The comedy of deception: Seinfeld offered lying, cheating and flight from responsibility Final Edition

• Published in: The Ottawa citizen (1986)
• Main Author: Bron, Ian G
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ottawa, Ont Postmedia Network Inc 14.05.1998
• ISSN: 0839-3222

It doesn't stop at the elementary grades, either. If anything, students in middle and secondary school pick up even more from television. The negative behaviour is simply more sophisticated -- like the ones on Seinfeld. Take a recent episode. The character Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) denounces cake-eating at work, but suddenly finds herself in desperate need of a sugar fix. She sneaks into her boss's office, finds a beautiful piece of cake in his fridge and helps herself. She soon learns that the cake was, in fact, part of the wedding cake for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and worth $20,000. Rather than confess her sin, she sneaks back into the office to cut more of the cake away and hide her crime. But she can't help herself: Overcome by temptation, she finishes the whole thing and replaces it with cake from a grocery store. She is eventually caught, but escapes punishment. Black & White Photo: The Canadian Press / For nearly nine years we've watched the Seinfeld gang -- Kramer (Michael Richard), [Jerry Seinfeld], Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and George ([Jason Alexander]) - - perform in a television show that was, it seemed, about `nothing.' [Ian G. Bron] wonders if that says something about society. ;