Get Out!!

I was probably only 14 years old when Seinfeld first aired. I'm sure I was still watching Growing Pains and Mr. Belvedere at the time, so I didn't even attempt to understand it. I remember watching it a few times in college, but not that often. So when it went off the air in 1998 I supposed I hadn't seen that many episodes of it ... unlike now when I could take just about ANYONE in a Seinfeld trivia contest. I mean for real. I sometimes feel like Elaine, Jerry, Kramer, George, Frank, Newman, Morty, Babu, et al are my friends. Often (and when I say often I mean almost daily) I use Seinfeld quotes or situations in my life. For real. It's probably quite annoying to others, but to me it's HEEELARIOUS!! I am a little disappointed that I usually only catch four or five episodes a week now due to my hectic schedule, but I always laugh.

I'm not sure what gets me the most about it. Is it the callous way the characters deal with each other? Is it the banter that they have with each other? Is it the way they just seem to breeze in and out of relationships? Is it just so amazingly about NOTHING that I can't get enough of it?

Some of my friends are pretty knowledgeable about the show too (maybe even more than I am) and when we used to play games a lot we were quite competitive! Recently my sister and brother-in-law received the Seinfeld Scene-It game and were pretty nervous to play with me. I'm itching to play again. Sometimes I even do Seinfeld trivia on-line. By myself. And I'm awesome.

One year I even had some of my students translate an entire episode for a French 5 assignment. I might do that again. Or maybe it's not good to double dip.