Off The Wagon

[Neoteny]

As someone currently in a position related to the wagon that equals "being drunk," I don't have much to contribute. However, let me express that you dying would mean much sadness on my side of the internet tubes, and that you should not do that.

[reminisco]

wow, is Seinfeld really so old now that there are people who don't catch the references all the time?

yeah, i guess so. i mean, it ended when i was still a teenager, so yeah, i guess there must be.

[jonesthecurl]

wow, is Seinfeld really so old now that there are people who don't catch the references all the time?

yeah, i guess so. i mean, it ended when i was still a teenager, so yeah, i guess there must be.

and there's also the fact that the world is bigger than the U.S.A., and not all of us noticed "Seinfeld"...

BTW, I've now seen a few of the endless re-runs, and I think it's amusing. Almost like a Brit sit-com (where "nothing happens" - i.e. the characters remain in the same relationship at the end of each episode as they had at the beginning).
This was apparently new in terms of U.S. comedy - but in the UK, that's the definition of a sit-com. If anything happens, it becomes a soap opera.

The difference can be most clearly seen in "Friends" or "Frasier". The tension of central characters falling in love with other characters is sit-com gold as long as the subject of that love is unaware.

After that point, the comedy dies.