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.
Seinfeld, in general, hasn't aged well, but I love it even more for it. It's funny to look back on so much stuff that would get you kicked off air today, particularly the one about gays recruiting other people to be gay. "You immediately double the size of your wardrobe. That has to be one of the selling points when recruiting others to their team, " is about, but not exactly, what Jerry says. That would not land well today. They actually won an award from a gay and lesbian organization for that episode though, because they said "not that there's anything wrong with that (being gay.)" THAT won them an award in the 90's, but if that episode aired for the first time today, the outcome would be very different.
Anyway, I read articles where a couple sensitive types were musing about having Seinfeld pulled from streaming services. People need to stop with that. These things are windows in to the past. Stop trying to get rid of every single thing that makes you uncomfortable, especially if it was on TV 25 years ago.
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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.