Apr 30 2010 12:38 PM ET

Clip du jour: George Costanza, tragic hero

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I have long held that George Costanza is the most tragic character in contemporary American art. Perhaps now, thanks to this recut of Seinfeld into a tragic/heartwarming movie, more people will agree with me:

Yes, that’s the music from Shawshank Redemption.

Can anything ever unseat that Shining trailer from back in the day, PopWatchers? I vote no, even if this is pretty terrific…

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  • harry

    EPIC!!!!

  • Ceballos

    Funny clip.

    However, all it did was make me annoyed all over again that Jason Alexander never won an Emmy during his run on “Seinfeld.”

    • Laura

      Whoa, whoa, what??? Never??? Now THAT is the real tragedy.

  • Ambee

    That was pretty darn convincing. Scary!

  • whatevs

    George Costanza is the essence of the show. And now I’m annoyed because Ceballos reminded me that Jason Alexander never won an Emmy.

    • Ceballos

      Sorry, whatevs…but as the saying goes, ‘Annoyance loves company.’

  • Ryan

    Despite that random clip of Susie’s funeral (unless you aren’t really a Seinfeld fan), it was perfect!

  • Todd

    one of these days you gotta run a clip du jour on my favorite fake trailer – saving private ryan turned into a comedy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0_Vjut7S1U

  • Alicia

    Great stuff. Thanks. I loved Jason Alexander as George, but the situations he got into were almost too painful to watch. I’m not that masochistic!

  • darclyte

    Good stuff! Heidi Swedberg who played Susan doesn’t seem to have turned up too much since Seinfeld, although she was in the movie “Breastmen” and there is a scene where her character is topless…but I don’t think it showed her head…so probably a body double?

  • Phooey

    Considering most of those scenes were the characters pretending to be sincerely moved, this really didn’t take much creativity. Amusing, but a long, long way from epic or classic.

  • Teal

    boo, that made it seem like george actually cared about susan.

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