The Mobile Phone Killed The Sit Com

I'm a big fan of Seinfeld. I’m currently rewatching the entire show. So far I'm about half-way through series eight.

Not everybody likes Seinfeld and even I have to admit that his stand-up routine isn't so great but I do love the show.

It occurred to me last night that many of the gags in the show wouldn’t work if they were tried today. It's not that peoples sense of humour has changed that much but rather that many of the situations were dependent on the characters making arrangements with each other and then not being able to contact each other. That just wouldn’t work anymore in the mobile phone age.

It's hard to remember now what it used to be like before mobile phones. How you would make arrangements to meet somebody somewhere and then you would have to meet them there at the pre-arranged time or else miss them. Nowadays we can just make the "I'm running late" or the "I can't see you, where are you" call.

That's why they really had to cancel Seinfeld: Nokia.