I like this photo.
Now if only I could get The Beatles to mock up a Seinfeld photo. For the sake of simplicity George could be George, leaving Paul to be Jerry, John as Kramer and Ringo as Elaine. Or maybe Yoko Ono could be Elaine and Ringo would be Uncle Leo or someone.
I haven't really thought this through. (In reality this topic is open to mountains of discussion).
I was thinking about making a comparison of the Seinfeld and The Beatles because I have mildly problematic obsessions with both. It turns out (fairly unsurprisingly) that it's been done before.
Here and here a couple of examples I have found.
The first link makes a neat little comparison (in it's first few paragraphs) between the two in terms of their cultural dominance of their respective eras.
The second link makes some cross generational comparisons of sitcoms and music artists which by way of summary goes thusly:
I Love Lucy - Elvis Presley, Seinfeld - The Beatles, The Office (USA) - Queen
Now, first of all, being English I have little to no working knowledge of 'I Love Lucy' but if it is anything like Elvis I imagine it was massively culturally important at the time but contains almost nothing of interest for the modern consumer. I'm sure the author reads it a little differently, but I'll go along with it.
Now there is a line in one Seinfeld episode where Jerry says he's never seen a single episode of 'Lucy' (hence destroying this guy's theory of 'no Seinfeld without I Love Lucy') but then he is a fictional character and I imagine Jerry in real life is very well read sitcom-wise. Perhaps an American viewer would be aware of allusions of 'I Love Lucy' in Seinfeld. But anyway, as far as comparing The Beatles and Seinfeld I agree with him.
But then he says The Office is like Queen. He ranks The Office (USA) his favourite sitcom of all time, so we must assume he holds Queen in equally high esteem. Now I have been known to enjoy the pompous stylings of Queen in the past but to say their better than The Beatles...well for me his theory falls to pieces. I would be prepared to give The Office a chance if he just said 'This is my favourite sitcom, you should check it out', but knowing that he ranks Queen above The Beatles, I can't help feeling his sitcom barometer must be a bit broken. How can I trust his judgement after a something like that?
Besides, he completely ignores Arrested Development. Are they the Radiohead of sitcoms? Perhaps as far as comparisons go, assigning sitcoms their equivalent music group is probably about as wanky as it gets. I'm beginning to think so.
If only I had the patience, skill and inclination to do so, I would now post a crudely put together photo of The Beatles heads superimposed onto the Seinfeld gang just to make up for wasting your time.
