I’m not comparing the works of Dickens and Seinfeld as works of art, I’m saying that if you write characters that resonate with people, they remain relevant even after the show is off the air. Pardon me for picking Dickens, I could have picked I Love Lucy or another TV show but Dickens was the first thing that came to mind.
Now, as an aside, and I know I’m only going to start more shit by saying this but here I go: Charles Dickens is a masterful writer and storyteller, but in his own time his work was published as a newspaper serial…it was popular entertainment. And many of his contemporaries (both critics and writers such as Henry James and William Wordsworth) considered his work melodramatic and common. His work was not considered great literature in his own time. It took the passage of time for people to have the proper perspective to appreciate it as great literature.
Which, and I stress this, I don’t say in order to compare A Christmas Carol to Seinfeld. I’m just saying that if this were the 1850′s, no one would be getting uppity about this conversation and acting like I said something outrageous.
Turtleboyahoy, you’re contradicting yourself. First you said I was an over-eager college freshman with too much useless information on my hands, then you said you could tell I had never seen the inside of a college lecture hall (presumably a person with no information on my hands). I can’t be both. You have to pick one.
That’s what I was getting at. Seinfeld was a “moment” of the mid 90s. That was some 20 years ago. It wasn’t fucking Shakespeare. What the hell are people going to be trying to shill 20 years from now?
Already there, I buy them all the time…yes I’m a neanderthal who still uses my VHS player…and cassette Walkman…and 34 year old car…and 20+ year old Birkenstocks…ok, I’ll stop now…
Seinfeld was more than a “moment.” It had a heavy influence on popular culture that still exists today. I still hear Seinfeld references all the time.
But then, maybe it depends on the generation. I don’t know how old you are, Lanus, but you look pretty young in your picture. I’m in my late 30s, and the people my age that I hang around with were young adults when it was first on, and we still talk about it.
As for comparing it to Dickens, not so much. The Seinfeld writers were actually entertaining. With only a few exceptions, Dickens is boring as hell, droning on and on with long-winded exposition. And I say that as someone with a degree in English, so I’ve been plenty exposed to him. IMO, he’s seriously overrated.
She managed to make a relatively unattractive cast even more unattractive. Except for Elaine the other three are unfortunate looking. And I never found them all that funny.
Nothin’ new — others have tried and failed also. What is it about this bunch where maybe an artist gets one or two likenesses okay and fails on the others? Even Hirschfeld, who I think did many great caricatures, failed with the Seinfeld cast.
And somebody that who will always say it was good would be the artist’s Mom, assuming she temporarily forgot to be obsessed about the frying pan she got for Christmas 1973.
well HK, Art is no longer a front page category on Etsy, and I guess this is the reason why they have decided to hide the whole art category from buyers.
Sadly the crew of Seinfeld were involved in a freak nuclear accident.. their bodies have mutated and melded together and their pubes have overtaken the lower half. Heads are oddly unaffected by the radiation and they seem to keeping in good spirits about it all.
August 31, 2012 at 4:31 pm
It looks like George has boobs…
August 31, 2012 at 4:40 pm
He could use a Bro.
August 31, 2012 at 5:23 pm
You mean the Mansiere…
August 31, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Don’t you mean a Mansierre?
August 31, 2012 at 5:27 pm
In this case: the over the shoulder boulder holder.
August 31, 2012 at 5:33 pm
Thats what Wilma Flintstone used
September 1, 2012 at 10:01 am
Actually, if you’re going to get picky about spelling, it would be “Manssiere.”
August 31, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Moobs
September 1, 2012 at 1:48 am
Incorrect- the correct answer is “moops”
September 1, 2012 at 7:48 am
Yeah, and now I’m pissed! I have mammoth mammies, and his titties are even bigger than mine! (walks off in a huff)
August 31, 2012 at 4:32 pm
All I can see are George’s giant rocky tits.
August 31, 2012 at 4:33 pm
If you see George without a shirt, you need to leave. He’s taking a dump. He can’t dump with a shirt on, Jerry!
August 31, 2012 at 4:36 pm
He can’t be comfortable carrying those things around…he needs The Bro!
August 31, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Man hands and puffy shirt sold separately
August 31, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Seriously…is Seinfeld really a cash cow anymore? Um…the 90s…they ended, right? Or, is everyone on Etsy from Portland? (Duh, this answers so much!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVmq9dq6Nsg
August 31, 2012 at 4:40 pm
They’re beloved characters. People still go see stagings of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist, and the 19th century has been over way longer.
August 31, 2012 at 4:41 pm
I might be drunk, are we comparing Seinfeld to Dickens?
August 31, 2012 at 4:43 pm
We’re saying that beloved characters are beloved forever.
August 31, 2012 at 4:45 pm
I can’t wait to tell my grandchildren about Snookie.
August 31, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Don’t create a situation.
August 31, 2012 at 4:55 pm
Melagrana, I adore you. /clap
September 1, 2012 at 7:51 am
You get comment of the year! that gave me a smile i’ll not be able to undo! TY!
August 31, 2012 at 5:02 pm
I’m not comparing the works of Dickens and Seinfeld as works of art, I’m saying that if you write characters that resonate with people, they remain relevant even after the show is off the air. Pardon me for picking Dickens, I could have picked I Love Lucy or another TV show but Dickens was the first thing that came to mind.
Now, as an aside, and I know I’m only going to start more shit by saying this but here I go: Charles Dickens is a masterful writer and storyteller, but in his own time his work was published as a newspaper serial…it was popular entertainment. And many of his contemporaries (both critics and writers such as Henry James and William Wordsworth) considered his work melodramatic and common. His work was not considered great literature in his own time. It took the passage of time for people to have the proper perspective to appreciate it as great literature.
August 31, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Which, and I stress this, I don’t say in order to compare A Christmas Carol to Seinfeld. I’m just saying that if this were the 1850′s, no one would be getting uppity about this conversation and acting like I said something outrageous.
September 1, 2012 at 12:14 am
Ahh the 1850′s the golden age of internet snark!
September 1, 2012 at 7:53 am
Okay, I get it! Welcome Loosey!
August 31, 2012 at 5:13 pm
(cue graphic)”The more you know: the less I care”
August 31, 2012 at 11:38 pm
I love how you used the word “uppity.”
August 31, 2012 at 5:16 pm
I don’t mind having an unpopular opinion.
August 31, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Someone is really liking the first weeks of their English Lit 101 class.
August 31, 2012 at 5:24 pm
“NO SOUP FOR YOU! – NEXT!”
August 31, 2012 at 5:29 pm
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August 31, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Turtleboyahoy, you’re contradicting yourself. First you said I was an over-eager college freshman with too much useless information on my hands, then you said you could tell I had never seen the inside of a college lecture hall (presumably a person with no information on my hands). I can’t be both. You have to pick one.
August 31, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Let ye who has never laughed at Seinfeld cast the first stone.
September 1, 2012 at 3:41 am
Gasoline, meet open flame. NO LAUGHS FOR YOU! NEXT!!!
September 1, 2012 at 8:22 am
Can’t we just all agree that the drawing sucks?
August 31, 2012 at 4:43 pm
That’s what I was getting at. Seinfeld was a “moment” of the mid 90s. That was some 20 years ago. It wasn’t fucking Shakespeare. What the hell are people going to be trying to shill 20 years from now?
August 31, 2012 at 4:52 pm
Bedazzled Glee crap.
August 31, 2012 at 5:15 pm
I just looked for glee tagged items with rhinestones and didn’t find a single thing in the first 10 pages. Niche market!
August 31, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Run, don’t walk, to the nearest glitter glue aisle!
August 31, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Wait another 15 years, Etsy will be lousy with them.
August 31, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Honey Boo Boo Child?
August 31, 2012 at 5:16 pm
“vintage” VHS tapes on Etsy
August 31, 2012 at 6:26 pm
Already there, I buy them all the time…yes I’m a neanderthal who still uses my VHS player…and cassette Walkman…and 34 year old car…and 20+ year old Birkenstocks…ok, I’ll stop now…
August 31, 2012 at 6:01 pm
Britney or Madonna junk. Already over.
September 1, 2012 at 10:10 am
Seinfeld was more than a “moment.” It had a heavy influence on popular culture that still exists today. I still hear Seinfeld references all the time.
But then, maybe it depends on the generation. I don’t know how old you are, Lanus, but you look pretty young in your picture. I’m in my late 30s, and the people my age that I hang around with were young adults when it was first on, and we still talk about it.
As for comparing it to Dickens, not so much. The Seinfeld writers were actually entertaining. With only a few exceptions, Dickens is boring as hell, droning on and on with long-winded exposition. And I say that as someone with a degree in English, so I’ve been plenty exposed to him. IMO, he’s seriously overrated.
August 31, 2012 at 5:11 pm
You’re too drunk and Bethymania is too sober.
August 31, 2012 at 6:07 pm
what is this “too drunk” of which you speak?
September 1, 2012 at 8:49 am
He meant to say “two drunk”. That’s when you get twice as drunk as usual, and awesomeness ensues, followed by an epic shame spiral.
August 31, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Our family Christmas isn’t complete without our annual re-enactment of a very special episode of Riptide.
August 31, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Or family Festivus and vse of Baywatch
September 1, 2012 at 8:25 am
My family performs every song n’ dance number from the show Cop Rock, from episode 1 right up through episode 2, when it was cancelled.
September 1, 2012 at 9:59 am
speaking of ’80s things and Christmas…this had me laughing til I cried.
http://www.hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ca/2010/12/year-kenny-loggins-ruined-christmas.html
September 1, 2012 at 12:17 am
Well actually etsy OWNS Portland – haven’t you heard?
http://www.etsy.com/blog/news/2012/etsy-acquires-city-of-portland/
September 1, 2012 at 12:05 pm
I thought it was getting awfully crafty up in this bitch.
August 31, 2012 at 4:37 pm
My very first thought was that George had boulder tits, and the two people above me thought the same thing. You know your audience well, April.
August 31, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Isn’t it nice to know we aren’t the only ones?
August 31, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Elaine looks pretty thrilled with whatever is at Kramer’s, um treeline.
August 31, 2012 at 6:18 pm
Speaking of treeline, it appears that they all are a bit “bushy.”
September 1, 2012 at 7:56 am
Yes, but is he sponge worthy???
August 31, 2012 at 4:38 pm
ssssssssssssssort of want
August 31, 2012 at 4:39 pm
i mean the concept, you can’t knock the concept george. it’s conceptual. you can’t knock it george, you can’t!
August 31, 2012 at 4:39 pm
What stuns me is that somebody, somewhere told this person that “IT IS GOOD!”. Note to artist: it really, really isn’t. Please stop.
August 31, 2012 at 5:54 pm
She managed to make a relatively unattractive cast even more unattractive. Except for Elaine the other three are unfortunate looking. And I never found them all that funny.
September 1, 2012 at 4:16 am
Nothin’ new — others have tried and failed also. What is it about this bunch where maybe an artist gets one or two likenesses okay and fails on the others? Even Hirschfeld, who I think did many great caricatures, failed with the Seinfeld cast.
And somebody that who will always say it was good would be the artist’s Mom, assuming she temporarily forgot to be obsessed about the frying pan she got for Christmas 1973.
August 31, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Kramer looks regretful. Like he said something he shouldn’t have?
August 31, 2012 at 4:55 pm
And Jerry obviously heard about it and is mortified.
August 31, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Wait, when did Kid N Play replace Jerry Seinfeld?
August 31, 2012 at 5:06 pm
I got distracted by Elaine’s crack-whore teeth.
August 31, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Or Magnum ‘stache.
August 31, 2012 at 5:11 pm
It could use some Paula Poundstone.
August 31, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Peter Sagel: is that you?!
August 31, 2012 at 8:06 pm
That would be gneiss. She’s too often taken for granite.
September 1, 2012 at 7:47 am
Schiiisst, Zippy..
September 1, 2012 at 8:35 am
I think it’s made out of pyrite.
August 31, 2012 at 5:16 pm
What is Jerry looking at over there? I have no idea what he could be seeing but it seems to be really interesting.
August 31, 2012 at 5:21 pm
The Liberty Saved By The Bell.
August 31, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Newman!
August 31, 2012 at 6:04 pm
His old career?
August 31, 2012 at 5:21 pm
This is gold, Jerry. GOLD!
August 31, 2012 at 5:36 pm
well HK, Art is no longer a front page category on Etsy, and I guess this is the reason why they have decided to hide the whole art category from buyers.
August 31, 2012 at 5:48 pm
That’s ONE way to get around any possibly copyrighted images. Now, who ARE they?
September 1, 2012 at 8:14 am
no calling out in the form guys. I’m closing this thread! (etsy admin)
August 31, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Sadly the crew of Seinfeld were involved in a freak nuclear accident.. their bodies have mutated and melded together and their pubes have overtaken the lower half. Heads are oddly unaffected by the radiation and they seem to keeping in good spirits about it all.
August 31, 2012 at 6:15 pm
NO! Just…….NO!
August 31, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Does anyone else the weird, Dali-esque face next to Jerry?? Have I had too much wine??? Or not enough???
August 31, 2012 at 7:43 pm
It looks to be a Ferengi. Possibly Quark from ST:DS9?
August 31, 2012 at 9:36 pm
On acid…
August 31, 2012 at 8:10 pm
To paraphrase my new bestie, Lanus: “What is this ‘too much wine’ you speak of?”
August 31, 2012 at 9:36 pm
An alleged mythical beastie…similar to a unicorn or a politician with a conscience…
September 1, 2012 at 3:43 am
Don’t you GET it? It’s a painting about nothing.
September 1, 2012 at 5:36 pm
I was thinking Picasso-esque – Jerry seems to be listening to it’s dying words.
August 31, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Is that George’s “O” face?
August 31, 2012 at 10:13 pm
This drawing is actually really worth your time if you re-view it thinking of it as The O-Faces of Seinfeld.
September 1, 2012 at 1:49 am
To me it looks like they’re all naked in bed together. Kinky.
September 1, 2012 at 4:42 am
September 1, 2012 at 8:40 am
The artist has an “Escheresque” grasp on perspective.
September 1, 2012 at 10:04 am
I’d buy it just for the swell 11×14 mat…
September 1, 2012 at 12:09 pm
“No swell, no sale.”