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Newman
Start appearance	"The Revenge" (voice only) (1991) "The Suicide" (on-screen appearance) (1992)
Final appearance	"A Message from Your Friendly Local Mail Carrier" (2020)[ane]
Created by	Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David
Portrayed by	Wayne Knight
Voiced by	Larry David ("The Revenge", original broadcast)
In-universe information
Gender	Male person
Occupation	Mail carrier

Newman is a recurring grapheme and antagonist on the tv show Seinfeld, portrayed by Wayne Knight from 1992 until the bear witness's finale in 1998. He is Jerry'south arch-nemesis and Kramer'southward friend.

Telly Guide included him in their 2013 listing of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.^[2] In 2016, Rolling Rock ranked him #16 of their "40 Greatest TV Villains of All Time".^[3]

Background [edit]

Newman makes his showtime physical advent in "The Suicide", but he is offset established equally a character in the earlier episode "The Revenge", in which merely his voice (provided past Larry David) is heard. Knight dubbed over the dialogue for syndication airings.

Newman lives in apartment 5E, which is directly down the hall from Jerry's apartment, 5A. However, there are continuity inconsistencies regarding his residence. In the season 6 episode "The Doodle", Newman's apartment is 5F. In the Season vii episode "The Engagement", Newman'due south apartment is 5E. In the Flavor 9 episode "The Strong Box", however, another man, Phil, is seen entering 5E. At other times information technology seems Newman lives in a different part of the building from Jerry altogether; in "The Big Salad" Newman greets Jerry with "what brings you downwards to the east wing?", while in "The Calzone" Newman says George "hangs out with Jerry in the west wing of the edifice"; in "The Wig Master" Kramer says to Jerry that Newman "has a girl upwardly in that location", referring to his apartment.

Newman was created every bit a counterpoint to the Jerry character, though the reason for their antagonism is never revealed. Seinfeld once described Newman every bit the Lex Luthor to his Superman.^[4] Knight has described him as "pure evil",^[5] as did Jerry in the episode "The Large Salad" when he says "I've looked into his eyes. He'due south pure evil."

Personality [edit]

Newman's part is primarily as Jerry's nemesis and a frequent collaborator in Kramer's elaborate and baroque schemes. Oftentimes described as Jerry's "sworn enemy" ("The Andrea Doria"), Newman is cunning and often schemes against Jerry. He speaks often in a humorously sinister tone (mainly to Jerry). Jerry refers to Newman every bit "pure evil" on more than than i occasion. Jerry's trademark greeting for Newman is to say "Hello, Newman" in a snide and condescending tone, while Newman responds "Hello, Jerry" in a falsely jovial tone. Helen Seinfeld also greets Newman in the same way.

Newman considers Jerry to be undeserving of his fame, referring to Jerry's audience as a "one-half soused nightclub rabble that lap up your inane 'observations.'" Newman'due south own talents as a poet and wordsmith are not inconsiderable, all the same like recognition to Jerry has so far eluded him.

When asked almost why the character Jerry hates Newman, Jerry Seinfeld stated in an interview with BuzzFeed Brews that "The existent answer [for] why I hated Newman was because it just seemed funny to hate Newman... Everybody has ane very eccentric friend that is kind of out at that place. You've got your friends that are like you, so you have that one friend that'southward really not like y'all at all and that's what you like about them, they're kind of an outer orbit. And their friend is someone yous cannot deal with at all... but there was no real reason for me to hate Newman, he never did annihilation bad to me, information technology was just fun. Information technology was fun to hate him."^[6]

Newman is a frequent source of annoyance and problems for Jerry, such in "The Doodle" when Newman's cloak-and-dagger use of Jerry'due south apartment results in a flea infestation, and in "The Raincoats" when Newman gets Jerry into trouble with his parents later he tells them Jerry was making out with his girlfriend during the film Schindler'southward Listing. Jerry's response upon discovering Newman is to arraign is to clench his fist and mutter "Newman!"

Nonetheless, the depth of Jerry and Newman's enmity seems to vary, and Jerry sometimes seems to consider him merely an annoying neighbour, rather than an outright enemy. Occasionally events lead one of them ("The Blood"), or both ("The Soup Nazi"), to briefly forget their differences and at times even piece of work together on some scheme, such as in "The Shower Caput" when they join with Kramer to buy black market non-water-saving shower heads. In "The Old Man", Jerry casually mentions "a couple of friends", referring to Kramer and Newman. Jerry and Newman also nourish Super Basin XXIX together, but but because of a ticket mix-up. In "The Characterization Maker", Jerry reluctantly agrees with George that Newman is "merry", which appeared to exist a compliment of sorts.

Newman is a practiced friend of Kramer's, and the pair are forever participating in various get-rich-quick schemes. In "The Bookstore", Newman and Kramer decide to apply a rickshaw to send people from place to place. In "The Erstwhile Man", they attempt to detect valuable records to sell for cash, and in "The Bottle Deposit" they try to cash-in by transporting New York bottles to Michigan for the college redemption value.

Despite his girth, Newman shows surprising able-bodied ability. Jerry claims he is a "fantastic" tennis player and he is seen running athletically in several episodes. He can climb trees very well ("like a band-tailed lemur", as Kramer puts it), a skill he claims to have learned in the Pacific Northwest.

Newman takes his job equally a mailman with pride but, paradoxically, is portrayed every bit a lazy worker with such habits every bit not working when it is raining or hiding bags of mail in Jerry'due south basement storage locker rather than delivering them. Despite such articulate lack of respect for mail, he nevertheless impulsively protests the idea of any mail existence considered "junk". He is sometimes known to use his task for corrupt purposes, such as purposely withholding post (oftentimes utility bills or the similar) for bribery revenge, or using the Marriage to get himself out of jail.

He has a few friends from the post part and girlfriends in a couple of episodes. In "The Canteen Deposit", after he is dumped from his mail truck, he seeks refuge in a farmer'southward house, just is kicked out for having sex with the farmer's daughter, who calls him "Norman" (this was a fault by the actress, not the revelation of Newman's actual showtime name). Newman is also seen with a supermodel afterwards his birthday wish comes true in "The Betrayal".

Newman has unrequited romantic feelings for Elaine over the course of the series, but in "The Reverse Peephole", he rejects her advances when she tries to seduce him to get back a fur coat, out of loyalty to his current girlfriend. In a deleted scene, after the relationship is ended, he approaches Elaine in hopes that her offer is even so open.

Newman's angry rants are bombastic and verbose, displaying an impressive command of language. Newman's final monologue against Jerry occurs in "The Finale" subsequently Jerry refuses to take him to Paris:

All right! Only hear me, and hear me well! The day will come up! Oh, yeah, mark my words, Seinfeld! Your day of reckoning is coming, when an evil air current volition blow through your little playworld and wipe that smug smile off your face! And I'll be there in all my glory, watching, watching equally it all comes crumbling down!

United States Postal service [edit]

Newman is an employee of the United States Post, which is portrayed in the serial as a powerful and nefarious, yet bureaucratic and inept organization. When they are arrested in "The Date", Newman assures Kramer and Elaine that they will non be prosecuted: "In 20 minutes, that place'll be swarming with mailmen. We'll be dorsum on the street by lunch." Newman's occupation is kickoff revealed in "The Former Human". George, upon learning information technology, asks "Aren't [postal workers] the guys that e'er go crazy and come up dorsum with a gun and shoot everybody?" Newman'south ominous reply is "Sometimes." When asked why, Newman has an burst about the unending nature of mail delivery.

In "The Junk Mail service", Kramer realizes the Postal Service has get obsolete and starts an anti-postal service campaign; he'south after abducted by Mail service Office security men. Newman attempted earlier to dissuade Kramer: "You don't know the half of what goes on here." For his efforts to salvage Kramer, Newman is escorted by Post employees with a bucket on his head, pleading for Kramer to "tell the world my story."

In "The Package", Newman'south business carte du jour is shown; it reads "Newman".

Newman claims that he once worked the aforementioned postal route equally series killer David Berkowitz, otherwise known as the "Son of Sam", who was working for the Postal service at the time of his 1977 capture. When the police force come to arrest him in "The Date", his first words to them are, "What took y'all and so long?", the aforementioned words Berkowitz used when arrested. In real life, even so, Berkowitz did not have a mail route; he worked as a letter of the alphabet-sorter.

In October 2020, Wayne Knight reprised his role as Newman to deliver an online "public service announcement" regarding the 2022 United States Postal Service crisis. In the video, he accused President Donald Trump of trying to delay voting by mail in the 2022 United States Presidential Election by undercutting the postal service, asserting that "the only person who can irksome down the postal service is a mailman."^[one]

Development [edit]

Series co-creator Larry David conceived the graphic symbol when writing the script for season two'due south "The Revenge". Newman was envisioned as Kramer'southward African-American suicidal friend. He was set to appear in one scene, in which he explained that he jumped from the apartment building, but an awning had cleaved his autumn. Tim Russ, who would go on to star in Star Trek: Voyager, auditioned for the function, equally did William Thomas, Jr., known for his appearance on The Cosby Testify, who was cast in the part.^{[7] [8]} However, between the first and the 2nd draft, the plot was significantly reduced; the scene in which the grapheme appeared was cut, and Newman'southward role in the episode was cut down to a brief dialogue with Kramer, with Newman off-screen.^[eight] David recorded the lines himself,^{[7] [8]} though he was non credited.^[9]

While conceiving a plotline for the 3rd-flavour episode "The Suicide", the writing staff decided to create a friend for Kramer.^[5] Though they never had the intention of having the Newman character return on the show,^[ten] they felt it was easy to use him once again, as he had already been introduced.^[five] Newman was initially envisioned every bit the son of the landlord who owned Jerry and Kramer's building,^{[4] [11]} making him able to snitch about the edifice'south inhabitants without beingness punished for it.^[4] Even so, in between drafts the writing staff decided to make Newman an inhabitant of the building and more of a nemesis to Jerry.^[v]

Among the actors who auditioned for the function were Armin Shimerman, Dan Schneider and Wayne Knight.^{[4] [12]} Knight remarked that he was very excited to audition, as he was already a fan of the show.^[five] David immediately thought Knight was "terrific" for the role,^[v] and was also amused past his hefty appearance as opposed to Kramer'south slim figure.^[xi] Though Seinfeld felt introducing a friend of Kramer might ruin the character'south mystique, Knight'south performance convinced him otherwise.^[5] The part was initially a ane-fourth dimension guest-appearance, but Seinfeld and David were impressed with Knight and felt Newman was a character they could further exploit; equally Michael Richards later explained "our bear witness was driven by characters and in that location was no fashion they were going to allow Wayne Knight go."^[v] Newman would remain a recurring graphic symbol until the series' finale in 1998. To establish improve continuity, Knight re-recorded Newman'due south lines in "The Revenge" for the syndicated version of the episode.^{[7] [viii]} Both versions of the dialogue were included on the Seinfeld: Volume 1 DVD boxset.^{[viii] [xiii]}

When it was announced in 1998 that the show would end, Knight proclaimed "I'chiliad gonna burn all of Newman'due south apparel and those funky black shoes I've been wearing all these years. He dresses similar Jack Carmine. Nobody's washed more than with a muted plaid than I have."^[14] Prior to the finale, The New York Daily News asked Knight if he would be interested in a spin-off focusing on Newman, to which he replied, "I recall he could show upward on Police & Gild equally a snitch, but as for a weekly dose of Newman, well, I think if occasionally you're striking in the head with a ball-peen hammer, yous might get slightly dazed. Merely if y'all were getting hit week subsequently week, you might get pissed off."^[15]

Reception and popularity [edit]

In a Sacramento Bee interview, Knight explained that he was in one case pulled over past a police officer who merely stopped him to say "Hi, Newman".^[sixteen] Newman was ranked No. 1 on TV.com's listing of the ten nigh annoying neighbors.^[17]

Mike Joy of Play a trick on Sports ofttimes responds, "Hello, Newman" when Ryan Newman wins a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Serial race. This has happened in the 2008 Daytona 500 and 2022 Camping World 500.

Appearances [edit]

• Season 2
  • The Revenge (originally voiced by Larry David, dubbed over by Wayne Knight in syndication)
• Season three
  • The Suicide
  • The Young man (parts 1 and 2)
  • The Parking Space
  • The Keys
• Season 4
  • The Pitch
  • The Ticket
  • The Pick
  • The Former Man
  • The Pilot (cameo)
• Season v
  • The Sniffing Accountant
  • The Lip Reader
  • The Non-Fat Yogurt
  • The Barber
  • The Marine Biologist
  • The Raincoats (office 2)
• Season half-dozen
  • The Large Salad
  • The Switch
  • The Label Maker
  • The Scofflaw
  • The Doodle
  • The Diplomat's Club
• Season seven
  • The Engagement
  • The Soup Nazi
  • The Puddle Guy
  • The Seven
  • The Shower Head
  • The Calzone
  • The Bottle Eolith (parts one and 2)
• Season 8
  • The Soul Mate
  • The Package
  • The Chicken Roaster
  • The Andrea Doria
  • The Pothole
  • The Millennium
  • The Muffin Tops
• Season 9
  • The Butter Shave
  • The Claret
  • The Junk Mail
  • The Merv Griffin Show
  • The Expose
  • The Opposite Peephole
  • The Cartoon
  • The Bookstore
  • The Finale (parts 1 and two)
• Additional appearances
  • "The Over-Cheer" (2014)
  • "A Bulletin from Your Friendly Local Mail Carrier" (2020)^[1]

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} Furdyk, Brent (Oct 8, 2020). "Wayne Knight Revives 'Seinfeld' Mail service Carrier Newman to Defend Security of Voting by Mail". ET Canada . Retrieved 26 June 2021.
2. ^ Bretts, Bruce; Roush, Matt; (March 25, 2013). "Baddies to the Bone: The sixty nastiest villains of all time". TV Guide. pp. xiv - 15.
3. ^ Collins, Sean T. (February nine, 2016). "40 Greatest TV Villains of All Time". Rolling Stone . Retrieved April 29, 2016.
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Seinfeld Season 3: Notes about Nada – "The Suicide" (DVD). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Nov iii, 2004.
5. ^ ^{a b c d east f m h} David, Larry; Richards, Michael; Knight, Wayne; Seinfeld, Jerry (November 3, 2004). Seinfeld Season 3: Inside Look – "The Suicide" (DVD). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
6. ^ CBSN (February 3, 2014). "Jerry Seinfeld on Reunions, Why he Hates Newman". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
7. ^ ^{a b c} Louis-Dreyfus, Julia; Richards, Michael; Alexander, Jason (November 3, 2004). Seinfeld Seasons 1 & two: Audio Commentary – "The Revenge" (DVD). Sony Pictures Dwelling house Entertainment.
8. ^ ^{a b c d e} Seinfeld Seasons 1 & 2: Notes well-nigh Nil – "The Revenge" (DVD). Sony Pictures Home Amusement. November iii, 2004.
9. ^ Group, Gale; Kondek, Joshua; Milne, Ira Mark; Jones, Angela Yvonne (1999). Gimmicky theatre, film, and idiot box. Vol. 23. Gale Research Company. p. 134. ISBN978-0-7876-3159-8.
10. ^ Charles, Larry (November 3, 2004). Seinfeld Seasons one & 2: Sound Commentary for "The Heart Assault" (DVD). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
11. ^ ^{a b} Esterly, Glenn (November two, 1995). "That Lout on 'Seinfeld' Has a Airplane pilot Underway, and He'due south Likable in it". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. F10.
12. ^ Keller, Joel (August xvi, 2006). "Seinfeld: The Suicide". TV Squad. Retrieved December sixteen, 2009.
13. ^ Werts, Diane (Nov 23, 2004). "Master of its Domain Certain to be at The Top of Every Fan's Festivus Souvenir List, The Seinfeld DVD Sets The Standard for TV Compilations". South Florida Sun-Spotter. p. 1E.
14. ^ Eler, Lynn (May 11, 1998). "Second Bananas say farewell to the rest of the Seinfeld gang". The Record. p. B8.
15. ^ Williams, Scott (March 31, 1998). "Closing Knight Plans For 'Seinfeld' Actor Addresses Newman's Own Role In Last Bear witness". New York Daily News.
16. ^ Wisehart, Bob (July 26, 1993). "Busy Days for Actor Knight". Sacramento Bee. p. B6.
17. ^ "Television receiver.com'south Superlative 10: The Most Annoying Tv Neighbors". TV.com via Net Archive. Archived from the original on February 24, 2011. Retrieved June 26, 2010.

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