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Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Jerry Seinfeld many times seems to be smiling in a "this scene is so funny I can't hold on not to laugh" way? I mean, some scenes would be more convincing/funny if he looked more serious. This still strikes me as weird. Has this been discussed somewhere (I would surprised if not, perhaps I should ask GPT4)? Do we know why this happens?
But I don't know if the show would have been as good without him. His boring normalness and bemused reaction to the chaos unfolding around him. Even his breaking of the fourth wall. Maybe he's a grounding rod that serves to contrast everything else against, maybe he's the character we can see ourselves as.
In class, when I mention Seinfeld , or for that matter, Friends , to illustrate a point, many of my students (law students, mostly in their early- to mid-20s) barely know what I'm talking about. You can imagine how my pop-culture references from the '60s and '70s sail right over their heads. (When that happens, I use the occasion to joke about my old-fart status.)
In class, when I mention Seinfeld , or for that matter, Friends , to illustrate a point, many of my students (law students, mostly in their early- to mid-20s) barely know what I'm talking about. You can imagine how my pop-culture references from the '60s and '70s sail right over their heads. (When that happens, I use the occasion to joke about my old-fart status.)
How much of the Beatles do they recognize?
Generally speaking, many of my students appear to know (vaguely) who the Beatles were, but that seems to be about it.
Seinfeld’s real genius was always the way the script managed to tie together multiple storylines into a cohesive whole. The best example is probably the Marine Biologist episode. You could have never predicted that there would be any connection between golf balls and whales.
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Seinfeld was also very good at basically dropping stories after they ceased to be funny.
They were also very effective at "dropping" characters the writers and other actors didn't like. Poor Lilly.
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They were also very effective at "dropping" characters the writers and other actors didn't like. Poor Lilly.
It's Susan. But yeah, she looks like a lilly.
In class, when I mention Seinfeld , or for that matter, Friends , to illustrate a point, many of my students (law students, mostly in their early- to mid-20s) barely know what I'm talking about. You can imagine how my pop-culture references from the '60s and '70s sail right over their heads. (When that happens, I use the occasion to joke about my old-fart status.)
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They were also very effective at "dropping" characters the writers and other actors didn't like. Poor Lilly.
Given that the chemistry of the actors was a huge part of the show's success, it stands to reason that you would drop anyone who everyone didn't gel with.
Sometimes what a project like a sitcom or a business needs is rather someone or several members who don't fit in. Because otherwise you start to suffer from creative and intellectual incest.