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In the sitcom "The Story of Seinfeld", stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld starred himself as himself. He and three of his friends in the play were from 1995 to 1998. It dominates the comedy time of every Thursday night in the United States, with an average viewership of 21.27 million in the last season. It is still the record holder of American dramas in the country. As everyone knows, the first three seasons of the show were almost cut off due to poor ratings several times. Many of the spectators who came here today will be disappointed in the flatness of the first season.
It is no accident that the supernova exploded in the fourth quarter of the show. This season, one episode of the classic "Competition", which is recognized as a classic of the whole play, was released, and there are at least seven or eight episodes that can be regarded as a model. The few housekeeping skills that supported the drama's climbing to the top of the ratings in the following years did not appear in a single brain during this year, but gradually appeared in the previous few seasons. However, before they run into a unified state in the fourth season, there are not many audiences who buy it.
As a New Yorker unspoken rule
in the fourth quarter throughout a clue, its owner NBC (NBC) Please Seinfeld co-creator and friend George sitcom "Jerry" on the screen two ideas, "Jerry" It is equivalent to the two authors stepping up to the stage to explain the main theme of "The True Story of Song Fei", that is, "there is no main theme" and "nothing happened". George said to the president of NBC, "You eat, you shop, you read...you eat, you read, you shop", "This is life." In 1998, at the end of the final episode, Seinfeld’s remarks on the second button of George’s shirt were reproduced at the beginning of the pilot episode, clearly declaring that the play had finally returned to the original point.
"No subject" is just a gesture, not really out of focus; when telling the life of "nothing happened", the focus is actually on life itself. This play often uses the extreme dilemma to show the strangeness of daily life.
At first, before the emergence of other supporting elements, "The Story of Sein Fei" only focused on one thing, how to be a New Yorker. The story of the pilot episode is: When a woman comes to New York on a business trip on weekends, she tells a man that she can gather together. What kind of "signal" is the intention to develop intimacy? In the first season, including the pilot episode, there are only five short episodes. Each episode focuses on such topics: Seinfeld wonders, in front of his ex-girlfriend Elaine who has returned to friends, can he talk about a new date? What if two friends are interested in the same thing? How to talk about "breaking up" with friends of the same sex who are wrong?
The drama's interest in the subtleties of interpersonal relationships continues all the way. The unspoken rules that have been operating these days, but are secretive, have been revealed one by one in the cynic eyes of Song Fei. In the third season, Elaine wanted to talk to someone about breaking up on the phone. Knowing that she had dated the other person 7 times, Seinfeld regretfully told her that it was necessary to say the break up face to face. He said, "If it is 6 times, I will let it go. yours". In the fourth season, George and Susan wanted to date other women, arguing that he and Susan had not settled yet. Seinfeld solemnly began to teach a set of criteria for judging whether a date was promoted to a girlfriend: no appointment on weekends, two People will be together by default; the woman has her own body lotion in his medicine cabinet; he has her sanitary napkin at home. George had to admit that Susan was already his girlfriend.
The survival picture of Sein Fei and his friends belongs to a metropolis. When seeking investment from NBC, Song Fei talked about an experience in the second season. In a Chinese restaurant, Song Fei and his friends spent a whole episode in a long wait for seats. Everyone had concerns and fell into fearlessness. It seems that the seat they waited for will never come. Similarly, when they came out of the supermarket, carrying a dying goldfish and a heavy TV in their arms, they rushed to the meeting, but got lost in the maze of the large underground parking lot; the four of them took the subway separately to go out to work in Shitiao There are different adventures and so on on the route.
When the play premiered in 1989, life in the play was still far away from us, and it is time to watch it now. There are some situations in "The Story of Sein Fei", such as losing contact when going out, and it is unlikely to happen again after the popularization of mobile phones. However, there are always too many similarities to experience when a city swells to the form of a "metropolis".
Hearing noise in the
" Melting Pot" "Metropolis" must be a melting pot, and the melting pot is never quiet.
In my opinion, "Comment on Pony", which was broadcast on January 30, 1990, was a milestone in "Sein Fei's True Story". For the first time in this episode, "stereotypes are offensive to others" to construct a laugh.
This is the second episode of the second season. On the golden wedding anniversary of a distant relative and old couple, at the dinner table, Elaine inadvertently talked about a child with a pony. She thought the pony was an "abnormal" animal. Song Fei echoed her and said that he "hates all those who have ponies when they were young". The hostess interrupted angrily: "I had a pony." Suddenly, the room was silent. The old lady continued to rectify her name, saying that when she was a little girl, there were ponies in Poland, and their Polish children had ponies. "Is there any problem with this?" she asked Seinfeld.
The old lady walked away, and Song Fei grievedly explained to everyone, who would have thought that immigrants would have ponies? In historical pictures, immigrants enter New York Harbor by boat, and have never seen any of them ride a pony. Why would anyone come from a country with ponies everywhere to a country without ponies? This line seems to be logical and ridiculous. Every sentence is accompanied by a lot of background laughter, which contrasts with a table of silent guests in the camera.
It was a safe topic among strangers to bury the rich half-jokingly. However, children from rich families raise ponies, immigration equals poverty, and poor people don’t have ponies. These are just solidified concepts and are not reliable. Once it was used by default, it happened to collide with each other, the characters were ridiculous, and the audience laughed.
Irreconcilable confrontations and conflicts between people with different beliefs are another thing repeated in "The Story of Seinfeld". The series can always find the murmur of the "melting pot" of immigrants in New York. The obsessions that differ from class, class, or just individual standpoints are placed on the table while disassembling them.
There is a scene in the sixth season of "The Sofa", which vividly performed this kind of display and dismantling. Seinfeld and Elaine were waiting to serve their dishes at a high-end restaurant opened by a friend. Elaine said they would never eat takeaways from a certain company that donated money to anti-abortion organizations. Seinfeld didn’t seem to believe that Elaine could give up such a good meal. Please come. When the boss asked, he didn’t expect that this person is really an anti-abortion person, and because of his personal experience, he reacted strongly to this topic. Elaine left the meeting after listening to her anger. The woman at the nearby table said, I heard your conversation, and I too go. The quiet restaurant immediately became a mess, many women dragged their male companions away, and some loudly supported the boss.
In the episode "A Comment on the Pony", the old Polish lady passed away on the night of the banquet. Song Fei was afraid that he was angry with her, and went to her funeral out of guilt. The guilt after hitting others later became the biggest plot driving force of the whole show. Is this inheriting "Jewish guilt"? Yes, it is not. George's mother is of course very typical. It is said that she has never laughed in her life. In her eyes, her son is always wrong, and she must always save him from the brink of incurability. However, considering the remedies for the guilt of the four-person group, most of them were hypocritical in their original intentions, but they wanted to compensate but were resented. Isn't "Jewish guilt" a stereotype in the dismantling of "The Story of Seinfeld"?
Superman’s other "rebellious world"
plays with the unspoken rules of life. Hearing noises in the "melting pot", hypocrisy guilt is often seen through-no wonder there are so many characters as victims in the final lawsuit to testify in court Song Fei this group of people.
But their biggest difference is not indifference or hypocrisy, but shallow. Sein Fei marveled that being broken up at the dinner table did not affect George’s appetite. George said seriously that it was because you had never eaten his egg salad; the Chinese boy who delivered the food was hit, and George only cared about what he ordered. The food was scattered; Elaine heard the news of her boyfriend's car accident, so she bought snacks before going to the hospital, but her boyfriend saw it through and scolded him angrily. "You are the most shallow person I have ever met," Elaine said to Seinfeld.
Paying more attention to food than living people is not a bad heart, but too shallow thinking. Their sophistication is actually a kind of naivete. They float firmly on the surface of life and refuse to grow. In the first line of the play, Seinfeld commented on the button that it was too high, and in no-man's-land, it made George look like he was living with his mother. In this way, the small circle of the four-member group has built a small Neverland, a "place without adults".
When the characters confront each other, they often remind the audience of this amazing fact. They often say that the other party and themselves are not "adults." "It's too childish," "It's kind of adult to solve the problem," Elaine said to Seinfeld. Song Fei's answer was: "Oh no, that's impossible." "Perhaps two big men can build a cabin," Seinfeld and George agreed that "we can't do it." Elaine mobilized her friends to kidnap the puppy that was barking downstairs all night and threw it into the suburbs. Afterwards, she regretted that it was a child's work and she hadn't grown up at all.
Neighbor Kramer is not a "big man" either, but he is not a child, but often exists as an "inhuman", in contrast to the other three. He proudly said: "Humans will do this, I will not." He also said: "I am also a human." The subtext is that people make mistakes. Song Fei corrected him and said, "To some extent you are." The implication is that you are really not doing human affairs.
Kramer switches between two identities at will: the alien sage and the fool who almost lives by animal instinct. Once, Seinfeld had a whim, not wanting to be a child, wanting to become normal, and being an adult who cares about others, he woke up Seinfeld, "You think you can live a different life, but you can't" . And because of his stupidity, there are countless bad things.
There are many strange talks about "The True Story of Sein Fei", and one of them is that there is at least one reference to "Superman" in each episode. This is exaggerated, but Seinfeld keeps his mouth on Superman all day long, and it is not fake. There is always a striking Superman fridge sticker on the refrigerator door of his house. In the eighth season, the character of a character seems to be the opposite of Seinfeld, kind, warm and reliable. Seinfeld called him "rebellious Jerry". He explained that a rebellious version of Superman lives in an upside-down parallel universe, saying "goodbye" when meeting and saying "hello" when leaving.
Song Fei did not look up to the idol who talked about it all day, but chose to become another rebellious version of him. The "Never Country" of the four-man group can be regarded as a miniature "Bizarro World" of Superman. In their world, "There is no hug, no teaching" (Larry David, one of the main creators), but "No subject", that is to lie to you.
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