He also tried to seduce his cousin in order to get back at his parents for ignoring him (“The Junk Mail”).
Just remember George saved a whale, countering all the other things he ever did to mankind.
For the record, he was also responsible for his fiance’s death, and felt little-to-no remorse for it afterward. But cooking a little lobster into someone’s eggs makes him the truly bad person?
It’s all just George being George. Self-centered and giving little thought to other people’s feelings or well-being, to all of our amusement.
From peeing in the public shower to using the story of his dead fiance (along with a picture of his best friend’s girlfriend) to get laid-- he’s just a crappy little person. But his character is a classic. He just doesn’t give a shit, which deep down, most of us sort of envy.
The lobster in the eggs? It’s just a classic revenge scenario. Don’t we all have those fantasies, even if we don’t carry them out?
I think trying to slip his boss a mickey, which is probably a felony, is considerably worse than tricking someone into eating lobster.
Having Jerry call in a bomb threat to Yankee Stadium probably would be considered a felony as well.
In PSXer’s world, it just came out last week.
Like a frightened turtle!
He didn’t do anything wrong with Susan’s death though it was an accident.
Pushing people out of the way in a fire is done in a panic not a planned act of trying to hurt someone.
And he was angry at bubble boy and acted in anger in a fit of emotion. He didn’t have time to think about it and plan a revenge on him.
Planning to seduce his cousin to get revenge on his parents is bad I guess that’s another example.
Starting around season 4 and continuing thru season 5, George became an unbelievable jerk.
Before and after he was mostly quirky, odd, easily panicked, etc.
But in this era, he was completely awful.
E.g., in The Outing (“Not that’s there’s anything wrong with that.”) He breaks up Jerry’s makeout session with the girl by trying to pretend (again) that they are a gay couple so he can get out of a relationship. The girl walks out.
This and dozens of other incidents George causes just made me scream “No one would be friends with this guy!” at the TV. The OP’s scene is just yet another one of those.
Kramer was at least interesting at times so that hanging out with him once in a while lead to the odd adventure. What did George contribute?
In particular, why on Earth would Jerry let George anywhere near his proposed sitcom?
Yeah? Well, the jerk store called and they’re all outa YOU!
The jerk store was just friendly ribbing
The one time I think George was 100% in the right was when he called out a hospital for letting a guy jump off their roof onto his car. They tried to make him into a jerk for daring to ask them to pay for the damage. Of course they should pay for his damage!
In one episode George disconnected the IV of a hospitalized burn victim. This was because George was trying to steal his girlfriend but she decided to stay with the burn victim rather than move in with George.
This can’t compare to the evil of sneaking shellfish into someone’s scrambled eggs or peeing in the shower, but attempted murder still can’t be considered one of his finest moments.
Maybe if she was allergic to shellfish, but because it’s just a superstitious belief that really isn’t going to affect her beyond absorbing the nutrition from a lobster and eliminating waste, George didn’t actually do anything more malevolent than mislead her.
I agree, it was a shellfish act.
For the win!
OP, I never thought a conversation about Seinfeld could feel so tedious and argumentative, but you did it.
Well, George did relate a story to Corbin Bernsen about how he let his girlfriend’s cat starve to death, then refused to buy her a “whole new cat”.
Because in-show Jerry Seinfeld is a jerk himself, and he surrounds himself with other jerks. Seinfeld is a show about unpleasant people. That’s why they all had to go to prison in the series finale.