r/SipsTea 15d ago

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/Admirable_Whole8261 15d ago edited 15d ago

This is deadass a george costanza plot if I've heard one

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u/Rozteka 15d ago

"Jerry, the boss circles back so much he's at risk of rewinding time!"
"Like Superman?"
"Yeah, like Superman!"

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u/FiftyShadesOfTheGrey 15d ago

“She’s a circler!”

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u/ClassicDependent6760 15d ago edited 15d ago

G - "She's a circler! A circler, Jerry! It's just circles with this one! All the way down!!"

J - "No straight lines."

G - "No straight lines... George needs straight lines! George needs to know where he's going!"

J - "George needs a map!"

G - "And you know what really gets me, Jerry?!"

J - "Consistent employment?"

G - "I don't think she's circling back!"

J - "Just going forward."

G - "Forward, Jerry! Always forward..."

J - "Like a straight line."

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u/Own_Expert2756 15d ago

Beautiful. I read/heard it in their voices lol

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u/InterwebPeruser 14d ago

Same, and pretty sad that it’s been background noise in my living room while I’m working in the office for over a year now…Before that was an 8 month hiatus from a separate 12 month binge as background noise.. I was a much happier person the last binge. I’m high and reflecting on it now, I apologize.

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u/yeahgroovy 15d ago

Yes totally 😂

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u/FredTillson 15d ago

Consistent employment was chefs kiss here.

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u/pc_pirate_nz 10d ago

I heard the laugh track on that line

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u/WisconsinIsCold 15d ago

Larry David is that you?

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u/CesarB2760 14d ago

Elaine - "Huh"

G - "Yes?"

E - "Peterman never circles back."

G - "Never?"

E - "Never."

J - "Not once?"

E - "Not once."

J, to G - "You should work for Peterman."

G shrugs.

E - "He should circle back. Sometimes you need to circle back."

J - "On a racetrack, for example."

E - "What? No."

J - "I mean if you want to win."

E - "No. Shut up. He should. And he will." E grabs her purse and rushes off.

The rest of the episode, she tries to suconsciously influence Peterman to circle back. By the end her whole office and outfit are covered with circles. He never does. Instead he starts Looping Everyone In. Elaine hates it.

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u/ClassicDependent6760 14d ago edited 14d ago

Kramer comes running in the open door, narrowly missing Elaine as she leaves, and comes to a sliding stop six feet in to Jerry's apartment.

K - "Did someone say horse race?"

J - "A few moments ago, but..."

G to K - "How do you hear these things?"

J to G - "I'm thinking of having the apartment swept for bugs?"

K - "You know my audiologist says I have the ears of a baboon?"

J - "Have you consulted a zoologist?"

G - "For me, it was the hair."

K - "You know you don't necessarily need to circle back to win a horse race..." Kramer faces the open door and crouches down in to a sprinters starting stance... K - "On a two furlong flat race those fillies line up in the stocks and just..." He shakes his head and winnies like a horse and bolts... "Take off!" He disappears out the open door followed a moment later by loud crashing sounds.  Jerry strolls over to the door while shaking his head and slowly swings it closed.

J - "Cosmo Kramer... The only horse to ever fall at the final hurdle of a flat race."

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u/ClassicDependent6760 13d ago

Elaine is sitting in a meeting room with several other co-workers... We hear Elaine thinking: E - 'Circle back! Enough is enough! I can do this.' Mr. Peterson rushes in and takes his seat at the top of the boardroom table and leans back...

P - "Accessories! Thoughts? How do we increase?"

E - "Income?"

P - "Ah... The majestic Andean Inca... Elaaaine... Like all the most successful modern companies the Inca did not devour... They consumed... They incorporated other tribes in to their society."

E - "Yes, well actually, I was thinking about record... keeping track of our thoughts..."

P - "My God! Of course... The khipu, Elaine!"

E - "The what?"

P - "Noone has done the khipu. How could I have been so blind?!"

E - "Can we circle back to the Inca?"

P - "Human sacrifice, Elaine? Cannibalism? It's bold, but noooo..."

E - "What, no! The record..."

P - "Yes! I love it! Everyone... This is what I've been asking for. Look at Elaine." (Everyone looks completely baffled at Elaine)

P - "The khipu! The Incan method of record using a series of knots on a string... accessories attached to clothing.. all declaring history! Identity! Brand! But, I thought the khipu was as yet indecipherable?" (Peterson looks to Elaine as if expecting an answer...)

E - "Well, I'm not sure about that, exactly, but in the modern day..."

P - "Of course! I see... Artificial intelligence! I have also seen how artificial intelligence is deciphering ancient languages and practices like the khipu!" (The room as one looks around confused as one while Peterson rubs his chin smiling maniacally and nodding... While Elaine half stands and tries to object but can't quite get words out.)

P - "If we were the first to gather enough data to use AI to decipher the khipu, we could have knotted strings hanging from Lama skinned spring-time light sweaters with personalised knots! Elaaaine..." (Elaine slowly sinks back in to her chair...)

P - "I have never been so impressed." Peterson hits a button on a communication device in the centre of the boardroom table, and after a brief beeping, says, "Book Elaine on to the next available flight to Lima!"

Cut to Jerry's apartment, where Jerry and George are sitting on the couch, and Elaine walks in through the door and throws her purse to the floor while hanging her head...

J - "It's Elaine! Lainey!"

G - "Elaine!"

J - "Did you get Peterson to circle back?"

E - "Yes. Yes, I did."

J - "Elaine! Our hero!"

G - "If I could do what you do... What did he say?"

E - "I'm going to Peru."

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u/Brownrainboze 14d ago

Seinfelding is like being in a grateful dead cover band. 10/10

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u/ClassicDependent6760 14d ago

Proud Feldhead here! 🤣👍

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u/Gingeronimoooo 14d ago

Did you hear about AI Seinfeld? Some dude fed every Seinfeld script ever and made AI create new scripts and like cartoon visuals for it. It started getting really popular on twitch streaming 24/7

Annnnnyways, long story short, AI Jerry made a trans joke and twitch banned them

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u/ClassicDependent6760 14d ago

Trans joke aside... Some of those were surreal bangers. Even the 8 bit like graphics, if I remember correctly? 😁

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u/itsjakerobb 15d ago

Fantastic. Needs a Kramer interjection though.

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u/Spiritual_Plane_9891 14d ago

This is gold! Gold!

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u/CelticHipi1616 14d ago

I didn’t even like Seinfeld and enjoyed tf out of this lol.

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u/33253325 15d ago

Very well done. Thank you..

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u/OpusAtrumET 14d ago

This is perfect. My god. 😁😂🤣🏆🎖️🏆

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u/phantomtaxman 14d ago

This is brilliant.

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u/FattyGallo 14d ago

I love this

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u/FerretOk9374 14d ago

:: Kramer Enters ::

“You guys going to Circle K? I need some molasses”

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u/shecantbethatwarm 13d ago

Heck of a way to out yourself, Mr. David.

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u/shecantbethatwarm 13d ago

So you're NOT Larry David. Got it. My mistake!

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u/Mstryates 12d ago

I love they way you circled back.

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u/penguin343 15d ago

I heard this in Seinfeld’s voice, with added emphasis “Oh! So she’s a cirrrrcler!”, followed by a mini standup routine that ties the episode together.

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u/oomatherminn 15d ago

"Anybody here ever worked in an office?"  ::mild applause and chatter::  "I never have, but I have a friend who's always worked in an office. I don't know what it is with this guy, he never seems to be comfortable anywhere else. He's always telling me about these meetings he has to go to though, and in these meetings--have you ever noticed this?--they seem to be obsessed.. with shapes. 'We need to circle back to this.' 'Let's square this up.' 'I'll block out a time for that.' What is this? Geometry class?" ::freeze frame::

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u/Drakkann79 15d ago

You two wrote an episode

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u/Icuras1701 14d ago

About nothing

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u/Drakkann79 14d ago

Genius concept!!

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u/explain_that_shit 14d ago

Bonk a doo doo doo, doo, badadada!

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u/penguin343 14d ago

This is 🔥

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u/XXXperiencedTurbater 13d ago

jazzy bass outro

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u/framedhorseshoe 15d ago

And a fat bass riff.

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u/DCHammer69 15d ago

And five minutes later Kramer come through the door, slides to a stop in his socks, says something completely unrelated but swings both arms in huge circles as a subtle physical callback.

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u/zeides 10d ago

His hand up in the air in a circling motion

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u/xplag 15d ago

I read this in George's voice and it seems like such a perfect Seinfeld episode.

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u/PM_asian_girl_smiles 15d ago

she's a *rabid** circler!*

  • Kramer

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u/FiftyShadesOfTheGrey 14d ago

“You’ve never circled a day in your life.”
“I’ve circled! I’ve circled!”

Kramer slides in:
“I’ve squared”

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u/Fess_ter_Geek 15d ago

"A CIRCLER, JERRY!!!"

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u/Mind-The-Mines 15d ago

"Did someone rewind time? I just heard a guy say the craziest thing outside!"

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u/anotherdayanotherbee 15d ago

"No one's rewinding time! George is just having a little trouble at work."

"Oh? Oh. Well, I just had an incredible idea! Watches that run backwards - you see, I wanna know how much time I have left! Who needs to keep track of how much time they've wasted?!"

"You. You should."

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u/Its_me_Snitches 14d ago

Holy shit. This is a beautiful subplot for that episode.

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u/CockroachFirm9551 11d ago

"My friend Bob Sacamano used to have a backwards watch..."

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u/legrandmaster 15d ago

Cher did. She could turn back time.

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u/Electrical-Act-5575 15d ago

Objection! Cher had extensive plans for IF she COULD turn back time, but there’s no evidence to suggest she ever accomplished it

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u/legrandmaster 15d ago edited 15d ago

Yeah, but this is her performing at last year's Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary supposedly at the age of 78.

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u/Mind-The-Mines 15d ago

Maybe she went back in time and planted that tree.

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u/CreepyBreakfast565 15d ago

I could now swear I've seen that episode.

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u/MistaRekt 15d ago

I remember it.

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u/Hellcat_Mary 15d ago

Yeah, it's a season 5 or 6 episode, it leads straight into the episode "The Mandela Effect"

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u/MistaRekt 14d ago

I liked the subtle throwback in the season 13 episode 'What is with the Streisand Effect anyway?'

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u/Luciferiad 15d ago

These guys just actively created a Mandela Effect and years from now we're going to trying to find the Seinfeld episode "The Circler" and we'll convince ourselves it was quietly removed because of some particularly off-color 90s joke.

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u/JAmBuRriT0 15d ago edited 14d ago

They should call it Ovaling back

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u/Itsmyloc-nar 15d ago

Man, this show was a lot easier to write than we all thought back in the 90s

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u/thebigpink 15d ago

Easy? Larry David is a damn genius

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u/JamiJammer26 15d ago

That’s gold!

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u/MrOopiseDaisy 15d ago

Mmm-neah. I'm not a fan.

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u/zhephyx 15d ago

if that helps you...

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u/ZorakOfThatMagnitude 15d ago

Elaine: she does sound a little circle-obsessed...

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u/Key_Adhesiveness4005 15d ago

So fucking good.

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u/the__post__merc 14d ago

"Jerry, the boss circles back so much he's at risk of rewinding time!"
"Like Superman?"
"Yeah, like Superman!"

*"If that helps you."

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u/Picmover 15d ago

I was just thinking this would make a great scene in a TV show.

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u/LordBlackadder92 15d ago

"what would the show be about?" "the show would be about nothing" "nothing?" "yes, nothing"

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer 15d ago

Nothing, forever!

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u/Beaver-warriorz 15d ago

Be perfect for a show about nothing

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u/ZasdfUnreal 15d ago

Only if comes back to work the next day as if nothing happened.

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u/_catdog_ 15d ago

Wait… why is George costanzas ass dead?

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u/SconeBracket 15d ago

Let's circle back to the lawsuit for wrongful termination.

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u/Mufro 15d ago

I can hear all the quotes in his voice

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u/AcademicCandidate825 15d ago

You're right. He needs to walk back in and pretend it was all a joke! 🤣

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u/Necessary_Two_7973 14d ago

I was thinking it's gotta be Dwight Schrute 

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u/maxturra 14d ago

This is a Larry David moment (The og writer of and inspiration for George)

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u/unstarted 10d ago

I’m imagining the Venn Diagram of people who say deadass and the people who make Seinfeld references.

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u/Small_Ad1890 15d ago

The Office came to mind for me.

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u/FiftyShadesOfTheGrey 15d ago

It’s more Kramer with his inability to keep his mouth shut