He gets a date with her, but his approach is creepy and intrusive. After finding out where the mystery woman works, Jerry shows up at her office to “stake her out” and pretend to accidentally run into her using the ruse that George works in the building as an architect. This episode should be called “The Stalk-Out.” Jerry accompanies Elaine to a dinner party and meets an attractive woman he hits it off with, but does not want to get her phone number in front of Elaine, with whom he has recently ended a relationship. Here are 10 episodes that might not hold up today. Aside from lacking diversity, there are many examples that show the four main characters' reactionary attitude toward women and minorities.
O’Connor.Ĭomedians often use politically incorrect language to comment on larger social issues, and Seinfeld did discuss race and gender in many episodes, without actually including actors of color in substantive roles. And its attitudes toward women can become downright hostile, as the final episode illustrated with its portrait of a gleefully nasty female network executive,” said New York Times writer John J. Its depictions of minorities, from Babu the Pakistani who was eventually deported because of Jerry’s carelessness to the Greek diner owner with an apparent yen for amply endowed waitresses, can be patronizing.
While the show features Jewish characters (and was even criticized by NBC’s Brandon Tartikoff for being “too Jewish”), critics lamented the show’s lack of diversity even in the 1990s. “The show has never been terribly concerned with political correctness.
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I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that, but everyone else is, kind of with their little calculating, 'Is this the exact right mix?' To me, it’s anti-comedy, it’s more about PC nonsense than are you making us laugh or not.” Who cares? Funny is the world that I live in. They're so PC." He has dismissed critics who point to the show’s lack of diversity, replying, “People think it’s the census or something, it’s gotta represent the actual pie chart of America. "I don't play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, Don't go near colleges. They move about the world totally oblivious to their white privilege.Īs Jerry Seinfeld has said, he is opposed to adhering to political correctness in comedy. Seinfeld’s characters are often without jobs, yet somehow afford spacious Upper Westside apartments. Like HBO’s Girls, it focuses on four narcissists living in New York City. As I’ve been spending my summer rewatching all nine seasons, I’ve noticed that it still remains a funny and original show, but is unapologetic about its lack of diversity. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock or aren’t in a serious relationship with every online streaming service like I am, you’ve probably noticed that episodes of Seinfeld are all available to stream on Hulu. about nothing.This article originally appeared on AlterNet The journey and adventure the foursome go on has been widely parodied and paid homage to over the years. He is mostly based on a real neighbour that Seinfeld himself once had called Kenny Kramer, though Michael Richards refused to meet him in order to not influence his own performance. Then you arrive at Kramer, a complete screwball of a character that took the audience by storm.
Jerry was a more narcissistic version of the real Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza's character and neurosis was actually a based on the show's head writer Larry David, and Elaine Benes was a composite of many differing influences, including that of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus. It took mundane every day situations and twisted them back at the audience to show you just how absurd and surreal those occurrences really are.Īs for the lead characters. Seinfeld has endured for so long for one reason, it's one of the greatest shows in history. Now, on the face of it that doesn't sound very interesting, right? Wrong.
Seinfeld is the creation of comedian Jerry Seinfeld and comedy writer Larry David as is suggested by its title it is a show about the daily happenings of the fictional version of Jerry Seinfeld and his three best friends George, Elaine, and Kramer.
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