On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:20 PM, stannc <[email protected]> wrote: > In the Seinfeld episode "Thr Alternate Side", Jerry talks to the person > who stole his car via the installed cell phone. This episode aired in 1991. > > -Stan > > I think that was a car phone, though. I'm not sure they were ever as popular as they were quite expensive and had to be installed into the car... the equipment was about the size of a tape deck. (Kids reading this, ask your parents what a tape deck was.) I think they were a bit more popular than satellite phones (big as a suitcase) among the very well off professionals.
Anyway, by the time Bowfinger came out in 1999, car phones had been reduced to a punchline of a joke (Bobby Bowfinger tries to use this to fool people into thinking he has a cell phone, too.) -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://sterlingnorth.vox.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com Twitter: @westwit G+: http://plus.google.com/113413697748381364954 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wesleymcgee -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
