Continuity mistake: Jerry was forced to take the phone call thanks to Kramer. He is holding the receiver in a different way between shots - look at the position of the index, on the microphone in the second shot. (00:03:50)
Continuity mistake: In the hallway scene at the beginning, Jerry is holding a magazine. When the man comes out of the elevator, he is holding the magazine The Opposite way - easy to tell because of the Marlboro ad in the back, now flipped. (00:01:55)
The Robbery - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: Jerry is being grumpy on The Couch with his friends for giving up The Apartment, arms crossed. Notice his right sleeve, down till the wrist. When Carol enters the room with her husband for the first time, Jerry is still with his arms crossed but the sleeve is up, mid-length. (00:20:35)
The Statue - S2-E6
Continuity mistake: When Kramer gathers the old clothes, shoes, hat from the cardboard box on Jerry's table, they keep changing position in his arms between shots. (00:04:30)
Continuity mistake: When Elaine passes the newspaper to George, Jerry is sitting normally in the first shot, leaning with his right arm on the backseat in the next. (00:03:10)
Continuity mistake: Elaine tells Jerry about the ex with the unclean bathroom. At the end she puts her lollipop in her mouth twice in two separate shots. (00:07:00)
Continuity mistake: When Jerry says that Manya's widow is moving to Phoenix, Julia Louis-Dreyfus ' teacup turns 180° between shots. (00:16:15)
The Robbery - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: Jerry is back from Minneapolis, and he puts The Keys down on the kitchen isle. When Elaine walks in with the plunger, The Keys have moved forward and more towards the center. (00:04:45)
The Robbery - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: During the initial conversation when the camera is on Elaine there's a chair prominently featured in the background, with a jacket on the back. The chair turns around between shots - in particular, when Jerry proudly proclaims himself "Master Packer" it is positioned at the desk instead of facing towards the camera. (00:01:10)
The Robbery - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: George is chatting with Elaine as he is waiting for Jerry. Elaine splits an Oreo cookie. When he mentions her "price range", she is not seen fully but her left hand is in frame and she brings it up. When George turns around to address Jerry though, it's her right hand to be raised. (00:03:20)
The Stakeout - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Jerry and his mom are playing Scrabble; when she is picking the non-existent word, Jerry says that he's "nervous." Look at The Note between his hands. At the cut, the paper is in a different position and orientation. (00:17:45)
The Stakeout - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Jerry is making the "Lo Mein" joke inside the video store, he is waving his hands around. The hands are out of frame; still his right hand pops in view twice showing he is holding a tape - but he is holding none before and after and he positioned himself away from the shelf. (00:01:35)
The Robbery - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: George sits down at the diners' table with Jerry after his bathroom (and mirror) break. When Jerry asks him "So what are you getting?" he is holding the menu in a different way between front view and reverse. (00:18:40)
The Stakeout - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Jerry is playing with his mom; she handles him a note with Elaine's message. He says "I am such a jackass." His mom asks "She knows... what?" In that shot, Liz Sheridan 's hand is nowhere near her face, where it should be to match the shots before and after. (00:16:55)
The Stakeout - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Throughout the video store scene, a golden sticker keeps switching position on the adult tape Elaine is holding; The Switch can be noticed particularly easily when they talk about the wedding; Elaine repeats "A wedding?" and the box has no sticker, but few seconds later she laughs about the combover and the sticker is showing. (00:02:50)
The Robbery - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: Jerry has just won the contested deed for The Apartment beating George. Look at The Jacket on the counter. When Kramer makes his trademark entrance, The Jacket is placed differently. (00:16:40)
The Robbery - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Jerry tells Elaine to "Do it in the shower", he gestures with his fancy retractable umbrella. But he is holding it by opposite ends in the two consecutive shots. (00:02:30)
Continuity mistake: In Jerry's apartment at the beginning, Kramer hands Jerry the telephone. Jerry takes it with his right hand, but in the wide angle he is holding it in the left hand. (00:03:40)
Continuity mistake: When the man from the hand modeling agency is talking to George about Ray, he lifts up his right arm to make a claw with his hand, and as he does so he has his left arm holding up his right. After a cut, the man's left arm is suddenly hanging down, no longer supporting the other arm. (00:16:05)
Continuity mistake: When Morty's exercising first wakes Kramer up, his clock reads 5:30. Then in another shot, the clock reads 5:26. (00:10:05)
Answer: Composer Jonathan Wolff used a synthesizer, although in seasons 7-9, a real bass is used in addition. Wolff also recorded himself making hundreds of mouth noises, pops, and slaps to add to the synthesized bass licks so that each episode has a different theme. The only real "back-story" is Jerry Seinfeld was having trouble coming up with a theme song and talked to a friend who happened to know Wolff. They wanted to avoid that cheesy late 80's sit-com theme song and Wolff came up with what we enjoy now. Jonathan Wolff has also talked about this further in interviews, recently Reed Dunela interviewed him, so for a fuller account of his story; check out "The Wolff of 116th street".
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