Why Seinfeld Doesn't Work With iPhones
Posted 07/23/2008 at 11:09am
| by Susie Ochs
The Pez Dispenser (314)
iPhones give you any number of hiarious ways to while away a piano recital -- you won't need the ol' Pez-dispenser-on-the-leg trick to make your friends guffaw. Just show them a hilarious picture you made in Finger Paint, start chuckin' beef with Cow Toss, or even whip out the ol' Tiny Violin (not a euphemism). How about Jared at the opera? Obviously if Jerry had an iPhone, either Elaine would be desensitized to the whole shebang, or neither of them could go to recitals together ever again, period.
And who could forget...
The Phone Message (207)
Sneaking into someone's apartment to steal the tape from their answering machine? That would never work today, of course. (And to be fair, this episode dates way back to early 1991.) But if George's girlfriend had the iPhone, he'd be be even more sunk, as she would notice his messages in Visual Voicemail, listen to them first, and bust him in record time.
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