Talk:Seddie/@comment-3027660-20120727171319/@comment-4196911-20120727174706

I'm so tired of having to argue this point.

Seddie isn't "abusive" in the same way The Three Stooges or Looney Tunes isn't "abusive."

Exaggerrated slapstick violence has a history as long as popular entertainment - this isn't a new thing.

There were other times when Sam had hit Freddie, but the laugh track played, or you see one of the other characters smiling, so it means you have to take it lightly.

Yes. How the other characters react is the most important cue as to whether you're supposed to take a character's behavior seriously or not. If Carly or Spencer or Mrs. Benson treats Sam's "abuse" of Freddie as if it's basically meaningless and not serious, then the viewers are supposed to do the same thing.

Ask yourself: Why were Freddie and the other characters MORE upset at Sam's telling everyone that Freddiie never kissed anyone, rather than when she pushed him out of a window or an airplane?? Would Freddie's embarrassment at not being kissed actually hurt him more than being thrown off a ladder or physically slapped in the face by Sam in front of everyone in the school hallway??

Well, yes - because Dan wants the kissing prank to be "real/serious" and the push-out-of-the-airplane to be "not real/not serious."

This shouldn't need to be explained in detail like this, but I'm afraid some people are just never going to get it.

If the only reason you don't ship Seddie is because you think it's actually abusive, then you're not on the same comedic wavelength as the guy who writes the show and makes the decisions. And you're going to be totally confused and disappointed when he make steh characters do things that you won't understand.

(and I'm ignoring the male-female dynamic and how it would not be OK if Freddie used the same pysical slapstick on Sam that she uses on him. That's a different issue at the moment. It's a double standard that exists for a reason, but it doesn't change my general argument at all.)