#trans george costanza

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Ok so I haven't been on here for so long but

I need your help finding a meme

It's one where George Costanza is a trans guy on testosterone and he's complaining about going bald and not being a twink and Jerry is asking him about genetics

[costanzamoding]

Got inspired by the multitude of "transsexual Seinfeld" posts I saw

[football-in-tuxedos]

A recently discovered script for a season 9 episode of Seinfeld dealing with Jerry dating a trans woman. While the script was well received among the cast, it was pushed back in Production Order to be one of the first episodes of a potential Season 10, and Jerry Seinfeld called an end to the show before it could be produced. As such it never moved beyond the first draft.

[couldtransitionsaveher]

GEORGE COSTANZA from SEINFELD

JUSTIFICATION:

"Honestly, why not? I mean it would make her worse in so many ways but at least it would be funny." - Anonymous

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[disneydatass]

Seinfeld || S2E1: “The Ex-Girlfriend” (1991)

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New Festivus just dropped!

[yourfavsaret4t]

Jerry Seinfeld, Elaine Benes, Cosmo Kramer, and George Costanza

[gay-ya-know]

you know how people say they're getting the wrong idea about breaking bad from the yo mister white/bitch posting well I feel that way about seinfeld ive never seen it and never will and i'm beginning to think i've been given the wrong impression and I don't want to change it

[longtallglasses]

i remember once having a running list in my head of all the reasons why george costanza is a trans man. i can no longer recall this but it is still once of the many facts i love about him

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[trash-and-trash-accessories]

Oh my god this is a callout post for me specifically.

my number one woman behavior is saying i’m fine with any pronouns and silently ranking people in my regard based on what they do with that information

[maisycoded]

Seinfeld (2024): Episode 1, The Vernacular

( open shot of the outside of Jerry’s with music cue as he enters in the kitchen) Jerry Seinfeld: 26, does stand up comedy for the daily wire but maintains that he is equal in his opinions and people’s views on topics he doesn’t agree with….this is a lie. (Just as he’s pouring a bowl of special k in his dc flash bowl George knocks and Jerry lets him in) George Costanza: 23, trans man who rocks a goatee, ralph lauren eyeglasses and 15 months prior hat top surgery. He’s currently studying psychology and working at a circle k and interning, despite this he is a known controversial figure since he got cancelled for looking at a young girls cleavage at a Wendy’s just a month before, he’s not great.

JERRY: Hey George

GEORGE: I’ve have had it with this sick oppressive society

JERRY: then you should make like the green new deal and never implement your self in society like…ever (laugh track and ooo’s)

GEORGE: Jerry on some real shit, I’ve had it, I was at the coffee shop over by east avenue and I saw this really stacked snow bunny sitting right near me (audience laughs)

JERRY: What is this? Are you practicing your lines for a jordan peele movie movie coming out? ( audience laughter is high)

GEORGE: ah no no see your mistaking, I’m not talking like a black person Jerry, I am a black person. See when I was talking to her she asked me because I moved my Yankees cap back words if I was any percent of black ( laugh tack)

JERRY: And you said you where I assume?

GEORGE: Well yeah, I told her that I was from New York and I lived in queens all my life ( audience ooooo’s)

JERRY: George you can’t impersonate a black person, that’s like saying your Italian and getting Starbucks flirting with women after you shot some important person (audience howls)

GEORGE: Listen here kathy griffin! First of all, skill issue if you can’t properly take cultural dialects from minorities and make it your own (audience laughs) and second why shouldn’t I be able to use their vernacular huh? It should be a transactional agreement

JERRY: transactional agreement?

GEORGE: TRANSACTIONAL AGREEMENT!!! (audience laughs) and in slides in Kramer: 27, doesn’t identify as anything because it’s a social limitation, potentially is apart or accidentally is apart of many mlm’s.

KRAMER: SO! WHAT DID I MISS??!

JERRY: George has stolen slang

( KRAMER JOLTS BACK AND KEEPS KNOCKING SHIT DOWN)

KRAMER: BRO ARE YOU FR RN BRO?

GEORGE: Wha- WHAT?

KRAMER: You can’t steal AAVE!!!!

GEORGE: WHAT’S AAVE?!

KRAMER: IT STANDS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH YOU HORRIBLE WHITE PASSING MAN!!!! ( audience cheers and howls) WHATS NEXT GEORGE? ARE YOU GONNA WEAR A DURAG? GOING TO SAY THAT YOUR A 5TH GENERATION REMOVED FROM THE AFFECTS OF COLONIZATION AND YOUR 23 & ME RESULTS???! BRO LIKE ARE YOU GOING TO SAY …..THE WORD BRO??! ( Kramer lividly stares down George)

GEORGE: (Confused) WHAT WORD??

KRAMER: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH (audience howls) SO NOW THAT WORD DOESN’T EXIST AND ITS OPPRESSED CONNOTATIONS???! I CANT I CANT BRO HOW UN SIGMA OF YOU

GEORGE: SIGMA??!

KRAMER : VERY UNSIGMA!!!!!!!!!!!

(Kramer leaves and slams door and Jerry and George look at each other cut to commercial break and nbc station id’s)

Writers Note: God, imagine if I did more of these😭

[doctorcurdlejr]

Niko!! what'd you think of I saw the tv glow. I finally saw it last night and noticed you posting about it so I wanted to know your thoughts :)

Levi!!! I was JUST wondering what you were thinking about the movie after I saw you posting about it as well... we are so media discussion pilled in this way, it's awesome. ANYWAYS I've had so many thoughts since I first saw it and I've been trying to turn them into something coherent for a little bit now.

Ummm okay I have written 1k+ words about this movie, the suburbs, and escapism via teen TV.... clearly I was dying for somebody to ask this I guess so thank you for indulging me <3

First and foremost, I absolutely loved it! I've seen it twice now and the first time I watched it I got to see Jane Schoenbrun talk about the film right after. I already really liked it from that first watch alone. I found it so deeply relatable to my experiences - both in terms of growing up gay and trans, but where I am now in my 20s trying to navigate adulthood. Hearing what Schoenbrun had to say really cemented my feelings and thoughts about the film.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a big influence on the movie (it's why Amber Benson makes a cameo as Johnny Link's mom). Even though I don't have the same emotional link to Buffy since I never watched it, I recognize it as the same type of warmth I experienced growing up with Riverdale. When Owen says he feels like his insides have been scooped out but that he's too afraid to look and have that wrongness everybody knows is there be confirmed, Maddy simply responds "Maybe you're like Isabel. Afraid of what's inside you." Tears forming but not falling, breathing shallowly, I grabbed the paper and pen the theater keeps at the seats for people to order food with and wrote that line down - the slip of paper is still somewhere in my car. Writing it now almost feels lame in its simplicity, but it felt like my insides were being flayed open.

During the director discussion, Schoenbrun talked a little bit about this idea of how truly fucking bizarre it is to grow up in the suburbs. Like, when we think about the pinnacle of normality in American culture, it's the image of middle-class cis-hetero-white suburbia. At the same time, despite this cultural dream of normality, everybody is hyper-aware that the suburbs are one of the least normal things ever. So, the ACTUAL cultural understanding of it is that it's where we go to, like, passively kill ourselves (*George Costanza voice* WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY YOU KNOW!). This idea isn't new, I mean there are so many films and shows about navigating that specific bizarre dissonance from Rebel Without a Cause to Heathers to Twin Peaks. Probably half the pre-teen to teen TV I watched obsessively growing up, stuff like Strange Days at Blake Holsey High, Making Fiends, Truth or Scare, and eventually Riverdale, were never shy about being weird and morbid and saying "yes, the suburbs are exactly as bizarre and lethal in the ways you can already feel in your bones at 13." I Saw the TV Glow does a really good job of keying not only into that mental dissonance but more specifically into how those of us who have felt so intrinsically weird and different and wrong fell back on these shows like they were capable of doing the emotional version of a rescue breath maneuver after being drowned.

In high school, if there were two things about me that any person who even vaguely knew me could list off it was that I watched Riverdale, and I was a lesbian - and I was mocked more for the Riverdale. At that age, I was, without a doubt, the most miserable I have ever felt in my life. I rarely left the house because my family lived in a development that made me want to scratch my skin off when I walked out our front door. Owen didn't leave the house for days, afraid Maddy could somehow force him out. I sobbed constantly and frequently to depressing indie rock on the floor of my closet while hoping my family would just once read the (honest to god) KEEP OUT poster plastered on my door since I didn't have a lock on it. Owen didn't leave his room for days, afraid of what Maddy recognized in him. I didn't go on dates and kept my chest binder shoved to the bottom of my bookbag while wearing dresses that could've come from a how-to-be the perfect 50s housewife manual. Owen didn't leave his bed for days, afraid of Maddy touching his neck and Isabel's dress. I also watched Riverdale with the kind of zeal you see in a Pentecostal who has found God and started speaking in tongues to let you know it. I own a button that says, "Don't Make Me Go Dark Betty On You," I cherish it in a way that is only achieved by knowing exactly how corny and trite it is and then moving straight past that because well actually, and most people wouldn't get this, she's holding back something deeply dark and wild and- and disgusting. something painful yet intrinsically her. but i get it, obviously. or maybe not obviously! hopefully not obviously, but- basically, I'm just saying I get it: the experience of reflection and recognition through the other and all that.

Whatever, the point is that this movie is one big glaring trans allegory about how it sucks dog shit to live in the suburbs, and even at our most repressed we find these little snow globes of actualization in the glow of a tv screen that isn't afraid to show you the world you see. I've seen some people say that, like, in this context accepting or coming into your transness is this monumental death of self, which I get, but I feel there lacks a nuance in that because either way Owen is dying. Unlike Maddy who buries herself alive only to come out renewed, Owen doesn't kill himself upon facing the reality that the world is constructed to keep him miserable and the only way out is to take back what it is that the world wants to keep scooped out of him. Instead he just passively lets it drag him to a much more permanent death. This lack of suicide sucks in the kind of way that forces you to sit in your car on the midnight drive home and think to yourself am I letting myself suffocate because at some point knowing the misery became less scary than admitting I've been capable of doing something about it the whole time?

Clearly, I’ve been enchanted by the film’s narrative and meta-textual language. If you're familiar with it, you can see how Schoenbrun built this movie like a long-form dream episode of a canceled teen show filmed in Vancouver. Lynchian? Yeah, sure. Riverdalesque? THIS we cannot possibly deny. Schoenbrun said they included Amber Benson as an act of healing the inner rage experienced at Tara’s death in Buffy. This is a Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa ending Riverdale with a bisexual polycule after his gay Archie play got ceased-and-desisted type move. There’s probably more I could say about the soundtrack and the visuals, but I’ve hit over 1k words on this, so I’ll leave it at I enjoyed this movie a lot. :)

Maddy is an out lesbian who left town to escape the misery and found it strapped to her ankles. She slinks out, an animal pressed against the gymnasium floor, and says "I'm not telling you anything you don't already know." Owen looks into the camera and narrates. He cuts himself open with a box cutter, fully acknowledges what's there, and the movie ends with his suffocating apology parade for the unremarkable inconvenience of his excruciating suffering. You can be gay and trans, you can know it and you can stop repressing it, but you're not going to stop suffocating until you can find a way to destroy the part of you that truly deeply does want to die, reaching for the comforting euthanasia of normalcy. Stop visiting the dream of the life you want and make it into your reality with the same kind of unrepentant conviction seen in some underfunded but wildly ambitious teen television series. In other words: you must try to survive the ego death of being weird. A weirdo, who doesn't fit in and doesn't want to fit in!

[repurposedmeatlocker]

George Costanza: My top surgery went really well.

Elaine Benes: That's great! My bottom surgery is next week! I can't believe we both had an awkward situationship with Jerry Seinfeld AND we're both trans!

Kramer: I'm a communist!

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I love when trans men talk about their ideal look and it isnt a male super model or anyone like that but like, george costanza