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Why Seinfeld is incompatible with iPhones

Posted by Claire Connelly in Entertainment, Humour, Technology

That’s it! I’ve had it up to here people! Mobile phones have ruined Seinfeld!

None of the complications, misunderstandings or disasters that ensued during the show’s nine year run would even have happened if the show was filmed today.

Seinfeld was the funniest show of the 80s and 90s, but if it ran today for the first time, there is no way it would be as culturally relevant, or even funny because a lot of the comedy had to do with mis-communications.

No doubt Jerry would likely be one of those people who prides himself on not owning a mobile phone (in fact I am already imagining some banal apartment conversation about cell phones being a fad), but a large part of the show’s development would be lost if the show’s characters had the simple ability to text message.

Think about it.

If the episode ‘The Movie’ aired today, Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer would have met at the right movie cinema, at the right time and had a very pleasant evening.

What’s funny about that?

In the ‘Chinese Restaurant’, George wouldn’t have had to monopolize the pay phone in the restaurant the entire evening waiting for Tatiana to call, Elaine would finally satisfy her hunger, and all of them could have gone to a movie afterward – and how dull would that be?

I worry how this show will be received by the next generation.

I live in fear of the reaction that would inevitably occur if my baby cousins ever watched this show – (which is why I will never watch it in their presence, for fear they fail to find the funny).

I weep for the day that Jerry Seinfeld isn’t lauded as a comedic genius.

During the Seinfeld era, we shared some of the worst days of our lives with some of the shittest people on earth who thus made us look good by comparison.

God help us if this show ever becomes culturally irrelevant.

That is all.

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