Elaine's Movie Taste Gets Her In Trouble | The English Patient | Seinfeld

[@linkslayer15]

I love how Elaine doesn't care what people think

[@damongrimes6096]

More people should art is subjective

[@gmh471]

One of the best lines ever - how could you not like the English Patient? "How about, it sucked." Just brilliant because, really, there is no better answer.

[@joycampi7233]

So true! 🤣

[@EdgeXXI]

How I feel about Titanic

[@twatts1523]

@@EdgeXXIme too! The Titanic was so boring! My mother had the DVD and made me and my boyfriend watch it with her when we visited for the holidays. She tried to entice me by proclaiming Kate Winslet was so beautiful and talented and reminded her so much of me. At least we were at home instead of the theater. Big Yawn.

[@planetX15]

​@@EdgeXXI The 1997 version?

[@ryanfink6836]

“THATS IT, drop everything we’re going right now” was such a perfect line delivery

[@twatts1523]

Of Course, I don’t know how Elaine didn’t see that coming.

[@clmk28]

that was brilliant

[@Eidlones]

Man I love Peterman. John O'Hurley played him perfectly.

[@yellowblanka6058]

"Hang on, I'm just reading the most fascinating article about the most FAScinating people....ANNND....done"

[@EdithCardellini]

I remember when he and Suzie stayed working late on a catalog one night and surrendered to temptation...and it was pretty good.

[@davidganderson870]

“Give me something I can use!” LMAO I just can’t 😂

[@kurt6410]

Elaine would have gotten in a lot more trouble had she been necking during Schindler's list

[@LowLevelNC]

Yessssssss! And a more offensive spectacle i cannot recall!

[@steverogers7601]

Man, I would love to see Elaine swinging that neck back n forth

[@juanjuan-pi3of]

You should write for seinfeld,,

[@feliciajenkins5041]

😂😅🤣

[@josefinebliss2801]

Now that movie is overrated

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

2:58 - I never noticed she ate candy off the floor! 🤣

[@HigHrvatski]

Must have been Jujyfruits, Elaine loves her Jujyfruits.

[@faultycracker7805]

Thanks!

[@sblagg527]

@@HigHrvatski Well the snack counter was... right there.

[@mikeh6482]

Never have watched the English Patient solely based on this episode.

[@bossfan49]

It does sound awful.

[@lamontviolante]

@@bossfan49 Just watched it last night, amazing movie.

[@ninjavigilante5311]

Good call... reminds me of Brokeback mountain.

[@missdee4927]

It's amazing. Elaine just likes stupid popcorn movies.

[@bossfan49]

@@missdee4927 That's in this episode. There was another episode where she was into artsy dramas.

[@beensupe]

“Don’t you wanna know how they got in there?” I feel like Elaine would be wholly entertained by a movie if it was just a person jingling keys in front of a camera.

[@trojandarkhorse2022]

Don't you wanna know how and why 2 guys are carrying a dead guy w/ sunglasses and pretending he is alive??? LOL

[@sxxxxxlxxx]

Why are you acting like it isn't a reasonable question lol

[@LowLevelNC]

@@trojandarkhorse2022 Should've went with a Vincent pick.....

[@bink]

@@LowLevelNC Gene's trash

[@arielbanks5557]

Ha! She has a mind of dog! 😅

[@uneedtherapy42]

Elaine is so brilliant in this sequence. Incredible comedy!

[@zedzaheer]

Those are Larry David's words and thoughts coming out of Elaine's mouth!!!

[@elsecretopez]

I thought so too, but the episode is from season 8, after larry left, and was written by steven koren actually, according to wikipedia. Still a classic episode!

[@dan_hitchman007]

​@@elsecretopezSteven knew Larry too well.

[@JMJGETTY]

Schindler’s List AND The English Patient? I guess “Seinfeld” has it out for BOTH of Ralph Fiennes’ Oscar-Nominated Roles.

[@KitTaylorOfficial]

"And I thought I knew what love was..." So good.

[@arenmorris385]

I just watched The English Patient for the first time at 38 years old and I wholeheartedly agree with Elaine. I expected so much more than a sappy melodrama

[@commanderkeen3787]

Peterman fires her for not liking the movie lol. Such great side characters

[@matthewriley7826]

And then hired her back after a forced excursion to a cave in a desert.

[@davidl570]

@@matthewriley7826 It was supposed to inspire her.

[@nocomment2468]

One of Elaine’s great moments

[@boogersincoffee]

"How bout...it sucked!" LMAO that delivery is the best. I feel this way about Lost In Translation

[@jonbedker5229]

I'm 45 and have seen around 500+ movies in theaters. I've only walked out on 2 movies in my whole life. 1. English Patient. 2. Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls.

[@supermilkguy]

I’ve walked out of a bunch of movies. The most popular one was probably Chocolat. But I did like The English Patient and definitely did not walk out.

[@goodbadbill]

I almost walked out of "The Hoax" starring Richard Gere because I felt like the plot was going nowhere halfway through but I stuck around and...yeah... it went nowehere. I walked out of Earth, the animal documentary, because I thought James Earl Jones narration was distracting for some reason. Nothing against Jones but I think he just spoke non-stop and I couldn't enjoy watching the animals so I walked out.

[@CC-si3cr]

The first and only movie I walked out on was Beloved. I know ppl who have read the book and loved it! That movie was brutal, weird and long. I actually sat through The English Patient in a small arthouse movie theater. I think it actually had some foldable chairs in the theater bc the movie was so popular they really wanted to pack ppl in for each show. I was so happy when I saw that Elaine hated The English Patient. There were too many ppl loving that awful movie! Booooo!!!

[@minoudude]

Wise man

[@dspsblyuth]

I’ve never walked out on a movie . If I feel the need to I just take a nap

[@fairdesful]

Interestingly, I've never seen The English Patient and this Seinfeld episode makes me want to see it even less.

[@GeorgeMonet]

But I do want to see Rachel Rachel.

[@steverogers7601]

It would be so easy to drop Elaine’s friends with how obnoxious conniving they are.

[@lorilori3]

One of my favorites! So funny 😁

[@Shatamx]

One of the best episodes ever.

[@InspectorCallahan.44]

"How bout, it sucked!"

[@steverogers7601]

I’ve always disliked that waitress at the coffee shop. She gave George the finger while scratching her face and also forgot Elaine’s piece of pie.

[@bossfan49]

She's hot, though.

[@megsie1424]

Oh, she didn’t forget 😆

[@karisma-mcm]

That's Julia Louis Dreyfus's real-life half-sister!

[@MrBmick79]

@@karisma-mcm that's the chick from star trek, right?

[@steverogers7601]

@@karisma-mcm holy cow, you’re right!! I didn’t know that!

[@doomzilla3568]

Elaine speaks the truth!

[@jameswynne6270]

U realize that Elaine's friends are female versions of George and Jerry and Kramer Right ?? Look. Closer ??

[@goodbadbill]

Elaine should've said "Did they make it shorter?" after the lady said it's better the second time.

[@BowieZ]

she's being sarcastic

[@gmh471]

Technically, you are right, but comedically the word longer hits the mark. Comedians and comedy writers will always tell you which words and numbers are funnier than others. Why are they funnier? Because they just are.

[@sblagg527]

She made her sarcastic response from the other ladies' point of view since they said it was even better the second time. That's what made it funny.

[@steelyspielbergo]

She's saying maybe they added something good to it, therefore making it longer, and better.

[@GeorgeMonet]

@@steelyspielbergo No. She's saying that what people liked was how long and aimless it was so making it longer means making it more betterer.

[@Kawiboy]

Perfect for a rainy day 👊😉

[@toordal]

1:23: "I don't know if I could be with somebody who doesn't like the English Patient" 🤣🤣

[@toordal]

@BethHarmon-uv7tl The way he sold that line was gold though. They must have done a dozen takes on that to get the pauses exactly right.

[@Alber204]

Elaine’s agony at the end with Peterman pretty much sums up my movie 🍿 going experience of the 2010s decade

[@tannercheck218]

This is how I feel for not liking “Poor Things.”

[@gheller2261]

I love this episode because it mirrored my own life. I remember sitting through The English Patient being bored out of my skull and wondering what all the hype was about. I couldn't wait for it to end. I remember I saw it with a girlfriend and my mom and saying afterward "this is going to be one of those films that for some reason wins the best picture Oscar but that nobody watches more than once."

[@SuperIv7]

You are extremely patient. I could not even watch the whole movie all at one time.

[@thecheerio786]

Same...I hated it too! Lol

[@amiblueful]

The movies that did it for me were Enchanted April and Vincent & Theo. Like watching paint dry. I never had any interest in seeing the English Patient. And every time I see a movie that won Oscars for unfathomable reasons (like Shakespeare in Love) I always have to see if Harvey Weinstein's name is attached., because he used to buy Oscar wins. Sure enough, he was Executive Producer of The English Patient.

[@alexG106]

I watched it...once. Honestly, I did enjoy Ray Fiennes' acting but it is just way too long and dry to watch again

[@SARYM911]

@@thecheerio786 Yeah saw it way before alone and really had to power through it..Thought maybe it's just me..Then this episode of Seinfeld was a revelation..And yes it's 2hr42m...There have been many other duds but usually it's quick and relatively painless

[@prakashabhijeet]

i wstched the english patient 3 weeks ago and absolutely loved it

[@renatajd7758]

Thank you. I have read the book and was wondering what was the movie about. It was pretty deep and full of symbols that interacted. I was quite taken by it.

[@steverogers7601]

2:58 Elaine is so nasty lmaooo

[@ryukomatoi592]

5 second rule 🤣

[@steverogers7601]

@@ryukomatoi592 you nasty 🤢 🤮

[@makedredd299]

Enjoy SACKED LUNCH! 1:34

[@tyrannozilla]

How Elaine felt about "English Patient" is how I felt about Andor.

[@robvegas9354]

I have to side with Elaine on this one. because it was so critically acclaimed they made us watch this in class at high school back in the 90's and write essays about it.

[@lynnfisher3037]

Typical public school idiocy. Try teaching us how to do math without a computer chip. How about lessons in critical thinking. Oh I forgot. They don't know how themselves

[@thecedex]

Your school should just have shown Fargo. Probably the best movie of the 90's and came out at the same time

[@2EKgn16]

​@@lynnfisher3037Critical thinking goes against their script so of course they would never and will never teach it in schools.

[@gmh471]

@@lynnfisher3037 Why do you assume it was a public school? Ah, because you're either a religious fanatic or an elitist.

[@Robertbuccellatobooks]

I finally saw the movie literally today and I kept thinking about this episode the entire time

[@FOXZILLA5734]

Let's be honest the only reason we remember the English patient was because of this episode lol

[@OVI-Wan-Kenobi-8]

The English Patient was huge back in the '90s, I saw the movie in the theater well before this Seinfeld episode. This episode was based on the real life divide of people who either really loved the movie or really hated it back then.

[@SuperIv7]

@@OVI-Wan-Kenobi-8 duh.. naturally the movie was in theaters *BEFORE* Seinfeld could make an episode about it. Let's face it though - the only thing more boring than that movie was your comment about it, LOL

[@hineighbor]

I just watched it on HBO max

[@gmh471]

@@hineighbor Were you trying to get rid of your insomnia?

[@againstthepods4316]

the movie won 16 oscars and has better reviews than Gone with the Wind so you're wrong.

[@TheJuarezG]

"It's just a stupid movie" - "that's what I'm talking about" 😂

[@ladyheavdev]

I mean Elaine isn't wrong. At all. This is exactly how I feel with everyone praising movies nowadays but I don't say it out loud is all. But damn deep down I am Elaine at The English Patient times infinity.

[@redacted2275]

You are wrong. Elaine is the exception here. Nowadays people criticizing or silently criticizing movies are the majority.

[@ladyheavdev]

@@redacted2275 Touche. But you gotta admit we are all Elaine in a way

[@ianfinrir8724]

It's a good movie, but part of the problem is that is was just built up so much that it'll never meet your expectations.

[@jebus89]

​@@ianfinrir8724 like pulp fiction

[@ladyheavdev]

@@ianfinrir8724So True😂

[@tiredofit4761]

Omg! My family walked in on me watching The English Patient and I was bawling my eyes out!! They thought a family member died…

[@rimmymindplease8120]

Yeah I lost it in the cinema. Was a total mess.

[@lynnfisher3037]

If you want to cry about something that actually happened try Schindlers List. 99.9% of movies made today aren't worth wasting your time

[@rimmymindplease8120]

@@lynnfisher3037 I saw Schindler's List and didn't cry. It made me sad but not bawl my eyes out like The English Patient.

[@lynnfisher3037]

@@rimmymindplease8120 Then you are an insensitive lout

[@santiagocarreno5881]

Sacked lunch looks like of those films nobody remembers ever

[@JMcN76]

Elaine was so great lol

[@ForexRevolution]

This movie name alone could make you fall asleep mid day

[@goodbadbill]

It's how I felt about the Lord of The Rings. I watched it twice with friends at a house and left both times (in a respectful manner) and even tried to watch it alone but I could never get past the halfway mark. I understand why people love the movies but the genre (Medieval, middle-Earth) isn't for me.

[@LauRa-re9un]

I can´t tell how many times Mr Peterman fired Elaine :D

[@pameladomino3644]

The best comedian has given joy to many

[@cskwriter]

this was me watching "Love, Actually"

[@bmasters1981]

And me with Titanic, Ozzy and Open Range.

[@KaniToken]

Elaine was right on the money

[@Dee010s]

Ralph Fienes in The Grand Budapest Hotel instead. Hes brilliant. "Oh, fck it."

[@stpat7614]

This is me watching Gone with the Wind.

[@zachhaywood1564]

Elaine = Me The English Patient = Every MCU movie Elaine's friends = My friends

[@jaguatiricaimediata5305]

Yes.... I feel it

[@zachsalvatore5175]

Yes but English Patient is way better than MCU

[@johnnybowers6679]

Better than the last DCEU Films that Epicly Failed

[@p.l.537]

Elaine is me to "Oppenheimer." I HATE IT!!

[@kev3d]

When my girlfriend became my ex, she told me that me not liking the marvel movies really bothered her.

[@gmh471]

Sounds like she's not a person of depth or intelligence. You dodged a bullet.

[@againstthepods4316]

I lost my VIRGINITY during that movie. Dont ever make fun of it. It was a very speical moment

[@joeharris3878]

I was crazy about Quiz Show so wemt to his next movie. After I walked out on the English Patitient was very glad to find out there were other people who couldn’t get it either. I saw this Seinfeld episode years later. It's funny, but you relive the exasperation.

[@respectdawildo_danjones508]

I’m with her with this movie, I don’t mind long movies at all but, this I couldn’t do lol 3:19 “I can’t do this anymore” lol

[@annakermode6646]

I loooooooooooooved The English Patient ❤

[@Person1865]

This was me the entire time Game of Thrones was on.

[@Zack29810]

seriously.

[@ninjavigilante5311]

I agree lol

[@moemalcom690]

Yes

[@PerryWhyte]

That was me when Avatar came out.

[@Shatamx]

Game of Thrones S1-4 was actually good.

[@oddduck9798]

This is how I feel about the MCU

[@Devilsblood]

Agreed. I would get chased out of town if they knew I didn't care about any of the films.

[@twatts1523]

What is MCU?

[@spidey21ful]

@@twatts1523the Marvel Cinematic Universe

[@slyc5920]

I too know the pain of knowing a movie isn't good but everyone else judges you because they think it is good.

[@TheStuport]

The BEST part of this video was watching Julia get to have a scene with her Real Life Half Sister in the Diner! On a side note...Elaine is right..."The English Patient" Sucks from what I read and heard! 🤣

[@bohemianwriter1]

I feel that I haven't missed out on anything.. since I have not seen the bloody English Patient yet.

[@TheStuport]

@@bohemianwriter1 🤣Me either! I've always gone with "You can't miss what you never had, so enjoy what you've got"! Cheers p.s. Have you by chance written any published works? Just curious!

[@bizarroeddie1]

Well, i liked it. 😠

[@aj1800]

I have to live in a cave🤣🤣 I love Elaine in this episode, she's funny 🤣🤣

[@Rellbronjames9]

And i thought i knew what love was!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@emilyrandles2792]

This was exactly how I reacted to Avatar.

[@ScottGSP]

Joker

[@danielbinnz5132]

I love Elaine!

[@michaelmarceau4863]

No mention of Elaine eating food off the floor at the theater? Was it a junior mint?

[@Kabirdix]

2:04 I thought for a sec she was going to throw the coffee in her face lmao

[@josemaria8177]

Proud to say that I've never seen the English Patient and that I don't intend to watch it.

[@Neilhammond64]

I usually hate when TV shows shoehorn the writers' movie opinions but this works cause it's an unpopular one and it's in Elaine's character.

[@lucashenderson2775]

I lose it at 3:22 every time.

[@Throawei]

Elaine is my spirit animal. Likely why I'm still single at 40.

[@sidstorch2615]

Nah, it’s because you hate Trump. That automatically eliminates all the productive guys.

[@SkiKoala]

Seinfeld predicts Twitter.

[@MPT1983]

Reminds me of Inception lol

[@anthonyjohnson9403]

I've never seen this episode of Seinfeld. Thought I had covered em all

[@bmasters1981]

This is also me when it came to all those long-form historical miniseries-- Centennial, Gods and Generals, Gettysburg, etc., and is also me when it came to that Lonesome Dove miniseries.

[@cefinau]

Did she have to watch it twice with Peterman? I noticed different people in the audience

[@EbonyCoulter6723]

Poor Elaine she is begin tortured by this movie everyone is talking about and it's funny 😄 😆 🤣

[@519djw6]

*I'M WITH ELAINE ON THIS ONE!*

[@Lee.Higginbotham]

Good tip!! I put it on my list along with Gone With the Wind and Titanic!! 🎬 🎬 🎬

[@fernandesl]

Peterman was amazing

[@luisbazan8841]

Elaine is my kind of girl, I could see myseld with her watching a familly living in a brown paper bag

[@davidl570]

Join the club.

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

I wish they mocked Titanic more instead

[@rafikz77]

this

[@gmh471]

No, Titanic was much much better than The English Patient and popular opinion agrees. How many times have you been flipping channels and land on Titanic, which is sometimes being shown by, say, TBS, multiple times in succession. Nobody has ever done that with The English Patient. In fact I challenge anyone who claims to have liked The English Patient to admit that they have never once watched it again.

[@engg84]

"So that old lady... she's just a liar, right?"

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

You act like an elitist but just like what you're told to. I don't care for popular opinion. I think for myself, unlike you. ​@@gmh471

[@peterboeikens8221]

I feel you Elaine.. I had the same with Oppenheimer

[@samuraichamploo07]

That bad?

[@davidl570]

The one thing that puts me off from watching that is the 3 hour run time. (I've heard some negative things about it too).

[@peterboeikens8221]

Jup@@samuraichamploo07

[@johnnybowers6679]

Peterman: why didn’t you say so in the first place?, Your Fired

[@elsecretopez]

Every time I go to the movies and get stuck in a long boring film I want to yell "die, just die!". The last one was batman with that teen vampire guy XD

[@gmh471]

I fell asleep during the first Batman movie in 1989 and have not seen another one since.

[@spartanq7781]

Imagine everyone hating you for not liking a movie. What if it was the other way around and Elaine liked a movie no one else did?

[@bmasters1981]

To that end, what if I was the only one who liked that 1979 Columbia Pictures film The China Syndrome, and I told everyone how good it was (my opinion, of course), and they turned on me for it and expected me to like a lot of today's junk?

[@WeylandYutaniCorp91]

This episode is the story of my life, I hate a lot of movies people like and they hate me for it, and I like a lot of movies people hate and they hate me for it too. I mean, some movies I like but can understand why people don't like them, which is why most of the time I say "Well I like it, but then again I have bad taste." But there is one particular movie I like that a lot of people hate and I don't understand why, I can't even say it by name without bringing a lot of hate down on me. Don't ask me what movie it is, I won't tell you, because saying what it is is like putting a sign on my back that says "kick me."

[@dragomiruzelac2227]

Change your therapy, it does not work.

[@tscully1504]

I wasn't interested enough to track it down. Mainly the drawn out long part. But I will see it if the opportunity arrises next time I am stuck in the hospital.

[@dvk1627]

3:20, me watching Dune's Villeneuve.

[@MrSwinefuzz]

Elaine doesn't think Ralph Fiennes is sponge-worthy.

[@dspsblyuth]

I still haven’t seen the English patient

[@doylemcpoyle839]

She could sue for wrongful termination 😂

[@javanesemystic]

Now I'm afraid to admit I'm not into that sappy film too. How did George & Kramer feel

[@erichall3326]

This same thing happened with LaLa Land- Almost everyone liked it!

[@Mr.Mister1974]

Now I want to see the movie

[@dollyrama1132]

The Tunisian cave sounds like fun!😉

[@mariogamefreak1]

Couldn't she sue for wrongful termination.

[@twatts1523]

LoL, Peterman used to fire her all the time. She just ignored him.

[@Devilsblood]

I feel the same way about today's "popular" movies.

[@oliharleysmediaaccount6614]

This is how I feel currently for not liking Challengers

[@bmasters1981]

And other pictures I was forced into-- the DiCaprio/Winslet Titanic especially.

[@Michael-fw5ef]

Peterman is the greatest character on the show.

[@nicholasheredia4235]

3:35 I HATE IT!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@alexjames1397]

Shh!!!!