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What does “mother ship of close encounters†mean?
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This is the opening monologue of The Cafe, Seinfeld's 24th episode.
There's always that one location, one store location that's constantly changing hands. Everybody has this in their neighborhood, it's a leather store, it's a yogurt shop, it's a pet supply. It's constantly changing and nobody can do business there. It's like some sort of Bermuda triangle of retail, you know? Stores open up and then they just disappear without a trace. Nobody knows what happened to 'em. I guess eventually when like aliens land in mother ship of close encounters, bottom will slowly open and all these store owners will come wondering out in a daze going 'I thought there would be more walk-in traffic, didn't you?'
I need help understanding the highlighted part. I've looked up all the new phrases: Close encounters, daze and walk-in traffic. But I still can't get the underlying meaning of the whole sentence.
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This is the opening monologue of The Cafe, Seinfeld's 24th episode.
There's always that one location, one store location that's constantly changing hands. Everybody has this in their neighborhood, it's a leather store, it's a yogurt shop, it's a pet supply. It's constantly changing and nobody can do business there. It's like some sort of Bermuda triangle of retail, you know? Stores open up and then they just disappear without a trace. Nobody knows what happened to 'em. I guess eventually when like aliens land in mother ship of close encounters, bottom will slowly open and all these store owners will come wondering out in a daze going 'I thought there would be more walk-in traffic, didn't you?'
I need help understanding the highlighted part. I've looked up all the new phrases: Close encounters, daze and walk-in traffic. But I still can't get the underlying meaning of the whole sentence.
word-meaning phrase-meaning
edited 32 mins ago
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I wonder if Jerry says, "when aliens land in the mother ship of Close Encounters." (I know the 'the' is missing from the transcript you link to, but that seems carelessly transcribed – Close Encounters should be capitalized, and 'wondering out' should probably be 'wandering out'.)
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This is the opening monologue of The Cafe, Seinfeld's 24th episode.
There's always that one location, one store location that's constantly changing hands. Everybody has this in their neighborhood, it's a leather store, it's a yogurt shop, it's a pet supply. It's constantly changing and nobody can do business there. It's like some sort of Bermuda triangle of retail, you know? Stores open up and then they just disappear without a trace. Nobody knows what happened to 'em. I guess eventually when like aliens land in mother ship of close encounters, bottom will slowly open and all these store owners will come wondering out in a daze going 'I thought there would be more walk-in traffic, didn't you?'
I need help understanding the highlighted part. I've looked up all the new phrases: Close encounters, daze and walk-in traffic. But I still can't get the underlying meaning of the whole sentence.
word-meaning phrase-meaning
edited 32 mins ago
J.R.♦
94.9k7123237
asked 3 hours ago
Sara
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This is the opening monologue of The Cafe, Seinfeld's 24th episode.
There's always that one location, one store location that's constantly changing hands. Everybody has this in their neighborhood, it's a leather store, it's a yogurt shop, it's a pet supply. It's constantly changing and nobody can do business there. It's like some sort of Bermuda triangle of retail, you know? Stores open up and then they just disappear without a trace. Nobody knows what happened to 'em. I guess eventually when like aliens land in mother ship of close encounters, bottom will slowly open and all these store owners will come wondering out in a daze going 'I thought there would be more walk-in traffic, didn't you?'
I need help understanding the highlighted part. I've looked up all the new phrases: Close encounters, daze and walk-in traffic. But I still can't get the underlying meaning of the whole sentence.
word-meaning phrase-meaning
word-meaning phrase-meaning
edited 32 mins ago
J.R.♦
94.9k7123237
asked 3 hours ago
Sara
1,1541723
edited 32 mins ago
J.R.♦
94.9k7123237
asked 3 hours ago
Sara
1,1541723
edited 32 mins ago
J.R.♦
94.9k7123237
edited 32 mins ago
J.R.♦
94.9k7123237
edited 32 mins ago
J.R.♦
94.9k7123237
94.9k7123237
asked 3 hours ago
Sara
1,1541723
asked 3 hours ago
Sara
1,1541723
asked 3 hours ago
Sara
1,1541723
1,1541723
I wonder if Jerry says, "when aliens land in the mother ship of Close Encounters." (I know the 'the' is missing from the transcript you link to, but that seems carelessly transcribed – Close Encounters should be capitalized, and 'wondering out' should probably be 'wandering out'.)
– J.R.♦
30 mins ago
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I wonder if Jerry says, "when aliens land in the mother ship of Close Encounters." (I know the 'the' is missing from the transcript you link to, but that seems carelessly transcribed – Close Encounters should be capitalized, and 'wondering out' should probably be 'wandering out'.)
– J.R.♦
30 mins ago
I wonder if Jerry says, "when aliens land in the mother ship of Close Encounters." (I know the 'the' is missing from the transcript you link to, but that seems carelessly transcribed – Close Encounters should be capitalized, and 'wondering out' should probably be 'wandering out'.)
– J.R.♦
30 mins ago
I wonder if Jerry says, "when aliens land in the mother ship of Close Encounters." (I know the 'the' is missing from the transcript you link to, but that seems carelessly transcribed – Close Encounters should be capitalized, and 'wondering out' should probably be 'wandering out'.)
– J.R.♦
30 mins ago
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It s a reference to the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
In the final act of the film a group of researchers and military personnel meet a group of aliens that land at a particular location in the USA. Among the aliens that disembark the spacecraft are a number of human abductees including the crews of the TBA Avengers of flight 19 lost in the 1940s in the Bermuda Triangle. These abductees as they appear from the ramp on the bottom are very confused about what has happened to them, taken by aliens on board their ship and now they are 30 years in the future.
The store owners are acting like that, setting up in that location then disappearing,at one point they will all mysteriously appear again.
'I thought there would be more walk-in traffic don't you' is what each of the owners of theses stores that have all failed at this location would say to each other, as obviously none of they had enough customers to make enough money to pay for the store to remain open.
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Sarriesfan
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sigh.. those references always beat me, but I'm glad to have your quick help. You saved the day!
– Sara
2 hours ago
LOL – the shop owners, thirty years later.
– J.R.♦
35 mins ago
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1 Answer
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oldest
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active
oldest
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up vote
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It s a reference to the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
In the final act of the film a group of researchers and military personnel meet a group of aliens that land at a particular location in the USA. Among the aliens that disembark the spacecraft are a number of human abductees including the crews of the TBA Avengers of flight 19 lost in the 1940s in the Bermuda Triangle. These abductees as they appear from the ramp on the bottom are very confused about what has happened to them, taken by aliens on board their ship and now they are 30 years in the future.
The store owners are acting like that, setting up in that location then disappearing,at one point they will all mysteriously appear again.
'I thought there would be more walk-in traffic don't you' is what each of the owners of theses stores that have all failed at this location would say to each other, as obviously none of they had enough customers to make enough money to pay for the store to remain open.
answered 2 hours ago
Sarriesfan
63747
sigh.. those references always beat me, but I'm glad to have your quick help. You saved the day!
– Sara
2 hours ago
LOL – the shop owners, thirty years later.
– J.R.♦
35 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
4
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It s a reference to the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
In the final act of the film a group of researchers and military personnel meet a group of aliens that land at a particular location in the USA. Among the aliens that disembark the spacecraft are a number of human abductees including the crews of the TBA Avengers of flight 19 lost in the 1940s in the Bermuda Triangle. These abductees as they appear from the ramp on the bottom are very confused about what has happened to them, taken by aliens on board their ship and now they are 30 years in the future.
The store owners are acting like that, setting up in that location then disappearing,at one point they will all mysteriously appear again.
'I thought there would be more walk-in traffic don't you' is what each of the owners of theses stores that have all failed at this location would say to each other, as obviously none of they had enough customers to make enough money to pay for the store to remain open.
answered 2 hours ago
Sarriesfan
63747
sigh.. those references always beat me, but I'm glad to have your quick help. You saved the day!
– Sara
2 hours ago
LOL – the shop owners, thirty years later.
– J.R.♦
35 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
4
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up vote
4
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It s a reference to the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
In the final act of the film a group of researchers and military personnel meet a group of aliens that land at a particular location in the USA. Among the aliens that disembark the spacecraft are a number of human abductees including the crews of the TBA Avengers of flight 19 lost in the 1940s in the Bermuda Triangle. These abductees as they appear from the ramp on the bottom are very confused about what has happened to them, taken by aliens on board their ship and now they are 30 years in the future.
The store owners are acting like that, setting up in that location then disappearing,at one point they will all mysteriously appear again.
'I thought there would be more walk-in traffic don't you' is what each of the owners of theses stores that have all failed at this location would say to each other, as obviously none of they had enough customers to make enough money to pay for the store to remain open.
answered 2 hours ago
Sarriesfan
63747
It s a reference to the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
In the final act of the film a group of researchers and military personnel meet a group of aliens that land at a particular location in the USA. Among the aliens that disembark the spacecraft are a number of human abductees including the crews of the TBA Avengers of flight 19 lost in the 1940s in the Bermuda Triangle. These abductees as they appear from the ramp on the bottom are very confused about what has happened to them, taken by aliens on board their ship and now they are 30 years in the future.
The store owners are acting like that, setting up in that location then disappearing,at one point they will all mysteriously appear again.
'I thought there would be more walk-in traffic don't you' is what each of the owners of theses stores that have all failed at this location would say to each other, as obviously none of they had enough customers to make enough money to pay for the store to remain open.
answered 2 hours ago
Sarriesfan
63747
answered 2 hours ago
Sarriesfan
63747
answered 2 hours ago
Sarriesfan
63747
answered 2 hours ago
Sarriesfan
63747
63747
sigh.. those references always beat me, but I'm glad to have your quick help. You saved the day!
– Sara
2 hours ago
LOL – the shop owners, thirty years later.
– J.R.♦
35 mins ago
add a comment |Â
sigh.. those references always beat me, but I'm glad to have your quick help. You saved the day!
– Sara
2 hours ago
LOL – the shop owners, thirty years later.
– J.R.♦
35 mins ago
sigh.. those references always beat me, but I'm glad to have your quick help. You saved the day!
– Sara
2 hours ago
sigh.. those references always beat me, but I'm glad to have your quick help. You saved the day!
– Sara
2 hours ago
LOL – the shop owners, thirty years later.
– J.R.♦
35 mins ago
LOL – the shop owners, thirty years later.
– J.R.♦
35 mins ago
add a comment |Â
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I wonder if Jerry says, "when aliens land in the mother ship of Close Encounters." (I know the 'the' is missing from the transcript you link to, but that seems carelessly transcribed – Close Encounters should be capitalized, and 'wondering out' should probably be 'wandering out'.)
– J.R.♦
30 mins ago