Now, it’s on to important things, like the NBA Western Conference finals. That, in a nutshell, is my take on the show. Finally, while the morally vapid Costanza might ignore the plight of a carjack victim, the principled Kramer never would. Additionally, they were condemned for things beyond their fault, including altruism gone awry (e.g., the Pakistani deportee). To pillory the four characters for such concern undermines the very premise of the show. The show got a lot of comedic mileage out of underscoring and poking fun at minutiae with which we’re all concerned, albeit with the exaggeration that makes for comedy. The fact that such shallow, selfish, empty characters were embraced and celebrated by so many is a sad commentary on our debased popular culture.įor anybody who cares, here is why I disliked the “Seinfeld” finale: Today, the “Seinfeld” characters are criticized by grim-minded Puritans as shallow, selfish, frivolous and not good role models. However, in Wodehouse’s day, these stories were considered charming, lighthearted, playful, whimsical. Think of it: stories about single people who are either frivolously employed, or not employed at all, gadding about town and country seeking nothing but their own pleasure and pursuing the particular member of the opposite sex who happens to be desirable at the moment, but never getting trapped into marriage. The hissing of the deflated lead balloon can still be heard. The CLASSIC SEINFELD episode TheFinale Part 2 is on tonight What did you think of the series big ending Watch Seinfeld starting at 9PM on AZTV7 1.1K1.1K. I think it was fitting that Geraldo Rivera, he of the great Al Capone hidden-vault hoax, was involved in reporting on the last episode. If the finale was any indication of what might have been had they stayed, I’m glad they went.
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