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 motive. The refusal to eat one thing provided by a peer turns into a motif of the episode. In a while, the pair go to a restaurant owned by Audrey’s father, however refuses to eat a slice of pizza she provides 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 way of an unlimited community of neuroses, was 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 in a roundabout way. When his potential employer, MacKenzie (Lane Davies), provides George a chew of chocolate cream pie, he refuses. That is baffling to MacKenzie, as he was simply telling George how vital it was to adapt and to be a group participant. One in every of MacKenzie’s compatriots leans ahead and says, with intense portent, “In the event you’re one in every of us, you may take a chew.” For sure, George’s refusal to eat the pie loses him the job.
It appears that evidently “In the event you’re one in every of us, you may take a chew” is a line of dialogue that Jerry Seinfeld, even to today, makes use of in informal dialog. “Seinfeld,” though initially hated, has since launched plenty of informal colloquialism into the pop lexicon, after all. “Shut-talker,” “Whats up, Newman,” “fancy boy,” “sponge-worthy,” “soup Nazi,” and so on. 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.
In the event you’re one in every of us, you may take a chew.
Seinfeld admitted that it was an odd line to remove from a zeitgeist-altering mega-hit collection 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 ‘In the event you’re one in every of us, you may take a chew.’ I discover myself saying that to my youngsters loads. 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 attempting the apple pie, and the boss lastly says ‘In the event you’re one in every of us, you may take a chew.’ A variety of instances youngsters will not wish to attempt sure meals, and so I am going to use that line. Generally 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 bought there). He started to pull 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 true world.
