In one of Seinfeld’s last episodes, Elaine and Jerry sit in their favorite diner. Elaine pulls out a copy of The New Yorker, points to a cartoon and says, "I don't get this." "Me neither," Jerry says after some inspection. "And you’re on the fringe of the humor business!" Elaine exclaims.
In the cartoon, a dog and a cat are in an office. The cat is saying, "I’ve enjoyed reading your email." Though we never see the cartoon in question, for anyone familiar with The New Yorker cartoons, it’s easy enough to imagine. The caption is quintessential New Yorker — at once disarmingly simple and obstinately urbane; a neatly packaged gauge of a reader’s familiarity with the mores and concerns of the cultural elite.
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