Seinfeld (TV Series)

The Strike (1997)

Jason Alexander: George Costanza

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• Estelle Constanza : I think you can take him, Georgie!

  George Costanza : Oh, come on! Be sensible.

  Frank Costanza : Stop crying and fight your father!

  George Costanza : Ow!... Ow! I give! I give! Uncle!

  Frank Costanza : This is the best Festivus ever!

• Frank Costanza : Welcome, new comers. The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances.

  [yelling] 

  Frank Costanza : I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it! You, Kruger. My son tells me your company stinks!

  George Costanza : Oh, God.

  Frank Costanza : [to George]  Quiet, you'll get yours in a minute.

  [yelling] 

  Frank Costanza : Kruger, you couldn't smooth a silk sheet if you had a hot date with a babe... I lost my train of thought.

• Jerry : Happy Festivus!

  Cosmo Kramer : What's Festivus?

  Jerry : When George was growing up...

  George Costanza : [interrupts]  ... NO!

  Jerry : His father...

  George Costanza : [interrupts]  ... Stop it! It's nothing. It's a stupid holiday my father invented. It doesn't exist!

  Elaine : [as she walks into Jerry's apartment]  Happy Festivus, Georgie.

  George Costanza : [yelling]  God!

  Cosmo Kramer : Frank invented a holiday? He's so prolific!

• Kruger : George, we have a problem. There's a memo, here, from accounting telling me there's no such thing as the Human Fund.

  George Costanza : Well, there could be.

  Kruger : But there isn't.

  George Costanza : Well, I - I could, Uh, I could give the money back. Here.

  [George hands the cheque back to Kruger] 

  Kruger : George, I don't get it. If there's no Human Fund, those donation cards were fake. You better have a damn good reason why you gave me a fake Christmas gift.

  George Costanza : Well, sir, I - I gave out the fake card, because, um, I don't really celebrate Christmas. I, um, I celebrate Festivus.

  Kruger : Feminist?

  George Costanza : Festivus, Sir. And, uh, I was afraid that I would be persecuted for my beliefs. They drove my family out of Bayside, Sir!

  Kruger : Are you making all this up, too?

  George Costanza : Oh, no, Sir. Festivus is all too real. And... I could prove it - if I had to.

  Kruger : Yeah, you probably should.

• George Costanza : Hey, I work for Kruger Industrial Smoothing: "We don't care, and it shows."

• Frank Costanza : George, festivus is your heritage. It's part of who you are.

  George Costanza : That's why I hate it.