Is Seinfeld less offensive than Friends seen with today's eyes?

[Darren_Garrison]

@lissener

You’fe twisting my words, and then calling me dizshonest.

Also

Not gonna chase your goallosts all over rbe field.

Go home, lissener’s keyboard, you’re drunk.

[lissener]

Feeding people something they would otherwise not eat,without their consent, is a crime. it’s an act of violence against their body. f your motivation in doing so is because of their religion or race, it is a violent act of bigotry. Call it what you will.

[lissener]

Yeah no autocorrect on my fire tablet.

[lissener]

@Thudlow_Boink

That’s not what I understood @lissener to be saying. Rather, as I understand it, he felt that it was distasteful, and therefore he tried to stop and think and analyze why it was distasteful.

Which is the appropriate response to being bothered by something . . .

Exactly thanks

[Odesio]

@Martini_Enfield

The fact someone is actively analysing stuff that’s not actually intended to be analysed (a sitcom, for example) would, I suggest, be at least a subconscious form of offence seeking.

I don’t think so. I have no doubt lissener also analyzes work he finds non-offensive or even praiseworthy.

@lissener

Watching Seinfeld made me feel depressed, almost dirty; complicit in something inhumane. So I asked myself why. It’s more of a self analysis, really, than an exegesis. It’s absolutely not a fishing exhibition in search of turds, if you’ll allow a mixed metaphor.

This seems like a rather extreme reaction to what was a fairly innocuous sitcom. You feel what you feel, but dirty and depressed?

[lissener]

I live with severe major depression. Its just the ocean I dogpaddle in. Some things i take in feel like a swell, some feel like a trough. Seinfeld felt troughy as fuck. To contradict the creators, it’s essentially a show about self loathing. A trigger for me in the technical, medical sense of the word.

Also, yes, I analyze everything. You should hear my 45-minute exegesis of Showgirls and why it’s a masterpiece.

[Odesio]

@lissener

Also, yes, I analyze everything. You should hear my 45-minute exegesis of Showgirls and why it’s a masterpiece.

And I’ll defend you 100% on this. I’ve certainly participated in my fair share of threads about Alien and Aliens.

[Chingon]

@Martin_Hyde

George likewise is motivated to get “revenge” on someone for seeing him naked and then laughing at the size of his penis.

That’s not really why he did it (her initial seeing him naked and laughing). He was getting revenge for her telling George’s girlfriend that he had a small penis and then laughing with her.

[SciFiSam]

Why are sitcoms supposedly immune from being analysed?? Every form of arm, pop culture, and basically everything made for entertainment purposes can be analysed, and frequently is. I mean, we’ve had nearly 800 years of analysis of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and 500 or more years of Shakespeare’s comedies, and they were both intended to entertain large plebescian audiences.

Any writer of a comedy now not only must expect their work to be analysed, they’d want it. The alternative is being forgotten.

Also, you don’t need to analyse something to have a reaction towards it. Sometimes you have the reaction and don’t analyse it at all, sometimes you have the reaction and wonder why.