The Parking Garage
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"The Parking Garage" is a famous Seinfeld episode in which the four main characters wander a multi-level parking structure, unable to find their car, turning a mundane situation into escalating absurdity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Parking Garage canonical | 2 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Seinfeld episode
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television episode ⓘ |
| basedOn | everyday experience of losing a car in a parking lot ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | widely praised for turning a mundane situation into escalating absurdity ⓘ |
| director | Tom Cherones ⓘ |
| episodeNumberInSeason | 6 ⓘ |
| featuresActor |
Jason Alexander
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Jerry Seinfeld ⓘ Julia Louis-Dreyfus ⓘ Michael Richards ⓘ |
| featuresProp | air conditioner Jerry is carrying ⓘ |
| featuresSituation | difficulty remembering where the car is parked ⓘ |
| firstAiredInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Cafe ⓘ |
| follows | The Library ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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sitcom ⓘ |
| hasCharacterAction |
characters become increasingly desperate
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characters repeatedly fail to locate their parked car ⓘ characters wander multiple levels of a parking structure ⓘ |
| hasCultStatus | true ⓘ |
| hasEnsembleCast | true ⓘ |
| hasRunningGag |
characters repeatedly think they recognize the wrong area of the garage
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characters split up and reunite without finding the car ⓘ |
| isBottleEpisode | true ⓘ |
| locationType | indoor parking structure ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Cosmo Kramer
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Elaine Benes ⓘ George Costanza ⓘ Jerry Seinfeld ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | search for a lost car in a parking garage ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
ensemble interaction among four leads
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real-time style storytelling ⓘ single primary location ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Seinfeld ⓘ |
| productionCode | 306 ⓘ |
| seasonNumber | 3 ⓘ |
| setting | multi-level parking garage ⓘ |
| structure | continuous time narrative ⓘ |
| theme |
absurdity of mundane situations
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frustration and anxiety ⓘ urban alienation ⓘ |
| title | The Parking Garage self-link ⓘ |
| writer |
Jerry Seinfeld
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Larry David ⓘ |
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