How An Episode Of Seinfeld Actually Works
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
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The best Seinfeld episodes have a few things in common. The Contest might epitomize those things better than any other episode in the Seinfeld catalogue. Jerry, Elaine, Kramer and George participate in what would end up being one of the most famous competitions ever put to TV. It also happens to put on display exactly what makes Seinfeld special.
#Seinfeld #TheContest #Nerdstalgic
What is the best sitcom of all time? Best animated show?
Also huge shoutout to GC for the intro and intro beats!
Best sitcom: KENAN and KEL. Best Animated: Hey Arnold.
I said what I said and I'm not sorry.
Animated: Avatar the Last Airbender
Might say the office and maybe the Simpsons the early seasons were amazing
I don’t watch many sitcoms so my selection is limited
my favourite show is the last three minutes of this video cause I got to stare into my reflection and realize I've done nothing but watch nerdstalgic all day
George story at the end of "The Marine Biologist" is the best story ever and the best example about a series of coincidences.
Was it a Titleist?
@@woolybowly4205 Hole in one, eh?
Talk about a hole in one
That was on the first take. He learn that long dialog in three hours before shooting that scene. Seinfeld gave him the extra lines, can you do these lines within three hours. Jason said sure. That expression on Seinfeld reaction during the take was real, not acting. Was surprise how George(Jason) did his lines. And that Seinfeld reacting in the scene was not in character. But it fit and a perfect shoot on the first take.
@@gimcrack555 Seinfeld "not in character" is basically "in character". It's almost part of the show how bad he was at acting. To me it became part of the enjoyment of the series to catch Jerry laughing while the others do their thing. Those editors must have had a hard time getting usable takes.
So... Seinfeld is The Master of Its Domain?
Incredible comment
Queen of the castle
Lord of the Manor
@@JohnGuastavino1 King of the county
Quite the opposite, according to the video, every episode achieves multiple climaxes
The sea was angry that day, my friends. . . like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
mournblade1066 best quote ever!
At this precise moment I was a marine biologist
He was 40ft high if he was an inch.
I said “EASY BIG FELLA”
Is that a Titleist?
Seinfield is known as the "show about nothing" pretty much because of how relatable it is. You don't see characters in absurd plots, you just see them in day-to-day situations that could happen to _anybody._ Sure, there are some few moments that are a bit exaggerated, but they still feel more grounded than any other sitcom (well, except for almost everything Kramer does).
Sometimes it can get a little out there
they're not exaggerated. The vast majority of people do experience those day-to-day situations, but there's also a (lower) number of people that experience these "a bit exaggerated" situations, as well.
The only reason Seinfeld is known as the show about nothing is because Seindeld sold itself as the show about nothing, with this being part of that whole arc when they try to make a Seinfeld show inside Seinfeld, and with them referring to the show like that on interviews. It doesn't make that much sense and it wouldn't be described like that spontaneously by people
Kramer, Kramerica Industries, and his intern are pretty absurd. Come to think of it, Kramer's subplots are almost always absurd.
@@jeanmichel5723 Agreed. The show is really more about subjects that are normally overlooked minutiae or that were heretofore taboo. When you watch Curb Your Enthusiasm you see where the origins of this "neo-neurotic" comedy.
"I could make an entire video about how the episodes and the seasons of Seinfeld are written".
Please. Don't tease us. 😭
And what is stopping you, nerdstalgic?
This is the episode about it tho.
You know we're living in a society here!
You mean torture
Fuxk Seinfeld..... imo of course
Y’all might like it and that’s perfectly fine
Do it, coward
Every sitcom after Seinfeld wanted to be Seinfeld...they never even come close.
But at least some of them admit it, like It's Always Sunny. They even advertised it saying it was like "Seinfeld on crack"
Not true. Not every sitcom wants to be Seinfeld and some of them are great in the ways that they are different. For instance Malcom in the Middle is completely different from Seinfeld, but great in its own way.
@@trequor yeah I suppose it's true. Look at Friends; they obviously took inspiration (and even stole some ideas) from Seinfeld. However, they didn't share the "no learning, no hugging" slogan that characterized Seinfeld. Instead, Friends has many romantic and emotional moments that make it a completely different show. And then there were shows like How I Met Your Mother who took inspiration directly from Friends, not from Seinfeld, which means that although Friends copied Seinfeld, they also added many original things and created its own brand, different from Seinfeld in many aspects.
@@franciscoterron9324 I would even argue that Friends was more influential than Seinfeld, though Seinfeld is a much better show Friends has a simple marketability that made it super popular.
@@trequor that's right. Seinfeld is far funnier and in general better than Friends. However, that idea of "characters without empathy and no emotional moments whatsoever" doesn't work with every show. Actually the only one after Seinfeld with that idea is It's Always Sunny. Every other show has the typical emotional scenes that make it more similar to Friends than Seinfeld. Even The Office, which has a lot of dark humor, presents empathetic characters and emotional moments.
I think the Chinese Restaurant is a good example too. Everyone has been in that situation and for them to be able to make an episode like that was on another level.
I rewatch the entire series once per year since I was a kid, and never cease to amaze me how each year the stories in the first 5 seasons get more and more relatable...especially George's.
@@Jose-se9pu i agree! Lol everyone is a George deep down
maybe im gonna say something stupid, but, the chinese restaurant have similar things to the fly episode from breaking bad hajshaha, maybe because both episodes occur in the same setting and nothing really happens
In addition to weaving plot lines, Larry and Jerry had 2 rules about the characters- 1. No hugging 2. No learning.
Didn't the entire main squad hug when Elaine came back from the European trip with her psychologist boyfriend?
@@svalis1068 That's true, but they didn't mean in a literal way. They didn't want mushy stuff. After the welcome home hug they continued on with their questionable morals and screwing each other over.
@@bossfan49 Damn, I thought it was supposed to be literal. I think I'm autistic.
@@svalis1068 what “no hugging no learning” really meant was no mushy overly kind actions from the characters and no one was ever aloud to learn their lesson or correct a mistake
@@calumbyrne5926there’s basically no character arc
4:50 "The Climax"
I see what you did there
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Was just about to comment this...comment section wins again
not to mention 5:18 as well
I was scrolling through the comments to see if someone had said that.
I'm out
I actually had a classmate in high school that hated my guts, but legit had the exact same personality as George. Literally made me feel like I was Jerry in a live episode of the show.
Seinfeld helped shape my sense of humor to this day. Absolutely adore the show.
Mine was Will & Grace. I'm going to watch Seinfeld for the first time when it hits netflix in October😅
I love how It’s Always Sunny calls to this episode in their episode “The Gang Does a Clip Show”
When shows resort to clip shows it usually means they jumped the shark. It was so cringy when the Office did it. But Sunny took the cliché and made an unique episode. IASIP is one of (if not the) best comedy shows of all time.
@@yuikol14 If you liked IASIP try curb your enthusiasm. It's similar writing but honestly a tiny bit better AND a lot of the Sunny cast make random cameos I wonder how they know eachother.
@@davewillmusic3334 already watch it and love it. Not sure if I agree I like it more but I could be biased.
@@yuikol14 does it get better after the first few episodes ? I watched the first two and it was like watching season one of Seinfeld - slow and plodding. And it doesn’t even have the Seinfeld characters so I stopped watching quick
@@matthewjohnson3656 which show are you asking about?
Seinfeld is is the best sitcom I have ever watched, I continue to watch it to this day, it is very funny!
Seinfeld is awesome, love watching the reruns!
I love Seinfeld still and the only other shows that I love just as much is Schitt's Creek and Blackish.
My mom got me the boxed set for Christmas when I was 16 (I’m 30 now) and I would guess I’ve watched every episode at least a hundred times and it’s still hilarious to me.
I just finished watching the entirety of Seinfeld for the first time, it is an amazing show!
Curb your enthusiasm gives Seinfeld a run for his money
Seinfeld & Social Network ost? great.
Dope music
I loved that you noticed. I was also trying to remember where I have heard this tune before. Great seeing this in the comments.
I was thinking it was Mr. Robot
I always thought the perfected Seinfeld episode was The Bizarro Jerry. Four of the most memorable plots, in one episode: Elaine dates the Bizarro Jerry. Jerry dates Man Hands. George gets into the Forbidden City. Kramer "works" in an office job. It was brilliantly absurd
Seinfeld was highly scripted, very few know it.
the problem with "The Big Bang" is the laugh track
almost EVERY single line
Leonard : I'm going to the store. Do you want me to get you anything ?
Sheldon : Yes, some bananas, please.
Laugh track : HA HA HA
Leonard: Bananas ?
Sheldon : Yes, I ate the last one.
Laugh track : HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
OMG, that was not funny !!!
and even when the lines are funny they are NEVER that funny.
Is that real 😂
watch it without a laugh track and there's nothing there
There are videos of TBBT where the “laughs” are muted, and it’s amazing how long the long pauses between lines are!!!
Remember that time we ate bananas playing Nintendo?
@@RocketboyX Bwahahahahahahaha!
You had me at "The big bang is not funny... Seinfeld is"
Seinfeld is about the only show, that i can rewatch over and over again.
I watch both TBBT and Seinfeld again occasionally, but the former I would do once a year usually.
there are others worth watching, such as Mind Your Language (only the first 3 seasons, though, the 4th season is an insult IMO because if replaces some of the cast members with new performers. It's like watching the first 7 seasons of Seinfeld with these 4 that we love, and then, in seasons 8 and 9 replace George and Elaine with 2 other people but keep the names. It's just not the same).
Anyway, that's on the humoristic part of entertainment that's worth watching, and re-watching until the day you die. But there are other high quality "shows" that are worth re-watching, and those are the Poirot series (71 short episodes and full-fledged movies in total) and Sherlock Holmes series (about 30 something episodes and movies in total)
I have pirated all these great shows and movies some 15 years ago (including the best Jackie Chan movies) and I keep watching and re-watching them whenever I want. And I want to watch them weekly lol.
So anyway, I highly recommend you getting your dirty hands on all of these masterpieces because with the way humanity going dumber and dumber each day these epic creations rise in value more and more each day, so they're worth owning and re-watching when you feel down, to remind yourself that people used to be smart, kind, relaxed, funny and humanitarian in general
@@blabla-rg7ky thank you for the thoughtful reply. I will look into getting my grubby hands on those
@@jasonarcher7268 glad I could help, my friend. And even if you don't like them, no biggie. But give them a bit of watch time and if they'll help you improve even 5% of your life / mood it will have been worth the recommendation :)
you said you could make an episode about seinfeld seasons and episodes. please do! Its the best sitcom of all time. The marine biologist ending was perfect
I would love to see him do more Seinfeld videos! Its definitely the best sitcom and it deserves more attention on UA-cam
Yes! The way that Seinfeld ties everything together so intricately is exactly why it is my favorite show of all time. You did a great job of describing what I have been trying to tell people!
I always thought what made Seinfeld so perfect is that it didn’t try to be something it’s not. It’s a pure sitcom[edy]. Not a serious moral or dramatic moment in the entire series. Well... the first season isn’t great but it got better once they figured out the recipe ;)
They even killed off Susan without making it dramatic or emotional
I recently rewatched Seinfeld and I gotta say it is still one of the funniest sitcoms ever!
To this day, IMO The Contest is the greatest single episode of pure sitcom television ever made. I also think it might be one of the best episodes of television ever written period.
Seinfeld is the best sitcom hands down. Also Kramer is one of the funniest characters ever
finally a nerdstalgic video about an old tv show or series in its native 4:3 ratio
Interesting to see that Larry David carried this over to Curb Your Enthusiasm. It has the same running into punchline structure
I love the Soup Nazi episode. It’s just so brilliant and hilarious
Finally someone in the comments who mentions The Soup Nazi. I recommend it to people who've never seen Seinfeld because it epitomises everything that makes the show good. Therefore it's the ultimate litmus test of appeal for anyone, if they like it they'll like the show and if not, they won't. It's also mostly standalone so that helps too.
@@AdiNatu96 I always recommend The Soup Nazi and The Backwards Episode (when Sue Ellen Mischki got married in India). I still find it to be one of the most brilliant episodes they ever did. The only part that was a little boring was the Kramer stuff but that's mainly because the other storyline was so compelling and funny that I didn't care what Kramer was doing!
@@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460 The Betrayal is pretty great too, but I never thought of it as a taste test because it relies on past knowledge. Not just Elaine and Sue's rivalry, but it goes back to beyond the pilot. Though it does retcons the Kessler Kramer pothole with finesse so it's a big pay-off for those who follow the show.
Oh my god I cant stop laughing at just the memory of that episode
There's a reason for the term "Seinfeld Moment" lobotomized shlock like BBT isn't funny, Most Seinfeld situations are very relatable with alot of ironic twists, coincidences and comedic moments that happened in our normal lives
relatable is a very personal thing. i relate much more to socially awkward nerds trying to talk to a girl and end up playing videogames with each other than to a bunch of clowns acting like jackasses dor 40min
@@njfernandes87 😂😂 true but how many times have you ever uttered the phrase "this is totally a Seinfeld moment" hey if you like Big Bang Theory more power to you but watching a bunch of 30 year olds act like 15 year old D&D players isn't for me.
@@njfernandes87 there's probably not a more socially awkward and inadequate character in any other sitcom than George Costanza... so...
@@nicwinsteadart5330 Eh started out that way, but they develop along the way. Howard's character development throughout the series is pretty good, as are for most of the characters.
And I personally relate to Sheldon a lot in the sense that I also have been diagnosed with OCD. (ironic that a lot of his hygenic OCD stuff have become recommended policy post COVID including non shaking hands, non hugs, hand sanitizing, social distancing, etc)
@@njfernandes87 lol dang ol New York boys. Just a show about nothin
The fact that homie made the video in the "Seinfeld " old TV dimension. ABSOLUTE MADLAD !
The interconnectedness is why I enjoy Curb so much.
My favourite channel covering my favourite show... heck yes.
The circularity is also visible in how it brings even it’s tertiary characters again in subsequent episodes. There are many, but an astounding example is of “Mike” the guy who fought over the parking space with George (in the 1st Season) reappering in the 7th Season!
I know I'm late but my Fiancee and I discovered "Curb Your Enthusiasm" a few weeks ago and it's amazing. We're already on season 8! It's got that Seinfeld writing with a little "Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia" wildcard energy. I'm not even finished and it will prob end up in my Top 5 for sitcoms
I just binged all of it this year as well. I’d say it easily is top 5 for me too. With Seinfeld, and the office!
Honestly the only channel that I'll allow to fill blank space to get paid, you honestly earned it.
Never watched Seinfeld yet I always watch Nerdstalgic. Good luck with the movie
Me too
What movie
@@pickleboy904 he’s working on a feature film with some other people. It got funded on Kickstarter a few months ago
@@Keenangraz that’s sick
I highly recommend that you watch Seinfeld. It's good stuff and holds up for the most part.
There’s a reason Seinfeld is the goat sitcom
My favorite aspect of Seinfeld is that even though its titled after him, he is not the star. He is the "normal" that his kooky friends are reflected off of. He operates like we all do in society but his friends are how we really feel inside
Yeah it was strange how he was rhe straight man and not that funny comparatively.
The fact that Kramer's "I'm out" is his 100th entrance to Jerry's apartment is another proof of how carefully written this show was.
The joke that this video was uploaded on November 30th was not lost on me
The scene where Elaine walks in and smacks the money down on the counter... absolutely brilliant
I thought for a moment Howard was in Jerry's kitchen, and I thought "What is this, a crossover episode?"
I love the 4 by 3 aspect ratio of these videos, really nostalgic. Keep up the great work👍.
I love that too.
How in the world do you not have millions of subscribers?! I love your videos so much and how intelligently you break them down. Your content is brilliant and so many more people need to recognize you!
All in all, Larry David is a genius
great video, but what's with all the black screen/silence at the end?
It's a youtube processing error, its apparently fixing itself now, so it should be gone in a few minutes.
@@Nerdstalgic If it's not too late, you should keep it. We can all argue about what it means in the comments.
@@Nerdstalgic Reminds me of 2010 UA-cam when creators would make their videos 10 minutes long no matter what to get that sweet, sweet ad revenue 😂
@@Nerdstalgic someone left a chunk of nothing at the end of their video ;)
Sopranos reference
The "Harmon" circle is the monomyth or the hero's journey conceptualised by Joseph Campbell. His work is worth a read
TBBT is funny, but it's fairly linear. "Seinfeld" aired an episode that was literally in reverse time, right down to the Castle Rock graphic appearing at the beginning instead of the end.
What's even better is that when the Seinfeld cast doors get into absurd situations (accidentally impersonating a high-ranking Nazi, meeting the Bubble Boy, George working for the Yankees, or Susan dying from envelope poisoning), they continue to obsess over the minutae, the mundane, and the downright petty.
Later Seinfeld is the best because the absurd story threads eventually start to overlap, even things that shouldn’t connect like when George took a book into the bathroom at the store... as he’s out there trying to rid himself of the “flagged” book we hear about: Kramer and Newman’s crazy rickshaw idea, which then ends up literally crashing into Elaine’s story thread after her “boyfriend” has finally cleaned up. And Jerry’s thread about his uncle shoplifting comes back around with George at the end “you defile one book, steal another, and somehow that makes everything all even?”
My favorite show of all time! Have seen it through 5 times over the years. Nothing will top it in my eyes.
The irony of "the climax" at that moment.
This episode gets all the attention (still) because of the subject matter, but the best-written episodes are The Marine Biologist, The Opposite, and the one that ends with Neuman's postal truck catching on fire.
"I can make an entire video of how intricately Seinfeld episodes, and it's seasons, are written..." PLS DO IT.
I love that the music in this video is from The Social Network
I have ADHD and insomnia this is the show I watched at 2am as a kid. Now I have the internet and I can't remember when I last slept also I can't remember what I did this morning. Help
Same 😂
Holy shit I found my people.
Seinfeld is on Hulu
@Esther Sparrow There are 2 sitcoms that I ever really loved: one was MASH, and the other was Seinfeld. I loved MASH and the innocent humor in it, but I also loved Seinfeld for the way it was written (highly scripted, very few know it).
Well done.
My personal favorite example of Seinfeld's interconnected stories is The Pothole(S8E16). Kramer adopts a mile of highway, Jerry knocks his girlfriend's toothbrush in the toilet, George drops his keys in a pothole that gets paved over, and Elaine pretends to live in another apartment buildings supply closet to get flounder delivered from a particular Chinese restaurant.
The way these four ridiculous stories wind up connecting - and all come to the climax - is simply masterful. And hilarious.
Been waiting for some precious Seinfeld content to pop up in my recommended 😭 bless
The circular structure is such a great point!
LITERALLY just finished watching your entire channel. Great work! I appreciate the time and detail you put in! I hope you see this
Hey George, the ocean called, they’re running out of shrimp.
I love how the entire video uses the same aspect ratio as Seinfeld.
Referring to the hero’s journey as if it were invented in Dan Harmon’s Story Circle is ludicrous
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Love the video! You should do more vids on other iconic Seinfeld episodes (maybe The Marine Biologist next?)
Perfect video to finish off NNN
lmao I wonder if this was uploaded now on purpose
0:15
Missing something?
Yeah, good characters and Larry David.
Watching The Contest was the hardest I’ve ever laughed at a tv show
Love the "George is getting upset" Running gag.
Make one about My Name Is Earl!!
I very much appreciate the decision to post a video in a 4:3 aspect ratio, not just to give the indication that we're talking about a television sitcom from the 90's, but if I chose to watch this video on a 4:3 screen, which I know is a small minority of people, the video would look nice on those screens. I must only care about this because of when I used to watch UA-cam on my Windows XP computer with a CRT monitor, and there were always black borders on the top and bottom of the screen. IT was nice whenever there was something that could actually fill the screen properly. To think of a more real-world, present day example of a situation this improves, watching on a vertical phone screen. Perhaps that shouldn't be surprising since 4:3 is closer to the 1:1 that's recently catching on for that exact reason.
Love the In Motion backing music. Love that instrumental
I would like to shout out my favorite 90’s sitcom, third rock from the sun
A perfect example of a farce done good.
The social network soundtrack in motion sounds good in the video
Don't make your premise ridiculous, make your characters ridiculous - but always true to their character.
Well said.
i think one episode to show Seinfeld’s genius would be the parking garage one. this episode is so remarkably funny and quirky, you actually believe you were watching them stuck inside a car garage. this is never going to be topped, ever again.
The writers were great at creating a parallel to things from real life like the Kennedy assassination or the movie Schindler’s list and having it fit perfectly into the story. But the genius of the show is how they mirror the same joke with different characters in completely different contexts.
The first relatable episode that comes to mind is the one in the garage, who hasn’t gotten lost in those immense under ground garages? I have, it’s absurd and yet so infuriating, that episode is brilliant!
4:51 "the climax" lol
Yes! Seinfeld mastered making one joke connect with every story in one episode. "The Contest" is the perfect example
Seinfeld episode “the gum” is my all time favorite episode and it is a great example of this.
Definitely need to do one on that 70s show, my favorite besides for the office
I watched Sunny before watchingh Seinfeld, so throughout my run of the show, I kept noticing just how much Sunny took from Seinfeld in terms of character writing, but also how they managed to jump that up a notch. They argue the same, but Sunny often ends up yelling or insulting each other and I think that's the perfect example of the similarity in both shows.
Sunny took the concept of having the main cast be unintentionally awful people and made them intentionally awful instead. And it's incredible.
4:56 - Did you pronounce the k in know?
"Seemed to connote", maybe
Not sure if you've watched Curb your enthusiasm. It takes this circular writing to the next level.
I LOVE the Seinfeld series!! I think the episodes that made me laugh in that gut-busting manner was where Kramer gets arrested for being a "pimp" and when he's being interrogated for trying to cancel his mail 🤣 But the best one? Where Newman is hauling something (can't remember) and his vehicle's dragging something on the road where Kramer spilled gas or whatever, and he's singing along and a spark ignites his car and he starts screaming with all the fire around him 😂😂😂
Man, I remember back in the day when you had to see it on Thursday night. Maybe it's nostalgia, but there's something about having one chance to see the episode. A great show like Seinfeld was able to create a sense of urgency. Waiting a week to see a show seems insane now, but I knew what my plans were for Thursday night. Don't get me wrong, I like the convenience of being able to watch shows at my own pace, but the delayed gratification made each episode that much more special.
The use of 'In Motion' from The Social Network as this video's background music feels strange yet perfect @..@
My 3 main issues with TBBT are:
~The laugh track at nearly EVERY line, whether it's funny or not. At least you can easily tune out Seinfeld's laugh track.
~The jokes in TBBT are all spelled out to the audience. I get that it's a show aimed at a general audience so they'll have to make a decent amount of the nerdy jokes more obvious, but they don't leave any in-jokes for nerds. Futurama is really good at balancing plenty of jokes that a non-nerdy general audience can get without holding their hand, with plenty of in-jokes nerds would get.
~Sheldon. I was diagnosed with Asperger's (now High Functioning Autism) as a kid, and I know a lot of fellow autistics who hate him. I (and a lot of other autistic people I've known) love funny autistic (whether canonically or heavily implied) characters like Abed from Community, Archer from Archer, and Tina from Bob's Burgers! They show autistic traits, yet autism isn't their entire personality. They're more than it, just like real autistic people. And those characters are the butt of plenty of jokes too, yet it doesn't feel like the show is bullying a character with a mental disability.
Sheldon on the other hand, while not canonically autistic, is virtually every aspie/HFA stereotype out there with very little personality when it comes to anything else. It's as if the show writers looked up Asperger's/HFA in the DSM and decided that was the entire character...which is not only lazy writing, but in reality most aspies/HFA people aren't going to check off every single trait of autism, and have personality traits besides being autistic. The people behind TBBT have claimed that he's not autistic, "just Sheldon", but I feel that's such a cowardly cop out.
I get why they wouldn't want to admit that Sheldon is autistic, because then a lot of the jokes in the show would just feel like a group of mean grown adults bullying a man with a mental disability, but...they also wrote the other characters and jokes that way. Like...that's a situation the people behind TBBT got themselves into and could have avoided. If they had been a bit less lazy with Sheldon's character writing, they could have made him a canonically autistic character, made him the butt of his fair share of funny jokes, AND made it not seem like bullying!
I find that this even happens through the entire show because at the beginning and end of the show, Jerry and George talk about how the second jacket button makes or breaks the whole thing. Literally the same conversation.
Seinfeld is one of the Top Peak Television Sitcoms.
No contest - "The Contest" is the funniest TV episode ever.
I love this show I've been watching it the past 2 weeks and now it's one of my favorite comedies up with Community
I really need to see your essay discussing the intricacies of the writing on Seinfeld.
Best sitcom of all time, no contest.
People tend to misunderstand the word Nothing the way _Seinfeld_ meant it, but there is a scene in "The Airport" that explains it perfectly. Jerry and Tia, the model, are sitting in first class, and Jerry talks about the fudge distribution in the ice cream sundae. Tia says, "Never have I met a man who knew so much about nothing." That's when I realized that Nothing refers to the minutiae of everyday life.
Seinfeld is genius.
Notable mentions are "Married With Children" and "Night Court"
The Contest was just so good because it was nothing like mostly those typical Seinfeld episode where Seinfeld or George gets a girlfriend out of nowhere, episode starts by they talk to their girlfriends, they get to know their girlfriends better and right in the middle of the episode they found out that their girlfriend either a vergin or slow talker or she's bald or she eats her peas one at a time or she has manly hand etc etc. So in the 3rd act they just try to get rid of their girlfriend and the same cycle repeats throughout the show. And the same goes for Elaine.
You should definitely make a video about how intricately written Seinfeld episodes and seasons are, if you haven't already. Please make that video.
Good to see your content back. It’s been missed
Your videos haven't popped up for months on my feed. An 11month old video reminded me that this channel existed. I have a lot of catching up to do
When I clicked this video, I literally got an ad of for pretzel pieces and Kramers lawyer was in it lol