Seinfeld Is Not As Good As You Remember!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- Seinfeld is one of the best and most popular sitcoms of all time, and my absolute favorite, but is it really as good as you remember it?
In this deep dive of all 9 seasons of the show, we talk about the pilot, how the show got picked up, how it got better, how it became legendary, and then the moment it kinda jumped the shark and became more and more ridiculous.
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Pilot
02:45 - Season 1
04:21 - Season 2
06:31 - Seasons 3-5
08:59 - The Marine Biologist + Season 6
10:09 - Season 7
11:07 - Larry Leaves + Season 8
12:32 - Season 9 + The Finale
14:15 - Conclusion
14:47 - In memory of…
We also talk about Larry David's departure and how this affected Jason Alexander, Larry Charles, and Jerry Seinfeld himself. And we also mention the stand-up bit from prison, after Jerry, Elaine, Kramer and George Costanza get arrested.
Making this video has been very therapeutic for me, because while I was finishing it, my mother passed away and going through all of the episodes really helped cheer me up. I used to watch Seinfeld as a kid with her so please don't skip the "in memory of" screen at the very end.
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Your right, Seinfeld is actually better than I remember
Absolutely ❤
Exactly what I was going to say and why I clicked on the video. 😂
Seinfeld is like a fine wine, gets better with age. But some people have no taste...
@@edprado30305 it’s the best edprado, the best!
Yea I enjoy it on another level now that I’m the same age as the characters.
It's one of the few shows that I can watch in reruns despite seeing all of the shows many times. It still holds up for me.
The Sopranos and Seinfeld. The best of the best and its not even close.
Most people have been watching it non-stop for decades, how could we "forget" what it was like
Ya and its only something I ever do with comedies. I watch Seinfeld and iasip over and over
If you watch it all the time how can it be better or worse than you remember maybe if you sniff glue
Seinfeld isnt as good as you remember; it’s 10x better.
Seinfeld looks particularly good when you compare it to the other mega hit sitcom (Friends) from that time.
Friends are merely a copy of Seinfeld. Like all the sitcoms post Seinfeld. Maybe not one to one copy but in all of them have references to Seinfeld and even replicate jokes from it. The office is full of Seinfeld references. In the last season of the office, Curb is directly advertised by Saul Goodman. His way younger self as an actor dated Elaine in Seinfeld.
The Rolling Stones of comedy. The NBC years were like the Brian Jones, and Mick Taylor years. The HBO years were like the Ronnie Wood years.
What exactly am I wrong about? Labeling Seinfeld as the GOAT or friends being the start of conedy mediocrity and below mediocre? I don't mean to bad mouth the dead, but Matthew Perry at some point, within SNL context, told a costar that he invented sarcasm. He must of been high on strawberry jam at that time. Aside from The Office which was pretty good up to a point, friends, gang bang theory, two men cut in half or whatever that garbage was called, king of queens, and any sitcom you can think of, tried to dethrone Seinfeld. But it's simply not possible. And it never will be. That king of queens is nothing more than a poor copy of not even Seimfeld as a whole, but a single unmatched aspect of Seinfeld. The F. Costanza and son magical chemistry.
It holds up very well actually. People still talk about it a lot 30 years later for a reason.
Fair point
soup nazi and the close talker, shrinkage, man hands, the double dipper, yada yada, master of your domain are still part of our lexicon 20 plus years later.
The absurd moments in the last two seasons are what make them great. And J. Peterman? One of the greatest characters in television history.
Thats true every time I rewatch it I realize that it is even better than I remember.
Clever I see what you did.
*laugh track*
The finale had my favourite line in the show. Frank Costanza yelling at George Steinbrenner, “How could you give twelve million dollars to Hideki Irabu?!”
Oh my lord, that cracked me up.
How can you dislike the Bizarro World episode in S8?!? One of the best in the series IMO
I completely acknowledge the show went very cartoonish in the last couple seasons but I still enjoy those too. Yes they are not the same kind of humour that the show was founded on, I get it. But they are still incredibly hilarious in their own right.
I like the later ones where they get more insane the Finale kinda sucked, just a re-cap of what they did over the shows run. Still gotta respect Jerry for ending it
while the show was still bigtime even though he already made enough cash for 10 lifetimes
its gold jerry! Its gold!
it may have strayed away from the original vision the writers had but i still think its great silly humor, not everything needs to take itself seriously
Ya its less "jumped the shark" and more of "purposefully moving towards more absurdist humor."
I'm turning my living room into the Merv Griffin Show set just to help Seinfeld's last season attain realism. Just remember, we're talking this way.
Seinfeld is actually BETTER than I remember. I have been rewatching it, and it is GOLD.
*laugh track*
It is gold jerry😅
Condolences. My dad was a fan of Seinfeld and even though I didn’t understand much at the time, I picked it up again as an adult when it finally clicked and made me a lifelong fan. My dad had passed by then but I always remember him snickering at Seinfeld on TV
My old man was a big fan as well; his favorite joke was the cold open with Jerry and George having mustaches out of nowhere. That one always got him howling.
Something similar happened to me too. Back in the 90s, I didn't have much brain power to understand the Seinfeld structure. That's what makes it so good. They were ahead of their time. I used to laugh drooling at married with children when Al was scratching his bellybutton and then held out his arm to his wife for her to sample the content of his bellybutton too. I laughed at that cause I didn't know any better. Seinfeld is a very acquired taste as in what values and morals it promotes or makes fun of. I tried a while back to see how will I perceive married with children with new and improved brain power of understanding comedy, and......I could barely crack a smile at what the Bundy's were promoting.
@@vladimirfroane3652 Seinfeld would never have lasted had it not had a strong time slot. That's a good thing because the show is brilliant.
My all time favorite line is in the last season: Jerry to George: "Are you feeling anything right now?"
The finale wasn't great, but them ending up in prison after being such horrible people is kinda the right ending lol!
The biggest problem with the finale is that they didn't deserve it.
Larry David fixed the ending with the Curb finale where he did a shot for shot remake. Larry is in jail & Jerry comes to pick him up because a juror was caught failing to sequester & the conviction was overturned. That was a smarter ending because of course when they’re finally getting their comeuppance, some random technicality gets them off the hook. He acknowledges that this was how Seinfeld should’ve ended & I agree
They should have had that Chinese lady attorney from an earlier episode to be the prosecutor in the finale.
The biggest issue for me was it was pretty much just a clip show..
Why were they horrible people ? Because they were quirky ? I don’t buy it
Condolences bud, my mom was born the same year and passed 12 years ago now. It's great to have shows for that connection back, loved the video
Thank you so much!
It’s funny that when Larry David left is when many ppl think Seinfeld became a parody of itself, but ironically it’s Curb Your Enthusiasm which I feel like began completely grounded in reality, feeling like Larry David’s real life, and suffered becoming a total parody of itself to a much higher degree than Seinfeld ever did
Seasons 8 and 9 were totally hilarious. Completely disagree.
7,8 and 9 are my favourites. 1 I still don't really get. And even 2 and 3 are only ok. 4 to 9 are all good
Dudes an idiot. Some of the best eps were those seasons
Seriously, this guy (if it is a guy… AI?) is way, way, way off, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
@@eamano8474I completely agree with you....4-9 were amazing
@@mysterbearMy father’s way off!
those last couple seasons are where it drew in its widest audience, including me. i didn't follow it til the last few years, the absurdity brought me in i guess
Dude I'm currently watching the show. From time to time I watch a couple episodes and I could watch it anytime
I see your point, and you make a reasonable case, however, even in it's demise Seinfeld was still funnier than anything else on television. It's tone had changed the last two years and it was certainly not the clever and original concept that Larry David's acerbic sensibilities had brought to the reading table, but it still made people laugh and gave millions fodder to discuss the next day.
Pretty much what I’m saying. The show was still good when compared to others, but its quality went down as it became more and more like a parody of itself, especially once Larry left.
Seasons 8&9 were terrific I don't know what the f*** you're talking about
Maybe it's just me but I don't think so
@@BigFilmRevyou're insane to be this critical of seasons 6-9. I think the show got better as it went and ended at the peak.
Some people just can't stand the thought that it did not meet todays Diversity, Equity and inclusion standards.
@@danielbrown3461literally not a point mentioned anywhere
I love how it went off the rails😂😂😂
This talking is a idiot.
@8:44 like an old man,trying to send back soup in a deli
There has never been a television show where I couldn't wait for the next episode and go into work the next morning to discuss and laugh with my co workers.
I was in college and Thursday nights we'd watch Seinfeld, then go to the bars.
The night the soup nazi episode premiered I remember going out to the bar and people just saying "no soup for you" and just laughing historically.
Then, we get home and I'm watching sports center and a baseball highlight of a guy robbing a home run. No soup for you.
To this day I don't think I've experienced anything like that. Literally watch an episode and minutes later it's just everywhere.
Not even Vince Russo era WCW?
There were other shows that were "next day discussion worthy"; Taxi and Night Court to name just two.
I loved it when it was on, right starting from Seinfeld Chronicles, and I never noticed that the quality dropped. However, now, I cannot go back and rewatch them.
Later absurdity isnt peak of course, but the alternative was to retread ground with diminished returns. At least we got wild ideas instead
YES! Finally someone said it. Although my favorite season is indeed 7.
Sorry for your loss, my mom and I watched the show together too. And she’s the same age as your mom was, 1958. I agree with you, for the most part, about it jumping the shark. The last 2 seasons are fun though, for the fans. It jumped when George calls Marisa Tomei, before the funeral.
If I watch the show today and still laugh, then, yes, it's as good as I remember
I really think you're wrong. 8&9 had some classic episodes including one of my all time favs The Car Dealership. You're overthinking it man, its a show about nothing
It never looses its touch. Hope someone preserves it long time into the future. Then we can give it a spin and talk about it.
I kinda jumped the video essay as soon as you said Seinfeld kinda jumped the shark...
The contest is the one that caught my attention
I thought a better way to get cameos in a finale would to have Elaine and Jerry get married and when they say speak now or forever hold your peace, all the characters come in one after the other
Sounds like a great idea
Oh man I'm so glad they didn't get married. That is so lame.
I don't "remember" anything, because I only started to watch Seinfeld in the last 2 or 3 years. It is not that well-known in Germany, and I would never watch a dubbed TV version of it. So I watched it in its original language - more than once lol. A few dozen episodes are on constant rotation.
It is a masterpiece, at least seasons 2-8. It is incredibly funny, insightful and deep and the best Sitcom I have ever watched. This is Sopranos-level humour (despite being a product of an earlier time in the TV landscape and therefore "cheaper" looking). Absolutely amazing writing and acting. George Costanza alone is possibly the greatest TV character of all time.
(In a slow and calming voice …
Yes Larry we know this is you!
The finale is a rip off of, or tribute to, The Phil Silvers Show (Sgt. Bilko). It ends with the protagonists going to jail for their (hilarious) crimes against society. It also has a touch of Barney Miller, in that some of the popular characters from the show's past come back for one last appearance.
Very good video, and I'm sorry for your loss!
Great analysis!
I’ve been watching it recently on tv and it’s actually just as good if not better than I remember. A perfect show.
I don't think it ever "jumped the shark" --until the finale
Too bad Ted McGinley didn't play the judge.
I'm not even watching this video, i just came here to say, YES IT IS!!!!!!...YOU ARE DEAD WRONG!
Jerry and Larry may have been the co-conceiver of Seinfeld but don’t forget the team of writers. They’re really the unsung heroes here without their input. It would’ve been literally a story about nothing
True.
While there is, of course, some truth to what this AI guy is saying, I have to point out that, in spite of some of the groaner episodes in the last two seasons (like the appallingly bad The Butter Shave) there were also some straight-up masterpieces
Season 8: "The Soul Mate" is one of my top 20 episodes. The Abstinence, The Little Jerry, The Little Kicks, and The Bizzaro Jerry are all brilliant. The Fatigues, The Pothole (with their take on a classic Marx Bros bit of a packed storage room, and then when the door opens, they all tumble out) are solid. And The Muffin Tops, with George pretending to be a tourist, is sohhh good. Steinbrenner's phone call w/ the Tyler Chicken guy is pure gold.
Season 7: The Wink, The Hot Tub, The Pool Guy, The Gum (hysterically funny bit w/ the gum and Jerry's thick glasses), The Rye, The Wig Master, The Bottle Deposit all brilliant.
Even Season 9, with its flops and terrible finale, had some incredible work (thanks in part to David Puddy): The Blood, The Junk Mail, The Merv Griffin Show, The Strike (Festivus), The Reverse Peephole, The Strongbox, The Frogger, and The Maid all have segments that are spectacularly funny: Jerry's textbook marathon breakup w/ Julia Campbell in The Frogger; Puddy with the fur coat and then the 8-ball coat, everyone having a "job" at the party; the final scene of The Maid, with Kramer acting like a naive, lost girl getting into the "pimp's" car is incredible.
So, in spite of the lousy episodes in S8 and S9, if they had stopped after S6, it would have been a huge mistake.
The Rolling Stones of comedy. The NBC years were like the Brian Jones and Mick Taylor years. The HBO years were like the Ronnie Wood years.
Huh. I clicked to agree and am actually grateful I disagreed! I saw it from the beginning as a kid all the way to being an older teenager and it still holds up for me today. I like the ridiculous older seasons more than the earliest ones. 🤷🏼♀️ anyway, great video. Subscribed!
Just saw this for the first time. As a huge Seinfeld fan, I could not agree more. When it went away from the ironies of life in NYC, it was done. From Del Boca Vista to Play Now and Kruger, they totally lost it. Everyone became a parody of themselves instead of being themselves. When reruns are on, I can't even watch the later shows.
A show finding it's identity, having it's Hey Days, losing it's luster and going for a season or two in decline, is no unique phenomenon. Iconic shows like Cheers or MASH went way longer than their peak and had poor ending shows to close the series out. I do think that one of the very final Seinfeld shows in the last season, the Puerto Rican Parade, was a real stinker, and representative of the decline and running out of ideas.
I hated the show until someone said give it a chance. As in you have to watch more than one episode. Now I’ve seen every episode multiple times.
Try that with 3rd Rock From The Sun. Watch it from the beginning if you haven't. That show is hilarious.
How on earth could you call season 8 and 9 a mess? About a dozen of the best espisodes are from those seasons. Who cares if it slipped from realism? Its ultimately a comedy, and it's supposed to make you laugh
Season 8 had some rocky episodes, but dear god, the chicken roaster, the little Jerry Seinfeld, The Little Kicks. Amazing
@@iandaley2295 merv griffith, English Patient, Meat Slicer...
I can see your point of view. I myself am a psycho fan of Seinfeld. Ending it with the Susan incident would have been really something. Watching your review, I see Seinfeld like Mike Tyson. It's not fully fledged without it's downs. That's what makes Mike the GOAT, his prime along with his now mythical defeats, so is Seinfeld. The office had it way worse. Really relatable chemistry up until Steve left. After that they were completely aimless. The last episode was excruciating. But still, incomparable. Seinfeld with it's perceived downs still the very best, and the office with it's downs. When the office went down, it did it like the titanic.
Season 9 is my favorite. Kruger is hilarious. The cartoonish themes worked brilliantly. Thinking about this video is making me angry! Serenity now!!!
watching reruns I cant figure out the seasons.
Really sorry for your mother! Nice video with an interesting take, but I can still rewatch them all over and over.
I guess I don't mind cartoonish humor. Some people have critiqued it's always sunny in Philadelphia for going that way, but it still gives me a tickle in my funny bone. And as far as I know no one's forcing anybody to watch anything
It was a classic moment when Jerry was so offended by Larry King asking if the show had been canceled. King might be remembered if he had shown some guts by pressing Jerry to say if he thought the years without Larry David were any good.
NOTHING was more important to the American television industry than the end of MASH, Cheers, and Seinfeld. Those season finales were cultural milestones, and guess which one is not like the others???
My favorite episode was about Elaine and the cake in her boss's office 😂
the second bananas on the show were great. Elaine's boss is great
Those last two years weren't the same format but that doesn't make them bad. I could see hating them if there were more than two or three seasons of far-fetched writing, like the Office--which had an endless stream of crazy seasons--but two hilarious seasons hardly seem like a betrayal. (Not to mention the fact that high-concept plots, like Jerry befriending Keith Hernandez or them producing their own TV show were there already from the second season.)
Like most sitcoms, Seinfeld had a few memorable episodes, but essentially its like Seinfeld himself admits, most television is 'just about a place you like to hang out'.
We were vacationing in NZ staying in a traveling van. Our US produced Siefield DVD's disks did not play with sound. We watched them in silence and somehow knowing the lines from memory it was as funny or sometimes even more funny.....We picked up on more of the physical comedy.
This is dead-on. It's the greatest situation comedy of all-time, but it got away from what made it truly great. The ridiculous, over the top episodes of the last two seasons were reflected not only in the writing, but the acting. George's character became a blow hard when he used to have more subtlety. The situations didn't tap into the real situations it once did, which made it iconic. It just became a cartoon - and, yes, a parody, of what made it great.
The newsflash is that, apparently, Seinfeld is going to revisit the show's finale with something new he and Larry David are cooking up. That reunion arc in 2009 on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" was funnier than anything from the last two seasons of "Seinfeld" because it actually got back to more realistic - everyday - a show about "nothing" - situations. I hope whatever it is they're doing, it's something special.
Very true. It's exactly the point I was trying to make. I still think Seinfeld, even at its worst, was still good, but it's a shame to see it get so far away from what made it great to begin with, and maybe people are used to seeing the episodes out of order as they shuffle through them on Netflix or catch them on TV from time to time.
But when you watch them chronologically, you notice a pattern of the stories getting more and more ridiculous, and it's sad that it seems to start with one of my all time favorite episodes: The Marine Biologist.
Yes! It’s funny you mention that because I just binged the entire series over a course of a few weeks and I noticed the last two seasons really were not that good relating to everything you just said
"The newsflash is that, apparently, Seinfeld is going to revisit the show's finale with something new he and Larry David are cooking up. "
I assume that this was the finale of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Did you see it? If so, what did you think?
"If your friend jumped off a bridge, would you?"
what bridge?
Name one sitcom which ended with a blast , don't they all just fade away and bleed to death... ?
30 rock had an amazing ending, as did parks and rec. Brooklyn 99 was solid. Friends had a good ending. If anything seinfeld is memorable ending.
The show was slow to take off because Seinfeld as a comedian was considered mid... he was mostly known for late night show gigs, so it was weird for him to have a show using his name. I remember even remarking to a friend the irony of the comedian playing the strait man in his own show about being a comic. That said, the writing and premise was great, and Seinfeld really did hit his stride in that capacity. I do feel if they called it something else and marketed it properly it would have taken off quickly from the start.
Every episode of the final season has at least one quotable gag. I don’t think a future season would have been great, but I think it ended strong.
Idk man, to quote Larry David playing Larry David "it was a good finale!"
We still watch Seinfeld and Curb every day. Best shows ever. Agree that they jumped the shark in the last two seasons, but also had some high points.
It’s still good to me damn it
“The Opposite” would have been a great finale.
Importer exporter was a running gag
Back in the 90's. Seinfeld, Friends, Fresh Prince, Simpsons (great decade of programming)
4:25 The episode with the MOST seminal content is, of course, The Contest. 7:25 Jerry pitched them a show about how a comedian gets his jokes from his actual life. He NEVER tried to pitch a show about nothing!
I really don't hate the finale as it's generally said. I think it's much more than the chance of past characters to appear again. The idea of them removed from society is like evening the odds. They should pay for all the emotional abuse they subjected the people they came across with. Basically saying that, we're deserving of some jail time for what we did and rightfully so. All of you at home, don't be like us. That's what I always loved about Seinfeld and Curb. Their ability to question the viewer's sense of morality.
Now that we have Unfrosted, it seems like everything you say you hate about Seinfeld is actually just Jerry’s sense of humor. Larry carried the show. When he started getting burnt out Jerry had to start pulling some weight.
Jerry’s perspective is actually a bit out of touch, and it became more apparent as his star grew. Larry is the one firmly rooted in reality. Although he can also write slightly elevated he never actually goes over the top. He knows how to use the tiniest of circumstance to his advantage when writing an episode.
Thank you! Someone who finally gets it about the Finale. I loved it. It's a better episode than any of its competitors.
The moral of the story is if you pretend to be an architect, you need at least 2-3 projects you can turn to
i couldnt get into the show when i was younger, however my little brother got me into watching it (he's 20 and im 31, LOL) and i realize the appeal now
I've seen each episode about 20 times and I still laugh each time 😂
!Seinfeld is not as good as you remember???! SERENITY NOW! SERENITY NOW!
I liked this analysis but I disagree that the show 'jumped the shark' - Jerry turned down $100M which is unbelievable and something many other sitcom stars couldn't do.
All the cast mates are professionals and still friends and the way Jerry supports Michael Richards to this day after what happened with him is very cool in my book.
My mom and I constantly quote Seinfeld to one another every time we’re together, nobody else picks up on it, it’s our thing. Sorry to hear about your mom. I liked your video.
Seasons 8 and 9 weren't funny, just silly, but most people think silly is funnier than funny, New fans jumped on board in the later seasons and didn't have anything to compare them to.
Such a spot on review, thank you. I’m such a lifelong fan of the show but hate how it turned for the wacky worse, I agree with nearly everything you said, other than I felt the first 3 are better than 3,4,5, way more grounded and smart. Definitely 1-5 was the magic, 6-7 still had some great moments, 8-9 the few great moments it had were tragically overshadowed by the ridiculous stories and cartooned versions of the characters.
Personally I never found it all that great at the time it aired. For me it wasn't that I didn't think it was good but how much people loved it disproportionately. I never understood how it got so popular.
I absolutely love Seinfeld Seasons 4-7 and like 1-3 as well. While I like a handful of Season 8-9 episodes, I generally find those seasons difficult to watch.
How many of us have watched the show , in reruns for years on end , probably seeing each episode 5 --10 times at least ? That's gotta tell you something.
You are actually going through the 'reality' vs 'episode' story?
You should update it with the Curb show.
I re-watched the whole series on Netflix recently and it's still great
Yes, it is as good as I remember
I actually don't think you could be more wrong, yes the seasons where L.D left were a little more cartoonish but still good, o mean compared to anything in the years since then and i can quite easily watch it on a loop. It was always about the characters not the plot an i could have watched them forever.
I understand the the finale can seem a bit too much like a clip show ( lets forget about that episode that was actually a clip show) but it was the perfect send of for such a memorable cast of supporting characters that all made a huge impression, and the perfect end for he main cast, who lets face it we selfish jerks.
To each his own but i think it was all great (apart from that one clip show)
damn these pretzels are making me thirsty.
The finale was talked about a year and a half before it happened, and when it happened, it stunk. Correct me if I'm wrong but I didn't notice the book store episode in your video. I thought that one was the best.
Agree to disagree. This show is still great.
Frasier held up well though. I didn’t get it as a kid but now that I’m old like that it’s hilarious.
Really, what sitcom is superior? The show redefined what a 30 minute show could be. Broke so many standard rules and is still watchable today. So many 1 liners, memorable scenes and incredible guest appearances. Only a few shows are comparable. I Love Lucy and Roseanne come to mind. Hundreds of catch phrases etched into the lexicon of modern times. What other show illuminates this point? Don't dig it, don't watch. Wait, what country am I in? Serenity now, please hand me some junior mints. The finale was a disappointment when originally aired but can appreciate their vision now. Basically a homage to themselves, honor to it's initial ideals and a middle finger to the press. Not sure if my interpretation is true but the show will continue perpetual laughs. Regardless if you watched back in the 90's or reruns now. Thanks for minimalizing this brutal life and laughs which made this world a bit fun with laughter. Anyone can be a critic. Produce a work of art, invent something, or influence the world and get to back us. Danka
Remember? I never stopped watching it
I didn't watch Seinfeld season to season. I watched an epsiode here and there on reruns. I liked the episodes that way. Last year, I watched them all in chronological order: and I agree with you (however, I didn't mind the finale because I am not too concerned with how sitcoms end because they don't have a great plot anyway). It seems to be the fate of all or most sitcoms to become a parody of themselves if they only run long enough. Drama series usually ruin their plot and characters as well when they go beyond 5-7 seasons.
Seinfeld was the last sitcom I tried to follow every time it aired in regular seasons. Everything after it never came close. Curb Your Enthusiasm had many very funny moments, but nothing like Seinfeld
Judging by the comments, I'll just assume whoever posted this is having some doubts about his internet presence.
On the contrary, the comments are great. Most of them are well-written and respectful, even if they disagree with me completely. That's all I could ever hope for, really.
You're bound to polarize people when you're talking about a show as great and as popular as Seinfeld, and you're making an argument that it should have ended a bit sooner. My goal on TH-cam isn't to make fake people-pleasing content, my goal is to share my honest take on things and (hopefully) make entertaining videos.
Some people will disagree and I'm all for it, especially when it's done in a civil manner. 🫡
I watched every episode of Seinfeld a few months ago and it was exactly as good as I remember. Unlike you, I don't have memory problems.
Nope, it’s even better than I remember….only issues were a few of season 9 and 1 episodes that were a bit to ehhh, but thst show is so far above most sitcoms. Seasons 3-7 were masterful. 8 was excellent with a slight dip below 3-7. Nine had some great episodes but had a few subpar episodes. Worst thing about 9 was the finale, it was very unseinfeldish and had the characters doing uncharacteristic things. A bad finale(got, dexter, walking dead)can really put a stain on a series but with a comedy and i think there is a lot more latitude to brush it off.
I agree with many of your points here, though I am grateful for the extra seasons and some hilarious moments and many more Thursday nights to look forward to. The final episode was a definite dud and quite unsatisfying. They could and should have done better... but I don't regret all those extra post-Larry episodes we got. Very sorry to hear about your mother. Glad you got to enjoy the show with her... I doubt that either of my parents ever watched a single episode...
The contest is one of most perfect episodes of TV Comedy ever!!!