S03E07 The Caferetro·Jul 13, 2008, 4:00 PM ET·17 years later·16 posts by 6 posters
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Thread discusses a Seinfeld joke about gender bias in IQ tests in relation to 2008 Clinton campaign coverage, with replies debating media sexism and politics.
� Jerry: "How did you do on the IQ test [which Elaine took for him]?" George: "Eighty-five!" Jerry: "What?!" George: "Eighty-five, Jerry! Eighty-five IQ!" [Jerry laughs.] Elaine: "Eighty-five?" . . . Jerry: "Well, maybe the test was gender-biased--you know, a lot of questions about hunting and testicles."--dialogue from "The Caf�," originally aired Nov. 6, 1991
� "The Clinton holdouts are typically most angry about what they say was the media's sexist treatment of Sen. Clinton during the campaign."--The Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2008
There may be more to this remark. Elaine was very active sexually, so she would have had considerable experience with testicles. She would have had a ball with that part of the test.
Keep in mind Ubiquitous lives in his own little universe, where the sky is pretty colors and right-wing gumdrops rain from the clouds. Ignore also the right-wing bias of the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal. Because the other ends of the Murdoch Media were sexist against hillary clinton during the campaign. Hell, CNN was as well, along with that moronic douchebag on Headline News. So, Ubi's point is that the...election process is skewed towards men? Well, I agree with that. But he also thinks that Seinfeld was reality, and I have to respectfully disagree with that and also suggest he up the dosage.
Gee, thanks for THAT newsflash. It still doesn't change the fact that this analogy went way over your head.
Ahh, but we did win in Iraq -- The lengths to which Angry Left partisans will go to deny Bush credit for anything good, no matter how much it contradicts reality.
In "The Visa," a 1993 episode of "Seinfeld," George Costanza is dating a woman named Cheryl, who is impressed with his sense of humor: "Are your friends as funny as you?" she asks. "No, they're not funny at all," he says. "I'm the funny one. El Clowno."
This poses a problem for George when he introduces Cheryl to his friends, since pal Jerry Seinfeld is a professional comedian. George asks Jerry not to tell any jokes in Cheryl's presence, and accordingly he starts acting very morose. After Cheryl mentions that it's her aunt's birthday, Jerry says:
Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has
gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate
we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each
flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be,
that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this
is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy
birthday? No such thing.
What reminded us of this was an Associated Press dispatch we saw over the weekend:
Happy birthday, America? This year, we're not so sure.
The nation's psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of
pessimism palpable. Young or old, Republican or Democrat,
economically stable or struggling, Americans are questioning
where they are and where they are going. And they wonder who
or what might ride to their rescue.
Much of the AP dispatch centers on how things aren't actually that bad; only seemingly are things spinning out of control. Yet the piece is titled "America's Unhappy Birthday: 'Too Much Wrong Right Now.' "
In the "Seinfeld" episode, George's plan ends up backfiring, because Cheryl is attracted to Jerry, whom she finds "dark. And disturbed." That doesn't work out either--but if she's still single, maybe she should consider going out with the AP.
So, in your analogy...we're Jerry or we're George? Or are we Elaine? Or the girl George wants to impress?
The American psyche has been battered and bruised by a bunch of greedy insane unaccountable leaders in government and in society. We're not whiners; we actually have something to complain about when phil graham lobbies for a swiss bank that causes the sub-prime mortgage crises. It's justifiable to have a bruised psyche when we right now have the worst government in the history of the country and I mean all three branches. The American empire is collapsing.
I still don't see how that connects with a sitcom from the mid 1990s.
� Izzy: "How 'bout that, huh? The World's Greatest Dad. My son made it for me." Jerry: "That's very nice." Izzy: "The best in the world. [pointing to himself] Which means I'm better than just No. 1." Jerry: "Well, I don't know how official any of these rankings really are."--dialogue from "The English Patient," originally aired March 13, 1997
� " 'World's Greatest Dad' Charged in Online Child-Sex Sting"--headline, USA Today Web site, July 16, 2008