Seinfeld

My mom doesn’t get it either. Over the years we’ve just had to agree to disagree, we just can’t understand one another on this issue. Was it “The (jacking-off) Contest” that turned her off? My guess is yes, but she’d never admit it. Who knows, but I’d be willing to bet that was one of the many deal breakers episodes for infrequent viewers.

I think the episode “the Junk Mail” has everything one needs to grasp Seinfeld’s appeal. The Wiz, Fragile Frankie, George’s cousin, etc etc.

lnbno13 are you implying that I’m old enough to be your mother? Grumble, well I may be that old, but the masturbation one didn’t bother me, but I have noticed a generational thing about Seinfeld.

Not at all, I don’t know how old you are, but I’m 30, my mom is 60 in two weeks. She’s just the only person I know who didn’t like that show, while it was appointment television at our house(s). I just remember when that episode aired a lot of people either loved the show more or stopped watching sometime during that season. My mom is pretty liberal, but I don’t think she wanted to have to broach the subject of female masturbation in the company of her horny teenage daughters. I do think you’re right though, I do think it’s a bit generational. Sorry, Paddy, I didn’t mean to imply you’re old enough to be my mom. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Seinfeld would have been great if Seinfeld had been played by an actual actor. His smug mugging and stage-adapted cadence ruins almost every single scene he’s in.Plus, once it stopped “being about nothing”, and started desperately tying everything together at the end, it lost much of its originality.I’ll watch it and enjoy it, but it’s horrendously overrated – and the fact that Jason Alexander never won an Emmy while anchoring the series and Michael Richards received several for a pretty one-note character is just sad.

Teaflax said, Plus, once it stopped “being about nothing”, and started desperately tying everything together at the end, it lost much of its originality.That’s absolutely correct. There are gems to be mined from episodes after Season 4, I suppose, but once Larry David left the show — like Aaron Sorkin’s exhausted departure from The West Wing — the “stories” just went right in the shitter. In the Seinfeld world, New York City is populated by about a dozen people, all of whom you’ll just randomly run into at an Inopportune Moment.Seinfeld is the perfect example of an American sitcom that should have adhered to the British model and just gotten out when it’s ahead. Two of the greatest televised comedies of all time, ever — The Office and Fawlty Towers — purposefully ran only two svelt seasons long, then quit knowing they’d done work they could never top. That boggles the American Television Mind, doing something to near-perfection and then purposefully quitting. But it speaks volumes about Ricky Gervais and John Cleese and their dedication to the comedy itself, not the promise of syndication and years (and years, and years, and years) of reruns.