About nothing?

	Fans of "Seinfeld" like to talk about how the show is about
nothing (even if a few testy folks in this newsgroup think the writers
are forcing the nothing).  Anyway, have you ever thought about how
intricately those nothings are connected?
	My g/f can't take a whole half hour of nothing, and she only
likes Kramer, so she doesn't watch the show much.  This week, I was
going to show her (on tape) the last scene, where Kramer goes to
visit his African-American g/f's family and shows up with an
overly tanned face.
	But *then* I thought about how I would explain how the
"plot" got to that point.  You see, Kramer couldn't sleep

*Because* he didn't have his blanket,

*Because* he gave it to Jerry to dry-clean,

*Because* Jerry was getting a discount on dry-cleaning,

*Because* Jerry found the dry-cleaning man's locket of his late wife,

*So* Kramer went to the tanning salon ("You know those things are bad for you"),

*Because* he had to maintain his "glow,"

*And since* he was so tired,

He fell asleep at the tanning salon.

	And I didn't even get to the other plot elements -- Jerry and
his pretend wife and Elaine, George, and the guy at the gym.
	(BTW, where have I seen Courtenay Cox, the pretend wife,
before?)

It's like having to explain a joke too much. Either you watch the show or you don't, IMHO.

RT> Fans of "Seinfeld" like to talk about how the show is about RT>nothing (even if a few testy folks in this newsgroup think the writers RT>are forcing the nothing). Anyway, have you ever thought about how RT>intricately those nothings are connected?

It's not that the show is about nothing, it just basically looks like a show that focuses in on the lives of some people, where the writers aren't really trying to go anywhere with the story, it's just a fun experiment in people mixing together. It's, to me, a show about everything. We all sit around and talk like they do at times... just shooting the breeze, reminiscing about the past and such, and asking each other things that we probably wouldn't ask others (i.e.: "How often do you cut your toenails?") and the situations that the show depicts are frighteningly true to life, or very similar ones that we can relate to easily.

RT> My g/f can't take a whole half hour of nothing, and she only RT>likes Kramer, so she doesn't watch the show much. This week, I was RT>going to show her (on tape) the last scene, where Kramer goes to RT>visit his African-American g/f's family and shows up with an RT>overly tanned face.

My girlfriend doesn't seem to dig that show too much, either. She's more into the Melrose Place thing, which is a show that I personally can't stand watching. She's also into lame-o music like Tommy Page, but I'm slowly diverting her interests so that I don't have to go through that torture. :^)

• SLMR 2.1a * Oh, and another thing - we're out of coffee