( Friends producers would later call “no fair!” when they wanted to show an empty condom wrapper and were denied.) Granted, the magic of “The Contest” is that it never uses the word “masturbation” it’s the euphemisms that make it hilarious. When NBC didn’t, they knew they had earned the chance to do anything they wanted. This fascinating book includes classic articles on the show by Geoffrey O'Brien and Bill Wyman (first published in the New York Review of Books and respectively), and a selection of new and revised essays by some of the top.
This fourth-season episode also marks one of the few times the writers were worried the network would interfere with their plans. After a slow and inauspicious beginning, Seinfeld broke through to become one of the most commercially successful sitcoms in the history of television. storyline is exceptional, quintessential ’90s New York.
This is Seinfeld‘s specialty, making the unspeakable speakable … and funny. They also take a taboo topic and give us a way to talk about it: Those who have held out claim to be “master of my domain” (or, alternatively, “queen of the castle”). This has everything a classic Seinfeld has: Through their contest to see who can go the longest without masturbating, the four characters make the mundane absurd. It’s the rare time when all four characters share one overarching storyline (though each is on his or her own unique journey through it, as ever).
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