I can't watch this show. Most people who feel this way usually hate Larry David. I think Larry is great, but everyone's reactions to him blow my mind. (Am I a sociopath?) La Comtesse de Terrified of Confrontation (shocking, I know) gets physically uncomfortable watching it.
@LaComtesse: I know what you mean. I have yet to watch any episode from this season except the reunion preview because I have to psych myself up to watch him be an unmitigatedly self-absorbed ass to everyone around him (Cheryl is a saint for staying with him as long as she did).
I alternately love Larry and want to smack him upside the head.
@LaComtesse: I get physically uncomfortable when people are in awkward situations in movies and television programs. So much so that I have to leave the room. This is why I can't watch this show, began to hate Seinfeld, and never watch any of the Borat/Bruno/Ali G programs. *shudders*
@willwriteforfood: That's another one. I could never watch the American Office, and I absolutely avoided the British original for all of that excruciating awkwardness, made all the worse by characters so desperate to be liked.
@LaComtesse: I have felt like this for years. I blame Seinfeld for developing a large part of psyche, because I generally find Larry's actions correct and would feel the same way when forced to have chit chat or look away when someone has wronged me. I think its sort of adorable that this imposed system of manners and niceties are lost on him.
@Triphena: Yes! It was terribly sad. But he also made me really angry by keeping in contact with the UCLA girl. Did he not think Jamie would ask him about her, ever??
@ElleL: I assumed he got back in touch with her after he was told to date other people. I mean, you can't be like, see other people...except ones who have expressed interest in you.
if i wanted to see this bunch again, i'd get the DVD of seinfeld. thanks, larry--you've helped me create a little space on an otherwise crowded sunday night lineup. i'll tune back in when this blows over.
@beatrice2000: No, he's definitely based on Larry. It's a running joke on "Curb" that Larry thinks George is great while Jason Alexander (and everyone else) thinks the character's a total jerk.
Gilmore girls is more than about a teenager. That show is very very smart. I'm glad that people are catching wise. Season 1 is weird to watch though, and I think that's because it was the only season made in the 1990s, so its much like the friends effect described here, with the ricky martin jokes.
I watched all of the friends episodes in a row, during the two months I was unemployed. Two things I learned:
1. The term BFF originated in Friends. Phoebe uses it in the episode where they're on a beach, and everyone looks at her confused. I did research, and this is actually where "BFF" came from and that blows my mind.
2. Why does everyone make fun of Ross for being smart? Whenever he tells a story, people pretend to sleep. I always wanted to know what else he was going to say. Why did we value dumb people so much in the 90s? And is this why Bush was elected?
Never mind Friends--I don't get all the love for My So-Called Life. Never did, probably never will. It was high school as written by a self-serious precocious high-school-age kid who was enrolled in a suburban high school for maybe a month before persuading her folks to home-school her. Ugh.
My boyfriend once pointed out to me that 90% of the conflicts in Seinfeld would have been solved easily if they had cell phones.
So, yeah...a bit dated.
@bananastand: Hehe, I wonder about older movies and shows sometimes and think about how different they would be if cell phones had been around and popular then.
@Red-headed bookworm: Sometimes I feel like cell phones have ruined drama. Now there has to be the "my battery died!" moment to allow anything bad to happen. Or on the flip side the whole plot is driven by tech.
Note: The other night in my semi-recurring dream about getting lost but having to be somewhere very soon, my subconscious managed to work in my iPhone. I was trying to get back to a bar where I had forgotten to close my tab, but when I looked it up on my phone I kept finding the wrong address. That my phone is now worked into my dreams is more scary than the dream itself.
I dunno, sometimes I cringe when Seinfeld comes on screen in a too small sweat shirt, REALLY light, tapered jeans and white sneakers! And you have to admit Elaine's clothes were TERRRRRIBLE! And the hair poof?
@stacyinbean: I think I'm the only person who didn't like Seinfeld in its original run, and I know I'm the only person in the room who dives for the remote when it comes on after the Simpons reruns. The characters grated on me, and frankly, I just didn't think it was funny.
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Ahem. Channeling my inner Susie...
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And seriously, I DO like to match tips! What's so terrible about that?
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I alternately love Larry and want to smack him upside the head.
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I hope they get back together, that phone call was gut wrenching!
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Yeah? Well, the jerk store called and they're running out of YOU.
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The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
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I've always loved Seinfeld, and I can still stop and watch it when I run across it. I watch on DVD, too. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the shizz, my friends.
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1. The term BFF originated in Friends. Phoebe uses it in the episode where they're on a beach, and everyone looks at her confused. I did research, and this is actually where "BFF" came from and that blows my mind.
2. Why does everyone make fun of Ross for being smart? Whenever he tells a story, people pretend to sleep. I always wanted to know what else he was going to say. Why did we value dumb people so much in the 90s? And is this why Bush was elected?
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So, yeah...a bit dated.
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Note: The other night in my semi-recurring dream about getting lost but having to be somewhere very soon, my subconscious managed to work in my iPhone. I was trying to get back to a bar where I had forgotten to close my tab, but when I looked it up on my phone I kept finding the wrong address. That my phone is now worked into my dreams is more scary than the dream itself.
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There. I said it.
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