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Originally Posted by Mark17
It reminds me of Seinfeld: A show about nothing.
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GEORGE: See, this should be a collectible. This is the collectible.
JERRY: What?
GEORGE: This. Just a short video clip that is online.
JERRY: (dismissing) Yeah, right.
GEORGE: I'm really serious. I think that's a good idea.
JERRY: A non-existent collectible that no one issues and no one can touch? Well, what's the collector get?
GEORGE: Nothing.
JERRY: No real item?
GEORGE: No, forget the real item.
JERRY: You've got to have
something to collect.
GEORGE: Who says you gotta have that?
JERRY: And who supports this item? What does it look like?
GEORGE: Anything. I could be on a clip.
JERRY: You?
GEORGE: Yeah. You could base a clip on me.
JERRY: So, there's a clip showing George Costanza?
GEORGE: Yeah. There's something wrong with that? I'm a character. People are always saying to me, "You know you're a quite a character."
JERRY: And who else is on a clip?
GEORGE: Elaine could be a clip. Kramer...
JERRY: Now he's a character. (Pause) So anybody I know gets to be on a clip?
GEORGE: Right.
JERRY: And it's a collectible that doesn't exist and is backed by no one and nothing?
GEORGE: Absolutely nothing.
JERRY: So you're saying, I go in to Topps, and tell them I got this idea for a collectible that is nothing.
GEORGE: We go into Topps.
JERRY: "We"? Since when are you a writer?
GEORGE: (Scoffs) Writer. We're talking about a baseball card maker.
JERRY: You want to go with me to Topps?
GEORGE: Yeah. I think we really got something here.
JERRY: What do we got?
GEORGE: An idea.
JERRY: What idea?
GEORGE: An idea for a collectible.
JERRY: I still don't know what the idea is.
GEORGE: It's nothing.
JERRY: Right.
GEORGE: Everybody's making something, we'll make nothing.
JERRY: So, we go into Topps, we tell them we've got an idea for a collectible that is nothing.
GEORGE: Exactly.
JERRY: They say, "What's your collectible made of?" I say, "Nothing."
GEORGE: There you go.
(A moment passes)
JERRY: (Nodding) I think you may have something there.