Step aside, Elaine Benes. Do we – Vikings writers, analysts, fans, sworn enemies of all things purple, etc. – subject Justin Jefferson to the yada yada?
The Seinfeld character – one of the great TV personalities of all-time, standing alongside ’90s comedy titans such as Homer Simpson, Frasier Crane, and, indeed, George Costanza – famously used the “yada yada” technique to bypass part of a story (she did mention the bisque, though). Over the course of the episode, yada yada becomes a shorthand way of skipping across a story without filling in the specific, all-important details.