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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 9:52:57 GMT
One of the best TV shows ever. I don't watch much TV anymore. I'm sick of it. Shows that you need to watch every night to know the running story...I'm sick of long entertainment. Give me movies any day! Yet I could watch "Seinfeld" until the cows come home! Never has a TV show so amazingly used sitcom cliches and sitcom set-ups, etc. as the basis for it's material(which we have been led to believe over and over again that it's about nothing). It is a pessimistic show, but it also uses that as a basis for its imaginitve plots and inspired performances. I loved this show when it was churning out new episodes and I still love to watch the repeats! It exists in some bizarre parallel universe that emphasises people's self-centred tendancies. It's quite a moral show, too(in a satirical way. Don't get it wrong! It doesn't glamorise selfish behavior!). So many movies have been praised for using previous materials to create a piece of film that is entirely original. I place "Seinfeld" in the same category. My favourite episode is STILL "The Contest"
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 9:54:13 GMT
This was too good Everybody loves this show! It's so funny, it's a shame Jerry stopped it. My favorite episode was the Soup Nazi episode. (If you watch Austin Powers, the first one, and watch the scene at the blackjack table, you'll notice the dealer is the same guy who played Soup Nazi)
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 11:12:44 GMT
Nothing else comes close Seinfeld is the only show I've ever been able watch over and over again, reruns I've seen 4 or 5 times I still find hilarious. Just about everyone knows the Seinfeld setup, four loser friends (Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer the nutty neighbor) who pour over the minutiae of everyday life, whose storylines (however abstract and different they are) always come together at the end.
Although by the later seasons the show had gotten more wacky and bizarre, the quality of the comedy never dipped in all it's nine seasons. Even when they found themselves in the most ludicrous situations, you could always strangely identify with the characters. Other shows are funny, but Seinfeld was naturally funny, the lines never seemed forced and the situations blended together seamlessly. Where shows like Cheers and Friends (even Frasier) rely almost entirely on one liners and emotions, Seinfeld's characters had practically no emotions (George once pulls the plug on a hospital patient's drip, and pretends to be disabled to use the spacious disabled bathroom) and the one liners were all part of the conversation.
It really is difficult to say anything negative about Seinfeld, there's no episode where you could say the writers weren't trying or had given up, even in it's last season the show performed the ambitious "Backwards episode" where the story finished at the beginning and started at the end. Sometimes you couldn't see where the storylines tied up at the end, you just had to look a bit harder for the genius, a reason why most episodes require a second viewing. I can't see anything ever topping Seinfeld, there was nothing contrived about it, no bar where everybody knows your name, or friends who'll "be there for you." It found comedy in realism, something that had never been done before, and will never be mastered again.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 11:12:52 GMT
The greatest of all sitcoms This is sort of a small tribute to the show.
It is too bad that this show is no longer being made. NBC should have used the "carrot and stick" approach with the creators and maybe the show would still be on. Instead, NBC gave them so much money that they just cut and ran. Sort of like "we'll give you millions and millions of dollars to do a short run series and then you guys can go". Which is what happened.
I am like some of the others here on this post who said that they did not really watch "Seinfeld". It took several weeks to catch on to the characters to get to like the show. Even in re-runs "Seinfeld" is still very funny.
Those people who say they do not like the show because it's about nothing are lying to themselves. They love it. They just cannot believe that someone could have been so successful with the show's premise.
You could tell after Larry David quit "Seinfeld" the difference in the shows humor and pacing. And I saw some movie Larry David made right after...stinkola. I think it was called "Sour Grapes". Maybe some sort of comment on life after "Seinfeld"?
It is extremely difficult to find anything on TV that even comes close to "Seinfeld". There just isn't any. This website suggests "Friends". Please. I think I just might throw up. "Friends" is just another of the cookie cutter sit-coms. After watching "Seinfeld", I cannot watch any sit-com, because it is just not the same. The others just fall way short of making any noticeable effort to put on some truly original humor.
I think that in a couple of years, one of the Turner cable stations will have the syndication rights to "Seinfeld". I hope that they will honor the show by always putting the show on from its first show to the last without skipping the order because a big part of the successful formula for "Seinfeld" was that the show had a distinct timeline. The way it is being aired now, on one day you'll see a show that aired in 1990 then the next day they have one on that originally aired in 1995. That really stinks.
Oh well. To all of you dyed-in-the-wool "Seinfeld" fans here is a little trivia I came across on the web.
An anagram for "Seinfeld" is "snideelf". One last one for "Jerry Seinfeld" is "friendly jeers".
Cheers to all of the creators, contributors, writers, producers, etc. of the greatest TV comedy ever.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 11:21:02 GMT
Brilliant Seinfeld is a God. I can't get enough of this show. Who would have guessed that a show about nothing could be so outrageously funny? Every other comedy on television is no different to the next; each concentrates on the same themes (relationships), the characters are all half-wits and in most cases, are incredibly dull, and the dialogue is weak and extremely wearisome. Seinfeld however takes the most ridiculous ideas like the girl Jerry dated who had man hands to the Bizarro Jerry and "Independent George" and turns them into a genuinely amusing and entertaining television show. It's a refreshing change.
The key element in the show though, the one feature which distinguishes Seinfeld from the rest of the TV comedy crowd is the characters themselves and their interaction with each other. They're mean, horrible, uncharitable people and that's something you just don't see a lot of. It's not just the main four characters either who stand out, some of the guest characters created along the way have been an absolute riot. The Soup Nazi springs to mind, or Newman and his "hitman" type antics. Seinfeld is a masterpiece through and through. I love Jerry for his impeccable neatness and strict dating rules, Kramer for his ludicrous schemes and ideas, George for his hilarious temper tantrums, and Elaine for her yeah-well-I-really-don't-give-a-crap attitude. It finished on a high note before we all grew tired of it and will always be remembered fondly. Absolute Classic.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 11:24:13 GMT
Regime of Excellency The characters' were memorable. Lots of funny moments from Kramer's stupid ways to make money to George's bouts of neuroticism. It's so sad to see Seinfeld go. I am hoping they will make a DVD set of all the seinfeld episodes. But from 1989-1998 long live the glorious Seinfeld empire and its nine year regime of excellency.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 11:25:46 GMT
Among The Best Of The Best I never liked this show in the beginning because it was responsible for knocking Night Court off the air, but after sitting through a few of the shows in syndication, I had to admit that it was contagious. Anyone who doesn't like this show should watch the ones with Keith Hernandez, Teri Hatcher, Jane Leeves and Lori Loughlin and then think again. This show was hysterical as it showed the warped views of society from four people and how they went through life. Jerry Seinfeld was a man with a peter pan complex trying to eternally live out his life as a class comedian. George Constanza was the man a lot of us are: angry and hostile at the world because of two people who shouldn't have become parents. Cosmo Kramer the hipster doofus was a throw-back to the acid-heads of the Sixties because his views and opinions were even more twisted than anyone else's. Elaine Benes was the mousy girl who became a sexpot by the series end; she was also haughty enough to be demanding and hostile enough to scare away more guys than she dated. Eugene Newman,however, was the wrench in the works, the Mimi to Seinfeld's Drew. He was also Kramer's stooge, comedy partner and every bad stereotype of mailmen and neighbors. The comedy was always fast, furious and hysterical, but never logical.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 11:47:43 GMT
Inspired
A delight. One of the most consistently hysterical, bizarre, off-the-wall, and inspired examples of successful TV series comedy. To echo another viewer's sentiment: programs like "Full House" and "Who's the Boss" were offering watered-down, sentimental, bubble-gum humour, abetted by laugh tracks; some young (post-1980) audience members may have read John Stamos and Dave Coulier's buffooning around as the paragon of hilarity. Ahh, how wrong they were.
Seinfeld came along in the early nineties and knocked its competitors out of the water by harking back to even earlier roots: controversial laugh-fests from the seventies and early eighties with deliciously demented jet-black humour, like "Fernwood-2-Night," "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," "D.C. Follies," and even (on occasion) the short-lived Saturday Night Live-ripoff, "Fridays" (starring Michael Richards <Kramer>, and cancelled a few months in, thanks to criticism of obscene skits).
Interestingly, the Seinfeld "Formula" -- at its pinnacle during the 1994-1995 and 1995-1996 seasons -- didn't arrive overnight; it began to take root and develop, thanks to series producer Larry David, over the course of the first few years (90-93). What began as a typical, even boring sitcom in 1990 became a gracefully-structured, comic soap opera, with multiple subplots per episode and dozens of quirky tertiary characters, who made periodic appearances in the show, and whose significance registered with repeat viewers -- Sue Ellen Mishke, Kenny Banya, Uncle Leo, The Marble Rye Lady, lawyer Jackie Chiles, etc.
Seinfeld violated the standard law of sitcoms, for none of its characters even made an attempt to be likeable; Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer had irritating, amoral, obnoxious jerk streaks a mile long --we wanted to kick them in the pants on almost every episode; but that's what made the show so much fun. And a pattern emerged, where, on a regular basis: 1) Newman and Kramer put their eccentric heads together to invent a wild scheme (my favorite: either re-staging the old Merv Griffin show in Kramer's apartment, or driving a can-filled mail truck to Michigan to turn a profit on soda refunds); 2) George Costanza played on his dishonesty to avoid work; and 3) Jerry *and* Elaine each went through a series of affairs with a parade of potential mates, but managed to ruin encounters with nitpicky complaints or bizarre accidents. Hundreds of examples exist -- the series became a great jazz piece, where the writers invented variations on standard themes, and competed with previous episodes to see just how extreme and wild they could get.
Jerry Seinfeld and his cronies often "drew out" bizarre behaviour in the others inhabiting the microcosm around them -- they uncovered absurdity everywhere, recalling John Cleese's old observation that the whole world is off-base, but that we put up a front of propriety to hide it.
In spring, 1998, the public waited on hands and knees for the final episode. Magazines and newspapers across the country tried to predict the content; the cast members landed appearances on local news stations, where interviewers tried to squeeze hints out of them. But when the episode eventually aired, unfamiliar viewers may have wondered what all the fuss was about. Clearly one of television's greatest travesties, the episode violated the basic rules that made the program work: every secondary and tertiary character in the Seinfeld world "suddenly" became logical and moral, viciously turned on the foursome; the four landed together, in the *same* plotline --- a mind-numbing plot, that involved a group vacation; and the audience's love-hate feelings were ignored and turned into pity. (A serious logical error on the writers' part: just because we find the characters' vices laughably irritating, that doesn't mean we HATE the characters, and feel vindicated by watching them sentenced to jail!) Ugh!
If the entire "Seinfeld" series resembled this episode, it wouldn't have lasted beyond a week. The self-congratulatory two hours (with flashbacks to earlier subplots) were about as appealing as funny as, say, that old "Three's Company" episode where Lucille Ball shows up and gives us a tour of past adventures. Spare us; that's why we have syndication!
But fortunately, despite little inconsistencies in quality from episode-to-episode, "Seinfeld" was brilliant enough and inspired enough that it will surely continue to fulfill media promise: when newspapers and magazines emerged with the bylines, "Seinfeld, You'll Run Forever!," we can believe that it wasn't hype. Unfortunately, repeats of old episodes also leave us with a wild craving for new adventures.
In the liner notes to the CD reissue of "O' Lucky Man!," Malcolm McDowell alludes to the idea that every performer has at least one great achievement, one artistic accomplishment (represented by a title) that will cement his/her reputation, forever. (His was "A Clockwork Orange.") I'll say this much: regardless of which paths Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards decide to follow in the future, "Seinfeld" will always be their crowning achievement, an insanely difficult one to top.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 11:49:07 GMT
Wouldn't it be cool... It would be pretty cool if Jerry Seinfeld decided to come back on television and resurrect Seinfeld. Bring back George, Elaine, Jerry, and yes, good old Kramer. Geeze, thats one wish I think would be cool. Oh, and lets not forget..... Newman. It would be awesome if Kramer in one episode took over his friends driving lessons for a week. (because thats how Kramer always gets his hook-ups is by his friends) and so anyways, he freaks out when driving with a student, and says a whole bunch of blurbs (Kramer Style). Then good old George. He's a funny guy. Crazy George. And what if Elaine and Puddy got back together. (sigh). Then Jerry meets a girl that has some unique problem. Man, they sure are funny. Say, if not another season, what about a Seinfeld movie? But they wouldn't go anywhere, it would be a 2 hour long episode. That would be funny. Anyway, Seinfeld is almost on... (sigh)
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 11:50:12 GMT
It's the greatest sitcom ever SEINFELD, a show about nothing, has gone down in history as one of the most humorous sitcoms ever. What I particularly like about this show is the characters: They are all obnoxious at one point of the series, but still you have to admit that you'll love them. Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer (the best one) make every episode a barrel of laughs. Add up other characters like Kenny Bania, J. Peterman, Mr. Pitt, the Soup Nazi, Jackie Chiles, Uncle Leo, Poppie, and "George Steinbrenner" and you got yourself a show that will make you laugh in every episode, regardless of how many times you have seen it. But one of the greatest aspects of this show are the clever allusions put together in an episode. They have made fun of movies like Apocalypse Now, Midnight Cowboy, The Godfather, The English Patient, etc. They also make fun of topics like abortion (the episode where Poppie and Kramer discuss if a pizza is a pizza in the oven or before). This makes this show the greatest in
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 11:52:00 GMT
Probably the best sitcom ever I started watching Seinfeld about a year ago. It was during one of those slow and desperately dull August evenings. My then favourite show (Friends) had ended its reruns, and then I was left with a doubt. Would there be any other comedy show as good as that? Fortunately it only took me a few days to find out the answer was yes!
WARNING! - Spoilers.
I love everything from Seinfeld - the actors, the plots, and the music. One of the most original things regarding this show (Well, maybe the MOST of them), is that the main actor is performing himself. The Jerry Seinfeld fictitious is the same Jerry Seinfeld from real life - there are not invented names or roles, it's HIMSELF.
Jason Alexander plays George Constanza, a hapless guy who was stupid enough to insult his boss and later, after being sacked, had the guts to spike his former boss' drink in vengeance. Nothing comes easy to him, neither women do, of course. Julia Loius-Dreyfus is Elaine Benes, a woman working for a publishing company and former girlfriend of Jerry. Michael Richards is Kramer, Jerry's mad and stingy neighbour, with his trademark shabby clothes and neglected looks. The four of them are very little lucky when it comes down to relationships.
What this show got will never be achieved again. It's too good to be made twice. Seinfeld's premise is very basic and simple, and that's why it's more surprising how it's so damn good and funny. Jerry Seinfeld is a genius - I mean how he succeeds in making funny situations out of mundane life' stuff. Aside from this, he does almost everything, being the main writer, the producer, the co-creator and the lead character.
I do believe the only shows that come closer are Cheers and Friends. Another things I like from Seinfeld is that it's not based on a cute cast. Sometimes there are sitcoms (Like my nevertheless admired Friends) that seem to rely only on some pretty faces to grab the audience' attention. I am so glad Seinfeld doesn't fill that category.
I must have seen only forty or fifty episodes - indeed the reruns currently airing here are from 1992, but I already can give Seinfeld a big TEN.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 11:53:44 GMT
Arguably the Greatest Sitcom of All Time "Seinfeld" probably closed the book on truly great sitcom television. The show about nothing was a constant winner for NBC for over eight years and dominated the prime time ratings because of outstanding writing and quite possibly the greatest core of actors to ever star together on a television program. Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards became household names and it is impossible to think of one of them without thinking of the other three. The chemistry between the performers and the quirky direction of the series kept the series fresh and hilarious throughout its television run. The setting of New York City was ingenious as it makes everything seem plausible and realistic. Amazing insight from writers and directors of the series was truly uncanny, especially in this day and age of stale ideas. An unbelievable television accomplishment from any view one chooses to take. 5 stars out of 5.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 11:55:09 GMT
#1 My friends Matthew And Michael watch this show and so do I. Jerry owns an apartment that he shares with his friends from work. It is about how they all get along in a restaurant. Kramer gets mad when he doesn't get what he wants. I watch re-runs of this show on my local Fox station. Elaine Jerry's girlfriend in somewhat lives there.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 20, 2014 11:56:16 GMT
The best comedy series ever! Author: shoot_the_martini (sanj_theman@hotmail.com) from Crewe, England 22 September 2001 Seinfeld lasted 9 glorious years and in 1998 it left us. Noooooooooooo
What was it about? Well, to be honest, nothing and everything. With the characters Jerry Seinfeld, Elaine, George and not forgetting Kramer (plus that irritating yet funny Newman), each episode focussed on just about anything. With brilliant results.
Every half-hour was a joy to watch, and no episode was a disappointment.
There were some hilarious subplots that kept coming along - there was Bania, who gave Jerry an Armani suit and demanded he take him to an expensive meal. He would then order soup all the time, and deny that it was a meal.
There was also 'The Drake', who kept getting engaged and then falling out with his fiancee.
If you've never seen a single episode you've missed out on the single most funny comedy of all time.
Repeats are airing on tbs and local Fox station.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 22, 2014 8:05:17 GMT
Can't believe people can NOT like it! Seinfeld is the only show I can watch over and over again and still laugh at the same jokes every time. I seriously cannot believe that some people who posted messages said they did not like it...
It is without doubt the best comedy ever. The characters, as unlikable as they would be in real life, are so funny to watch, and the chemistry of their interactions are absolutely incredible. Virtually every episode is a classic and there are some lines that viewers will never forget. The ideas are always new and refreshing, as outrageous as they are sometimes.
It is definitely a different type of comedy, unconventional and exaggerated at times. But it is by far the most intelligent comedy. How can people criticise it for being 'stupid' or 'boring'? The show uses a variety of everyday situations and puts a spin on the events. I get so sick of the comedies that try to milk laughs by using stupidity (eg, Friends). Seinfeld's jokes are witty and satirical, and each character provides a different type of humour (eg, Jerry's witty comments, George's pathetic annoyance, Kramer's slapstick and quirky actions). No other comedy provides that type of diversity. The worst criticism I have ever read is that Seinfeld is self-indulgent. Obviously if it were it wouldn't be one of the most successful shows of all time.
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