Eh, it's probably the worst episode since the first season. It feels like a clip show of unused gags from the previous 8 seasons.They really don’t even air the PR parade episode any more. Sad.
The song "Indian giver" hit #5 on the bill bllboard charts 1969.The fact that "Indian Giver" is offensive was actually the entire point of the joke in that episode.
I like the cut of your jib.I'd just like to point out that Millenials are 22-37 now. If your article is criticizing college students, please leave us out of it. If you don't like whatever trend the kids are into, please #### on them directly.
Thanks in advance!
Wasn’t it only on once and then never aired again?They really don’t even air the PR parade episode any more. Sad.
Wasn’t it only on once and then never aired again?
i only remember seeing it when it was on, never in repeats.
Ok - I probably didn’t watch much anymore by the time it got to TBS. watched the initial run and then in syndication for years on WPIX Channel 11 in NY.It was not repeated on NBC, but, it was shown in syndication afterwards. TBS definitely aired it in reruns years after.
That's gotta hurtThey really don’t even air the PR parade episode any more. Sad.
Referring to Chinese people as Chinese is now offensive??In yet another episode, Jerry says he 'loves Chinese women'. When Elaine asks him 'isn’t that a little racist', Jerry replies 'If I like their race, how can that be racist?'
I believe this is the original article.The fact that they don't link to any of the allegedly offended "critics," but do link to Fox News complaining about the offended people, tells you everything you need to know.
I clicked the Fox News link so you don't have to, though. It's based on one blog post by one person on some listicle site, and she specifically explained that the idea is to show how much/quickly times have changed and how they couldn't get away with some of the jokes now![]()
Ashe Scow is a legit journalist, though. Sad that this makes it through the muckwire.But this is all very stupid. And the Dailymail and Dailywire "articles" just show you that most "news" published today is just rehashing crap that someone else posted.
How like a millennial, always offended at something.Rirruto said:I'd just like to point out that Millenials are 22-37 now. If your article is criticizing college students, please leave us out of it. If you don't like whatever trend the kids are into, please #### on them directly.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: But I don't know one Millenial (although my cohort is on the upper end of the range) that doesn't love Seinfeld. Most of us grew up watching re-runs on TBS.
I'm offended that this article says we're offended.
Please add on: But it's wrong for media outlets to base it off things like one person's blog post but then make it sound like they are reporting on widespread mainstream criticism.My take on these is almost always the same: it’s ok to be offended by something. It’s ok to write that you find something offensive. If one’s reaction to that is to then be outraged that someone was offended, remember you are behaving just like the originally offended party.
Did you just call me fat?wikkidpissah said:Idiocy. The other side of the Trump coin. This kind of thinking counts on pressing the buttons of others for its survival. As soon as you indulge anyone who says you or 'this' has no right to think of or refer to others the way you please, say "idiocy' and walk away. People in the public eye don't have that right (which is the only way these issues gain traction), without great cost, because their efforts can lose sponsorship, but private citizens need not indulge this priggery. Idiocy, pure & simple.
Don’t blame me. The store uses skinny mirrors.Maybe it's what you're wearing...
Actually, this is only partly correct! The phrase first appeared in 1765, when Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson noted that the Indians tended to expect something in return for giving something to you.Side note- the offensive phrase "Indian Giver" refers not to Native Americans but to European Americans after the Revolutionary War who would make agreements with Native Americans to acquire land from them, only to renege on those agreements when the land takeovers were complete.
Point being that phrase, while using antiquated verbage, was a slur against White Americans, not Native Americans, if taken in proper context.
Lesson over, carry on.
I look at it differently. I look at it as an attempt to shape what is acceptable for humor or discourse. And to attempt to shape humor or discourse is in the hands of the powerful and the press. And it must be rebutted in all forms, at all times. Forget them.My take on these is almost always the same: it’s ok to be offended by something. It’s ok to write that you find something offensive. If one’s reaction to that is to then be outraged that someone was offended, remember you are behaving just like the originally offended party.
In this case, "the press" is the entity which is attempting to shape humor by endorsing clumsy and crude jokes.I look at it differently. I look at it as an attempt to shape what is acceptable for humor or discourse. And to attempt to shape humor or discourse is in the hands of the powerful and the press. And it must be rebutted in all forms, at all times. Forget them.My take on these is almost always the same: it’s ok to be offended by something. It’s ok to write that you find something offensive. If one’s reaction to that is to then be outraged that someone was offended, remember you are behaving just like the originally offended party.
I guess my thinking is that it's the press checking other parts of the press, if that makes sense. I don't like anybody's grievances, especially built around such faulty logic, if that makes sense.In this case, "the press" is the entity which is attempting to shape humor by endorsing clumsy and crude jokes.
And so....you rebut that?
So....you think it's wrong to endorse those jokes?
That's what Festivus is for.I guess my thinking is that it's the press checking other parts of the press, if that makes sense. I don't like anybody's grievances, especially built around such faulty logic, if that makes sense.
No, it's been widely established by writers and cast members alike, that the while point of the show was that there was no point of the show.Hov34 said:Besides, wasn't that the whole point of the show - that the main 3 (Jerry, George & Elanie) were all horrible people?
###### pleaseI look at it differently. I look at it as an attempt to shape what is acceptable for humor or discourse. And to attempt to shape humor or discourse is in the hands of the powerful and the press. And it must be rebutted in all forms, at all times. Forget them.
Maybe for you, but not for the rest of us.That's what Festivus is for.
So is dismissing people if they express that they are offended by something.I look at it differently. I look at it as an attempt to shape what is acceptable for humor or discourse. And to attempt to shape humor or discourse is in the hands of the powerful and the press. And it must be rebutted in all forms, at all times. Forget them.