#11 Maybe There is Something Wrong with It

SEINFELD is an unbelievably clever show, the way that it can touch on obviously with blatant remarks or simply touch on with subtle comments that not everyone always picks up. I know I would not have picked up on half of the stuff in SEINFELD such as the comment about the black and white cookie and the political leaders if it weren’t for Dr. Marshall pointing it out.
In the episode “The Outing,” SEINFELD dives into the issue of homosexuality and its parameters. Despite the fact that SEINFELD uses techniques such as having Jerry and other characters repeat the line “not that there is anything wrong with that,” they make it perfectly clear that indeed many people do think there is something wrong with being a homosexual. If you simply look at the way the reporter who Jerry is originally supposed to interview with and later sees romantically jumps on the story of him being gay. If being gay was ordinary then she would not have been so incredibly fascinated with him being a homosexual and been dying to write the story. That may sound a little weak as far as evidence goes so try looking at the reactions of both the reporter and Kramer (Michael Richards) when they discovered he was ‘gay’. If it was no big deal there would be no reason for Kramer to jump back and have such a disgusted look on his face. It is the simple things like that make SEINFELD special when dealing with certain issues such as this.