As for Alexander, he now looks back at that moment he nearly quit with relief and dose of self-deprecating humor. The future looked bright for this show that was presumably about nothing, and it continued with great success for five more seasons. It wasn't until "The Contest" that everyone working on the show recognized what they'd created with "Seinfeld." Suddenly, the sitcom critics ignored was igniting attention. "When 'Seinfeld' started, I had a very successful career in theater in New York, which is what I thought I was going to be doing all my life," Alexander explained to Access Hollywood. As a secondary character, there just wasn't enough incentive for Alexander to stick around. If he didn't figure it out, though, George might have walked away from that close-knit circle of fictional friends forever. It’s later implied that George won the contest though audiences never see him collect his earnings.As Alexander recalls, David responded with characteristic flustered and neurotic angst about the challenges of writing a show with four main characters. One by one, everyone drops out of the contest. Jerry is dating a virgin who is finally ready to have sex. The rest of the episode shows the group getting tempted in all kinds of different ways, like when Kramer sees a naked woman walking around her apartment or when Elaine runs into John F. The men put $100 on the contest but make Elaine put in $150, claiming it’s easier for women to refrain than for men. Then, they come up with the idea to put up money to see who can go the longest without pleasuring themselves. It all starts when George tells everyone his mother caught him masturbating, which caused her to fall over and injure herself. Somehow, David managed to make it clear what was going on without being explicit. Still, season 4 episode 10 became popular because it was shockingly personal and therefore taboo. RELATED: 5 Things That Still Make No Sense About ‘Seinfeld’ ‘The Contest’ is about refraining from masturbation It even spurred one of the most notorious quotable lines in Seinfeld history, according to WikiSein. Later, David said the strength of the episode was that it used euphemisms for the act rather than explicit language. Amazingly, the network allowed the content if no characters used the word “masturbate.” According to DVD extras, Julia Louis-Dreyfus never thought the episode would air because of the subject matter.
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Series co-creator Larry David came up with “The Contest” based on a real contest he and his friends had involving who could go the longest without masturbating. The show explored the minutiae of everyday life but made it funny and over-the-top, which kept fans entertained and enthralled since they could relate to what was going on. Most of Seinfeld’s content was inspired by real-life situations. Larry David based ‘The Contest’ on a real-life experience Cast of ‘Seinfeld’ | George Lange/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images “The Contest” is an episode wholly focused on the topic of masturbation, and yet amazingly, they never utter the word.
And there’s one topic the writers thought they’d never get past television censors. Not every storyline on Seinfeld aged well, though they were surprisingly progressive for their time. And while doing so they explored controversial issues and never-before-seen topics that audiences were shocked to see.
Overall, the series broke the mold for what a sitcom could look like.
Seinfeld became one of the most iconic comedies of all time thanks to their willingness to push boundaries.
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