randomly, the last seinfeld appeared on the tv tonight in the first half hour of the nightly seinfeld hour and instead of silence after the last scene, the tv jumped right into another seinfeld episode from somewhere in the middle of the long running series...
random series episodes are so appropriate for what might have been the most random show on tv, though laugh-in, monty python, benny hill, and others have been pretty random, thing is, none of those tried to present themselves as sit-coms, meaning actual stories about characters talking about random life stuff week after week...
friends was not as random, there were threads running through the stories developing the characters, changing relationships, developments, learning, growth... cheers had story lines and character development all through the series... even M*A*S*H was rich with continuing story lines in spite of being the same scene over and over... wait, maybe the original i love lucy was close... and they all got serious, had endearing qualities, even brought a tear to the eye (or more)... but characters who remained the same from start to end, no character development and minimal connections between episodes, characters you could not take seriously because of their ridiculous randomness and yet, they compelled you to watch just to see what next randomness would get them excited over nothing... just loads of randomness and nothing and more, the drama of random nothingness... word after word after word saying nothing...
but to go to jail for it?...
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