Seinfeld-When is a Pizza a Pizza?

When is a Pizza a Pizza?

I saw a rerun of Seinfeld last night and while I’ve seen nearly all of them while they’ve been in reruns I don’t believe I’ve seen this one episode from beginning to end before.

Jerry is getting a new couch and while the movers are there Elaine flirts with one of them, and doesn’t care that he’s a mover because he’s gorgeous! Additionally, Kramer reintroduces his onetime business idea of allowing customers come in and create their own pizza pie!

These two ideas don’t seem like they could possibly meet, but they do a nice job of finding a tangent from one to the other and then back again. Kramer is going to go into business with Poppy-the famed uncle of a previous girlfriend whose restaurant had problems because Poppy got sloppy after not washing his hands in the bathroom prior to returning to work. Well time has passed and Poppy is ready to forgive Jerry. Jerry and Elaine are sitting in the restaurant waiting for their dinner when Jerry comments that he’d have been happy having some pizza at home. Elaine is not at all happy because the place he orders his pizza from are staunch anti-abortion advocates, and a woman must be allowed her constitutional right to choose! So Jerry plays devil’s advocate and asks Poppy where he stands on the abortion issue-his long winded answer reveals that he is against it and Elaine nearly incites a riot in the restaurant causing half the customers to walk out.

This will of course have negative effects on both Elaine and Kramer later-as Elaine learns that her gorgeous new boyfriend is against abortion, which quickly ends their relationship. Kramer is later learning how to put together a pie-pre oven-and Poppy is insulted over how Kramer wants cucumbers on his pie. Cucumbers do not go on a pizza! A pizza has to have certain things and nothing else! But Kramer argues that it’s his pizza and he has the right to make it anyway he wants, plus-it’s not a pizza until it comes out of the oven! This leads to Poppy’s immediate response of it being a pizza as soon as the dough is made…

Conception or birth? Dough or cooked?

I laughed at the obvious parody they presented and wondered if others watching would wonder too at the ludicrous statement they presented, or if they’d find it too serious a subject to laugh at instead.

Seinfeld pilot on imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098286/

Seinfeld web site
http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/seinfeld/

Tuesday, December 09, 2008