Jerry Seinfeld Reddit AMA: Scrapped ‘Seinfeld’ episode and more

Jerry Seinfeld took questions about the landmark comedy series “Seinfeld� on Reddit on Monday. Fans who tuned in to ask the comedian questions on the site’s Ask Me Anything forum were talking Soup Nazi, George’s voice-mail song, the episode that was never made and more. Here are some highlights:

1. The scrapped “Seinfeld� storyline

“There was one episode where Jerry bought a handgun,� Seinfeld said. “And we started making it and stopped in the middle.�

The episode was scratched after the read-through -- “trying to make that funny ended up being no fun.�

2. When Jerry met Larry

The first time Seinfeld became acquainted with series co-creator Larry David was in 1975 when David was leaning on the fender of Seinfeld’s car: “I actually was eavesdropping on him talking to another comedian, and I wasn’t even in comedy yet. But he was leaning on my car in front of the Improv.... You know what’s funny? He doesn’t even know that story.�

Several years later, they finally talked and “couldn’t stop talking. We were both obsessed with the smallest possible issue.�

3. Newman’s dance in the Soup Nazi episode

A “Seinfeld� viewer asked Seinfeld about a “little dance down the sidewalk� that Wayne Knight, who played the character Newman, did in the Soup Nazi episode.

“Did the script describe the dance?� Reddit user MisterNatural77 wrote. “Describe the process of getting this little golden moment on the screen.�

Seinfeld attributed it to “the enormous talent of an actor like Wayne Knight.�

“And the script said ‘Newman looks in the bag, and says Jambalaya’ but the delivery and the dance was all his,� he said.

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