Thursday, May 21, 2020
Thursdays With Morrie Essay Topics
Thursdays With Morrie Essay TopicsTuesdays with Morrie is a weekly column on essay topics about the late great comedian. The column begins with the readings of 'The Birthday Kid' and then continues on to more recent essays by Ron Young. Each Wednesday, we will give you two new essay topics and welcome any guest blogger to read them as well.Throughout the series, we will provide links to the earliest essays by Morrie, who was the cast member of Saturday Night Live for forty-eight years. Many of the essays are from his years at SNL, but we also have an essay from his first full year as a writer for Seinfeld, where he discusses working with David Cross. Today, this column focuses on some of the earliest essay topics about Morrie and his characters. All of the essays in this series are collected in 'Bashful in Boston,' which is available from W.W. Norton and also on Amazon.The first essay is about his character George Michael, who died in one of the most popular episodes of Seinfeld. The essay describes the grief that Michael experienced over the loss of his closest friend while the rest of the show dealt with the mystery of how to get back at Kramer for stealing his girlfriend (and the restaurant's whole fortune). George Michael's character dies a horrible death but nonetheless continues to live on through his greatest friend.Next, we have another essay about a character named Morrie. This time, it's a series of essays from episode three, which deals with Kramer having sex with Penny's new employee, Jill. This essay talks about the different characterizations of Morrie and his relationship with the various women that he gets involved with.Last, we have a fourth essay that talks about Morrie, Michael, and Elaine on a night out drinking with friends. The next morning, they find themselves stuck in a hotel room because of some kind of prank called 'The Ring,' which has apparently caused trouble in the hotel and is causing a disturbance. We discuss how much the other characters hate Morrie and his father, how he becomes upset by Elaine's friendship with his brother-in-law (Michael), and how he feels about his mother and her relationship with him and his friends.One of the problems of this series is that they tend to veer off into tangents about characters like George Michael, to the point where these essays start getting a little too long. We are not worried about that here because our goal is to provide fresh content each week. All four essays we've written about characters that were popular in Seinfeld are available in print, so you don't need to buy them, but we do encourage guest bloggers to read them and give their own insights on them.In addition to this series, we are also doing some reading and recapping segments each week on Thursdays, so that we can share insights and observations with you on a daily basis. These features will be posted in the 'Tuesdays with Morrie' blog and on iTunes. Hopefully, they will help to keep you interested i n the essay topics as well as keep you informed about what's going on with the show.So, if you're planning to read an essay about a character that you really love, this is your chance. For a couple of dollars per article, you can get a ton of great information on all of the characters that starred in Seinfeld and, as far as we can tell, still do. Good luck!
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