But I Don't Wanna Be A Secondary Character! - A Seinfeld Podcast

This week you get two new audio goodies! We do our third ever film review, this time it’s 2002 documentary Comedian starring Jerry Seinfeld! Jerry drops the F bomb many times in the movie, Glenn Miller and his snow filled adventure, the trials and tribulations of a 29 year old Orny Adams, we all want a George Shapiro in our lives, and a pre allegation Bill Cosby makes a cameo (very surreal). Did we give Comedian a standing ovation, or did it bomb? Listen in and find out! ------ We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts. Support the show.

Signals, listeners! Signals! This is the signal! That's a signal. A signal to listen to this week's episode, that is, where we're chatting about the very first Seinfeld episode: "Good News, Bad News," "The Seinfeld Chronicles,", "Stand Up" or "Pilot" - take your pick! Topics discussed include data-driven secondary character emotional rankings, what happened to the Grammy Consolation Puppies, how nice Jerry is in this episode, the never-to-be-seen-again-almost-primary-character Claire the Waitress, Jerry's misunderstood and slightly confusing episode girlfriend Laura, proto-Kramer Kessler (from 10:00), the apparent (semi-)competency of George, the best animal secondary character ever, tonnes of episode trivia and the usual Seinfeldisms, Seinfeldia and more! Seinfeld News Who's the Angriest Seinfeld Character? What Really Happened to the Consolation Puppies -- We're doing a live show! Our 50th episode will be at Georges Bar in Melbourne on March 18, 2018. We're gonna talk about the secondary characters f

On your marks, get set…..oh, you’ve already taken off……lining up on the blocks this week are blacklisted Communist Ned, Jerry’s vindictive high school rival Duncan Meyer, the non-Superman version of Lois, and more from The Race (Season 6, Episode 10). Jerry is edited out of a family photo but gets a consolation Grammy puppy to make his week, who’s names were on Hop Sing’s banned customer whiteboard?, Stephen waxes lyrical about Ned while Ivan waxes lyrical about Duncan (from 11:30), Stephen SPREADS PROPAGANDA!, and there are no Seinfeldisms this week (weird) Seinfeld News Jerry’s snubbed photo with Matthew Broderick Julia’s signed frame photo --------- We're doing a live show! Our 50th episode will be at Georges Bar in Melbourne on March 18, 2018. We're gonna talk about the secondary characters from "The Contest." It's free and kicks off about 6:30pm. Come along and watch us! --------- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and r

Here’s to feeling pod all the time… …And we’re having a pod/good time in the studio this week as we discuss the secondary characters from “The Sniffing Accountant.” Topics discussed: “The Hamptons” house; Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ record breaking; Nanny / Seinfeld universe crossovers; Stephen’s coffee table book “Brarchives”; secondary characters including the eponymous Barry Prophet, the no bullshit Ellen Granmont, the very cool Jake Jarmel, the very impressed Sid Farkus, Mitch (not Charlie) and more (from 13:38); our top 10 secondary characters and episodes; Seinfeldisms; Seinfeldia; and waaaaaay too many bad puns. ----- We're doing a live show! Our 50th episode will be at Georges Bar in Melbourne on March 18, 2018. We're gonna talk about the secondary characters from "The Contest." It's free and kicks off about 6:30pm. Come along and watch us! Facebook event - https://www.facebook.com/events/1322987684493519/ ----- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, d

We kick off 2018 with our first ‘What’s the Deal With…?’ episode for the year. Listen to Ivan and Stephen 'Livin’ it Up' as well as talk about Julia Louis Dreyfus’ amazing news, the high brow intellect and wit of The Big Bang Theory, which London?, restaurant reviews without social media around is an insane concept in the 21st century, we go live on Instagram for Seinfeldia, and most importantly, Mr. Babu Bhatt, the actor who played him Brian George, the origins of his name, how much responsibility is on him for his downturn in luck and more (from 13:51). The wheels are in motion! -- We're doing a live show! Our 50th episode will be at Georges Bar in Melbourne on March 18, 2018. We're gonna talk about the secondary characters from "The Contest." It's free and kicks off about 6:30pm. Come along and watch us! Facebook event - https://www.facebook.com/events/1322987684493519/ -- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wher

Welcome to 2018 and to a new episode of But I Don’t Wanna Be A Secondary Character!  Ivan and Stephen open up their podbox and put in their irreplaceables and some assorted taxidermy, as well as discuss BIDWBASC!’s first ever live show!, the joys of different kinds of peanut butter at the supermarket, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee on Netflix, Ivan explaining the film Cinderfella to Stephen, our most boring and relevant Seinfeldism ever and our first Seinfeldia (Seinfeld Trivia Fact of the Week). Secondary characters discussed in the episode include George’s episode girlfriend Maura and torrid love affair Loretta; Jerry’s unfortunate neighbour Phil and his wife Mrs. Phil; Elaine’s episode boyfriend Glenn, his wife Alison and his welfare worker Mrs. Smoth, and finally, our first ever animal character, Fredo the Parrot (from 15:20). -- We're doing a live show! Our 50th episode will be at Georges Bar in Melbourne on March 18, 2018. We're gonna talk about the secondary characters from "The Contest." It's fr

The boys finish the year talking about the secondaries from the classic Season 5 episode, The Mango (Episode 1). They analyse three characters this week; the Mediterranean obsessed Karen, the stern greengrocer with a heart of gold Joe, and Elaine’s Broadway loving coworker Renee (from 14:52). There’s certainly no faking here that’s for sure. Ivan and Stephen touched (on) Dalrymple last week, some weirdo watched Bee Movie 357 times on Netflix in one year, can we join Jerry the teacher’s school Seinfeld Club?, hold me closer Larry David ’Buck Dancer’, imagine if Super Mario was a lothario, Joe punched the daylights out of Brad Pitt in Fight Club, and a Fourteen Day Festivus has arrived in Melbourne!  We will be at Melbourne Central on Wednesday night 20th December for the Fourteen Day Festivus so if you know what we look like please come say hey (check our socials for pics). Thank you so much for listening to and supporting us this year, we enjoy bringing you new content each week and are looking forward to

Boticellis, pasta primavera and Fifer’s, we sense an Italian theme for this week as Ivan and Stephen dive into The Shoes (Season 4, Episode 16). On the menu today are the Botticelli obsessed Gail Cunningham, bubblegum chewing 22 year old teenager Molly, and Sinophile Dana Foley (we touch on Dalrymple a bit but we will save him for a future episode, from 11:43). Field of vision huh? Dalrymple’s post-primavera reaching is quite violent, one of our shortest Seinfeld News segments ever, casting an adult actor to play a teenager actually worked this time around, a few facts about ‘Buuurtachairliiis’, who was in the 80s Brat Pack again?, and Ivan catches out a double dipper!  What are you up to for Festivus this year? Let us know! -------- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts. Support the show.

Let’s grab some popcorn (is it butter or butter flavoured? Who cares, it’s yellow) and join Ivan and Stephen and their special guest Stacie for Season 4 Episode 14, The Movie. Featured today are the well organised Kernis, the comedy leech Pat Buckles, the nihilist Guy In the Cinema Line, the iron fisted Maurice, the selective Usher (not the RnB singer unfortunately), the ambivalent but slightly kooky Ticket Lady, the bubbly Concessionaire, and the carefree Eastern European Cab Driver (from 19:18). Please turn your phone off prior to the main feature! We go in with 3 podcasters and 2 microphones, Stacie introduces herself to the BIDWBASC masses and we talk about Brisbane stuff, that guy from Oasis gets a Seinfeld birthday surprise, RIP to Seinfeld secondary actors Rance Howard and Julio Oscar Mechoso who passed away during the week (this one’s for you), *Home Improvement theme song grunt*, who’s more annoying: Bania or Buckles?, plenty of Lil Jon impressions, Stephen loves the ‘bottleneck’ episodes, and Ivan

We talk about 4, I mean 5, secondaries for this edition of ‘What’s The Deal With….?’. Up for discussion are the wide eyed Kenny Bania, the sweet Mrs Choate, the insane Joe Divola, the vivacious Sally Weaver and the devil may care Tim Whatley (from 20:09). Send us some BIDWBASC fan fiction if you like as well (listen in so you know what we mean). Ivan tries to channel his inner Bania but fails, one of our biggest Seinfeld News segments ever, an old German man reunites with his long lost car after a near ‘demolishment’, Seinfeld and Lord of the Rings cross over, the intricacies of expensive gift etiquette and soup meal classification, our first ‘But I Don’t Wanna Be A Secondary Character!’ remark in aaaaaaages, Bryan Cranston and Power Rangers: how are they linked?, and we go deep into Tim Whatley’s character - and we mean DEEEEEEEEP. --------- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts.  Support

Take the podcast, take the podcast! (it writes upside down…..?), this week Stephen and Ivan explore characters from Season 3 Episode 3, The Pen. Evelyn, STELLAAAA!!!!, Doris, The Chiropractor and The Photographer are featured (we will be leaving Jack Klompus for his own episode so don’t fret listeners, from 12:10). Seinfeld News, Seinfeldisms and more shenanigans await you so enjoy! We can’t stop quoting Jack’s signature line in our non air conditioned recording studio now known as the Pleasuretron, Daniel Day Lewis was a cobbler in Italy for five years?, we finally get around to finding out what a kibbutz is, more General Hospital alumni!, a Seinfeld/Game of Thrones Seinfeldism and The Pen is both a top 10 and a bottom 10 episode for either of us, tune in to find out who likes this classic episode more. --------- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts.  Support the show.

Top of the muffin to you(!), Stephen and Ivan will throw you into the BIDWBASC Reality Tour bus for The Muffin Tops. On the itinerary are tour guide Mary Anne, Alex, Tyler Chicken president Johnny Tyler, Rebecca DeMornay, Jiffy Dump Guy, Bag Guy and Bag Rejection Guy, the most secondaries we have ever talked about in one episode (from 11:25). Big thanks to Michael from England and Jeffrey from the USA for both requesting this episode! #SeinfeldTaughtMe that Stephen needs to do some housekeeping (or is it housecleaning?), an Indonesian comedian takes the mickey out of religious fundamentalists, funnyman Bob Saget's comedy isn’t the squeaky clean stuff you see in Full House, alcoholic chicken, Pulp Fiction is an awesome movie, and the boys won another space pen and kicked butt in last week’s Seinfeld/Simpsons trivia night in Melbourne. -------- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts.  Support

For our second ever film review, we analyse the 2007 Jerry Seinfeld animated vehicle ‘Bee Movie’. Was it as sweet as honey or did it put a sting in our tail? Tune in to find out! How many times will the word ‘bee’ be said? Everybody except Stephen loves Raymond, Dreamworks is like Pixar without the magic and you can watch a 7 minute version of the film on Youtube. -------- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts.  Support the show.

Leave your front door open, because Ivan and Stephen are coming in with a fresh episode of BIDWBASC! This week they talk about Carolyn and her husband Larry, the carefree Cop named Cop, masseuse Diane and Man 1 and Man 2 (very creative character names indeed, from 16:36).  The rain comes down on the studio roof for another week, how would you say the abbreviation MEDC?, coin tosses and Rock Paper Scissors were important decision making processes during our youth, we make our own Seinfeld character episode link, and our first ever real time Seinfeldism. ------ We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts. Support the show.

This week Stephen and Ivan cobble together another episode of BIDWBASC, heading to Season 6 Episode 8, The Mom and Pop Store. They cobble together notes about Mom and Pop, Vic the Car Salesman, Guy on Phone, Woman at Party and the Dixieland Deli Band, with a bio on the one and only Jon Voight (the actor, not the periodontist, from 11:57). You’ll have a cobbling good time! (cobbling is a word that needs to be used more often in daily communication). Ivan channels his inner Woody Woodpecker at the start of the show, the sound of rain inadvertently becomes our new Seinfeld News background music, Home Alone is the most violent film rof the 90s, Mom and Pop were scammers: a crackpot theory, another Home Alone reference, and Ivan misses out on a bottle of Snapple.  -------- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts.  Support the show.

Take me out to the ball game, this is another ‘What’s The Deal With….?’ edition of BIDWBASC! Ivan and Stephen talk about a few of the Yankees staff who made George’s time as an employee there both heaven and hell in parts. They include Morgan, Wilhelm and the legendary Steinbrenner as well as the actors who played them, including Tom Wright, Richard Herd, Mitch Mitchell and Lee Bear, as well as Larry David who voiced Steinbrenner (from 12:58). Batter up! Some legend put a Seinfeld bassline as his doorbell chime, Duck Pond: The Musical gets a plot and an opening number, a Brief History of The New York Yankees, we feel so sorry for Morgan, are they called the Screen Actors Guild or the Film Actors Guild?, the real Steinbrenner hated facial hair on his staff, and something groundbreaking happens at the end of this episode!!!!!! --------- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts. Support the show.

Who robbed the local jewellery store? In our police lineup today we have Robert, Sgt Cathy, Homeless Man, Mr and Mrs Stephenson, Denise, Gus and Lou from The Beard (from 15:36). Don’t steal Tupperware or lie about not being a Melrose Place fan either because they’re not nice things to do. Elaine has the main story for once, we wish we were Keith Hernandez, the first ever KEANU REEVES ALERT!, we preview our new hip hop track ’There’s A Clock Over There’, clever editing in the Taken trilogy makes Liam Neeson traverse front yards like a varsity gymnast, and Duck Pond: A Tchaikovsky Tribute Musical with score composed by 90s rock band Dogstar (KEANU REEVES ALERT!) --------------- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts.  Support the show.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to talk about the secondary characters from The Wife (Season 5, Episode 17). We chat about Meryl, Greg, Marty, Paula, Anna and the overbearing cafe manager at Monk's (from 17:18). Karen from Will and Grace could have been Elaine! Do cats and dating mix? The NBC Sitcom Cinematic Universe Theory (Friends, Seinfeld and Mad About You), alternative titles for The Shawshank Redemption that we never asked for, and Ivan FINALLY has a new Seinfeldism! --------- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts.  Support the show.

It's our first ever film review! Ivan and Stephen talk about the latest Netflix comedy special, 'Jerry Before Seinfeld'. Did they love it? Have a listen and find out! ----------- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts.  Support the show.

Jump in our limo for another episode of BIDWBASC! Stephen AKA Colin O’Brien and Ivan AKA Dylan Murphy focus on the secondaries from Season 3's ‘The Limo’ including O’Brien’s devout followers Tim and Eva, The Limo Driver and Dan the protestor (from 14:57). There’s a clock over there… Stephen is back in the studio! We mention 2017 Netflix special 'Jerry Before Seinfeld' numerous times and for good reason, can an automated scriptwriting program be the next Larry David? Michael Jordan and our extreme lack of post-1994 NBA knowledge, a brief explanation of what the heck Survivalism is, and Stephen makes pub patrons subscribe to the podcast. -------------- We're on Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts.  Support the show.