“He said, ‘There was tugging.’ That was obviously not needed, so Larry cut it.”Īsked why he thinks “The Contest” has endured for a quarter century, Cherones chalks it up first and foremost to being a “really funny episode.” “Michael did his best work in that episode in terms of the physical stuff just the way he moved was funny,” he says. “In the table read, there was a line in the opening scene in the coffee shop where George is describing what happened with the Glamour magazine,” Cherones remembers. In fact, the episode that ended up onscreen is more or less the episode that David wrote, minus a few lines that made the premise more explicit - though not in a graphic way - than it needed to be. Nor did they insist on any major changes in early read-throughs or on set. We had been doing the show a while at that point, so nothing Larry would come up with would surprise me anymore.”Īccording to Cherones, if NBC’s Standards and Practices department had been surprised by “The Contest,” they didn’t show it. “Like any other week, we got the script and read it. “We didn’t know about ahead of time,” he says. But longtime Seinfeld director Tom Cherones tells Yahoo Entertainment that, back in 1992, it was just another day at the office for the cast and crew.
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Twenty-five years later, “The Contest” remains a masterclass in how to talk about masturbation while never actually dropping the M word, a feat that has elevated the episode to the ranks of the all-time great sitcom half-hours. It’s an idea that emerged from the notebook of Larry David, who made a similar bet in the ’80s and, of course, emerged as the King of the County. The titular contest pitted Seinfeld’s core four characters - Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), George (Jason Alexander), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and Kramer (Michael Richards) - against one another in a fiercely fought battle for bragging rights about which of them would be the longest to go without indulging in any self-pleasure. That’s the night that unsuspecting viewers sat down to watch “The Contest,” an innocuous title for an episode that turned sexual innuendo into an art form.
18, 1992, midway through its fourth season on the air.
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It is a TV truth universally acknowledged that the classic comedy series Seinfeld mastered its domain on Nov. (Photo: Columbia TriStar Television/Courtesy of Everett Collection) Estelle Harris and Jason Alexander in “The Contest” episode of Seinfeld.
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