Happy Festivus 2009!
 

I'd like to wish all my friends on LoT a very happy Festivus this year.

For those of you on LoT who are not my friends, I will address you later during the Airing of Grievances.

I'm all up for the "Feats of Strength" part of the holiday with a wrestling match with Sam Worthington.

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Alright, that's 2 names you've made me need to look up today.

Yeah... lots of work getting done in Sam's office today

Happy festivus! And a merry vaginismus!

Yeah, yeah. Where's the ice cream?

Oh, it's from Seinfeld. Ok.

Uh oh, you JUST got that?

OMG... that means... you haven't been listening to your "Baby loves Seinfeld" tapes with the headphones around your midsection?!?!? What the heck!! Now baby T-bone is never going to come out with a pre-determined set of loveable pals like Elaine, George, and the freaky guy with the hair. For shame. You.....you....you.... amniotic soup nazi!!! ;)

NA : Monty Python
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CP : Seinfeld

I'm not a Seinfeld fan either. I don't despise it, just not a fan. I just like poking fun at pregnant ladies. ;)

I like Seinfeld.

I like Seinfeld, too. But in actuality, I have only seen maybe half of all of the episodes...

While I'm not bothered by CP not liking Seinfeld (I've pretty mixed feelings myself, some few episodes are classic but most have not aged well at all and I missed most of the initial run).

It is surprising to me, though, that she has made it through the last decade of Festivus silliness every year without finding out what it was.

Wait a minute, isn't Seinfeld like, required viewing for Jews? Like not making out during Schindler's List?

I think it's one of those things that lives on the edge of my radar. I've probably googled it every year.

If I ever suspect that I'm not a weirdo, I remind myself that I do not enjoy the majority of widely popular sitcoms with laugh tracks and/or studio audiences. Seinfeld, Friends, Home Improvement, Everybody Loves Raymond, the Drew Carey Show, Frasier...I've given each of these maybe 10 minutes of my life and was horrified to discover what the vast majority of my peers enjoy. Even my brothers love this stuff.

The major exception is That 70's Show, which I really did love for a while. I did quit on it eventually, I think after the 2nd season, when it got just a little too....I guess the word is "silly".

I am so damn glad that Arrested Development came along, and the wave of no-audience, seemingly higher-intelligence sitcoms (though I hate to use the "s" word in relation to them, to me they are in a different class) that came after it - The Office, 30 Rock. I really can't quantify how these shows are different from the other shows, mostly because I haven't studied it too closely, but to me the difference is apparent.

Yes, the general population first learned about Festivus via Seinfeld, but according to Wikipedia, it originated in 1966. (Read the article, I'm not joking.)