In the episode Outing, the show's two main characters, Jerry and George, are "outed" in the newspaper by a reporter even though they are not actually gay. The reporter mistakenly discovers that they are "gay" through a hoax, and then every time Jerry and George try to deny it, their "stereotypical" actions convince the reporter again and again that they are gay. The episode plays on two standard gay stereotypes, first, how gay people act and what they look like, and second, the politically correct way of talking about gay people. The show represents how our culture perceives what gay people look and act, how straight people react to being accused of being gay, how their friends and relatives behave when they learn they are gay, and what should be the politically correct response when they find out someone is gay. As with all Seinfeld episodes, the show is intelligent in all its aspects. the subplots that run through it. The show opens with Jerry, George and Elaine together in a restaurant. The director uses a long shot to show Jerry and George sitting next to each other on the same bench, portraying them as touchy and comfortable with each other. They are waiting for a student journalist from New York University, who Jerry has never met, to come to the restaurant to interview him. The reporter and Jerry can't find each other, so he goes off to call the reporter from the restaurant's pay phone and while this is happening, George and Elaine have a brief conversation about what they're going to buy Jerry for his birthday. George has bought a pair of Broadway tickets for Guys and Dolls, in which he plans to accompany Jerry to the show. This is the first hint at what the show is about, and the first portrayal, that gays like Broadway shows because…they are at the heart of the paper…many of the stereotypes society has about gays. The show was written in the '90s, but many of those same beliefs remain the same today. Works Cited "All Gays Love Theater." RSS. TvTropes and Web. 06 December 2013.Being gay: coming out in the 21st century. New York, NY: Films Media Group, 2005. Kenrick, John. "Gays and Musicals 9 - What is this thing called love?" Gay and musicals 9 - What is this thing called love? Np, 2008. Web. 06 December 2013.ProCon.org. “16 States with Legal Gay Marriage and 33 States with Same-Sex Marriage Bans.” ProCon.org. 20 November 2013. Web. 5 December 2013. "The trip". Seinfeld: Season 4. Written. Larry Carlo. Director Tom Cherones. Sony, 2005. DVD."Why Some Gay Men Speak Differently." Editorial. UofTMagazine 2012: n. page http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca. Journal of the University of Toronto, 2012. Web. 06 December. 2013.