![]() WHO WON SEINFELD MASTER OF MY DOMAIN TV.WHO WON SEINFELD MASTER OF MY DOMAIN SERIES.I’m here, I’m climbing the walls! Meanwhile, I’m dating a virgin, I’m in this contest. The way Jason Alexander chokes on the air the instant the sponge-bath starts, the way Michael Richards’ totally liberated energy clashes with a hilariously tense Jerry (“I can’t sleep. This episode is a classic because it’s a tour de force for all four cast members, as the pressure of the contest gets to them. Any show doing an entire episode devoted to masturbating would have easily been the talk around ever water-cooler on November 19, 1992. The show doesn’t just skate by on it’s risqué subject matter, although it easily could have. The episode includes montages of the cast trying to sleep, with only those that have lost the contest getting any rest. The self-love drought causes Jerry, George, and Elaine to lose their minds (George accuses Jerry of stealing socks) and plenty of sleep. Whatever hang-ups there are about self stimulation, these four don’t have them. It’s also wild (and progressive) that the show comes down firmly on the pro-masturbation side. ![]() He just did it, and it’s essential to the show’s plot and this fantastic joke that you know that he just did it. Think about how insane this is: this might be the first time in TV history that a show asked viewers to picture one of the lead characters masturbating off-camera! Kramer leaves Jerry’s apartment in a skittish hurry and returns a minute later, slapping money down on the counter. They’re tempted throughout, and Kramer - after getting one look at the nudist neighbour - is the first to cave. Kennedy Jr., quite possibly the sexiest man of the early ’90s. All four characters encounter temptation: neighbours Jerry and Kramer (Michael Richards) are tormented from afar by a nudist in the apartment building across the street, George schedules visits to his mother’s hospital room so he can watch the girl-on-girl sponge-bath action going on next to her, and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is put in proximity to a sweaty John F. “The Contest” is masterful in how singularly focused it is, and it’s even more remarkable that they stuck with this all-encompassing self-pleasure plot after NBC told them they couldn’t even use the one word they needed to use. Did that deter the Seinfeld cast and crew? No! They instead came up with euphemisms (“Master of my domain,” “King of the county,” “Lord of the manor,” “Queen of the castle”) that have entered the pop culture lexicon. Of course NBC told them they couldn’t actually use the word “masturbation” in this episode. He eventually brought it up to Jerry Seinfeld, who was on board, and the show went for it. Larry David, who actually won the IRL contest that inspired this episode, was actually too embarrassed to pitch this idea for the first few seasons. The Seinfeld cast, all masters of their domain. That leads to a contest between the show’s four leads to see who can go the longest without doing the deed. After that, George swears off pleasuring himself, which all of his friends immediately call out as impossible. While stopping off at his parents’ house, a Glamour magazine caught George’s eye and since his folks weren’t home, he decided to (as his mother Estelle later says) “treat his body like an amusement park.” Unfortunately for George, his mom caught him in the act, the shock so overwhelming that she fell and hurt her back. This laser-focused episode kicks off when a mortified George (Jason Alexander) tells his friends a tale of horrific embarrassment. And I mean the entire episode is all about sexual solitaire, not just a stray joke or one plot. Written by series co-creator and current Bernie Sanders lookalike Larry David, the episode is all about self pleasure, arousal and stimulation. The Season 4 episode of Seinfeld titled “The Contest” aired a quarter century ago today, on November 18, 1992. That’s why it is downright bananas that Seinfeld, a prime time sitcom, did a whole episode about masturbation 25 years ago - and got awards for it. Sure, streaming sitcoms like Broad City go where network shows don’t dare, seemingly more so this year than ever before, but network comedies tend to steer clear of such bawdy matters to this day. HOW many sitcom episodes with an A-plot about masturbation can you name?
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