The Parking Garage
- Episode aired Oct 30, 1991
- TV-PG
- 22m
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8.7/10
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The four get stuck in a parking garage for hours when they forget where they parked.The four get stuck in a parking garage for hours when they forget where they parked.The four get stuck in a parking garage for hours when they forget where they parked.
Gregory T. Daniel
- Man in Corvette
- (as Gregory Daniel)
Larry Charles
- Unresponsive Man
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThroughout this episode Kramer (Michael Richards) is seen carrying around a box with a new air conditioner in it. At Michael Richards' insistence, the prop department placed an actual air conditioner in the box. Richards wanted to make his struggle with the box seem genuine.
- GoofsThe "Fragile" sticker was strategically placed over the name on the box to hide the real name of the air conditioner manufacturer Friedrich.
- Quotes
Jerry Seinfeld: It's amazing how shopping makes me have to go. How does my bladder know that I'm in a department store?
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 44th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1992)
- SoundtracksSeinfeld Theme Song
Written by Jonathan Wolff
Featured review
"Everything looks the same!"
The Parking Garage has one of the best ideas in the entire series. I always think of it as the sequel to The Chinese Restaurant: a bottle episode about a situation EVERYONE can relate. Just like The Chinese Restaurant, The Parking Garage has short gags about this situation in itself. Some of them work (double space park-er, nobody wants to drive them around) and some don't (urination). In my opinion, this episode has a much richer central idea than its "prequel". Because every parking garage is the same no matter where you go, while the restaurant situation is more uncommon.
Nevertheless, no matter how good the idea on paper may be, the script must be on the same level. And here it's not. The jokes aren't that funny, the episode has a slow-languid pace which may symbolize the feeling of being in that situation but on reality it just makes the episode quite tedious. On the much better episode The Chinese Restaurant the pace is much faster and there are more interesting and funny things going on which justifies the length of the episode. On this case, the length really drags and it feels like the writers are trying to stretch an idea into a 20 min episode.
In conclusion, this episode is great on paper (not script) and you will always recall it in a similar situation, but as a whole it's not quite up there with the Seinfeld classics.
Nevertheless, no matter how good the idea on paper may be, the script must be on the same level. And here it's not. The jokes aren't that funny, the episode has a slow-languid pace which may symbolize the feeling of being in that situation but on reality it just makes the episode quite tedious. On the much better episode The Chinese Restaurant the pace is much faster and there are more interesting and funny things going on which justifies the length of the episode. On this case, the length really drags and it feels like the writers are trying to stretch an idea into a 20 min episode.
In conclusion, this episode is great on paper (not script) and you will always recall it in a similar situation, but as a whole it's not quite up there with the Seinfeld classics.
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- juanmaffeo
- Jun 6, 2016
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