Saturday, February 9, 2008

In today’s American society we constantly celebrate our many pastimes. These two clips of SEINFELD bring up three of our favorite and most enjoyable, sex, food, and television.

In the first clip George is starting to fool around with his girlfriend. He then crawls out from under the sheets and reaches for a sandwich in the drawer next to the bed. All while “pleasuring” his woman, George the goes for “the trifecta” as he then pulls out a miniature television. And, as always, George’s ridiculous schemes and constant selfishness backfires on him.

In the second clip Jerry and George are eating in the show’s classic restaurant. The two are eating holding their traditional “conversation about nothing” when George goes into a very awkward and unusual erotic state. Jerry then makes a connection between George's sandwich and his suppressed sexual desires.

In these two clips SEINFELD blatantly present these three pastimes. It shows how we as Americans can be completely obsessed with them. The funny part about it is that they’re right. You can see it all over the place. You hear it in the content of our conversations and you see it in our actions. We watch hours of TV every day and eat to the point of exhaustion. Not to mention that sex has become more of a recreational activity then actually something meaningful. We have become so consumed with these pleasures that you can find see it all at one time. Just think about how many television commercials you’ve seen advertising either sex or food?

1 comment:

Kelli Marshall said...

Would you please add ASAP an attention-grabbing title preceded by #5?