{"id":4684,"date":"2009-05-26T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2012-03-16T21:10:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T02:10:14","slug":"things-im-supposed-to-love-but-cant-stand-seinfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4684","title":{"rendered":"Things I’m Supposed To Love But Can’t Stand: Seinfeld<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure why I hate Seinfeld<\/em>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I know; it’s funny; hilarious, even.\u00a0 I watch it, and I laugh.\u00a0 Sometimes really, really hard.\u00a0 Even at Kramer.\u00a0 The show is well-written, no doubt about it.<\/p>\n

And yet I find myself gritting my teeth and getting antsy when I watch it, just like I do when I’m behind some yapping, whiny, self-centered dolt in the line at the grocery store – the kind that argues over the price they thought they saw on the shelf.\u00a0 When I’m not laughing, the show irritates the bejeebers <\/em>out of me.<\/p>\n

Part of it is, yuks aside, watching Michael Richards has, for me, always been like listening to fingers scratching on chalkboards.\u00a0 I’ve had an almost-visceral distaste for Richards ever since Fridays<\/em>, the abortive ABC whack at Saturday Night Live’s <\/em>market back in 1980. Richards\/Kramer is funny, occasionally? Sure.\u00a0 Irritating?\u00a0 Always, always, always.<\/p>\n

But the biggest problem I’ve always <\/em>had with Seinfeld is the overall attitude of the show.\u00a0 If Seinfeld <\/em>were a person, it’d be fussy, uptight, nit-picky, whiny, infantile and grating.<\/p>\n

Watching too much Seinfeld <\/em>for me would be like being snowbound in a hotel room with Mike Gelfand.<\/p>\n

So I laugh.\u00a0 And I grit my teeth.\u00a0 And, usually, just don’t tune in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure why I hate Seinfeld. I know; it’s funny; hilarious, even.\u00a0 I watch it, and I laugh.\u00a0 Sometimes really, really hard.\u00a0 Even at Kramer.\u00a0 The show is well-written, no doubt about it. And yet I find myself gritting my teeth and getting antsy when I watch it, just like I do when I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-4684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-mitch","tag-love-and-hate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26899,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions\/26899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}