Princess Di reference doesn't belong in a comedy

Not even in a "quirky, untraditional" comedy like Seinfeld. Not to be overly sensitive, but it is an unfunny reference that brought the show down a moment, IMO.

oh for christ's sake. first the peurto ricans, now the royalty. who's next, the virgins?

Fuck everyone. Just remember that if these people didn't have anything to bitch at, they wouldn't be happy.

On Fri, 15 May 1998 16:24:18 -0400, Ben Okuly wrote:

Boy some of us need to chill a little here, si?

Good one!

The reference wasn't even made with any derogatory intent. "There goes the money for the lipo!"

Yvette wrote in article ...

naah...Bubble boys...

<<<Not even in a "quirky, untraditional" comedy like Seinfeld. Not to be overly sensitive, but it is an unfunny reference that brought the show down a moment, IMO.>>>

And this idiot post brought me down. Who gives a shit about some brit fucking princess??????????????

Hey, look at the bright side. They didn't set her on fire and have Kramer stamp her out.

I don't think that they were trying to be funny when they said it, but just setting up the reason why the law was in place.

"I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry
ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart."
                Commander Ivanova "Between the Darkness and the Light"
                                                Babylon 5

Ivanova didn't say "sweetheart"

Maagic wrote:

Yes she did.

"I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry
ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart."
                Commander Ivanova "Between the Darkness and the Light"
                                                Babylon 5

ok my bad...I noticed that today...was hard to hear though cause she practically whispered it. Sorry!

LIghten up! It is very "in context" for them to be irreverant about something like Lady Die's death. It's far worse to burn the Puerto Rican flag or to poke fun at a boy in a bubble, or people in wheel chairs........

See ya'all back here in '99 when the series returns to it's regular Thursday night slot.

Jay

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They weren't were being irreverant about her death at all. I didn't get that. I just got that suddenly they were injecting a note of "serious" reality into the show that was jarring. Killing off Susan, a fake character, is funny. Suddenly bringing up a real person's death takes you out of the craziness of the show. It has nothing to do with being overly sentimental about this person's death. IMO.

Sounds like you're denial to me. I'm not sure why this bothered you so much - interesting that you should be so upset about this. The show has poked fun at many real life events - that's basically the whole premise. Don't forget it's a comedy - as w/all jokes some are in good taste and some are not.

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Yeah, I agree. It breaks the detached comedic tone of the show, and distracts you from being involved in the story. They were trying to give some justification for that law, but I don't think it was necessary. It was already in the back of my mind even though I didn't recall exactly where I heard it from. If they had to justify it, they could have just made up a fictional reason why the town instituted the law. That reference was definitely an "off" moment.

-Eric S.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -Albert Einstein

Did Princess Di die?

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why do you take a stand against jokes about Princess DI, but but against anyone else. just cuz she married into royalty? geez people, loosen up a bit.

mikey