Put It On The Tab...

It was just another Wednesday until Seinfeld came on. Once again the show is able to brighten my boring day. This episode is one of my favorites mostly because it features Kramer so much. Kramer always comes in Jerry's apartment and eats his food and uses his stuff. He vows, for his own pride, to start paying for everything he eats and keeping track of it. Seinfeld always seems to have these shows where u look at the story and can remember a time when you did that. I know I have borrowed a few things I intended to gave back but forgot.

The funny part about this story though is that he keeps track of the bites of ice cream he takes and all the small chunks taken out of the fruit. He would take a bite out of a fruit and count it for twenty cents and put it back where he found it. You have to love how television is able to make something like this a story line. As a class we are not beginning to work out of the advertising phase and work into television. I truly believe that Seinfeld has paved the way for shows about nothing and the fact that they can make it. Seinfeld has molded the sitcoms on prime time to be like it in many ways. People want something that they can relate to. Seinfeld features a blunt woman, a comedian, a short, wiry, bald guy and a big goof. There is no racial profiling on Seinfeld or sexual orientation reference that is able to be identified as crude.

Seinfeld takes such subjects and having black friends or being homosexual and makes an episode about how offended people get. There is such episodes that features homosexuality and after every single reference to it, they reply with, "not that there's anything wrong with that." This way no one is offended and it is made funny. The ability to take certain questionable subjects on television and transform then into comedy is an art. This show is the master of that art.