These pretzels are making me thirsty is one of the very memorable catch-phrases from the 1990s sitcom hit Seinfeld, and definitely the catch-phrase of the decade was (and still is) Not that there's anything wrong with that, and in fact this episode, The Outing, was the subject of an academic article by Joanna L. Di Mattia, "The Show About Something: Anxious Manhood and the Homosocial Order on Seinfeld." I think there's a deeper meaning to the catch-phrase and it was kind of like the don't ask don't tell policy also from the 1990s, and in a way maybe Seinfeld understood the anxieties prevalent init.
Review of The Outing
