Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It gave English a handy way to skip the boring or incriminating part of a story, and the episode's joke is that the skipped part is always the interesting one. Anyone who has summed up a long tale with a shrug and three syllables is quoting it. The sitcom's use made the phrase everyday speech, usually said with a raised eyebrow about what was left out.
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In context
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In "The Yada Yada" (Seinfeld, season 8, first aired April 24, 1997), George's new girlfriend Marcy, played by Suzanne Cryer, shortens her stories with "yada yada yada". She uses it to skip past a late-night visit from her ex-boyfriend, and George, who has just used it himself to skip over Susan's death, starts to wonder what she is hiding. When he asks her to fill in the gaps, he learns that she is a habitual shoplifter. Peter Mehlman and Jill Franklyn wrote the episode and were Emmy-nominated for it.
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