"Seinfeld"
The Betrayal (1997)

Regisseur:

Andy Ackerman

Drehbuchautoren:

Larry David (co-creator)
David Mandel (writer)

TV-Serie:

"Seinfeld" (1990)

Erstausstrahlung:

20. November 1997 (Staffel 9, Folge 8)

Genre:

Komödie

Plot:

The infamous "backwards episode". Elaine decides to spite her old college roommate Sue Ellen Mischkie by taking her...

Plot Keywords:

Reverse Footage | Nonlinear Timeline | Actor Playing Himself | Diner | Actor Shares Last Name With Character

Nutzerkommentare:

A very clever parody of Harold Pinter's movie "Betrayal."

Besetzung

Jerry Seinfeld	...	Jerry Seinfeld
Julia Louis-Dreyfus	...	Elaine Benes
Michael Richards	...	Cosmo Kramer
Jason Alexander	...	George Costanza
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
Bart Braverman	...	Zubin
Bill Lee Brown	...	Partygoer
Brian Kaiser	...	Postman
Jocelyne Kelly	...	Model
Wayne Knight	...	Newman
Shelley Malil	...	Usher
Michael McShane	...	FDR (as Micheal McShane)
Justine Miceli	...	Nina Stengle
Noor Shic	...	Usha
Brenda Strong	...	Sue Ellen Mischke
Heidi Swedberg	...	Susan Biddle Ross
Shaun Toub	...	Pinter

Produktionsland:

USA

Farbe:

Farbe

Dies und das:

In the first episode Jerry calls Kramer "Kessler". The character's name was subsequently changed to Kramer. In the episode "The Betrayal", towards the very end when we see the scene from "Eleven Years Earlier", Jerry is moving into his apartment, and Kramer comes over to welcome him. Jerry says, "You must be Kessler, I saw your name on the buzzer," to which Kramer replies, "No, it's Kramer."

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: When the airplane they are flying to India on is "Somewhere between New York and India" the aircraft shown is clearly a Boeing 747. However, during the interior shots of the aircraft, it is clearly a Boeing 737 or a similar airframe.

Dialogzitate:

[Kramer and FDR hold a wishbone]
Cosmo Kramer: All right, FDR; this wish is for all the marbles. You win, you get your wish: I drop dead. I win: I don't drop dead, and I get one-hundred-percent anti-drop-dead protection - forever.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt Betrayal (1983)

A very clever parody of Harold Pinter's movie "Betrayal."

This episode is based on the movie "Betrayal" by Harold Pinter (winnerof the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2005). The movie starred Jeremy Irons and Ben Kingsley as long-time friends and business associates. As the movie opens, Irons's character meets with Patricia Hodge, the wife of Kingsley's character, to reminisce about an affair they'd broken off about a year earlier. The movie then moves backward in time until the closing scene that occurs just before Irons and Hodge embark on their affair. At every moment, the audience knows more than the characters do, which gives the story a compelling poignancy.

Seinfeld takes this conceit to hysterically funny levels by continually introducing "prior" information that makes what we just saw happen "later" all the funnier. The episode incorporates some inside jokes as well: there are several "love triangles" going on (Elaine, Susan, Pinter form one; Jerry, George, and Nina the other) and of course, the character of Pinter is an homage to Harold Pinter. The fact that they all go to India for the wedding may be a nod to Kingsley's heritage (he's half Indian).

Very creative and very funny, this episode proved that "Seinfeld" could be fresh and innovative even in its 9th season.