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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
The Hole. Spoiled boarding-school Brits psyche-out in bomb-shelter party. Early Thora Birch and Keira Knightly. TMC at 8:00 tonight.
the arrested development season premiere is on monday at 8pm on fox.
sunday night at 8pm ed wood on ifc, replays at 1245am.
possibly useful if you were some sort of obsessive tv freak. (twitches unconsciously.) behold, meevee.
history channel might be interesting tonight. 8pm show about lake pontchartrain causeway, then a show about katrina, followed by a show about category five hurricanes. and i happened also to notice the premiere of the original Gone In Sixty Seconds on speed tv. that will be my first visit to that channel.
cowsills on playboy afterdark
from here
via zoller