Trivia: Larry David, creator of Seinfeld, is the B-movie actor who yells something Jerry writes down, but later he can't read his own writing.
The Revenge - S2-E7
Trivia: The Voice of the unseen Newman was originally co-creator Larry David, but for American syndication, Wayne Knight's voice was dubbed in.
The Revenge - S2-E7
Trivia: The idea of George returning to work and pretending he didn't really quit was based on a real-life incident. Before co-creating "Seinfeld", Larry David once yelled at a "Saturday Night Live" producer and stormed off the set (he was a sketch writer), only to return the following Monday and act as if it never happened. He actually got away with it.
The Chinese Restaurant - S2-E11
Trivia: After Elaine approaches the table and asks for the egg-roll, the customers begin talking amongst themselves. One of the voices belongs to co-creator Larry David, though he wasn't actually sitting at the table.
Trivia: Instead of this episode, there was supposed to be an episode in which Elaine buys a gun. The script involved her pointing the gun at her head and joking about "the Kennedy" or "the McKinley," referring to the US presidents who were assassinated. Julia Louis-Dreyfus refused to do the scene, others had major reservations, and the table read was cancelled after 20 minutes.
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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