History Seinfeld / TropesAToH

-->'''Jerry:''' [[SarcasmMode Yeah, it's in my tool shed, next to my ride-on lawnmower]].

-->'''Kramer:''' I'm just gonna have to move in here with you.
-->'''Jerry:''' [[SarcasmMode Or I can just go live in the park!]] Yeah, you can knock down these walls, get an eight-room suite!
-->'''Kramer:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Jerry, these are]] ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint load-bearing]]'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint walls!]] They're not gonna come down!

-->'''Kramer:''' Ah, you're making too much of it.
-->'''Jerry:''' [[SarcasmMode Yeah, you're right.]] It's just a natural human function... happens to be on my sofa, instead of in the toilet, where it would normally be!
-->'''Kramer:''' Right!

-->'''Kramer''': Oh, and Jerry, we're gonna need a case of Kaiser rolls.\\
'''Jerry''': I think we might have one left in the stock room.\\

--> '''Bania''': You worn the suit yet?\\

--->'''Elaine:''' Isn't that a teeny bit racist?

* ADateWithRosiePalms: The whole premise of "The Contest" was to see who could go the longest without, um, doing this. George wins. [[labelnote:*]]Except not really, he cheated. Jerry is the real winner.[[/labelnote]]

* DayInTheLife

* EstablishingShot

*** A similar example, a doorman assumes everything Jerry says to him is some kind of prejudiced jab against his job and/or social class. Of course, he's a pretty big {{Jerkass}}, so he may have just been doing it to mess with Jerry.

** Parodied in "The Yada-Yada-Yada," on two different levels: for one thing, Jerry finds Tim Whatley's conversion to Judaism for the jokes offensive... as a comedian, not as a Jew. However, Jerry makes remarks about dentists, and the next thing he knows, he's labeled an Anti-Dentite, and is all be ostricized for it.

** In "The Chinese Restaurant", George is expecting a call from his girlfriend. When she calls the restaurant looking for him, the host calls out "Cartwright". George has no idea that was supposed to be him until a few minutes later when he tells the host he's expecting a call.

** The format of the first four or so seasons seem to play out more like a stage play, as is common with many StudioAudience, multi camera sitcoms, however afterwards, despite still retaining an audience and multiple cameras, the overall format broadened, placing the characters in more locations throughout the show, and even outdoors, more akin to single camera sitcoms.

--> '''Man''': I hadn't seen another pair of hands like Ray McKigney's, until today. You are his successor. I... only hope you have a little more self-control.\\

** In "The Puffy Shirt", the man photographing George's hands tells of a man who was his predecessor, with beautiful hands that were disfigured by excessive masturbation ("He was not [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike "Master of his domain"). The scene ends with a CallBack to "The Contest":

* DistaffCounterpart: In one episode, Jerry falls in love with a woman (Creator/JaneaneGarofalo) who is exactly like him in every way. He even proposes to her, before realizing that he can't marry someone exactly like him ... because he hates himself. They then have the perfect mutual break-up.

* CurseCutShort: In "The Fire":

* {{Angrish}}: Jerry tells Newman that by booking the location of his New Year's party for "[[ExactWords the millennium New Year]]", he actually booked it one year too late, since the new millennium doesn't officially start until the year 2001. Upon this realization, Newman can barely contain his anger, only uttering one single squeaky, wheezing noise that is later played again during the Castle Rock logo in the credits.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the episode "The Rye", Elaine tells Jerry "You know, one of these days, something terrible is going to happen to you. It ''has'' to!" Come the series finale, and not only does something terrible happen to Jerry ([[AngstWhatAngst not that it bothers him]]), it happens to Elaine too. [[TemptingFate Woops]].

* ChewOutFakeOut: Reversed. Henry Atkins, the postmaster general in "The Junk Mail" (played by Wilford Brimley) starts out very friendly to Kramer, only to tear into him mid-speech.

* AbortedDeclarationOfLove: "I've always loved you--nited airlines."

* FriendsRentControl: Despite being able to live in a decent one-bedroom Manhattan apartment, Kramer holds down nothing resembling a steady job. He gets by by mooching most of his food off of Jerry and playing with various odd jobs (department store Santa, film extra, babysitter, illness actor for medical interns, the list goes on) and money-making schemes. Some of these are actually quite successful, like when he wins $18,000 dollars at the horse track in an early episode, and later gets his coffee table book about coffee tables published and eventually optioned as a movie (allegedly making him enough money to "retire" to Florida briefly). Subverted in that it's never handwaved as being rent control, but also vaguely plausible at times. The real Kramer managed to live comfortably off royalties from a piece of electronic disco jewellery he invented in the seventies.

** In "The Chinese Restaurant" the host calls out "Cartwright" after George had him hold a table under "Costanza".

* BookEnds: The real tragedy of the end of the series is that they've run out of things to talk about, and have started looping back on themselves.

** The final lines of the show are about the top button on George's shirt. That was the first Seinfeldian discussion on the show.

** And the finale... sort of.

* DoubleStandard:

* FanDisservice: Used in-universe in one episode when Jerry and his girlfriend walk around the apartment naked. He sees her as a vixen, she sees him as a gorilla.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "The Contest." Several advertisers pulled out at the very ''mention'' that there'd be an episode entirely dedicated to masturbation, but judicious use of UnusualEuphemism, visual gags and [[RuleOfFunny simply being very funny]] saved it.

** In "The Puerto Rican Day Parade", Jerry got his own alias, Kel Varnson.

* HonestJohnsDealership: George considers all car salesmen to be this, to the point where he threatens to walk out simply if a car salesman says hi, though he falls for a used car salesman in an earlier episode who claims a car George originally didn't want was owned by Creator/JonVoight.

* HonestJohnsDealership: George considers all car salesmen to be this, to the point where he threatens to walk out simply if a car salesman says hi.

** In "The Chinese Restaurant" the host calls out "Cartwright" after George held a table under Costanza.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The diner is a real Manhattan diner, in the Upper West Side, called Tom's. The food there is mediocre at best, although the milkshakes are actually pretty good.