Issue Date: November 20, 2005
There's something wrong with that!
An etiquette authority on TV's defining comedy of manners: "Seinfeld" Season 5
"Seinfeld" Season 5 is out Tuesday.
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THE SITUATION: Stand-up comic Jerry Seinfeld and his three self-absorbed fellow New Yorkers are back with more dating misadventures and social blunders.
INSIDER's CREDENTIALS: Peggy Post is the great-granddaughter-in-law of Emily Post, whose 1922 book, "Etiquette," is considered the bible of social graces. A manners maven herself, Post rewrote that book last year and has authored 11 others.
OVERVIEW: "It's hilarious. The characters bring forth so many human flaws that are universal. But I don't think it glorifies bad behavior. There are always consequences."
Disc 2: The Lip Reader -- After getting busted in a hurtful lie, Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) tells Jerry she's not a bad person: "When I see freaks in the street, I never, ever stare at them. Yet I'm careful not to look away because I want the freaks to feel comfortable."
" 'Freak' is not the most respectful term. But Elaine is really concerned about hurting people's feelings. The characters keep trying to do the right thing in their own funny ways."
Disc 3: The Conversion -- Jerry spies a tube of fungicide in his date's medicine cabinet and flips out.
"I couldn't believe Jerry. That's a real no-no. You don't go snooping around in somebody else's bathroom. It's just downright invasive. Plus, it ruined a good relationship -- and the cream was really for the cat."
Disc 4: The Wife -- At the gym, a guy Elaine has a crush on leaves his sweat all over the seat of a machine she is about to use. She thinks it's a "gesture of intimacy."
"There is a whole fitness-center etiquette, and it's about keeping your sweat and germs to yourself."
-- Frappa Stout
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