Sesquipedalia

Season 3 Episode 3: Selina is condemned as elitist for having a pony as a child!

If something in Veep happens exactly like something in one of the greatest and/or most well-known, most obsessively quoted comedies of all time, with which it also shares a starring actor, I'm going to go with homage over coincidence. Seinfeld especially has become so ingrained in the American vernacular that you can reference it without even realizing it (not that there's anything wrong with that), so even if the writers aren't consciously doing it--which I suspect they are a lot of the time--the references are still in there. Anyway, back to the fun. I just remembered another one: I don't recall the episode or exact quote, but Selina mentions "afternoon delight" in reference to sex. Squee! Also, in the third episode of Season 2: Gary points out that paper covers rock.

In "Signals," Selina chastises Gary because she's been "scratching her eyebrows for three and a half fucking hours"--the signal for him to get her out of an inconvenient conversation. Similarly, Elaine complains to Jerry that she's been "smacking herself senseless" using a signal they created to get them out of boring conversations at parties. I just finished Veep Season 1 and the first two episodes of Season 2, and I've noticed a TON of Seinfeld and AD references like this. But now I've already forgotten most of them. Let's pool our memories and list them here.