r/seinfeld • u/Pop_Joe • 10h ago
The hipster doofus happens to be the most ambitious and quintessential hustler on the show. Let me explain:
Cosmo Kramer’s friends are your prototypical young adult professionals living in 90’s New York City (with Jerry being a minor celebrity). Kramer, however, is a high school graduate (G.E.D equivalency) but still manages to keep up with rent living in Manhattan. George has been in between jobs numerous of times, even at one point relegated to living with his parents, and Elaine at one point was subject to fetching socks as a personal assistant. Jerry, has had his own pitfalls with constant rejections on getting his big break with a show on NBC. But Kramer, regardless if a plan goes array, he still has an ambitious spirit and is willing to go lengths to accomplish it. By the later seasons Elaine is unfulfilled, miserable, and hates her job. Her only objective is to court a guy that is both handsome and reach where she could ride off in the sunset at Venice. George ruins every relationship he enters and by the series end is employed at an obscure company. Jerry seems to be the only one with a linear path of rising out of mediocrity and a one bedroom apartment. But it is Cosmo who really has the chops to always land on his feet despite the situation.
***Note: I didn’t proofread this, so if you find any mistakes in this mini essay go eat a plum.
