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ABC NO RIO (156 Rivington st.) documentary on Sundance right now.
carpacolypse used to be on saturdays at 8 on spike. i think they took it off for a while. there are some fun video clips here. it was the cool redneck jacksonville florida cast that brought me back to this show week after week.
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house and home thread
seinfeldian references - the soup / soupee model
According to folklorist Nathan Ausubel, the schlemiel traditionally was linked in Yiddish folklore with "his equally unlucky cousin, the schlimazl.... The two types did have an affinity; they both had their origin in the same economic swamp of ghetto-stagnation. Also their end product was identical - failure" (Pinkster 6). As Jerry's romance fails, George fails to get a suitable pair of glasses and, further, to realize that his "lost" ones are still sitting on top of his locker, a fact revealed to the audience in the last shot of the episode. By definition, the two types also have important differences. The schlimazl, like Sholem Aleichem's Tevye, is a "man more sinned against than sinning, as the victim of 'accidents' he did not engineer" (Pinkster 31). The schlemiel "has a hand in his [own] destruction; the more he attempts, the greater seem his chances for comic failure." Thus, when George pursues his potential to become a star hand model in another episode, he ruins his own chances for star status and financial success.(3) Caught up in his own importance, he unintentionally blurts out insults that further rile a miffed fashion designer; she shoves him into a burning embrace with a hot iron sitting on an ironing board. Here the schlemiel's "hand" in his own destruction becomes literal. The idea of "hand" signifying manipulation and control or the lack thereof, a frequent theme in the show, is rooted in classic Jewish humor.
emmy who?
the rise of the goldbergs
the match game hollywood squares hour 1983-84
via square update