The Parking Garage
- Episode aired Oct 30, 1991
- TV-PG
- 22m
IMDb RATING
8.7/10
5.7K
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The four friends go shopping at the mall and get lost for hours in the parking garage when they forget where they parked their car.The four friends go shopping at the mall and get lost for hours in the parking garage when they forget where they parked their car.The four friends go shopping at the mall and get lost for hours in the parking garage when they forget where they parked their car.
Gregory T. Daniel
- Man in Corvette
- (as Gregory Daniel)
Larry Charles
- Unresponsive Man
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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
The End, Ironically, Of My Seinfeld Journey
"The Parking Garage" is one of the strongest installments of Seinfeld ever created. It has legitimate humor and never gets bogged down or boring. Each character is given his/her moment and all their quirks are on full display. What's the problem, then? For me, it is still just a 7/10 star effort--and that's why I'm likely done with Seinfeld (probably never to return).
You see, I began a first-time watch of the hit 1990s sitcom here in 2022. After "The Parking Garage", I had watched the first 22 episodes of the show--roughly a season's-worth in 90s parlance. I rated exactly three of them over 6/10 stars, and most in the 3-5 range.
From what I can gather, I made it through the show's "growing pains" episodes and should (by now) be in the thick of its greatness. Sadly, for me, the humor just didn't hold up. I found Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) far more annoying than hilarious, Kramer (Michael Richards) too eccentric to be anywhere near believable as a human being, and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) to be rather "blah" (or, again, annoying). George (Jason Alexander) stands out as far and away the highlight of the early goings, but he alone isn't enough to bolster each individual episode.
I have little doubt that the show continues to improve in a technical and character-building sense as the seasons roll along. But the show's observational humor proved not to be my cup of tea. Episodes like "The Parking Garage" were truly as good as it got for me--and even then they were far from appointment viewing. I wonder if perhaps the series was more a unique/quirky product of its times and less a masterpiece for the ages?
Either way, I'm simply providing this opinion--no more, no less--in case others come along in a similar viewing scenario and want some guidance. As much as I wanted to like Seinfeld and gave it what I considered to be a very "fair shake", it never truly moved me to any meaningful emotion. When that continues to be the case in even the "best of" episodes, it is time to move along.
You see, I began a first-time watch of the hit 1990s sitcom here in 2022. After "The Parking Garage", I had watched the first 22 episodes of the show--roughly a season's-worth in 90s parlance. I rated exactly three of them over 6/10 stars, and most in the 3-5 range.
From what I can gather, I made it through the show's "growing pains" episodes and should (by now) be in the thick of its greatness. Sadly, for me, the humor just didn't hold up. I found Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) far more annoying than hilarious, Kramer (Michael Richards) too eccentric to be anywhere near believable as a human being, and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) to be rather "blah" (or, again, annoying). George (Jason Alexander) stands out as far and away the highlight of the early goings, but he alone isn't enough to bolster each individual episode.
I have little doubt that the show continues to improve in a technical and character-building sense as the seasons roll along. But the show's observational humor proved not to be my cup of tea. Episodes like "The Parking Garage" were truly as good as it got for me--and even then they were far from appointment viewing. I wonder if perhaps the series was more a unique/quirky product of its times and less a masterpiece for the ages?
Either way, I'm simply providing this opinion--no more, no less--in case others come along in a similar viewing scenario and want some guidance. As much as I wanted to like Seinfeld and gave it what I considered to be a very "fair shake", it never truly moved me to any meaningful emotion. When that continues to be the case in even the "best of" episodes, it is time to move along.
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- zkonedog
- Jun 14, 2022
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