![]() ![]() In honor of those 25 years, here are 25 things that “Seinfeld” added to the popular vernacular over the course of its nine seasons on the air (1989-98). ![]() It didn’t do particularly well at first, but it slowly began gathering viewers and then - yada yada yada - it permanently changed the way that we, as New Yorkers, talk. Hello everyone! I apologize for my extended absence from writing but I have been busy with a clinical rotation, the holidays, and applying for jobs and residencies.Twenty-five years ago this Saturday, “Seinfeld” debuted on NBC. I am excited to start the new year with this post on one of the funniest sitcoms to ever come to television. Even if you have never seen an episode, you have heard of the show Seinfeld at some point in your life. Created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, it follows 4 friends (no, not those Friends) in their day to day lives in New York City. Main character Jerry Seinfeld, a fictionalized version of the actor playing him and a stand-up comic like the real Jerry George Costanza, a fictionalized version of Larry David played by Jason Alexander and a “short, stocky, slow-witted, bald man” Elaine Benes, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and an intelligent but sometimes shallow woman and Cosmo Kramer, played by Michael Richards and basically the extreme version of the strangest man you have ever met in your life. Seinfeld is an excellent comedy that showcases the awkward scenarios we find ourselves in during life, and showing the negative side of our characteristics in a funny and memorable way. While Seinfeld does have an episode with a physical therapist that I would like to discuss in a future post (“The Kiss Hello”), today I wanted to discuss the 66th episode of Seinfeld and considered one of Larry David’s favorite episodes: “The Puffy Shirt”. As with most Seinfeld episodes, there are 2-3 plots that occur separately that manage to connect by the end of the episode. Due to my laziness this weekend after a long week at clinical, I am going to be citing the plot from Wikipedia. Just like research papers, it’s fine for me to borrow information from another source as long as I give credit in the reference. The important parts of the plot are bolded below.Īt the beginning of the episode, Kramer is dating Leslie, a “low-talker” whom everyone struggles to understand due to her quiet speaking voice. When Jerry and Elaine have dinner with them, Kramer explains that Leslie is a fashion designer and has designed a new puffy shirt “like the pirates used to wear.” Elaine tells Leslie that Jerry is making an appearance on The Today Show to promote a Goodwill benefit to clothe the poor and homeless. Leslie says something in response, but they can’t make out what it is. The next day, Kramer delivers the shirt to Jerry, who realizes that he had inadvertently agreed to wear Leslie’s puffy shirt on The Today Show. The idea of wearing such an ostentatious shirt while promoting a benefit for the poor outrages Elaine. At a restaurant with his parents, George accidentally bumps into a woman who turns out to be a modeling agent. ![]() When she notices his hands, she declares they are beautiful and that he should become a hand model. He agrees, and in preparation for his first photo shoot becomes protective of his hands, having manicures and shielding them with oven mitts.Īt his meeting with the hand model photographers, the photographers marvel at George’s hands. One of them proclaims that George’s hands reminded him of Ray McKigney’s, a former model who had it all until he blew it away by messing up his hands after constant masturbation, or as the show says, not being “master of his domain”. During The Today Show, host Bryant Gumbel repeatedly mocks Jerry’s shirt, driving him to angrily denounce it on air. Leslie finally raises her voice to angrily call Jerry a “bastard.” After the show, George arrives at the dressing room and takes off his oven mitts to show off his hands. When he mocks the puffy shirt, Leslie angrily pushes him, causing him to fall onto a hot clothes iron and ruin his hands, ending his hand model career. Elaine is fired from the Goodwill benefit committee, Jerry is heckled about the shirt during his stand-up comedy, and Kramer breaks up with Leslie. ![]()
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