Seinfeld writer Larry Charles has weighed in on how beloved neurotic Kramer would have fared in this modern age, musing that The Assman would’ve likely fell victim to QAnon conspiracy theories.
Charles recently sat down with The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast, where he considered where Seinfeld characters would be in 2021. It’s safe to say 2021 would have been cruel to our troupe of Upper West Side misfits.
“When I thought about how Seinfeld would survive in this kind of environment and this television environment, and I look around, I think about bringing those characters to the 21st century, and… wouldn’t Kramer be… a believer in QAnon?” Charles mused.
If you don’t know what QAnon is, it’s a conspiracy theory network that peddles the theory that a cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic, pedophile celebrities and politicians (including the likes of Hillary Clinton and Tom Hanks), were plotting to overthrow former US President Donald Trump, whilst running a child sex-trafficking ring.
QAnon believers speculate that President Trump was waging a secret war against the corrupt elite, and one that his confidential plight would lead to a day of reckoning where prominent figures will be arrested and executed.
The genesis of QAnon has been traced back to October 2017. An anonymous poster shared a number of messages on 4Chan claiming to be an intelligence officer or military officer with Q clearance — a level of access to classified information. The Q theory would spread to mainstream media like Reddit, Twitter and Facebook before culminating to the January 6th insurrection.
There’s a bunch of offshoots and tangential narratives in the QAnon story, that are too dense to get into in the context of a Seinfeld article. If you feel like dipping your toes in this bananas conspiracy theory, director Cullen Hoback, released a documentary Q: Into the Storm that’s well worth binging.
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“Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) might’ve been married a couple of times, she’s probably developed a pill habit of some sort, she’s been in and out of rehab,” he said. “And George (Jason Alexander) might have committed suicide by now, quite frankly.”
Charles didn’t weigh in on where he believes our world-weary protagonist Jerry would end up.
Whilst you’re here, why not reflect on all the Seinfeld stars who appeared more than once as different characters.
