Boomer Allusions

Aug 2, 19964 posts by 4 posters
🧩 Trivia
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Joe Clarke

A Boomer Allusion would be a cultural allusion that a baby boomer would be most familiar with. Since the writers and actors of Seinfeld are mostly baby boomers, these allusions find their way into many shows. Last night (8/1) I spotted two of them. The first when Kramer gets on the phone to speak with Dr. Reston (Elaine's boyfriend/shrink), while he waits for Dr Reston, he starts singing to himself: Johnny Yuma was a rebel, he roamed through the west. This is an allusion to the 1960's(?) television show The Rebel starring Nick Adams.

Another allusion - and I'm not sure if it is strictly a boomer allusion - was Jerry's reference to the "bizzaro world" - where you haggle with someone to give you less money than they had originally offered you. The Bizzaro World was featured in Superman comics and was a world that existed in another dimension where everything was opposite of earth. Bizzaro earth, seen from space, was square.

Joe Clarke

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Joe,

The Bizarrio World reference is not a "boomer allusion"

I'm in my mid twenties and recognized it right away. Anybody who read DC comics in the 70s, 80s, and probably even 90s should understand the Bizzaro reference.

BTW I like your thread...interesting notion

Brian Giese

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The Rebel ran 1959-61.

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