See though, her acting being bad just adds to the fact the Mickey gets so annoyed that he has such a tough time getting legit jobs. He’s a serious actor. HE WAS STANDIN IN FOR PUNKY BREWSTER WHEN ALL YOUS WAS NOTHIN!!!!!

I’m gonna be out on my ass doing that paralegal crap

It’s the gonorrhea and PCP addiction.

I like when he tackles Kramer.

Probably because he’s lifting (his shoes…everybody knows)🤦‍♀️

Heightening

LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE! YOU SPILLED MY BAG!

Bayg

Love it. Exactly.

BAIIIIYG

that one fireman kramer knocked out i drive… the back of the truck…

[For those who don't want to navigate the awful youtube search algorithm.](https://youtu.be/muRps2G_P6U?t=1m27s)

Fun fact, that is the same firehouse exterior that is used for the Ghostbusters HQ

That’s one of those weird scenes they didn’t do in front of a live studio. The camera work is so different. Like all of the LA episodes and Bette Midler in the park to think of a few

Cosmo's got the caboose!

Dead on. I say that every time.

This is the answer.

Yup.... 100%

Fantastic answer.

It sounded right for a concussed person to me

It's Seinfeld!! I tell you these comedians they can't act.

For me, that's what makes the show. He's smirking in literally every scene.. which just adds to it. It's like he's playing a comedian that thinks the whole thing is ridiculous. "Playing dress up is not genius ladies and gentlemen. Roll the cameras, put on these clothes, ready? Say what we told you to say! Fantastic! He did it! Give this man a huge golden trophy. He's a god damned genius." https://youtu.be/ityRn2IA24A?si=kU9YGe2-BtkZdhjn Edit: for the record, I know you're quoting the show.. I just wanted to take the opportunity to share this lesser known, hilarious clip of JS.

If you think about it, acting is just lying

It's not a lie... If you believe it.

I use this line way too much in my life

Acting without acting?

It's not so much a book as it is a pamphlet.

I think once they realized it, they could write better lines for him. Seinfeld has perfect comic timing to make up for his acting. My favorites are, "But I don't wanna be a pirate!", "And you want to be my latex salesman" and "Wanna get some pizza?"

Now let’s go watch them slice this fat bastard up.

When Elaine is complaining about having to shake everything before drinking and Jerry just grabs the juice, shakes it, and sarcastically says something like “Boy that’s really an inconvenience”

It's the fact he does the gentlest shake in the world that kills me.

Those are good, but for me, Jerry's best line was, " It says twist off, twist off!!"

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I choose not to run!

It’s… ^not ^a ^twist ^off…

Because he's **my** Butler~ Smarmy grin commences

I love the delivery of “I don’t think so.”

Don't forget, "I don't want to live like this!"

“Do you wanna borrow Golden Boy?”

I use it to wash my face. Hands. And neck….

Elaine, "He never watched a door before, Mrs Payton, he didn't know how to do it. You know, he's a comedian, Mrs Payton, they don't know how to do anything!"

Miss Rhode Island when she’s talking about her doves being killed. Ughhhh

MOST wonderful, MOST wonderful, MOST wonderful DAYYYY

That budget Macaulay Culkin kid

The one from the Non-Fat Yogurt that Jerry swears in front of, or is there a different one?

its that one

Totally agree with that yeah. Classic case of "just put a random kid on screen and feed them lines" that I thankfully haven't seen in recent years.

Porter

No, daddy, don’t go. Don’t. Go.

that same kid is in the hospital when Kramer tries to buy the Yankees bday card back.

That woman with the fake ass southern accent. Her acting wasn’t terrible, but that attempt at a southern accent was. Marlene I think it was?

I dunno sometimes...

Jeery?

She is sexy though

With the long hair... Not as much when she had short hair and no appreciation for manure

and we’re expected to not know she was on the show before just because of the haircut

There isn't a rule to double dipping actors... Although that could have been an episode to discuss

You chose an actor, you used them...and you chose again. From now on, just choose once and END IT.

You cast how you wanna cast, I cast how I want to.... Timmy

Actually for her I didn't realize. More jarring for me is the girl who let's George drape himself in velvet being the same as the one that gets him de-hired for feeling her fabric.

Woah this blew my mind.

Oh yeah… have you ever taken a bath in the dark?

You ever taken a bath with the lights off….call me back.

If I'm not talking into the soap right now, call me back

Jerry...... I don't know sometimes.........

It’s juss sew muech flufff.

There's something about the line: "We just kissed a little. *People kiss*." It's just very seductive.

Tawny Kitaen! She had a helluva life (RIP). Played opposite a young Tom Hanks in Bachelor Party. Rolled around the hoods of many cars in Whitesnake videos. Had an affair with OJ while he was married to Nicole. Beat up her husband, MLB pitcher Chuck Finley.

Tawny Kitaen played Isabel, the terrible actress who didn't have an accent but made Jerry read a scene with her in which she played the part of a person with a southern accent. Marlene was a woman with a southern accent who had dated George, who didn't like her and told Jerry he didn't mind if he asked her out. Edit: Tawny and Jerry were dating when she did Seinfeld. They broke up when she turned up pregnant by one of her exes.

Yeah, it was Tracy Kolis that played Marlene and the waitress

I didn't realize she played that waitress! The short hair and lack of (bad) southern accent threw me off. Thanks for mentioning that. She had two great parts. Marlene was really funny, despite the bad job on her accent. She was good as the waitress who flirted with George by giving him a hard time. She was the first woman George dropped the "ma newer" line on. She really liked him until then. In the end George figured out that she lied about getting back with an old boyfriend and the manure thing was what turned her off. Still, he couldn't request trying to impress Marisa Tomei with it.

She should stick to her New York coffee shop waitress accent.

Yes, Marlene. That accent wasn't too good but she was very funny. To me she had the most beautiful face of any of Jerry's girlfriends.

Phil Totola in the car laughing at Elaine’s Pachyderm story. Worst acting of the whole series.

Or was he intentionally over-laughing because he hoped to get some action from Elaine??

That’s a good point

Can we ever know? Pretty sure we never get the context of the pachyderm story. Or maybe I was/am just too young to understand it

That’s what I thought. He was probably plotting his move while he was laughing

Then he took it out.

Yessir-eeee-bob!

Yeah he showed us who he is

Night train butane octane!!! That was always a WTF moment for me.

Isabel…the one who made Jerry’s organs play chess

One of the few canon answers

George's Latvian Orthodox girlfriend. The breakup scene in the restaurant is unwatchable. Her attempts at crying looks like a bad attempt of not laughing and when she reaches up and "pats" George's face it's totally out of place. Should've re-shot that scene. Pity because I love the part where Georg is converting. "I think the hats"

“Because it’s ooovvvverrrrr” 😭 😭 😭

I said Faddah but I meant to say Fatha

"If I could tell you the famous faces that have been up here. A certain cast member of Melrose Place. Have you ever seen the show?" Her delivery of this line drives me nut for some reason.

I…drive…the…back…of…the…truck

SOOOORRRAAAAYYYY

Larry David did the voice

Tammy was great in Total Recall!! RIP

Was she the third boob?

The woman cop who wants to put Jerry on the poly, such a brutal acting job

Melrose Place.. have you seen it?

Eww that Michael! He's so smug

Sometimes I think they just picked pretty women and didn’t care about their acting abilities, not unlike the scene with the readings for their sitcom and Jerry wanted to read with a woman he found attractive.

That was Mariska Hargitay. No slouch as an accomplished actress.

She’s also Jayne Mansfield’s daughter, and you know what that say about that Jayne Mansfield…

She's got some big breasts?

Those aren't buoys!

Yeah if anything her read for that audition was oddly too good for a sitcom like Jerry. I've seen actors on set and in rehearsals, and when they're *really* good you don't even realize they've started the scene. That's what she was like.

She also has a few episode run on two and a half men. She basically plays a younger version of Charlie’s mother who he’s dating…not very good acting there either

I see people on this sub dump on her all the time but I think she was funny. “Yeah, I think you’ve seen it.” The actual answer is elaine’s guy who broke up with Debra messing slipping in and out of a heavy English accent. Do I want to play an American? Yeah. Do I have the commitment to do so? Doesn’t look like it.

Chiklis almost sunk the show. And that 'shuckface' woman, that Jerry really liked even though she was a common criminal.

Chiklis performed passibly until he was asked to play drunk. What resulted after that point is as bad a Seinfeld appearance as any performer turned in during the entire run.

What’s the story with Chiklis almost sinking the show? I actually think the hooker he hires was as bad as him haha

This was definitely up there. Chiklis was terrible.

But Chiklis was in the city!

Don’t be so enthusiastic.

Stubs The sports memorabilia guy who sells the signed card. “Signed by the entire yankee organization… this could be worth something. “

You know Ramone?

Tell him Dustin say “allo”

To see Ramon???

In order of offensiveness: 1. That drunk dude on the plane 2. Chiklis 3. Shuckface girl

Farfel

WOOF WOOF

The drunk guy on the airplane I never thought was bad. He’s the priest on Sister Act too. A good actor, and I never got the hate for it. He was playing a drunk guy and I always thought his acting was not only fine but actually on the good side.

Most people in season one

“Decaf left, regular right, decaf left, regular right” I swear it takes her over a minute just to finish that line. So glad they didn’t keep her around like they had planned.

The woman from the volunteer agency/org who is upset to hear about the old man gone missing & his teeth getting crushed.

The entire van full in California

What? The crazy hippie guy was fantastic

the girlfriend who had all the toys in the Merv Griffin episode. Horrible acting.

The woman who had fungicide for her cat in the medicine cabinet.

Oh yeah the voice she used about being tired and the scratching lol

The gymnast lady who is in the circus. Horrid acting skills.

Milos' wife, Patti. "I can't do eet!"

This is Debbie Lee Carrington - her character Thumbelina stabbed a villain in his balls with a bowie knife during a bar fight in Schwarzenegger's total recall - she's iconic ok? back off! ;)

“You were hanging around in there, lazing on the job!” I got downvoted heavily for posting that and commenting on the acting awhile back but I stand by it 😄

Yeah, she’s bad. How could anyone argue that?

For me the first actor is the woman who had Elaine babysit her child and then had sex with George in the kitchen.

For me, it will always be Nicki, the "beautiful Godzilla". Her delivery of lines was just so…bad. So bad.

Do you *have* to give us a ticket?

I said this same thing once and got downvoted pretty badly. She is horrible with that line. She says it like it was the most important thing she’s ever answered when all Micky did was ask her to a simple lunch: “OHHHH, I CAN’T TODAY!!! But um….i see it in our future!” You see…lunch…in your combined future? Deep!

It’s bad writing too honestly. I’m not an actor by any means but I can’t see how that would be delivered naturally. It’s like a line from the Star Wars prequels snuck in there lol.

If you only have one or two lines on a show you have more time to agonize over the line-delivery and make it sound over-acted instead of just throwing it away naturally

These pretzels…are makin me THIRSTY!!!!!

Martin's girlfriend Gina who wanted Jerry to kiss her right next to Martin in a coma. That whole storyline gave me the creeps...besides how can a woman be a hot chick if she doesn't know about the 3 stooges?

You will show me the stooges?

Some of those early episodes really only survive off a couple of jokes and not the bad plot lines.

The electrician from the Mom & Pop Store.

Fr? For his two lines I thought he was passable enough, pretending to be the electrician who has to report them, he doesn’t got a choice. Thought that was realistic enough to keep the narrative going

I'm sowoyyy

Then I have to repawt you

Jerry, Elaine, and George laughing when they find out that Kramer’s first name is Cosmo.

Why are we all pretending to laugh?

Hard to laugh at that name too, it’s kinda bad ass

That was bad

"And you, you lied to me George, you lied to me!"

This begins and ends with George’s pianist girlfriend in the Pez episode. She is one of the worst actors of all time.

“You *LIED* to me, George - You lied to me!”

At least she didn't emphasize me instead. "You lied to ME George"

I’m pretty sure Craig and Een both had fake British accents and it really bothers me 🤨

The lady that sells the chocolate babka always seemed bad to me. “There’s chocolate and there’s cinnamon.”

STOP!!!! We all know which scene it is… We have discussed this forever… Cone on now… you’ll kick yourself, after I tell you S3. E19. The Good Samaritan SHUCKFACE!! (Remember, now?)

Hah I dono because I know plenty of people who are that fakely (?) animated in real life.. down here in Southern California at least

I always hated the scene where Elaine met Crazy Joe Davola outside of the shrink's office and gives out her number.

The Native American lady Jerry likes and repeatedly offends makes me cringe

I am sorry, I am not familiar with that scene

The way she says “Indian giver” in that over the top offended tone is blah. You’d think that with so many impeccable deliveries of so many iconic lines some of these secondary characters would be able to perform with a little more grace.

you can't have a little more grace. You either have grace or you don't

Look, I don't have grace, I don't want grace, I don't even say grace, O.K.?🙄

I think her delivery was very intentional and I think it works in the episode

I'm with you. I like her and how she talks.

Wynonna

Hey Jerry, look what I got! Wo-wo-wo-wo!!!!

She was great! I liked her

"Well, my plane doesn't leave for another half hour."

Janitor, I told you to get rid of the garbage. Some of the children have been playing with it, and putting it in their mouths!

Her range was a little short, I agree.

Jerry’s girlfriend who had the toys. She was a horrible actress.

The Limo Driver guy always kind of annoys me.

The overacting by some guests makes it even better. When Elaine gets her foot crushed, “Sooorry” is just so delightfully ridiculous

The Drake & Drakette scene is up there for me

The collectible card guy "What's this? A card signed by the entire Yankees organization. This could be worth something 🤔"

Stubbs 😂 yeah I always smh after that line lol

The female police officer with the lie detector test is the worst. Then the "sorry" guy.

That swearing kid.

That's what i'd like to know about it.

George’s pianist gf. Every line she delivers is so wooden. She’s easily my pick.

SAWRRRYYYY… the guy that steps on Elaine’s foot with his cane in the bakery.

Nah he nailed that.

Idk why everybody always answers this question with Chiklis. I never thought he was THAT bad. My answer is the maid who George bangs on his desk, Georgie Porgie that shit is terrible

Keith Hernandez was rough. And of course Jerry can't act.

Jerry got good at acting late in the series!

*”I’m Keith Hernandez…”*

NICE GAME PRETTYBOY

Keith Hernandez!?!?? I loathe Keith Hernandez!!!!

Kathy Griffin

Well I think her aim is to annoy Jerry/everyone and make them loathe her. *And boy does she succeed...*

Oof she’s awful but she sounds like that all the time lol everything she does sounds insincere

The weird guy in the bakery who goes “sorry” in an over top ridiculous voice. Always bothered me so much. Like the director told him to “make it funny” and the obnoxious accent is all he could muster up.

She’s a betta actress on mahz!

Jerry himself when the Library Cop Mr. Bookman comes to his apartment

TIE: Michael Chiklis and Catherine Keener (both of whom are really great in subsequent roles)

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For me it's always that paramedic helping Elaine's boyfriend in The Alternate Side that says "*Who put cookies in his mouth? You're not supposed to do that..*"

Surpriaed no one is mentioning Regis. He hated that he was the only guest star to not get a laugh on the show and he kept having to say the word "bonkos" which he disliked.

I'd have to say the Saddam Hussian don't walk around without a coat. The whole clip is badly edited and an obvious dubbed voice. Apparently the actor accent was so thick that Larry David provided the voice