parents is killing me, why am I trying to read this at work? I can picture all of these scenes perfectly even the montage with George walking with the sash.
 
Pretty good! Some parts felt a little off or like they were trying to fit in too many Seinfeld-isms just to get them in there, but pretty good!

Although shouldn't there have been three acts instead of two? Am I remembering, or does the stand-up bit at the beginning take up an act break or what? The first act was way longer than the second, too.
 
Just read the whole thing, I loved it, 9/10 for sure.

There was a tiny bit of it that was a little off and seemed out of character but 90% of it seemed spot on. One of my favorite bits was Elaine's boyfriend making all the noises as he described stuff, that fit so perfectly in my mind.

George was the best written with Kramer behind, Elaine and Jerry would follow for me. The dust storyline was very "Jerry" and hit the right notes.

Best part was being able to recreate the whole episode in my head, that's how engrained the show is for me. I wish there was a whole industry of top notch Seinfeld fake scripts, I'd eat them up.
 
I'm personally waiting for the when the Its Always Sunny cast does an episode about the
Pulse Night Club shooting
 
Holy f. This really is perfect. What a time we live in when we can appreciate comedy positioned against the backdrop of 9/11.
 
Fuchsdh said:
That was really solid, only downside is the "sneeze" moment is really obviously telegraphed.
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Seinfeld was often really obviously telegraphed. It's sort of like The Twilight Zone, where once you are familiar with how the show works it becomes really easy to see what twist an episode is going to throw in.

I thought the 9/11 dust was going to make George sneeze.....having it turn out to be anthrax was at least a surprise.
 
Just finished Act I. Wow this is insanely good. I can imagine the tone and acting of each character perfectly and it's hilarious
 
Meh. The tone is way too dark for Seinfeld. This is much more Curb Your Enthusiasm territory.
 
interesting because everything about Seinfeld screams "pre-9/11 NYC" to me. i can't watch an episode without reflecting on it
 
He had me at the Mo Atta bit, but I fucking lost it when this happened

ELAINE

You wouldnÂ’t kiss her because of DUST?

JERRY

It was all I could see! It was coming

at me like a 747! She said she

couldnÂ’t date someone so petty.
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120v said:
interesting because everything about Seinfeld screams "pre-9/11 NYC" to me. i can't watch an episode without reflecting on it
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I've always loved Seinfeld, but now one reason I like to watch it sometimes is a little look back at the 90's.

I'll check this out later, from what has been posted here so far it looks pretty funny.
 
I think this is something like a porn parody: you can't assume that the characters will behave the same if you dial the veracity of the situation up to 11 (pun not intended). Seinfeld played with fire a few times but it loses all of its value if they do something like this.

That was in the back of my mind the whole time and I didn't really enjoy it, but it had its moments. George's storyline was pretty good.
 
Lolol I really liked that, but I can understand that many won't. Seinfeld is one my favorite shows, but it's hilarious how easily it's able to be broken down into a formula for things like this.

I think, for me, a couple of small changes would have made it feel a bit more authetic. I feel like George would have made sort of off the cuff comment to Jerry at some point about how tiring or difficult it is being a hero, for example, just to emphasize how tone-deaf he is. I probably would have restructured some of the stuff with George's parents too.

Great script though. Makes me miss the show.
 
Could definitely use a few revisions, but whats there is pretty good as a dark Seinfeld episode. I could picture it in my head perfectly, George and Kramer were spot on.
 
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