It was just another day in the life of a translator tackling Seinfeld. Just because Jerry’s friends guessed "Bovary" as a legitimate name option in English didn’t mean she could throw any old name around in German. Aretha? Bovary? Mulva?ĭolores represented one of the toughest puzzles Sabine had encountered: "Dolores" doesn’t rhyme with any German words for a body part, and a fabricated name would detract from the joke. The first two of these meant Sebastian had to go far beyond literal translation and the latter was an ongoing sore point between her and the editor she was working with. The hit American sitcom so often relied on word-based humor, American customs, and Jewish references. Tasked with translating all 180 half-hour episodes of Seinfeld into German for dubbing and broadcast overseas, Sebastian ran into major roadblocks in bringing what she thought was one of the funniest shows she’d ever seen to her countrymen and women. Two years later, Dolores became Sabine Sebastian's headache. It was not until she walked out on Jerry, disgusted that he didn’t know her name, that it came to him: Dolores!ĭolores left Jerry's life when that episode aired on March 18th, 1993. Jerry, George, and Kramer worked at the the puzzle: Celeste? Aretha? Bovary? Mulva? He had only one clue to go on: she’d told him that as a child, she was teased for her name: "What do you expect when your name rhymes with a part of the female anatomy?" He asked friends to introduce themselves to her, hoping she would introduce herself back she didn’t. He surreptitiously searched her purse for an ID, but came up short. Most of Jerry’s girlfriends brought with them a joke about the trials of dating and/or the self-centeredness of Jerry’s character, and Dolores was no exception: Jerry very much wanted to sleep with her, but he hadn’t asked her name when they met, and by the time they went out, he was too embarrassed to admit he didn’t know it. Like so many of Jerry Seinfeld’s girlfriends on Seinfeld, Dolores was TV-beautiful, with glossy, reddish-blond hair, big blue eyes, full lips, and impeccable bone structure.
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