8 TV Scenes Everyone Always Gets Wrong
How many times do we have to say you aren't supposed to like Rick before you get it?
Objectivity in art is a myth. There is no truly, 100%, objectively correct interpretation of a piece of media. Everyone always has a take, and even if the creator comes down from on high and tells their side of the story, it's ultimately just another reading of the work.
With that having been said, there are people whose takeaway from a work is just, well, wrong. No two ways about it, they're just wrong.
Whether they're projecting themselves onto the work, reading it in bad faith, or are just fundamentally not getting it, there are a lot of ways people can miss the point something is trying to make.
You would think a visual medium like television, where every single detail down to the dust on the furniture on the set is under meticulous control, would mitigate this somewhat. And you would be wrong. These are the scenes from beloved television series that a disturbing amount of people just cannot wrap their heads around.
8. Jerry And Pals Go To Jail - Seinfeld
The selling point about Seinfeld was that it was a show about nothing. While in some cases this was true, what the show turned out to actually be about was four funny, but absolutely terrible human beings, and their mundane problems caused by them being terrible human beings.
Many fans miss out on this - a running theme you're going to notice on this list - and so, to them, the ending comes out of nowhere and makes no sense.
Now, granted, the finale does have quite a few logical flaws - ask any lawyer worth their salt and they'll tell you that the trial is a NIGHTMARE of legal flaws and fallacies - but the idea was to end the series with Jerry and pals getting their comeuppance for nine seasons of being mundanely infuriating.
Which puts it quite a bit above other comedies about so-called "horrible" people who never really face consequences for their nonsense.