Seinfeld - The Friars Club

[Episode Number 128 -- originally aired March 7, 1996, NBC]

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  1. George: Hey. If this works out, forget about it. Vacations together, movies together, dinner together. It's almost as good as if I didn't get married.
    Jerry: So, set it up. You know what, dinner at the Friars Club.
    George: The Friars Club?
    Jerry: Yeah, I'm thinking of joining. Pat Cooper said he would put me up for membership.
    Kramer: Hey. Listen, me a favor, ? I've got a hot date tonight with Connie. on my door, in twenty minutes, all right?
    Jerry: Catnap?
    Kramer: No, no, no, no. This is evolutionary. I've been reading this book, on Leonardo da Vinci. (See, that means 'from Vinci', did you know that?)
    Jerry: some book!
    Kramer: Yeah, well, it turns out that the master slept only twenty minutes every three hours. That works out to two and a half extra days, that I'm awake per week, every week. Which means, if I live to be eighty, the equivalent of a hundred and five years.
    Jerry: Imagine how much more .
    Kramer: Oh, I've got a lot of things in the hopper, buddy.

  2. Peterman: All right, people, _ with a hearty "hail and well-met good fellow," to Bob Grossberg, us from Business Affairs.
    Bob: Thanks. Hi everybody.
    Peterman: Bob, we have a little baptism by fire for you, so to speak.
    Elaine: (Poor bastard.)
    Peterman: I want you to handle all the fact-checking and the copy-editing for the new catalogue.
    Bob: that?
    Peterman: all the copy-editing?
    Bob: I'm sorry. What?
    Peterman: Copy-editing! Never mind. Elaine, it.

  3. Jerry: Hi, I'm Jerry Seinfeld. Pat Cooper made a reservation for me.
    Maitre D': Yes, Mr Seinfeld, but jackets in the dining room.
    Jerry: Oh, I'm sorry.
    Hallie: How embarrassing for you.
    Jerry: (You just bought your own dinner.)
    Maitre D': No problem. Please, me.

  4. George: Come on! I'm telling you, for the NFL. It's not that hard.
    Jerry: the stupidest thing you've ever said.

  5. Kramer: (Do) you want to rent a movie?
    Jerry: No!
    Kramer: Well, ?

  6. Elaine: Listen, there is something really suspicious about this guy. Every time Mr Peterman tries to assign him any work, he says , and it all gets dumped on me.
    Jerry: (Do) you think he's faking?
    Elaine: I don't know. But that earpiece on, (to) see if it's real.
    Bob: Hey Elaine. ... Oh, you have a friend. .. Just wanted to say hi.
    Elaine: Bob, do you know what? I'm kind of swamped here. (Do) you think me a hand with some of the catalogue?
    Bob: I'm sorry. What?
    Elaine: I'm kind of swamped.
    Bob: Thank you. lunch with Mr P. going.
    Elaine: Did you see that? Did you see that, Jerry?
    Jerry: That was him?
    Elaine: Yes.
    Jerry: Somehow I thought he'd be taller.
    Elaine: All right, listen, this again some other time, okay? I've got a lot of work to do.
    Jerry: All right, you later.

  7. Jerry: I kind of snuck up behind him at the urinal and tried to see if me.
    Elaine: And?
    Jerry: Well, he flinched, sort of.
    Elaine: What do you mean, "sort of"? What did he do?
    Jerry: Well, he kind of moved his head, you know. on the zip up, I don't know.
    Elaine: So you don't know anything?

  8. Jerry: .
    George: Last night, huh? Was that something, or was that something?
    Jerry: That was something.
    George: She's great, isn't she?
    Jerry: Fantastic. Fantastic woman.
    George: I told you.
    Jerry: I'm nuts about her.
    George: Do you think an 'it'? an 'it'?
    Jerry: an 'it'.
    George: an 'it'!
    Jerry: She's got 'it' written all over her.
    George: She's got everything, right? She's intelligent, she's smart, she's got a great sense of humor.
    Jerry: Well, I don't know. I didn't really talk to her.
    George: Well, she's smart. my word for it.
    Jerry: Whatever.
    George: like the Gatsbys. Didn't they always have, like, you know, a bunch of people around, and they were all best friends?
    Jerry: That doesn't sound right.
    George: No. So, tonight she's got tickets for that show she's been working on. The Flying Sandos Brothers.
    Jerry: Flying Sandos. Beautiful.
    George: Great. Seven-thirty, all right?
    Jerry: Walk me down to the Friars.
    George: Sure. So, Jerry, there's an empty apartment in my building. If you and Hallie want, and hold it, maybe ...
    Jerry: It's not here.
    George: What?
    Jerry: The jacket. It's not here. here somewhere.

  9. Kramer: Well, so, look, the cleaner said tonight at six.
    Jerry: All right. I just hope it to the Friars Club before the show.

  10. Jerry: Sorry, sorry I'm late.
    Susan: Hey! Jerry.
    George: Isn't that the Friars Club jacket?
    Jerry: Yeah, it wasn't ready on time. it after the show.

  11. Sandos Brother 1: How to lend me a hand with our next trick?
    Jerry: I don't think so.
    Sandos Brother 1: Please, your jacket.
    Jerry: My jacket?
    Sandos Brother 1: Yes, the jacket. What do you say, ladies and gentlemen? with that.
    Hallie: Come on.
    Susan: it. Come on, Jerry.
    George: him the jacket.

  12. Connie: .... Yeah, Tommy, this is Connie. me. Some guy dropped dead on top of me. .. the cops, because . I'm stuck. me.

  13. Hallie: Jerry, I'm sure .
    Jerry: I'm sure .
    Hallie: Don't worry. the jacket back.
    George: All right, there you go. the jacket back. So, get some coffee, huh?
    Jerry: No, I'm a little tired. I think home.
    Susan: Aw, that's too bad.
    George: Really?
    Jerry: Yeah, it another time.
    Susan: George, .

  14. Elaine: Well, thank you Mr Peterman.
    Peterman: The tickets are for tonight. So a little early, so ready.

  15. Jerry: Tell them I'll come down and talk to them. Okay, bye. .. Well, that was the Friars Club. Do you think a jacket-stealer join? I don't think so! me eight hundred dollars for the jacket, and with Pat Cooper! .. What kind of show is that Sandos Brothers? They take your jacket, then they just throw it? I never heard of that!

  16. George: What, are you kidding me? We were all getting along so well. Where is all this coming from?
    Jerry: Well, you know, frankly, I don't think she was too concerned about my jacket.
    George: What are you talking about?! She's very concerned! She said it back.
    Jerry: Yeah, .
    George: Because if she gets it back, then no reason to be sour. , right?
    Jerry: and de-sour.
    George: Oh, that's not good enough! You don't try and de-sour. too!
    Jerry: ! and de-sour and sweeten.
    George: I want to get it back to when we were the Gatsbys.
    Jerry: I still don't know what that means.
    George: Yeah, well.
    Kramer: God.
    Jerry: Oh god! What happened to you?!
    Kramer: She tried to kill me, Jerry!
    Jerry: Who?
    Kramer: Connie!
    Jerry: What'd she do?
    Kramer: I don't know! But I woke up in the Hudson River in a SACK!! I think she drugged me, but she's a murderer and the cops!

  17. Pat: Jerry, the jacket back tomorrow.
    Jerry: All right.
    George: Hey, a minute, a minute. at that guy. Right there. Isn't that the guy from the show? He's wearing the jacket!

  18. Jerry: I don't know how that guy gave us the slip at the Friars Club.
    George: I told you, out the back.
    Jerry: Hey. It's you! That's my Friars Club jacket!
    Sandos Brother 1: No, it is not. This is my jacket.
    Jerry: No, no, no. That's my jacket; it back.
    Sandos Brother 1: No, it is not. This is mine.
    Jerry: Come on I need it. I want to join. I need it to become a member.
    George: him the jacket already!
    Sandos Brother 1: Help! Help! ??????Azobar! Azobar ......!
    George: What's he yelling about? They're stealing jackets here!
    Jerry: it?! Hey George, (do) you know what? I think this crest is different. It's got a moose on it.

  19. George: Hey, you know, Susan; have coffee.
    Hallie: you at the wedding.

  20. George: Great! Now she's sour!
    Jerry: .
    George: , and I'm bitter!
    Sandos Brother 1: There they are!
    George:Jerry: Here. ... it here for you!

  21. Detective: You're under arrest for the attempted murder of Cosmo Kramer.
    Connie: I didn't do anything.
    Kramer: Oh, yeah! Yeah!
    Detective: your coat, you in.
    Connie: my lawyer? Detective: Okay, ahead.

  22. Connie: me at the police station. They're arresting me for attempted murder..


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