George gets laid too often
It's always seemed ridiculous to paint a character as insecure and unattractive and petty and then to turn around and make him the show's lothario who dates many attractive women.
shareI know, but they can't have too many ugly people on TV in one scene, people simply won't watch. Note that everybody's girlfriends were pretty and Elaine's boyfriends were handsome. Even Newman had an insanely hot ex-girlfriend that ended up dating Jerry!
And that other NBC hit Frasier, Frasier was always dating superhot women, living in a million dollar condo on local radio show salary(40K-60K a year, tops).
True. I just don't understand why they portrayed George as so inept and yet they got him laid.
shareIt was all Larry David's fault. He's an ugly guy that for a long time never got laid so he wrote George as his alter-ego and lived vicariously through George and all his conquests.
shareI believe this to be true. George was written as Larry David's fantasy. But that's the whole point of making a show, living out your dreams.
And by making George, which is basically his personality, a likeable sought after familiar thing, i'm sure it worked a hell of a charm in his own life.
It's funny how America has changed since Seinfelds last episode. I go to the store nowadays and I see at least half the people are obese and most of the rest simply "overweight". So, George finding a nice looking lady in decent physical condition in today's America is 10 times more absurd!
share> It's funny how America has changed since Seinfelds last episode. I go to the store nowadays and I see at least half the people are obese and most of the rest simply "overweight".
At one point in the show Jerry, himself, states that he believes that 95% of the population is so unattractive as to be “undatable.” He pointed to the people you see at the DMV for evidence.
I think it had as much or more to do with plotlines and joke ideas. If you have five ideas for George dating that involve scenarios which require a different girl (either because the girl needs new quirks which wouldn't make sense layered onto one human, or because George will torpedo the relationship so completely that she'll never return), you need to give him five girlfriends. If some of those plotlines involve him sleeping with them, you need that element, too. A lot of people just assume a sexual relationship with dating partners, anyway, so at a casual glance it appears normal.
There might be an element of Larry David's wish fulfillment, but I thought most of it was just plots.
Yeah, for sure. This is afterall a comedy show. We definitely get bogged down in details as fans cause the characters are so real to us. But it's a joke show. It's not supposed to make any sense.
shareI think, like any story, it's supposed to make internal sense. Star Wars' space physics doesn't look like real life. The way Muppets interact with humans in Muppet pictures doesn't involve ten minutes of explaining to people that monsters are real and they're very fuzzy. But there's internal logic to the stories.
Seinfeld operates as a satire of human foibles and, within its parametres, it always works and makes sense. "The Opposite" is a great example: chewing people out like that and admitting flaws so nakedly will not get you a plum job and a girlfriend, but it did because of the internal machinery on Seinfeld.
Supposedly there is (or was) a dearth of single, college-educated, hetero males living in NYC:
“In Manhattan, the numbers are even more dire, with 38 percent more young female college grads than male. Birger says the imbalance is also exacerbated by New York’s large population of gay males. Some 9 to 12 percent of men in Manhattan are gay, according to Gary Gates, a demographics expert at UCLA’s Williams Institute.”
https://nypost.com/2015/08/25/hey-ladies-here-are-8-reasons-youre-single/
Although you’d still think that short, balding, stocky, unemployed men who live with their parents would have a tough time finding a date much less having a shot at Marisa Tomei.
A few of Elaine's boyfriends were honestly not handsome at all. The communist from The Race was really bland. The guy from The Smelly Car was pretty fat. Not that guys cant date women more attractive than them, and vice versa, but she definitely had some average looking boyfriends.
shareJLD's husband is much less attractive then her. But I think they had dated since college or at least since when they were on SNL
shareA few of Elaine's boyfriends were honestly not handsome at all. The communist from The Race was really bland. The guy from The Smelly Car was pretty fat. Not that guys cant date women more attractive than them, and vice versa, but she definitely had some average looking boyfriends.
I agree. There was that mechanic guy she dated who was rather unattractive. He was the same one who said he didn't care if she was a Christian because he's not the one that's going to Hell. So that was also a negative about him. share
You mean David Puddy (ie Patrick Warburton)? I didn't think he was a bad-looking guy, and I'm sure his nonchalant attitude and generally cool demeanor didn't hurt his cause with the ladies, either. He seemed very comfortable in his own skin.
shareYeah. That is the guy. He did seem pretty content.
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