At the start of the “Seinfeld” episode “The Pie” (February 17, 1994), Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) tries to feed a chew of apple pie to his date, Audrey (Suzanne Snyder), however she refuses with out giving a cause. The refusal to eat one thing provided by a peer turns into a motif of the episode. Afterward, the pair go to a restaurant owned by Audrey’s father, however refuses to eat a slice of pizza she presents him. She understands instantly that this small social slight is a type of revenge. Like in all episodes of “Seinfeld,” one thing tiny and incidental is, by means of an enormous community of neuroses, changed into a massively awkward fake pas.
Later nonetheless, George (Jason Alexander) is having dinner with a potential employer at a restaurant. George notices {that a} rival of his is within the restaurant’s kitchen, and begins to suspect that his meals might need been tainted not directly. When his potential employer, MacKenzie (Lane Davies), presents George a chew of chocolate cream pie, he refuses. That is baffling to MacKenzie, as he was simply telling George how necessary it was to adapt and to be a group participant. Certainly one of MacKenzie’s compatriots leans ahead and says, with intense portent, “If you happen to’re one in all us, you may take a chew.” For sure, George’s refusal to eat the pie loses him the job.
Evidently “If you happen to’re one in all us, you may take a chew” is a line of dialogue that Jerry Seinfeld, even to at the present time, makes use of in informal dialog. “Seinfeld,” though initially hated, has since launched loads of informal colloquialism into the pop lexicon, after all. “Shut-talker,” “Hi there, Newman,” “fancy boy,” “sponge-worthy,” “soup Nazi,” and so forth. However in a Reddit AMA from 2013, Jerry Seinfeld admitted that the “take a chew” line stayed with him. He repeats it every time he shares a meal together with his youngsters.
If you happen to’re one in all us, you may take a chew.
Seinfeld admitted that it was an odd line to remove from a zeitgeist-altering mega-hit sequence that lasted 180 episodes over 9 seasons. Nonetheless, “take a chew” is the one which caught. He likes to make use of it when his youngsters. As he wrote:
“The one line I quote from the present (and I will be very impressed if anyone out tehre remembers this line) is ‘If you happen to’re one in all us, you may take a chew.’ I discover myself saying that to my youngsters so much. It is a very obscure line, however George was working at some firm the place all of them had lunch collectively, and he wasn’t making an attempt the apple pie, and the boss lastly says ‘If you happen to’re one in all us, you may take a chew.’ Plenty of instances youngsters will not wish to strive sure meals, and so I am going to use that line. Typically I am going to quote Newman in flames screaming ‘Oh, the humanity.'”
“Oh, the humanity!” was, after all, the notorious phrase shouted by journalist Herbert Morrison as he witnessed the Hindenburg exploding on that fateful day again in 1937. However the phrase was repeated by Newman (Wayne Knight, keen on his courtroom work) within the “Seinfeld” episode “The Pothole” (February 20, 1997). In that episode, Newman was driving his mail supply truck when he hit a stitching machine in the course of the street (and we needn’t get into the way it obtained there). He started to tug the machine beneath the automotive, making a bathe of sparks. He then drove over a puddle of paint thinner, spilled by Kramer (“The Michael Richards Present” star Michael Richards). Because the underside of his truck burst into flame, he screamed, “Oh, the humanity!” Yeah, Seinfeld took that one.
Curiously, Seinfeld did not take any of his personal dialogue out into the actual world.
