When I first saw this episode, I was very young and knew nothing about Japan, and I actually believed they had no oranges over there. To this day I find myself offering oranges to my Japanese friends as a sign of gesture, even tho I know know that oranges are very plentiful over there.
I would not be offended at all by the gift of any amount of good quality oranges. In fact my great aunt used to ship them to me from Florida. That's right, real Florida oranges. The best.
@Clark Mint Actually he was refereing to _Friends_ as inside joke. After Seinfeld, Friends was the second the top-rated Sitcom on NBC then and it would become the top-rated after Seinfeld. NBC in mid to late 1990s used to call Thursday nights Must See TV nights. You can see Jerry's amused reaction for the inside joke, too.
@@hugolafhugolaf That's what I figured too. I thought the show was just yanking their own chain. 4 people sitting around whining about dates is Seinfeld to a T. It also applies to many other shows, even today, so it's like a two for one kinda thing. That's how I saw it anyway.
Correction, the best shows are the ones that know when to do self aware meta jokes and when not to. Too many shows these days try to be super meta and self referential and it ends up being stupid.
@@giraffesareselfish9563 You pampered Americans with your citrus fruit. Next you'll be telling me you squeeze great vats of fruit and store the cartons full of juice in your huge, American refrigerators!
That's a good way to get your guests to leave. What I do is just squint at my guests like Robert DeNiro and I point at the door. They usually get the hint...
"You must go now." or "I'm leaving now, you've become tiresome" (From Cheers) should be phrases people use when others become boring or annoying. Simple and direct.
I received bags and bags of free oranges (tiny ones, like clementines) from my elderly students when I taught English in Nagoya. Apparently their trees were producing so many oranges they didn't know what to do with them lmao
What's so funny about that is the Japanese character is talking in a way Jerry and George (and maybe New Yorkers in general) would speak, i.e., by starting out with "Again with the..." :)
No, Japanese economy crashed in 1990, long before this episode aired (1996). I mean, there were and still are Japanese business-men spending money abroad after the crash, but nothing like in 1980's.
It's still the #3 economy worldwide. China overtook it as the #2, but China also has 10x as many people as Japan so per capita, Japan is much wealthier.
I love how all three network execs shut George down: --"Why am I watching?" "Because it's on TV." "Not yet." --"You must go now." --"And Elaine...I wouldn't mind seeing something happen between the two of you." "I'm sorry, but 'relationship humor' is not what this show's about." "Or we could just not put it on at all...how 'bout that?"
kramer just saying "yeah i think that hard marvelous production values" is so high level cerebral comedy; a feel people did the deep chuckle in the audience
My gf's parents r Japanese so when I went to visit them for the first time I gave em a bag of oranges lol they gave me a quick wired look and went their way my gf was jst 🤦♂️and I was laughing pretty hard on the inside, good times🤣
@@timowthie I live in Japan, and I can't recall seeing a Florida-style large seedless orange in any supermarket here. All I have seen are the small Mandarin Orange variety. Maybe they have them in somewhere, but nowhere I've seen.
You gotta see more episodes of Seinfield, Kramer logic's is way but way off base, if not all of the time, most of the time. Once he thought he could make a breakthrough in the oil trade system, thanks to his brand new invention: a ball of oil.
man, youtube needs to get out of my head, two days in a row now I've thought a little random seinfeld throwaway line from episodes I haven't watched in a long time, thought or said out loud one each day, and guess what, yesterday and today I got suggestion videos that had those exact lines in them... freaky
Oranges are not rare. Pineapple is. because supply is low and it's so expensive to import them. Okinawa is trying to grow some Pineapples, but still.....
Brexit talks...when UK Prime Minister met The Japanese Prime Minister regarding trade deals after The UK leaves The EU... Japan PM, "WHY would Japan want to trade with the UK that is outside the EU when we/Japan have just struck a Free Trade agreement with The EU!?!" UK PM, "you've forgotten what it's like to not have oranges!!!" 😨😨😨😨
Time flies. In case I return here: Today I bought accessories at Jula. I took pictures of a butterfly or moth whos larvae looks like spiderweb. Apparently not harmful to the growth. Looks like Helloween. A sunny day. I discovered I was a boring man without a life. Or rediscovered rather. I was offered a shitty job. So bad it was an insult. So I told them. I ate chocolate and played chess. I painted black spraypaint on a guitarbody. I rode a bus. I have a moustache. I need a haircut. I try to remember not to take what I don't want. I refuse to be a hypocrite. I justify my existence by planting various sculptures all over town and thus bring joy to the people. I ponder whether I should stop using nicotine. If I return in three years from now I would like to tell myself: "It's ok to be little bitty."
Dang TH-cam, you tracking my brain? I was eating an orange a little while ago and thought of the orange scenes in Seinfeld, then this shows up in my suggested videos.
Stephen Troup: The “squiggly lines” is my name written in ancient Sanskrit. It’s arguably one of the oldest languages on the planet, possibly older than Latin itself. I suppose I’m not TOTALLY surprised that you didn’t already know that, your most probably American.
Oranges are rare in Japan? What New Yorkers in the 90’s didn’t know. Remember how every Christmas on the West Coast we would get boxes of Japanese ( mandarin) oranges? I don’t know about the east coast 30 years ago. Maybe they were unknown there.
I like how Kramer kicks off an idea and then walks off before the nightmare begins
He’s always coming up with the stupidest ideas, and then regretting it. Hilarious.
3 is company show
😅
🤣🤣
@@Vejur9000
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"You must go now!" I use that phrase all the time!
"I'm not sure this uhhh....Buttawar show will work in Japan"
I'm still trying to figure out why they gave us a bag of oranges....🤣🤣🤣🤣
I laugh everytime at that scene.
Again with the oranges!!
This scene always has me in tears laughing. Trying to figure out why they brought a bag of oranges
They're even native to Japan, so it's doubly bizarre that Kramer would assume that they were a rare commodity over there.
the gesture he makes when he says car accident assuming the Japanese man won’t understand cracks me every time.
You must go now.
lol With the two fists bumping? I know...Jason Alexander was a master of doing specific physical business that coincided with his dialogue on the show
I love that line so much.
When I first saw this episode, I was very young and knew nothing about Japan, and I actually believed they had no oranges over there. To this day I find myself offering oranges to my Japanese friends as a sign of gesture, even tho I know know that oranges are very plentiful over there.
They forgot what it’s like to have no oranges
Again with the oranges! 😂
I would not be offended at all by the gift of any amount of good quality oranges. In fact my great aunt used to ship them to me from Florida. That's right, real Florida oranges. The best.
@@BigBadJerryRogerswhere is that, Hokkaido?
Oranges originally came from Asia.
Taking advice from Kramer, what could go wrong🤔
Right....
Absolutely nothing 😁
Not much, just... Everything 🤣
Because he's MY butler!
I believe the correct pronunciation is But-A-Lar
Lol
"The Super Terrific Happy Hour" my favorite show!
When a Seinfeld TH-cam clip binge hits.....
Yup
Same, right now
gets me every time.
"It failed here because here, every time you turn on a TV all you see is four morons sitting around in an apartment whining about their dates!" 😂😂😂
Big bang theory ran with this concept.
@Clark Mint Actually he was refereing to _Friends_ as inside joke. After Seinfeld, Friends was the second the top-rated Sitcom on NBC then and it would become the top-rated after Seinfeld. NBC in mid to late 1990s used to call Thursday nights Must See TV nights.
You can see Jerry's amused reaction for the inside joke, too.
@@waryaawariiri1812 "Friends" is *six* morons whining about their dates.
He was referring to "Seinfeld" itself: self-deprecating humor and all that...
@@waryaawariiri1812 Weren't there 6 people in Friends? I always thought they were poking fun at themselves.
@@hugolafhugolaf That's what I figured too. I thought the show was just yanking their own chain. 4 people sitting around whining about dates is Seinfeld to a T.
It also applies to many other shows, even today, so it's like a two for one kinda thing. That's how I saw it anyway.
0:54 The best shows are always those that mock themselves.
mrbrockpeters Or both.
mrbrockpeters weird headcanon you got there
Correction, the best shows are the ones that know when to do self aware meta jokes and when not to. Too many shows these days try to be super meta and self referential and it ends up being stupid.
@mrbrockpeters well, themselves and subpar sub-products of your own show also.
12171010011010 i disagree
Even the kimono, Jerry.
2:25 🤣 the anger in his reaction about the oranges.
This episode (The Checks) was, for me, one of the best of Season 8. Loved how nearly everything was connected somewhere during the half hour!
When he calls it a "little butler show" I die every time
You've forgotten what it's like to have no oranges
mikemoair , I just had a navel orange
Again with the oranges?!!
Poopactor, he sez your remind him of a Dingleberry. Who knew?
@@giraffesareselfish9563
You pampered Americans with your citrus fruit. Next you'll be telling me you squeeze great vats of fruit and store the cartons full of juice in your huge, American refrigerators!
@@rickrose5377 and dentists will have their own schools
"Like an orange, which is rare there.." 😂
Ocram Vel my Japanese daughter had a laugh at that one the other day. We grow our own here !
LOL
I think mandarin oranges are better than regular oranges
@@chriscameron4525 That's the version I see here in Japan. I've never seen the big ones common in America in Japan.
@@drzerogi cuz everything is gmo in america
"You must...GO now." This is how I ask guests to leave my house, accent and all.
That's a good way to get your guests to leave. What I do is just squint at my guests like Robert DeNiro and I point at the door. They usually get the hint...
@@circuitdesign I ask my guests: "Would you like some more coffee before you leave?"
Aaaaaaand none of you ever got guests again. I know your joking but I hope nobody ever asks their guests to leave lol
@@YS-el3hm Here's your hat, what's your hurry?
😂😂
I can't believe Jerry actually took kramers advice he never did till now
I remember as a kid I had the biggest crush on the Japanese business woman.
@JJR0 No - she has shoe face.
“You… must go now” Lmfao!!
"You must go now."
or
"I'm leaving now, you've become tiresome" (From Cheers)
should be phrases people use when others become boring or annoying. Simple and direct.
is this customary in your legal system? YES
*yesn’t*
Don’t you have to go protest with some domestic terrorist organization and spew anti-white racism or something?
Brosef Brokowski you sound like a bitch
I received bags and bags of free oranges (tiny ones, like clementines) from my elderly students when I taught English in Nagoya. Apparently their trees were producing so many oranges they didn't know what to do with them lmao
“Again with the oranges” 🍊😂
We saw the video mate
Oranges in Italy usually means somebody is going to get whacked!
@@mayhemjr.803 wtf fr?
@@Loyal_homie100 its true dude. Look at all the mafia movies. Scenes where someone is going to be wacked has oranges, or there WERE oranges.
What's so funny about that is the Japanese character is talking in a way Jerry and George (and maybe New Yorkers in general) would speak, i.e., by starting out with "Again with the..." :)
Jackie Chang - "You people with the oranges, it never ends."
"You must go now" 😄😄😄
A line I use (jokingly) with guests.
"must" is such a pivotal word 😂
Imaging staring into Kramer’s eye like Jerry had to while he delivers his funny diatribes
when are george and jerry gonna learn not to take Kramer's advice seriously?
The Oranges scene always cracks me up. Fun fact, Both the Head of the Japanese TV and one of the Japanese Travelers were both in Gung Ho.
Good movie.
Because they're MY oranges.
Again with the butler?
This was back when the Japanese economy was looking to dominate the world stage.
Such an interesting commentary is hidden in this comedy.
No, Japanese economy crashed in 1990, long before this episode aired (1996). I mean, there were and still are Japanese business-men spending money abroad after the crash, but nothing like in 1980's.
later in the episode they run out of money and have to stay with Kramer because he thought 20000 yen was a lot of money.
It's still the #3 economy worldwide. China overtook it as the #2, but China also has 10x as many people as Japan so per capita, Japan is much wealthier.
The best lines are in Japanese.😂
Michael Meloche the oranges had the best lines
1:29 To be fair to the Japanese businessman, that Seinfeld sketch was godawful.
Reminds me of Friends and other such sitcoms.
Yeah, but they shouldn’t have to dumb it down for some bonehead mass audience!
@@aarontaylor4787 you mean "dumb it *down* "? ....
@@bepowerification edited, it was a typo
Oh yes. It sounded like it was written by five year old (which I'm pretty sure writes the majority of sitcoms like Big Bang Theory)
'Again with the oranges' :D....never follow kramer's logic.
“You must go now.” 😆
"You must go now" (2:33)
lol
Petter Danckwardt I use that line all the time when people start to annoy me at work.
He delivers the line perfectly on the show
Behrouz Jazizadeh yes
I know! That was the funniest line of the whole episode.
Lot of funny Asian lines (however stereotypical), like Ping 'head hurts, head really hurts'
When George gets worked up all I hear is Duckman.
That actress facial expressions are gold.
And George believes she was interested in him🤣
What's her name?
@@Thegoatt84 Akane Nelson
Non-Japanese
@Tony Akane Nelson is half Japanese , half English
Okay Kramer thinking Japan doesn't have Oranges I understand, but Jerry come on
"You Must Go Now"
The Stuport ...too* painful
I love how all three network execs shut George down:
--"Why am I watching?" "Because it's on TV." "Not yet."
--"You must go now."
--"And Elaine...I wouldn't mind seeing something happen between the two of you." "I'm sorry, but 'relationship humor' is not what this show's about." "Or we could just not put it on at all...how 'bout that?"
kramer just saying "yeah i think that hard marvelous production values" is so high level cerebral comedy; a feel people did the deep chuckle in the audience
I love this sitcom!!!
The butler show?
This is my new favorite scene!
My gf's parents r Japanese so when I went to visit them for the first time I gave em a bag of oranges lol they gave me a quick wired look and went their way my gf was jst 🤦♂️and I was laughing pretty hard on the inside, good times🤣
Gold.
Is it actually rare there?
XpertRebel95 You must go now.
That is hilarious! Now I want to date a Japanese girl just to do this!
@@timowthie I live in Japan, and I can't recall seeing a Florida-style large seedless orange in any supermarket here. All I have seen are the small Mandarin Orange variety.
Maybe they have them in somewhere, but nowhere I've seen.
0:53 is so golden
Why was this mans Jerry’s Buutalerr 😄
Super terrific happy hour 🍻
*in japanese "Jerry Seinfeld is a Lunatic!"
🍎™ runitic
the bigwig and his assistant are the best part. so serious. like...ridiculously serious.
'You must go now!'
i'm still trying to figure out why they gave us a bag of oranges ( laugh every time i watch this clip, even years later)
Why didn’t they take Kramer with them? He would have sold the whole show!
I lived in Japan for many years. Japanese people are not known as gift givers. I dont know where TV writers get their information.
It's a comedy...don't take everything they said serious. They said lots of rediculous things on Seinfeld.
It was just Kramer rationalizing taking them for a ride.
You gotta see more episodes of Seinfield, Kramer logic's is way but way off base, if not all of the time, most of the time. Once he thought he could make a breakthrough in the oil trade system, thanks to his brand new invention: a ball of oil.
My 2 favourite scenes from Seinfeld. Is the buttler scene , and the 3 korean lady's getting upset with elaine about no bette middler.
They literally got the most Caucasian looking Asian woman to play that role.
I didn't know you could make the word "butler" 3 syllables but he pulls it off. Now, I'll never say it the same again.
Really enjoyed this segment!
japanese businesswoman- Akane Nelson was beautiful 😘
HaHa!!!! "Here, when you turn on the TV, all you see are 4 MORON'S griping about their dates!!!!" Gotta LOVE George!!!!
Batara show
George's little finger dance move 2:33
The Japanese gal, who is supposed to look serious and stern, loses it at 1:49. Surprised they didn't re-shoot that line.
She is just smiling politely while the other person is talking. This is a common thing in communication.
Good catch
She's not Japanese
man, youtube needs to get out of my head, two days in a row now I've thought a little random seinfeld throwaway line from episodes I haven't watched in a long time, thought or said out loud one each day, and guess what, yesterday and today I got suggestion videos that had those exact lines in them... freaky
AI.
I remember hearing that Seinfeld (the real show) actually did very poorly in Japan. lmao
Because he's my butler! 😅😂
Gold, pure gold 😬😬
The super terrific Happy Hour!!
Oranges are not rare. Pineapple is. because supply is low and it's so expensive to import them. Okinawa is trying to grow some Pineapples, but still.....
Why is it expensive to import pineapples?
because Japan is an Island
Arthur Yagami But why specifically pineapple?
mahesh katta Duterte lol
Because customs confuse them with hand grenades?
that girl did pretty good impression of Elaine.
Brexit talks...when UK Prime Minister met The Japanese Prime Minister regarding trade deals after The UK leaves The EU...
Japan PM, "WHY would Japan want to trade with the UK that is outside the EU when we/Japan have just struck a Free Trade agreement with The EU!?!"
UK PM, "you've forgotten what it's like to not have oranges!!!"
😨😨😨😨
I miss Saintfield on television
Steve Shortridge not that there's anything wrong with that
Oh i love the ”batarasho”
Ironic to see Kramer in his finest Bernie Mac suit.
Also ironic to hear Kramer talking about Japanese riches at the same time their economy tanked...
"But they told us we must go now."
AGAIN WITH THE ORANGES?!!
Scary old samurai...
Time flies. In case I return here: Today I bought accessories at Jula. I took pictures of a butterfly or moth whos larvae looks like spiderweb. Apparently not harmful to the growth. Looks like Helloween. A sunny day. I discovered I was a boring man without a life. Or rediscovered rather. I was offered a shitty job. So bad it was an insult. So I told them. I ate chocolate and played chess. I painted black spraypaint on a guitarbody. I rode a bus. I have a moustache. I need a haircut. I try to remember not to take what I don't want. I refuse to be a hypocrite. I justify my existence by planting various sculptures all over town and thus bring joy to the people. I ponder whether I should stop using nicotine. If I return in three years from now I would like to tell myself: "It's ok to be little bitty."
That Japanese woman is beautiful
I was looking around for this comment to upvote.
Her name is Akane Nelson.
I have to disagree. She's okay. She's got a bit of a shovelface.
I doubt she's really japanese, looks mixed race with white
@@MrInkblots
Thanks for that Brad Pitt
That moves clicking tongue
Dang TH-cam, you tracking my brain? I was eating an orange a little while ago and thought of the orange scenes in Seinfeld, then this shows up in my suggested videos.
Old Japanese Business Man : "Again with the Oranges"
😆😆😆😆
"Yeah, that's right!"
I'll be stunned if anyone gets the reference. 😆
Just an FYI, mikan oranges are everywhere here in Japan.
Millennial King: Of course ignorant Americans won’t comprehend this.
of course they are. no one expects kramer to have some real facts
@@Aven-Sharma1991 ??? What's with the hate, man whose name is squiggly lines?
Stephen Troup: The “squiggly lines” is my name written in ancient Sanskrit. It’s arguably one of the oldest languages on the planet, possibly older than Latin itself.
I suppose I’m not TOTALLY surprised that you didn’t already know that, your most probably American.
Stephen Troup: I never said I hated anyone, you can’t prove that...I simply said it was American ignorance.
Explain to the folks at home what oranges are
😆
That devour commercial is insane
I love how George degrades the show.
Oranges are rare in Japan? What New Yorkers in the 90’s didn’t know. Remember how every Christmas on the West Coast we would get boxes of Japanese ( mandarin) oranges? I don’t know about the east coast 30 years ago. Maybe they were unknown there.
Jerry knew that pilot was a waste of time
Again with the oranges !!
"Orange is exhorting fruit in Japan."
That's news to me.
I think you mean exotic..
This reminds me of when Chandler was Joey’s assistant in Friends
“You must go now”- Hhahahahhahahhahahhahahahhah
Bumping your fists together: the international symbol for car accident.
"you must go now" 😂😂
you should never let Costanza do the pitch. Seinfeld never learns.
They said we must go now!
1:00: that's pretty much seinfeld in a nutshell