I was never a big fan of Seinfeld. Like Cheers before and Friends after, it was a popular but ultimately dull sitcom. It was no more a revolutionary show than Law & Order is/was. Both may be the best expressions of their respective shitty genres, but that doesn’t change the fact that the kind of television they represent is inherently shitty.
These days whenever someone says “yada yada yada” the first thing that springs to most people’s minds is Seinfeld. The reason for that is that Seinfeld – at the height of its popularity – based an entire episode (titled “The Yada Yada”) around an otherwise pedestrian turn of phrase. For the record I’d like to point out that five years before that Seinfeld episode Bart deployed their trademark phrase in defense of one of his vile yet innocent deeds:
Bart: Well Milhouse, tis better to have loved and lost, yada yada yada. Let’s got to the arcade.
A formulation around which Seinfeld based an entire episode was used by The Simpsons as a fitting but unimportant piece of dialogue. ‘Nuff said.
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For the record, that episode of Seinfeld was after Larry David left the show, and there are many who feel the same way about those last two seasons of Seinfeld as you do about the last decade plus of Simpsons.
Dude, yadda yadda was around before that Simpsons episode.
What was the point of this blog post? O_O Other than that, the rest of the posts here are really interesting.
Bagman is not a legitimate career choice – People far more knowledgeable than I about “Seinfeld” have always told me that the best years of the show were in the middle. That was usually as part of a conversation about why I should sit down and give the show another chance (I recognize that there’s funny stuff in there, I just find laughtracks unbearably grating). But that hasn’t happened in a while and my pet theory as to why is because “Seinfeld” really isn’t aging well. I am quite certain than twenty years from now people will still be watching the good episodes of “The Simpsons”, “Seinfeld” not so much.
lolwut? – I’m aware that the Simpsons didn’t come up with it. My only real point is that “yada yada yada” is not a concept that’s meaty enough to base an entire episode around.
“My only real point is that “yada yada yada” is not a concept that’s meaty enough to base an entire episode around.”
I’m pretty sure that’s the joke. Seinfeld is the “show about nothing”. Whether or not you think it’s funny is obviously up to you, but building entire episodes around something so small is exactly what they were going for. Other examples include a woman with masculine hands, waiting in line at a restaurant and getting lost in a parking complex.
Also, I completely agree about the laugh tracks.