A World of Useless Information

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

I love the show about nothing


I love Christmas for the atmosphere, time off work and of course the killer presents that I get. I was given some great presents. One of those presents was season 9 of Seinfeld. My collection is now complete.


I thought that I would share a couple of my favorite clips from the show.

George is my favorite character. He knows he is a born loser but he he makes it look so funny.
I love when he pretends that he is handicap to get his own bathroom.




Of course I had to add the classic phone message from George







Kramer, when he gets a job in the city when he is not even really employed.




And of course Elaine and her amazing dancing skills.






I love this show and all the characters. There are so many funny clips that I don't have enough time to get them all on here.
I also found some interesting facts about the show.

This is a ratings chart for the last years of the show.

Season Ranking Viewership
Four (1992–93) 25 12,754,700[22]
Five (1993–94) 3 18,274,800[23]
Six (1994–95) 1 19,652,400[24]
Seven (1995–96) 2 20,330,800[25]
Eight (1996–97) 2 19,885,000[26]
Nine (1997–98) 1 21,266,000[27]

The show was very popular and that meant a lot of money for Jerry. I pulled this from Forbes magazine.
Jerry Seinfeld's annual earning from the show in 1998 was $267 million, making him the highest-earning celebrity that year.

Seinfeld still generates more revenue than most current shows, through syndication. He reportedly turned down $5 million per episode, for 22 episodes, to continue the show beyond its final season.[12] In 2006, he earned $60 million from syndication deals and stand-up appearances.

I wish that Jerry would have taken the 5 million a show for a final year. I would love to see another 22 episodes.

Now that I have all 9 seasons my life feels a little more complete. I now have all 180 episodes that I can watch when I want. It was a good Christmas.

This clip is the first episode that I ever watched. Got me hooked.






Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Christmas Vacation

I love Christmas and
one of my favorite movies is National Lampoons Christmas Vacation starring Chevy Chase.



(If you have not seen this movie then you need to drop everything that you are doing and go watch it)

While watching this movie on Sunday night, their was a comment made about how funny the name Chevy was. So I started to find some info using my trusty Blackberry. I found this info quite interesting.
-Chevy Chases real name is Cornelius Crane Chase
-Chevy was part of the SNL cast for only 1 1/2 years, due to constant fighting with the cast, namely John Belushi and Lorne Michaels.

-He got into a fist fight with Bill Murray backstage during a taping of SNL. He made a comment about Bill Murray's face looking like craters on the moon.
-Christmas Vacation was #1 at the box office and grossed over 71 million dollars.
-The movie also made over 34 million in rental profits

One of the greatest characters in all of movie history is Cousin Eddie. If any one out there happens to know where I can find a hat like this please let me know.





My favorite quote from Cousin Eddie-

Stupid facts about my favorite Christmas Movie.

Friday, December 7, 2007

Stewies first official blog


Here it goes, this is my first official blog.
I was asked the other day at work if I was a blogger. I was not at the time so I answered with a quick no. That response was met with quick replies of, "we will convert you" and "you will be soon". So here it is, Welcome to Stewies world. I will do my best to keep it up to date with cool new pics, stories and of course tons of useless information.

While on a sales trip to San Francisco with my work traveling buddy, Douglas Long, we paused for a moment to snap a quick photo.