seinfeld-sota fab four

so for my first pure seinfeld post i'm taking a look back at some of the actors that made the show what it was.

well, really, i should preface all this by saying that i'm a pretty big fan - not that there's anything wrong with that. i'm well educated and read, but choose to enjoy a good seinfeld re-run over the news anyday - once again, not that there's anything wrong with that. i'll ramble on about something either seinfeld based that relates to my life or something life related that parallels to seinfeld. most of this - as is with my life - will fall somewhere in the gray area between the realities as they are and the realities as they are remembered.

so first off - we all know the major players. jerry. julia. michael. jason. we shall call them the fab four. not to be confused with all the other fab fours and fives (or for the alliterationally-impaired, sixes) that seem to be proclaimed as soon as a group makes the smallest accomplishment. this was a true fab four - right off the bat.

as a sidenote - should i refer to myself and siblings as the fab four from now on? sure we haven't done anything even remotely 'faboulous' at this point in our lives other than manage not to kill each other as teens - but the american way must be to trash talk about such things - so i'm also referring to myself and siblings as the fab four....i see no way this will get confusing later.

heck, let's make it confusing now. since my blog is read by just over no people - technically for you non-math majors, that would be one and i'm not quite sure if i can count myself as a regular reader, but hey, i dare you to respond and tell me differently - i'm waiting.....ok, good we all agree with me. anyway, back to my statement, i'm going to make an executive decision to shift the focus of this to looking into the parallels between my siblings and the 'seinfeld four' (think chinese restaurant episode and that guys accent there...hilarious)

so, hmmm. first off, the obvious. each group has three men and one woman. i'll place the older of my younger brothers in the spot of jerry - the other brother as the hipster doofus with myself taking the spot of caaa-stanza. elaine of course would be played by my sister.

how do we compare? as for myself - other than the college education, i immediately see a number of similarities with georgie. we both see like bats without our corrective lenses. i've never purchased women's frames, but then again - life ain't over quite yet. we both, at times, would rather be away from our parents than in their company. thinking about this now, i'm almost surprised i've never had the brassiere conversation at the dinner table ala george and frank. we both like sports - although i feel i'm quite a bit more athletic than george - and i always would have loved working for a major league organization in some capacity (assistant to the traveling secretary? excellent) and finally - at least off the top of my head - we both have trouble with women. but let me state for the record, i've never killed off a fiance. (although, i'm not gonna lie to you, i've been known to remove a shirt before taking care of some important business - if you know what i mean)

how about the hipster doofus and the younger bro you ask? well, they both seem to enjoy the, let's call it, easy life. a quote of, 'his whole life is a fantasy camp' comes to mind on this one. both seem to enjoy their spirits - 'i suck 'em down like coke-a-cola' - 'here's to feeling good all the time'. and both are known for their days on the golf course (with more conservative clothing being sported by the younger sota. and as a strange parallel i might develop more in the future, they both have shall we say big boned friends that they tend to get into trouble with (although one of those would be a postman, while the other would be more of a post)

brother #2 is maybe the worst match of the fab four to the fab four (see, not confusing at all there - perfectly clear) but he does live in quite the clean house, knows and dates many women and finds plenty of small, meaningless reasons to get rid of said women. he also is the outgoing, some might say, comedic one. his residence is the gathering place for the other characters and he enjoys his parents and his 'uncle leo' with a restrainment/patience not displayed by caa-stanza.

finally - sis and elaine. both educated, career-oriented businesswomen. both with their share of ex-boyfriends. both with a tendency of what i'll call overindulgence at holiday time company gatherings. not sure how sis does with witchy woman, but i'd bet it's comparable if not surpassing. dark haired - bagel and big salad loving - slightly devious. this is a great comparison....possibly the best of the four. (or i'm typing that to avoid thinking about how many things george and i have in common - and no, i'm neither fat not balding nor living with my parents nor unemployed)

so whether we match up to them because of us or because the guys wrote those parts to try and cover the 'every man' charachterization, i don't know. i'd hope for the latter, but know that if i did some internal digging, the former is probably the case.

in a later blog i'll look into how some of our friends, parents and co-workers might fit in the sota bizaro world that is my daily life.

good night all....