Favorite Film and TV Characters

[Smitty-48]

Seinfeld was at the heart of the 90s...

I was peak army then. Didn't watch much tv. On my off time, I was either partying, or sleeping.

[C-Mag]

The characters were excellent. I have a hard time picking which would be my favorite.
The bizarre nature of Kramer as the crazy neighbor, Seinfeld's woman of the week, or George.

George was hilarious in his complete lack of empathy for man. When George discovered all his instincts were wrong and if he did the complete opposite he'd have success was brilliant.

[Speaker to Animals]

Yeah, I was on the flight line fixing jets all night. Had to watch those shows on DVD.

For me the heart of the 90s were X-Files and Outer Limits, since I usually could get off the flight line early on Friday nights due to the fact that I would have to be back Saturday morning for weekend duty three weekends per month.

[brewster]

For all you The Wire fans, David Simon and Ed Burns are back.

JERSEY CITY — A six-part HBO miniseries based on Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America” is scheduled to film along Martin Luther King Drive in Jersey City in upcoming weeks.

The show is being written and executive produced by David Simon and Ed Burns, who partnered on the acclaimed HBO series “The Wire.”

The 2004 book from Roth, a Newark native, depicts an alternate history where Charles Lindbergh defeats Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election and then signs a treaty with Nazi Germany. The story follows a New Jersey family as it deals with anti-Semitism that spreads across the nation.

Funny part is, you can guess what part of town MLK Drive is! It's like Bed-Sty in the 80's, 90% of the JC shootings are around there.

[DrYouth]

The characters were excellent. I have a hard time picking which would be my favorite.
The bizarre nature of Kramer as the crazy neighbor, Seinfeld's woman of the week, or George.

George was hilarious in his complete lack of empathy for man. When George discovered all his instincts were wrong and if he did the complete opposite he'd have success was brilliant.

My favorite characters were George's parents.
Especially his father.

[Smitty-48]

Seinfeld definitely has some funny bits, I just never get the urge to sit through a half hour of it at a time.

[Speaker to Animals]

For me, memories of Seinfeld were more like seeing it on the television in the AMU when I came in to fill out some paperwork. I spent most of the time out on the flight line or on the avionics truck, so I didn't watch it live on television. I had to watch it later on DVD when they came out.

But the pivotal television that I usually did get to see was X-Files. Every Friday night the barracks day room was filled with airmen who had to get their X-Files and Outer Limits fix. So for lots of people, X-Files was something they watched at home alone or maybe with a few family members. For me, it was a huge event where we all shared thoughts on various paranormal events. At least five or six each night, just in one day room on one floor of a single barracks.

That, for me, is the 90s. That and working in a fighter squadron, pub crawling in Boise, camping in the wilderness, etc.

Did I mention I miss the 90s like a God damned motherfucker?

[Smitty-48]

I think I missed the 90's. Gym, tan, laundry, and the 21 steps of battle procedure. Getting laid. Getting in brawls. What else happened?

[Speaker to Animals]

I think the 90s were arguably the happiest decade in American history. It was when the most prosperity was most widely distributed. The Soviet threat was gone. Terrorism was not really a threat to CONUS yet, but obviously a threat to us overseas since the bastards just blew up our barracks in Riyadh and injured some friends. Still, in CONUS itself.. life was really, really good for a lot of people.

I do remember summer of 1999 when I was working at a Fortune 500 corp for the summer while getting my bachelor's degree, I would see this propaganda on the cafeteria television about how free trade was great and opening up factories in China was really going to be good for us. I knew then it was the beginning of the end. I remember telling my wife how fucking retarded people were for believing that shit. Always was a Perot man.

Then Dubya somehow won that election and that's really when shit went off the rails. As much of a massive faggot Gore is, I don't think we'd be in this deep state shit hole we find ourselves in today. 9-11 most likely would have been foiled. No Iraq War. No ISIS. Probably no national debt either, since we were on track to be debt-free by 2012. Remember when the lugenpresse was publishing articles about how the budget was a bad thing because debt was good? I do.

[Smitty-48]

I miss the late seventies to the early eighties, that was the best of times, free reign, no Temperance Lady.