Why does elaine scream stella

Seinfeld is easily one of the most recognized sitcoms in American television history. It is about a group of friends living their ordinary yet comical lives in New York City. Elaine Benes, played by Emmy award-winning Julia Louis-Dreyfus , became an icon with her go-getter attitude, unique outlook on love, and somewhat clinical persona. Fans can not forget her bizarre dance style and her hatred for misuse of exclamation points. Elaine is at first thrilled to have her new guest but quickly comes to despise him.

She can not wait to get rid of him. Her boyfriend tries to persuade her to catch a flight the next day, but Elaine rejects the idea. Still dressed in her nightgown and sporting unruly hair, Elaine has a fervent and glazed expression. She was weaving through traffic until she hit the Van Wyck expressway. No one has beaten it, but Elaine claims she was close. Elaine accompanies Jerry as he visits his parents in Florida.

She is left sleeping on a foldout couch. The circumstances around the scene are what make it memorable. Jack: "Take the pen! Jerry: "I cannot take it! Jerry: " Are you sure? After that hullabaloo, including six protestations, one would think Jerry was safe in accepting the goddamn pen. But no one is safe in this Florida hellscape. That astronaut pen, like so much Seinfeld humor from Festivus to Kramer, was based on real life. Seinfeld producer George Shapiro was the real-life owner of the astronaut pen, and Larry David was the guy who complimented and received it — but felt an anvil of guilt afterward.

This episode was inspired by that incident and the fact that both of them had parents living in similar Florida communities. Though this episode is over 25 years old, its subject is more relevant than ever in some ways. Though Jerry and Larry may have meant to document what they considered a particular madness of Jewish condo owners in Florida, the battiness of the Seinfelds resonates with all sorts of parental units, including those who are non-Jewish, condo-less and Florida-phobic.

Sure, there are similarities. Elaine is so good, and so timeless, because she shreds all of the expectations for women and women characters of her time.

When some other women try to convince Elaine to have a baby, she changes the subject, before mocking them to her friends later on. Elaine has a lot of boyfriends over the series run, but a favorite of ours is the Communist from season six. At just five-foot-two, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a tiny, powerful force of physical comedy.

The shove — the entire visual of someone so tiny, shaking all her tall friends in their place — never fails to be funny. Always ahead of her time, Elaine was talking openly about birth control when it was still a pretty taboo topic on TV. In women talking about masturbation on TV is par for the course, but in , it was so taboo that they could barely allude to it.

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