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Seinfeld Season 3, Episode 10 – “The Stranded” (1991)

November 24, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Seinfeld is an American sitcom television series created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. It aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, over nine seasons and 180 episodes. It stars Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself and focuses on his personal life with three of his friends: George Costanza (Jason Alexander), former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and his neighbor from across the hall, Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). It is set mostly in an apartment building in Manhattan’s Upper West Side in New York City. It has been described as ‘a show about nothing’, often focusing on the minutiae of daily life.”     —Wikipedia

In Season 3, Episode 10, entitled “The Stranded”, George remarks that his current office relationship makes it feel as though every day is a date to which Jerry replies, “That’s one of Dante’s nine stages of Hell, isn’t it?”

See our other post involving comedian Jerry Seinfeld here.

Categories: Digital Media, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 1991, 90s, American Television, Circles of Hell, Comedy, Hell, Inferno, Jokes, Sitcoms, Television, United States

A Divina Comedia (1991)

February 19, 2021 By Jasmine George, FSU '24

Released in 1991, the Portuguese drama film A Divina Comèdia was written and directed by Manoel de Oliveira.

Categories: Digital Media, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 1991, Divina Commedia, Divine Comedy, Film, Films, Portugal

Judecca – Super Robot Wars

February 6, 2020 By lsanchez

“Additionally, although it is not clear how these techniques actually work, the Judecca is capable of several devastating arcane attacks that warp its opponents to hostile subdimensions (for all intents and purposes analogous to “Hell”) in order to cause damage.

[. . .]

AGX-14 (AGX-18) Judecca

Height: 70.3 meters
Weight: 389.1 tons
Pilot: Levi Tolar
Armament: Large Claw (mounted on arm), Beam Emitters (many)
Special ability: Warp Field
SRW Attack List:
Energy Drain
Chaff Grenade
First Hell: Caina
Second Hell: Anetenora
Third Hell: Ptolmeia
Final Hell: Judecca”    –Neo Roanoke, Gears Online

Learn more about the 1991 video game series Super Robot Wars here.

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 1991, Hell, Inferno, Video Games

Circles of Hell: A Novel by Bonomali Goswami (India, 1991)

March 31, 2019 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“It was a night of beauty and a night of terror. The deep blue sky was thickly constellated and after a long, sweltering day a balmy breeze was now blowing down the green soggy land. The sharp, stiff leaves on the bamboo thickets were aquiver with delight and yet the scented air seemed to be charged with a nameless fear.” — Bonomali Goswami, Circles of Hell: A Novel, 1991

Preview more and purchase the novel here.

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Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 1991, Books, Circles of Hell, India, Novels

Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991)

April 6, 2018 By Professor Arielle Saiber

The novel opens with “Abandon all hope ye who enter here.”

(Contributed by Antonio Barrenechea)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 1991, Abandon All Hope, New York City, Novel

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