It’s not a show about nothing, it’s a show about anything. Anything at all. Waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant? That’s a show. Trying to convince your masseuse girlfriend to give you a massage instead of “just” having sex with you? That’s also a show. Accidentally burning down a log cabin with the cigars the owner gave you? That’s kind of something, but we’ll make a show about it anyway.
And I must disagree with you. I love Seinfeld; I hate Curb. They took out Jerry, Kramer, Elaine and George, and forgot to leave the funny.
I don’t know why people would get hung up on Kramer being able to always have women to date. I have seen real-life examples where guys were apparently dating way out of their league. The common element with those guys (in addition to being below-average looking) was having oodles of confidence in themselves. There was one guy I worked with who was at least 300 pounds and who was actually on a 60 Minutes weight loss segment a few years ago. He was married, yet had access to a lot of attractive women. He was cheating on his wife with several women, and I have to credit his confidence for it. And his philosophy: “It doesn’t hurt to ask.”
It’s weird several people have theories about how Kramer fell “ass backwards into money” that are different from what I always thought. In one episode he overhears a tip on a horse, and wins big on it. Shortly after he signs up for baseball fantasy camp, which prompts the ass backwards line. However, that doesn’t explain how he lived before that, or where he got the money to bet in first place.
Every episode of Curb has made me laugh out loud (the Short Haired Judy episode nearly killed me…I could not breathe!) at least once. I get a chuckle once in awhile from Seinfeld. Different strokes and all of that (although I have never laughed or chuckled while watching Diff’rent Strokes.)
My favourite character on the show was “man-hands.”
LOL
They should’ve given “man-hands” a show of her own.
The only really totally off the mark way unrealistic thing on Seinfeld to me, was the time Kramer used butter as suntan lotion and Newman tried to eat him
Madame Bovary?