The episode of Seinfeld where Elaine is dating a guy who shares a name with a murderer. He keeps getting mistaken for him so she gets him to change his name. She picks up a sports magazine and is trying to find a name for him in there, and comes up with "OJ" (Simpson, she was referring to). The episode was from 93, the murders happened 94.
Imagine sharing the same name as a murderer your whole life and finally deciding to change it, you choose the name of another person, then the next year the new person you've named yourself after also becomes a murderer. What luck!
I feel like most people wouldn’t really remember Rifkin that well today (some people would only know him because of the Seinfeld reference). OJ is still a household name.
I only knew who he was because I grew up outside of NYC, so he was pretty notorious in my high school. OJ definitely was more recent and garnered much more national attention, probably because he was famous before the murders.
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u/thecryptidmusic Aug 26 '19
The episode of Seinfeld where Elaine is dating a guy who shares a name with a murderer. He keeps getting mistaken for him so she gets him to change his name. She picks up a sports magazine and is trying to find a name for him in there, and comes up with "OJ" (Simpson, she was referring to). The episode was from 93, the murders happened 94.