At the start of the episode “Seinfeld” “The Pie” (February 17, 1994), Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) tries to feed a bite of apple pie at her appointment, Audrey (Suzanne Snyder), but she refuses without giving a reason. The refusal to eat something offered by a peer becomes a reason for the episode. Later, the pair goes to a restaurant belonging to the father of Audrey, but refuses to eat a slice of pizza that she offers him. It immediately understands that this little social social is a form of revenge. As in all the episodes of “Seinfeld”, something tiny and accidental is, through a large network of neuroses, transformed into a badly embarrassed faux.
Even later, George (Jason Alexander) dines with a potential employer in a restaurant. George notes that one of his rivals is in the kitchen of the restaurant and begins to suspect that his food could have been marred in one way or another. When his potential employer, Mackenzie (Lane Davies), offers George a bite of chocolate cream tart, he refuses. It’s confusing for Mackenzie because he simply said to George how important he was to comply and be a team player. One of Mackenzie’s compatriots leans forward and says, with an intense sample, “if you are one of us, you will take a bite.” Needless to say, George’s refusal to eat the pie loses work.
It seems that “if you are one of us, you will take a bite” is a line of dialogue that Jerry Seinfeld, even to date, uses in a relaxed conversation. “Seinfeld”, although initially hated, has since introduced many occasional families in the pop lexicon, of course. “Close-Talker”, “Hello, Newman,” “sophisticated boy”, “worthy of the sponge”, “signs nazi”, etc. But in a 2013 Ama RedditJerry Seinfeld admitted that the line “Take a Cock” had stayed with him. He repeats it whenever he shares a meal with his children.
If you are one of us, you will take a bite.
Seinfeld admitted that it was a strange line to withdraw from a mega-hit series altering the Zeitgeist which lasted 180 episodes during nine seasons. Nevertheless, “taking a bite” is the one that has remained. He likes to use it when his children. As he wrote:
“The only line I quote from the show (and I will be very impressed if someone who remembers this line) is” if you are one of us, you will take a bite. “I find myself a lot to say to my children. Often, children will not want to try certain foods, and therefore I will use this line.
“Oh, humanity!” It was, of course, the infamous sentence shown by journalist Herbert Morrison when he witnessed the Hindenburg exploding this fateful day in 1937. But the sentence was repeated by Newman (Wayne Knight, background of her audience room) in the “Seinfeld” the episode “The Pothole” (February 20, 1997). In this episode, Newman was driving his mail delivery truck when he hit a sewing machine in the middle of the road (and we don’t need to get into the way he happened). He started hanging out the machine under the car, creating a shower of sparks. He then rolled on an end of paint puddle, overturned by Kramer (Michael Richards show “Michael Richards). While the underside of his truck bursts with flame, he shouted:” Oh, humanity! “Yeah, Seinfeld took this one.
Curiously, Seinfeld has not taken any of its own dialogues in the real world.
