FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF US

Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:07 am by Indy11

Rather than celebrate Christmas, George Costanza's dad, Arthur, used to observe
Festivus. This was in protest of the over-commercialization of Christmas, a seemingly high ideal. Naturally, due to the dysfunctional tendancies that run rampantly through the Seinfeld show and through the Costanza family, in particular, Festivus is not all it was cracked up to be.

I found the episode very amusing. However, there seem to be a number of TLR regulars who very pointedly find Seinfeld unfunny, to say the least.

I'd just like to know why the show is so disliked. Please don't think I am trying to
get you to change your minds about the show. Your reasons to dislike the show, itself, I think would be entertaining to read. Those of you in the UK, especially, please sharpen up your sense of irony and do apply your best wit.

Thank you.

Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:10 am by freighter fighter

it...isnt...funny

Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:14 am by Warlord Bob

lol ff

Never watch it myself. Why you ask? Well... what ff said

Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:15 am by Indy11

@Freighter Fighter

Ummmm. Well. I guess I was asking why but I see that for you it is like asking you to prove the existence of nothing.

You must have watched an episode to have this opinion. Would you care to remember what you saw and then remark on why it wasn't funny? Just a thought.

Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:18 am by mustang

Personally I like Sienfeld, but im a sitcom junkie.

Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:18 am by freighter fighter

i dont remember the episodes, all i remember is i found it bland, and boring

Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:18 am by Nickless V2

I think it's moderately funny.
I sometimes laugh about them and sometimes I don't.

Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:27 am by Arcon

I thought we'd established that Sienfeld wasnt funny and that this is just plane outright crap. Jees we got the same thign on 2 threads here, at least the other thread was talking about christmas, no one cares about this stupid lame ass american wannabe joke. Except of course the people who watch and like it. in which case its a select audience and you may as well NOT have posted in the first place.

Screw you guys...i'm off to 'Nam

"it has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here, what better time than now"

Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:42 am by Tawakalna

@Arch, Da Nang?

btw i don't like Frasier, Cheers, Friends, Sex and the bl**dy City, Jay Leno, Roseanne or any of the rest of that stuff. give me a repeat of the Morecambe & Wise 1977 Christmas show anyday. it's not an anti-american humour thing because i love Steve Martin and I never miss Malcolm in the Middle or Futurama. i just find no humour in the ones above and I loath the cloying morality that infects them. i feel much the same about most UK sitcoms too, they're usually cr*p.

Edited by - Tawakalna on 17-11-2003 00:49:55

Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:46 am by Indy11

@Arcon

Indeed. You did establish for yourself that Seinfeld is not funny. I just hoped that you would be able to elaborate upon your dislike of it in a humorous way. I take it you haven't watched it for more than the one wretched time?

Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:02 am by Fear Factor

Duh suit yourselves. Arc and Taw, now that you two are best buds you agree on everything so much that you are not cool anymore!

Seinfeld is good enough for me, and I still think it's way better than Friends!

Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:03 am by Tawakalna

/what Arch is going to say

Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:45 am by Indy11

@Taw

btw i don't like Frasier, Cheers, Friends, Sex and the bl**dy City, Jay Leno, Roseanne or any of the rest of that stuff. give me a repeat of the Morecambe & Wise 1977 Christmas show anyday. it's not an anti-american humour thing because i love Steve Martin and I never miss Malcolm in the Middle or Futurama. i just find no humour in the ones above and I loath the cloying morality that infects them. i feel much the same about most UK sitcoms too, they're usually cr*p.

Well I was going to assume that you had a problem with the lowest-common-denominator-programming-motivated-by-commercial-advertising method that is modern day TV (at least in most of the developed nations) but that would not explain Malcolm in the Middle, or Futurama. Never have seen Sex in the City.... don't really like waching Sarah Jessica Parker in anything.... Jay Leno, too sycophantic for my tastes, Roseanne, yeccch. Friends, too smarmy. Cheers... I liked the early seasons with Diane. Early Fraser, I liked, before Roz got pregnant, etc.

Cloying morality? Every single episode? Don't think so. There is not cloying morality in Seinfeld. Quite the reverse, I would think.

Mon Nov 17, 2003 2:04 am by Fear Factor

Yep. Every Seinfeld episode is a guilt-free trip (except perhaps when George's fiancee died from glue poisoning after licking too many envelopes

) The show is something out of nothing. I loved it. All the other sitcoms try every once in a while to pull some emotional crap - not Seinfeld.

Mon Nov 17, 2003 2:19 am by Indy11

@FF

You thought George might have guilt? Yeah, maybe seemed like he had a smidge in the beginning but, in reality, he was kicking himself for, yet again, cheating himself out of the life of Riley... the only thing he really wanted.

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