# Jerry Seinfeld was a troll...who else? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194 "2006-08-03T14:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/1 "2006-08-03T14:57:57Z")
There are numerous examples, but the character Jerry clearly sometimes enjoyed nudging his friends in various nefarious ways that would get them to act amusingly. In one episode, we learn that Elaine is so vehemently pro-choice she refuses to patronize a restraurant owned by a pro-life businessman. Later, she meets a new guy and becomes smitten with him, whereupon Jerry, on hearing of how perfect and great the guy is, casually inquires as to what the guy’s views on abortion are. He’s just making trouble. It often seems like he keeps these people around him so he can get them to dance for his amusement. There must be other characters like this out there, but I can’t think of any. Who else in fiction is an instigator for the sake of their own amusement? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/2 "2006-08-03T15:04:33Z")
Groucho Marx, whenever possible. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/3 "2006-08-03T15:18:15Z")
Zaphod Breeblebox, or however it is spelled. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/4 "2006-08-03T15:40:32Z")
I think Bob Kelso on Scrubs loves putting people in situations they hate. ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/5 "2006-08-03T15:41:41Z")
[QUOTE=Mahaloth] I think Bob Kelso on Scrubs loves putting people in situations they hate. [/QUOTE] This reminded me of the character Stephen Hyde from That 70s Show, who I think may also qualify, though I can’t think of specific examples. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/6 "2006-08-03T15:42:04Z")
House. He’s such a pain in the ass troll I can’t image any hospital actually allowing him to work there, genius or no. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/7 "2006-08-03T15:51:35Z")
Bugs Bunny ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/8 "2006-08-03T15:57:16Z")
I think the master “troll”, in your sense of the word, would be the evil Mrs. Danvers from the Daphne DuMaurier novel / Alfred Hitchcock film “Rebecca”. The way she convinced our young sweet innocent heroine to wear the same fancy dress costume as the dead Rebecca - shocking, shocking I tell you! And the look on Max DeWinter’s face! I will never ever forgive her. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/9 "2006-08-03T15:58:58Z")
Here is a photo of the evil Mrs. Danvers as magnificently portrayed by Judith Anderson. [http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2002/02.07.22.html](http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2002/02.07.22.html) ---
**Author:** ![Roberta\_Plant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c89c15/32.png) [@Roberta\_Plant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roberta_Plant)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/10 "2006-08-03T16:50:16Z")
Eddie Haskell. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/11 "2006-08-03T16:58:08Z")
[QUOTE=Iggins] Bugs Bunny [/QUOTE] Not as much as Daffy Duck. As just one for example, putting up all those “Rabbit Season” signs was about as trollish as you can get. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/12 "2006-08-03T17:06:12Z")
[QUOTE=Rube E. Tewesday] Not as much as Daffy Duck. As just one for example, putting up all those “Rabbit Season” signs was about as trollish as you can get. [/QUOTE] [Wabbit Season.](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Park/2326/wabbit1.html) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/13 "2006-08-03T17:07:14Z")
Rhea, from Stephen King’s **Gunslinger** series. She started shit just for the sake of starting shit, because she wanted to see the ensuing hullabaloo. And man, did she ever take it far. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/14 "2006-08-03T17:24:18Z")
Walter in The Big Lebowski. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/15 "2006-08-03T17:34:15Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Wabbit Season. [/QUOTE] Duck Season! ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/16 "2006-08-03T17:38:25Z")
[QUOTE=Ensign Edison] Who else in fiction is an instigator for the sake of their own amusement? [/QUOTE] How about an actual TROLL? Or, Loki. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/17 "2006-08-03T17:47:41Z")
Spike, on Buffy. He loved to get the scoobies all worked up. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/18 "2006-08-03T18:21:27Z")
Yeah, Jerry can afford to do this because he is even-Steven and he will never be any worse for wear. That Baroness von Bitchass in \*\*The Sound of Music \*\* certainly manipulated Maria but it may not count as trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/19 "2006-08-03T19:10:39Z")
Klaus on _Family Guy_: “Why did you set me up like that?” “I’m German. It’s what we do.” ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194/20 "2006-08-03T19:26:10Z")
Iago. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-seinfeld-was-a-troll-who-else/367194.md?page=2)