Who is Art Vandelay???
KOERBER DUNCAN DANIEL
Adam Bush <ab...@norfolk.infi.net> wrote:
>I was wondering what signifigance Art Vandelay's name has to
>Seinfeld, since they use his name often? Plus these references
>usually have some meaning to Jerry or another cast member? Is
>Art a real person and if so what is he famous for?
I'm not sure if this was the first occurance, but in one of the
early series episodes Jerry wants to see a lady who he briefly met at a
party and would like to get to know better. He knows where her office is
and decides to hang out there in the lobby in the hopes of seeing her. But
he needs an excuse to be there or he'll look like an obsessed fool. So
he gets George to come along and if need be, say that George has an office
in the building and that he was in the building to visit him.
They DO run into to lady, just like Jerry wanted, and George introduces
himself as "Art Vandelay" and says he's an architect with a firm in the
building.
The other time Vandelay came up was when George was going to be cut off
from social assistance. He needed to prove he really was looking for a
job. So he says he was close to
getting a job with "Vandelay Industries" to the social worker lady. He
gives *Jerry's* phone number to the lady, rushes over to Jerry's and tells
him, when she calls, to answer the phone with "Vandelay Industries" and
tell them he is considering hiring him as his "latex salesman".
Of course nobody tells Kramer this plan and when the lady calls Kramer
picks up the phone and innocently says she's got the wrong number. Of
course the hilarious part occurs when George hears Kramer and rushes
out of the washroom with his pants around his ankles and trips and falls
to the floor yelling "Vandelay!!! Vandelay!!"
Then in the recent syndicated episode where Elaine gets George a job at
a book company the boss puts George on the spot by asking what authors
he enjoys reading.. George only reads the sports section so he makes up an
author, "Art Vandelay" the beatnik poet (?) who wrote "Venetian Blinds."
hahah..
Anyone know of any other Vandelay references?
--
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||1st Year English B.A. This is a beautiful woman walking around naked, and
||Erindale College you want to tell her to stop?! That's the *dumbest*
\|University of Toronto thing I've ever heard!!!" - Kramer, SEINFELD
Adam Bush
Seinfeld, since they use his name often? Plus these references
usually have some meaning to Jerry or another cast member? Is
Art a real person and if so what is he famous for?
Just curious...
Adam
Jen Dawson
There was the Marisa Tomei epiosode a couple weeks ago. When George is
going on his date with Marisa Tomei, he needs a story to tell Susan about
where he has been. He and Elaine concoct a story about him helping her
with a problem involving her importer/exporter boyfriend, named-- of
course, Art Vandelay.
Jennifer S. Dawson
New York, NY 10011
Sventek
I believe that you're referring to the Vandelay Industries (makers of latex)
guy. George was trying to get a job and said on his resume that he worked
for Vandelay Industries - used Jerry's phone number as his "work number"...
Jerry was supposed to answer the phone "Vandelay Industries" in case they
called to check... well they DID call but Kramer answered it... that was
the scene when George runs from the bathroom in his underwear...
jimster
Art Van Deligh was the name George used when he went to the
unemployment office and claimed he applied for a job at Van Deligh
Industries. They are a latex manufacturer. The name is fictional, but
its a running gag.
JAMES MARTIN
: In article <4g51dq$k...@nw002.infi.net>,
: Adam Bush <ab...@norfolk.infi.net> wrote:
: >I was wondering what signifigance Art Vandelay's name has to
: >Seinfeld, since they use his name often? Plus these references
: >usually have some meaning to Jerry or another cast member? Is
: >Art a real person and if so what is he famous for?
: I'm not sure if this was the first occurance, but in one of the
: early series episodes Jerry wants to see a lady who he briefly met at a
: party and would like to get to know better. He knows where her office is
: and decides to hang out there in the lobby in the hopes of seeing her. But
: he needs an excuse to be there or he'll look like an obsessed fool. So
: he gets George to come along and if need be, say that George has an office
: in the building and that he was in the building to visit him.
: They DO run into to lady, just like Jerry wanted, and George introduces
: himself as "Art Vandelay" and says he's an architect with a firm in the
: building.
Actually this was the 2nd ever episode, so it would be the first occurance!
: The other time Vandelay came up was when George was going to be cut off
: from social assistance. He needed to prove he really was looking for a
: job. So he says he was close to
: getting a job with "Vandelay Industries" to the social worker lady. He
: gives *Jerry's* phone number to the lady, rushes over to Jerry's and tells
: him, when she calls, to answer the phone with "Vandelay Industries" and
: tell them he is considering hiring him as his "latex salesman".
: Of course nobody tells Kramer this plan and when the lady calls Kramer
: picks up the phone and innocently says she's got the wrong number. Of
: course the hilarious part occurs when George hears Kramer and rushes
: out of the washroom with his pants around his ankles and trips and falls
: to the floor yelling "Vandelay!!! Vandelay!!"
: Then in the recent syndicated episode where Elaine gets George a job at
: a book company the boss puts George on the spot by asking what authors
: he enjoys reading.. George only reads the sports section so he makes up an
: author, "Art Vandelay" the beatnik poet (?) who wrote "Venetian Blinds."
: hahah..
: Anyone know of any other Vandelay references?
: --
: /|Duncan D. Koerber "Do you hear what you're saying?! Can you hear it?!
: ||1st Year English B.A. This is a beautiful woman walking around naked, and
: ||Erindale College you want to tell her to stop?! That's the *dumbest*
: \|University of Toronto thing I've ever heard!!!" - Kramer, SEINFELD
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James Martin
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Rick Fore
>
> I was wondering what signifigance Art Vandelay's name has to
> Seinfeld, since they use his name often? Plus these references
> usually have some meaning to Jerry or another cast member? Is
> Art a real person and if so what is he famous for?
>
>
> Adam
I'm certain that he is the CEO of Vandelay Industries.
HighFlag
He's famous for latex, I believe...or is it imports?... but no
exports???
HF
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
---George Sands
Adam Bush
>I'm certain that he is the CEO of Vandelay Industries.
Thank you. I should have known that...
Ben Violette
Art Vandelay is the persona George assumes to help Jerry meet a girl about to
come out of an elevator.
Art Vandelay is a beatnik poet from the Village who wrote Venetian Blinds and
George uses him as an author he reads to get a job at the publishing company
Elaine works at.
Art Vandelay runs Vadelay Industries, a latex company that George makes up to
provide proof to thw woman handling his unemployment that he is looking for a
job.
Art Vandelay is Elaine's boyfriend in a story George made up to cover the fact
that he was going to see Marisa Tomei from Susan.
Obviousely George has some fixation on this name. He probably has been making
people up for a long time to make up lies, stories, aliasas, or covering up
things in his life and this is his favorite. Anymore references to him?
Michael T. Cronin
He is also one of George's favorite authors.
In reality (or at least the reality on the show), Art is
fictitious. Made up by George. Somewhat more original than Buck Naked.
--
Michael T. Cronin mt...@po.cwru.edu Case Western Reserve Law, 1996
Michelle Darrah
Art Vandelay was also the name George gave Elaine's fictitious boyfriend.
He used meeting Elaine to discuss her and Art's relationship as an excuse
to get away from Susan and meet Marisa Tomei.
In article <mette-09059...@d42.netgate.net>, me...@netgate.net
(Mette Hedin) wrote:
> In article <4gb9fh$80k...@ARRINGTON.DSCNET.COM>, be...@accessnv.com (Ben
> Violette) wrote:
>
> > Ok. So here's a quick list.
> >
> > Art Vandelay is the persona George assumes to help Jerry meet a girl
about to
> > come out of an elevator.
>
> Actually, George said he was an architect, and Jerry and George was waiting
> outside of the elevator of the building where a woman Jerry was interested
> in worked in, eh, was that complictaed?
> Well, anyway, they said that they were waiting for Art Vandelay, a fictional
> person running an import/export business, in order to have an excuse
> for standing there waiting for her to go to lunch...
>
> --
>
> Mette Hedin
> me...@netgate.net
Mette Hedin
Julia
The funny thing about this name, Art Vandelay, is that it's
so phony!
People not used to lying always come up with the same material.
Mike Vandenberg
Art Vandelay is also the sick friend George and Elaine cook up the story
about as a cover for George's tryst with Marisa Tomei.
Christian Meglio
In <319401...@cinmail1.att.com> Mike Vandenberg
I think the first time George used that name was in an early episode
where Jerry wants to meet a girl - he finds out were she works and
plans on "just being in the area" when she gets off the elevator in her
office building. George tells Jerry to introduce him (George) as Art
Vandelay.
Jerry: "OK, and what do you do for a living"
George: "I'm an Architect"
Anyway, that's the first time I remember George using the name Art
Vandelay - a name that has be recycled in the series many times.
JAMES MARTIN
Christian Meglio (cme...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: In <319401...@cinmail1.att.com> Mike Vandenberg
This was actually the 2nd ever episode(the Stakeout), so you're correct.
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David Mandell
Art Vandelay also made an appearance when George was applying
for unemployment benefits. He told the bureacrat that he had
applied for work at Vandelay industries and gave her Jerry's
number to call. He was so desperate he even dated her homely
daughter. The scheme backfired when Cosmo was in Jerry's apartment
and answered the phone.
Lee Salem
Actually, the name started as Art Corvelay. They were waiting in the
building for the woman and cooked up the name as someone they were
VISITING in the building to have lunch with. There would have been no
reason for George to have a different name. (He did, however, claim to
be an architect.)
They were trying to come up with a name and George said, "Art Core."
Jerry looked at him and George added, "Velay. Art Corvelay." What did
he do? He was an importer. Just imports, no exports? All right, he's
an importer/exporter. Later, Elaine changed the name to Art Vandelay for
no apparent reason.
Of course, that led to Vandelay Industries (and latex), and to the
Marissa Tomei episode in which Art Vandelay was again an
importer/exporter. George also pretended to be an architect in the
episode where he races Duncan, his rival from high school. And he
complained, in "The Marine Biologist" episode, about Jerry telling the
woman that George was a marine biologist instead of an architect. ("You
know I always wanted to be an architect.")
Shelley Lynne Nash
> They were trying to come up with a name and George said, "Art Core."
> Jerry looked at him and George added, "Velay. Art Corvelay." What did
> he do? He was an importer. Just imports, no exports? All right, he's
> an importer/exporter. Later, Elaine changed the name to Art Vandelay for
> no apparent reason.
Actually, I think George changed the name in the same episode that he
created it in. When he and Jerry see the woman and they are scrampling
for the right information, Jerry says Art Corvelay? and George replys
Vandelay!
Lee Salem
And before anyone nitpicks, I just re-read the message and, yes, I know
that it was Jerry who raced Duncan, not George.
Tom Caruso
In article <4no73k$e...@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>, Lee Salem
<lees...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>And he
> complained, in "The Marine Biologist" episode, about Jerry telling the
> woman that George was a marine biologist instead of an architect. ("You
> know I always wanted to be an architect.")
Actually, it was "You know I always wanted *to pretend* to be an architect."
Hate to nitpick, but I thought this made it even funnier.
jordanseym...@gmail.com
> In article <4g51dq$k...@nw002.infi.net>,
> Adam Bush <ab...@norfolk.infi.net> wrote:
> >Seinfeld, since they use his name often? Plus these references
> >usually have some meaning to Jerry or another cast member? Is
> >Art a real person and if so what is he famous for?
>
> early series episodes Jerry wants to see a lady who he briefly met at a
> party and would like to get to know better. He knows where her office is
> and decides to hang out there in the lobby in the hopes of seeing her. But
> he needs an excuse to be there or he'll look like an obsessed fool. So
> he gets George to come along and if need be, say that George has an office
> in the building and that he was in the building to visit him.
> They DO run into to lady, just like Jerry wanted, and George introduces
> himself as "Art Vandelay" and says he's an architect with a firm in the
> building.
>
> from social assistance. He needed to prove he really was looking for a
> job. So he says he was close to
> getting a job with "Vandelay Industries" to the social worker lady. He
> gives *Jerry's* phone number to the lady, rushes over to Jerry's and tells
> him, when she calls, to answer the phone with "Vandelay Industries" and
> tell them he is considering hiring him as his "latex salesman".
> Of course nobody tells Kramer this plan and when the lady calls Kramer
> picks up the phone and innocently says she's got the wrong number. Of
> course the hilarious part occurs when George hears Kramer and rushes
> out of the washroom with his pants around his ankles and trips and falls
> to the floor yelling "Vandelay!!! Vandelay!!"
>
> Then in the recent syndicated episode where Elaine gets George a job at
> a book company the boss puts George on the spot by asking what authors
> he enjoys reading.. George only reads the sports section so he makes up an
> author, "Art Vandelay" the beatnik poet (?) who wrote "Venetian Blinds."
> hahah..
>
> Anyone know of any other Vandelay references?
> --
> /|Duncan D. Koerber "Do you hear what you're saying?! Can you hear it?!
> ||1st Year English B.A. This is a beautiful woman walking around naked, and
> ||Erindale College you want to tell her to stop?! That's the *dumbest*
> \|University of Toronto thing I've ever heard!!!" - Kramer, SEINFELD
