There hasn't been this much good will squandered since the last time an actual Goodwill store burned to the ground.
Jerry Seinfeld is teaming up with Oprah (!!) to bring us a reality show. It sounds kind of like Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, except standing in for extremely tired pop culture references (beer vs. weed! Donald Trump vs Oprah! The speed with which my hand can hit the remote vs. the speed that the radio waves can transmit the "change the fucking channel" command to the receiver!) we will have extremely tired marital arguments.
"In concert with former Oprah Winfrey producer Ellen Rakieten, Seinfeld is producing a reality show called The Marriage Ref.
The premise has real-life couples airing their marital grievances
before a panel of wise-cracking celebrities and a "referee" who will
determine which person is right and which is wrong."
Seinfeld was to TV what 9/11 was to American politics: a culturally seismic event that changed everything that would come after it. And, much like George Bush before him, instead of building on the good will that event caused to create something great, he has squandered it pursuit of incredibly misguided goals and ambitions.
Bee Movie was the Iraq invasion, and Seinfeld's appearance on 30 Rock was his "Mission Accomplished" speech. This show will be Seinfeld's "Heckuva job, Brownie."