Saturday, February 9, 2008

Can I get a Trifecta Combo?

Turn on the television and watch a few commercials, probably seventy-five percent of them have some sort of food or sexual reference; or sometimes even both as seen in the Carl's Jr. commercials where Paris Hilton is seen sexually munching on a burger. In "The Blood" George is seen in bed with a woman, but in the mix of things starts eating a sandwich and watching TV. I believe that in this episode of Seinfeld the characters are poking fun at America's wild obsession with sex, food and TV. Laughing at how, generally, our minds are on the "trifecta" twenty-four hours a day, showing how we seem to spend the majority of our days associating ourselves with these actions, and in George's case, all three. By combining all three of these "American pastimes" Seinfeld is showing us that sex, food and TV have somehow combined into one mindset where as we think of one, the others are involved. As seen in the second clip, where as George eats a sandwich, he gets flustered, since he associated the sandwich with sex. George clearly showed his strong connection to the three; and if he can't even eat a sandwich without becoming excited, what is that saying about America's fascination with sex, food, and TV. I just wonder how far are we going to take this fixation; or will sex, food and TV forever be considered a "combo" deal?

1 comment:

Kelli Marshall said...

Would you please revise and place the appropriate blog number (#5: Catchy Title) before your title? This way, the blogs will be easy to find when you're sifting through all them at the end of the semester. Thanks.