Posted on 12/03/2004 6:38:40 PM PST by qam1
I look around me everyday and I see beautiful women. It could be very tempting to go out and date them. Going out every weekend to the clubs and picking up an assortment of chicks like so many kinds of chocolates in a Valentine's Day gift. But I will not!
It has taken me years, but I am finally getting over the lasting effects of "Seinfeld."
Yes, "Seinfeld." What is considered the greatest show/sitcom of all time has also been the biggest plague/curse on my life.
Students currently attending the University are part of the "Seinfeld" generation. Society has branded us "Generation X," and that might be so, but within the all encompassing "Generation X" lies a subset of post-pubescent adultlings.
Growing up, we "Seinfeldites" would come to learn of the adult world through the dark shadow that is "Seinfeld."
There are two role models for men in "Seinfeld" -- Jerry and George.
If you could have your pick, Jerry is the obvious choice.
He has lots of money, travels all the time; his crazy friends get into all kinds of amusing trouble, and he meets women faster than a shirtless Colin Farrell at a sorority house holding DVD box sets of Friends and the most recent "embattled woman fights for her rights" Julia Roberts movie.
All I am saying is that he was getting laid, constantly. He was getting the fine booty that all men crave.
This left an indelible impression on a young man. This, I assumed, was the fate of all halfway decent looking men.
Life would be like an RPG in which you find the best women you can at the time, until someone better comes along. Then you level up. The goal of the game is to get the level up as much as possible while using the least amount of continues.
However, Jerry was not the only character that has influenced our nation's youth. George Costanza or "Can't Stanz Ya" depending on your pronunciation, has left the best minds of our time with serious mental diseases and complexes.
No matter how slick you think you are, enough Costanza in your life will cause you to doubt yourself and all you believe in. George was obviously the most despicable and interesting character on the show.
He would lie his way into sex, jobs, marriage, out of marriage, fake disability, race old people in 9-volt scooters, take naps under his desk, have sex with cleaning ladies in his office and was the cheapest bastard on the face of the earth.
As awful a person as he might seem on the surface, there is a little George Costanza in all of us.
And the more you watch him, the larger that little Costanza inside you grows, until there is nothing left but a 35-year-old bald man with no job, no prospects and no reason to get up in the morning -- except to read the daily news.
Just think what kind of a result just these characters have on the psyche of children. And these are only two of many sexual deviants and immoral miscreants "Seinfeld" would propagate!
What does a boy learn by watching Elaine or Kramer?
From Elaine you learn that most women have little sense of humor and are only funny when extremely pissed off.
And from Kramer you learn that you can get by in life, with no job and no money just by mooching off the guy across the hall.
Having spent years getting over the mental strain and irregular development caused me by this show, I have filed a class action lawsuit with Jerry Seinfeld and the creators of "Seinfeld."
The suit is being brought now, in part due to the fact that the DVDs were recently released, and I fear that I will have a re-lapse and years of therapy will have been for naught.
Students can get in on this suit by going to www."Seinfeld"_ruined_my_life.com
I see a lot of room for applying what we learn from the show to real life. The situations seem extreme...until you find yourself or an friend in them. How about that backwards episode?
I hope I am not aging myself but I have never heard of Becker.
Oh okay, well anyone else? Is the article for real? I thought it was a joke.
I did some searching. I came across a picture from her website. Don't know how to post a picture so here is the link -
http://www.townhall.com/acimgs/webimages/silver-dress.jpg
I guess I jumped to conclusions. You may be right.
No soup for me.
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I'll pick it up, but I'm waiting for NewsRadio myself.
Pictures can be cropped, do we need a new rule? Above the hands shots only.
There was a wholesomeness about old TV.
Last week I saw 3 people each swallowing about a liter of raw ostrich egg.
I was walking by, saw it...pretty much got it in about 1 minute, and then walked away.
Nada. Nothing there.
You are leaving out the greatest of all time, and the father of all sitcoms, The Honeymooners.
You remember the "Candy-Gram" shark or the "Bees" on SNL?
Now those were Classics!
It all reminds me of a course I took on public speaking. People have transitional phrases in their speech that some may never notice. "Um", "uh", "you know", "and a", etc... Once you are aware of them, it drives you nuts when you hear them. Now,,,, I might have a problem if I see those "things" anymore when I see a picture of her.
I like your solution.
At a fitful moment of extreme stress I yell
*Serenity Now!*
I have to disagree with one poster when it is assumed that all characters are Jewish in character traits, including George's parents. I lived next to two Italian families that made the Costanza family look like a mild Amish clan. These people would fight and they yelled at the top of their lungs inside the house. One time, the one Italian father had a yelling match with the next door German neighbor outside. One guy yelling at another guy, back and forth, from their door ways. It got ugly when the Italian guy's wife (very fat woman) jumped out the door and ran over to the other house, threatening bodily harm. All were drunk as skunks.
News radio was another show that I believe ended before its time. Good show with a short run.
I liked Al Bundy, but Fawlty Towers was the best sitcom of all time, IMHO.
I also liked Newhart. I loved Bob's dry humor while the world of lunatics around him kept doing idiotic things. And the show wasn't really mean-spirited toward rural Vermonters...it was just funny. The wacky supporting characters made the show: Larry, Darryl and Darryl; Michael and Stephanie; George Utley; the mayor and town council. Great stuff.
It has been a long time since SNL was funny. Now, it is mostly bathroom humour at its worst.
"It wasn't the best sitcom of all time, That would be Married With Children "
To me, the best sitcom of all time is Frasier. I love the humor.....especially Niles....he's such a pompus little weenie.
I feel bad for some of you...Seinfeld is a great show...if you didn't get it, I recommend starting with "The Outing," "The Bubble Boy," or "The Puffy Shirt"...you have to watch one of the "traditional" ones to catch on to the level of humor.
What I was wondering was what about a "Master of my domain" competition for the FReepers? :D Just kidding!
Basil!
Don't mention the war.
I also liked Newhart and the earlier Bob Newhart Show.
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