This is our first post on the MOVIEiPHONE.com website. We have great things in store for this site. Unique, hard-to-find movies optimized for viewing on Apple's iPhone. Optimized in terms of visual quality as well as file size. In other words, looks good and sized right. But that's not all "optimized" means for our films at MOVIEiPHONE.com. I can't reveal our hand entirely at this moment, but this includes movies that are produced specifically for the iPhone. Stay tuned with us in the coming months and you'll see what I mean.

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One of the classic episodes of Seinfeld is season 7, episode 8, entitled "The Pool Guy".

One of the running gags in this episode is with Kramer, whose "new phone number is similar to a film information line. When Kramer keeps getting wrong numbers, he begins giving out the information for movie show times à la Moviefone". (Wikipedia)

Below is an excerpt from a transcript of the episode which is the big payoff scene for the Moviefone gag.

Moviefone scene from Seinfeld's "The Pool Guy"

Night exterior of George's apartment building, then inside where George finds the note.

GEORGE
What the hell is this?
“George, Elaine and I went to see Chunnel ... with Jerry.”
With Jerry, huh? With Jerry! Great. Great!
(dials phone)
Probably went to the 84th St. That's where I always go with Jerry.

[Rings]

KRAMER
Hewwo and welcome to Movie phone.
If you know the name of the movie you'd like to see, press one.

(We hear the touch-tone sound as George presses the button.)

GEORGE
Come on. Come on.

KRAMER
Using your touch-tone keypad,
please enter the first three letters of the movie title, now.

(We hear the touch-tone sounds as George presses 3 keys.
Kramer, however, is confused as to what the tones actually spell.)

KRAMER
You've selected ... Agent Zero? If that's correct, press one.

GEORGE
What?

KRAMER
Ah, you've selected ... Brown-Eyed Girl? If this is correct, press one.

(George looks baffled)

KRAMER
Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you've selected.

GEORGE
Chunnel?

KRAMER
To find the theater nearest you, please enter your five digit zip-code, now.

(George enters his zip-code. But again, Kramer can't decipher the tones.)

KRAMER
Why don't you just tell me where you want to see the movie?

Watch all of "The Pool Guy" episode in the Season 7 DVD of Seinfeld.

"The Pool Guy" was written by David Mandel and the episode was directed by Andy Ackerman. The above excerpt was transcribed by Dan Coogan http://www.cooganphoto.com and was originally posted on The News Guys (Mike's) site http://www.geocities.com/tnguym. The actual Moviefone website can be found here.

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