Seinfeld the TV series

[Wayne Johnson]

Taxi....on the other hand, was nearly perfect.  Especially when it added
Andy Kaufman.

wgj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@HotPOP.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:06 PM
Subject: Seinfeld the TV series


> Wayne wrote:
>
> > I never understood what the buzz on
> > Seinfeld was all about.
>
> I didn't either, the usual Seinfeld episode
> being set in a Manhattan apartment with
> 3 agitated friends of Seinfeld running in
> and out and doing shtick humor.
>
> Life in NYC is a very special pressure-cooker
> and commercial TV and Hollywood has
> taken full advantage of it in many many
> successful comedy and crime series.
>
> And in terms of NYC based entertainment,
> the 4 making up the Seinfeld gang were
> cleverly type cast. So George the short
> bald guy is more than believable as a
> horny overweight bachelor, Elaine the
> ex-girlfriend can mug convincingly,
> Kramer the tall excentric big city doofus
> does physical comedy as good as the
> next second banana.
>
> Compared to their personas, Seinfeld
> is wan and anethetized, a comic if
> comic he be of very slight gifts.
>
> Yet the episode of how the Seinfelders
> wound up watching the wrong movie
> (Rachel Rachel, the story of the erotic
> awakening of a young woman on her
> journey from Milan to Minsk) is
> exceptionally good (I've seen it twice
> and I am right about this, right I tell
> you). <-anything I say twice is true
> Perhaps it works better because it
> isn't set in an apartment.
>
> The usual Seinfeld episode set in an
> apartment or at a restaurant table is
> predictable and boring. It was said
> that the program was about nothing
> or close to it.
>
> Mike
>
>