Seinfeld creator mocks Rand Paul

[dannno]

Heh. When Seinfeld first came on, I was just re-entering the world of television. I had seen it couple of times and thought it was stupid, not funny. After a couple of years, hearing my co-workers talk about it so much ...thought that maybe it was getting better. "The Contest" was the episode that I happened to watch when giving it a second try.

It was then that I realized that TV must indeed rot brain cells. That's the only thing I can explain an entire nation snickering over that particular script.

I thought it was rather apt at pointing out the way that a person's sexual drive, when under the right conditions, can affect people in such a strong way and can often makes them look completely ridiculous at the same time. Even women.

 

[dannno]

No, that just serves to illustrate how unlikeable George is, and why the show was unwatchable to some of us.

The point of the show wasn't to create likeable characters, it was to create funny characters. George was pretty pathetic and at the butt of most jokes.

 

[dannno]

I think part of the problem with these shows are that you have to understand the characters and their past a little bit to understand half of the jokes.

Like if you just sat down and watched an episode of Cheers and you didn't know that Sam the bartender was a womanizer, that there was strong sexual tension between him and Dianne, then Rebecca after her. Or maybe in Seinfeld you don't know that Kramer is unemployed and a smooth talker who comes over to Jerry's house all the time to borrow stuff and eat food and even though he would like to say no he wants to have a cordial relationship with his neighbor, and besides, Kramer seems pretty harmless.. But you would be confused why everybody else is laughing when he just randomly drops by. And you don't even know why he is there in the first place.

Sometimes the best way to get into these types of shows is to watch them passively for a while so you get a better understanding for what the characters goals and tendencies are before you really dig in and try to get as much out of it as possible when you aren't really sure what is happening exactly or why.

 

[dannno]

I think part of the problem with these shows are that you have to understand the characters and their past a little bit to understand half of the jokes.

Like if you just sat down and watched an episode of Cheers and you didn't know that Sam the bartender was a womanizer, that there was strong sexual tension between him and Dianne, then Rebecca after her. Or maybe in Seinfeld you don't know that Kramer is unemployed and a smooth talker who comes over to Jerry's house all the time to borrow stuff and eat food and even though he would like to say no he wants to have a cordial relationship with his neighbor, and besides, Kramer seems pretty harmless.. But you would be confused why everybody else is laughing when he just randomly drops by. And you don't even know why he is there in the first place.

Sometimes the best way to get into these types of shows is to watch them passively for a while so you get a better understanding for what the characters goals and tendencies are before you really dig in and try to get as much out of it as possible when you aren't really sure what is happening exactly or why.

An EXCELLENT example of this is the show Three's Company. I watched dozens and dozens of episodes of that show when I was a kid and I thought it was kind of funny, but a lot of the time I had no idea what was going on. It wasn't until probably ten years later that I sat down and watched the first episode and realized that the landlords only let Jack move in with the two girls because they thought he was gay... So the entire point of the show is you have this straight guy who is a little bit of a womanizer living in an apartment with two girls and the landlords are sticklers for "morality" who would never let a man live with two women in their apartment and are only ok with the arrangement because they believe he is gay. Almost every episode centered around this story line.. and if you are older and can pickup on it then you may be able to quickly pick up the fact that the landlord thinks Jack is gay and the whole thing about what is going on, but it might take a few episodes before everything clicks together.

I still thought it was funny as a kid, I did understand when Jack kept cock-blocking himself in almost every episode