* The subtext of a lot of Seinfeld was a particular kind of Jewish guilt at the hedonistic and meaningless life Jews could now live in America thanks to material success. Occasionally, it would become more explicit- at one point Jerry says to George, “Are we still going to be doing this when we’re 60?” and George (supposedly not Jewish in the show, but come on…) says “when we’re 60? We should be having dinner with our sons!”
Something about the “having dinner” in that sentence just struck me as a particularly Jewish aspiration.
