![]() ![]() Of course it was Kramer tapping out of the contest within the span of 30 seconds that pushed the contest and the episode out of the atmosphere. in her aerobics class helped string the Kennedy thread through the history of the series. The fact that Elaine got her rocks off to the spank bank images of John F. 1 2 In the episode, Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer hold a contest to determine who can go for the longest time without masturbating. The eleventh episode of the fourth season, it aired on November 18, 1992. We were all still two years away from the Jocelyn Elders debacle too.Īnd with porn so prevalent on smart phones now, the novelty of jacking it to a copy of Glamour is sweetly-innocent.Įven the concept of a woman masturbating - giggle giggle - was foreign in 1992. ' The Contest ' is the 51st episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. Censors in 1992 were still scared of the m-word. Today if a current sitcom tackled this same subject it wouldn't be a big deal. ![]() The phrase "master of my domain" would become code for taming your lustful onanistic urges. Seinfeld’s The Contest is one of the greatest sitcom episodes ever, but the story of how NBC greenlit the show’s most NSFW episode is even better. Serious topics like drugging a woman to play with her toys, puffy shirts, and soup counter dictators.īut with "The Contest" the Seinfeld tapped into uncharted territory for television. Jerry Seinfeld himself was the one who championed it.įor all the show's inanity and nothingness, they did a good job of shoving social issues into the forefront. You can check out David and the cast talking about the genesis of the episode here on YouTube. ![]() Written by Larry David, it's easily one of the best episodes of the series and it ushered in a public dialog. "How long can a modern human go without masturbating?" they asked, without even using the dreaded M-word, with more than 22 minutes of side-stepping stuttering hilarity. of the infamous Seinfeld episode 'The Contest,' where Jerry, Elaine. On November 18, 1992, the creators and writers of Seinfeld posed a serious question to Americans, just weeks after they elected Bill Clinton as their new president. Seinfeld co-creator Larry David was promoting his original HBO Curb. ![]()
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