The real Soup Nazi struck a deal months ago to appear on a home-shopping cable channel.

With new and old galleries thriving, why buy paintings from someone who acts like the Soup Nazi of the art world?

To paraphrase the Soup Nazi, then, "No diesel for you!"

It's no joke: the Soup Nazi is history.

None of this may have happened without the Soup Nazi, whose real name is Al Yeganeh.

"We don't want to be like the queue in the Soup Nazi's kitchen," he said.

"People ask us, 'Oh, are you the Soup Nazi?' "

Seinfeld referring to someone as a "Soup Nazi".

Do you still chuckle about the Soup Nazi?

- liberal use of this catchphrase from Seinfeld's "Soup Nazi."