“You have a very diverse group of personality traits that are maladaptive on the individual level,” Tobia told nj.com. “When you get these friends together the dynamic is such that it literally creates a plot: Jerry’s obsessive compulsive traits combined with Kramer’s schizoid traits, with Elaine’s inability to forge meaningful relationships and with George being egocentric.”
Seinfeld’s “neat freak” tendencies are well known. The show’s chief protagonist once refused to a kiss a girl who’d brushed her teeth with a toothbrush that had fallen in the toilet. On another occasion he threw out a belt after it touched a urinal.
Meanwhile, Jerry’s nemesis, the vindictive Newman, is “very sick” according to Tobia.
“Newman’s sense of self, his meaning in life, is to ensure that he frustrates Jerry,
via Students analyse mental health of Seinfeld characters | Stuff.co.nz.
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