Saturday, February 9, 2008

#5: It's all about food

The episode titled "The Blood" shows to a new extent how many situations SEINFELD includes food in life. SEINFELD has a reoccurring theme of food and puts it in comedic situations, from anything to comedic situations in a diner to eating food while having sex. The situation, where George (Jason Alexander) eats food while having sex and watching television, adds to the mountain of funny situations involving food.

Two episodes of SEINFELD that involve a few of the shows many scenes that involve food in a comedic manner are "The Pez Dispenser", "The Junior Mint". In "The Pez Dispenser" a raucous is caused when Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) brings a pez dispenser to a piano recital that causes Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) to laugh loudly, sparking a chain of events that include the ruined piano recital of Georges girlfriend, the end of their relationship, and a former drug addict becoming addicted to the candy.

In the episode "The Junior Mint" an ex-boyfriend of Elaine's, who she decides to make plans with after she sees that he is skinnier, is having surgery when Kramer (Michael Richards), who is observing the surgery with Jerry, accidentally drops a Junior Mint into the open chest cavity while trying to get Jerry to have one. This eventually leads to George buying art, the man coming close to death, and Elaine breaking off her plans with him.

These are only a few of the many different situations that SEINFELD decides to include food in that end up causing some sort of hilarious chain of events.

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