Happy Festivus

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I've got a lot of problems with you people, and now, you're going to hear about it!

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I've got a lot of problems with you people, and now, you're going to hear about it!

Go for it.

This website stinks! We couldn't predict an election if we had a hot date with a...

...I lost my train of thought.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I did not even know that a show called Seinfeld existed before Alben Barkley mentioned it a couple weeks ago.

And you're on an American political forum blog? You can't possibly hope to understand the American social experience without understanding Seinfeld.

What do you say to Americans who've never watched Seinfeld?

These people exist? To be honest, a lot of sitcoms are better than Seinfeld but it's engrained in the American psyche like no other show.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but I actually do think this. Jerry and his friends' middle-class downward mobility, their superficiality about sexual relationships, the ambivalent status of religious people and immigrants in the show's conceptual universe, the abandonment of personal or political mission or purpose, the obsession with movies and moviegoing...Seinfeld is *it* for understanding 1990s America in the same way that The Great Gatsby is for 1920s America.