Your Favorite Seinfeld episode or moment....

[CUMMINGS]

"The Pen" or "The Betrayal," aka, the backwards episode. Not their funniest, but I thought it was an original concept. Someone actually went to the trouble to reformat it "forwards" on youtube or dailymotion, LOL, not Nearly As Funny.

 

[gsdx]

Everyone doesn't have to like it, but there is no arguing with fact that the show is one of the alltime greatest shows.

'Popularity' does not necessarily make a programme 'great'. I mean, seriously, you can't say that The Jerry Springer Show is one of the all-time greatest shows on television.

Seinfeld was every popular and it was very funny during its first few seasons, but then it got sloppy and stupid and the laughs didn't come from everyday events anymore. They started to come from the writers' imaginations, and they had to struggle for the laughs. They also started making 'serial' story lines. Seinfeld became more of a soap opera than a sitcom.

It was the silly story lines which turned me off. The TV show. George's engagement. Elaine's 'Greenpeace' boyfriend.

In the earlier seasons, if I didn't like one episode, I knew there would be an entirely new episode the next week. Near the end, if I didn't like the story lines, I was stuck with them until they ran their courses. And I had better things to do than to wait.

The same thing happened with Friends. They lost me as a fan as well when they switched to recurring story lines.

Seinfeld was everywhere in syndication. Hardly an hour went by when you couldn't find Seinfeld somewhere on your television set. Over-saturation.

Greatest show on television? Funniest show on television? I've seen greater shows and I've seen funnier shows. It's all subjective.

 

[NedNickerson]

I looked in the Internet Movie Data Base and looking through the episode guide of "Seinfeld," I see that I stopped watching after Season 4. I've occasionally watched various episodes in reruns, but the majority of Season 5 through 9, I have not seen. I've never seen the last episode, either...

Seinfeld Episode Guide
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098904/episodes

Some of the episodes in Season 4 were a bit hard to take - George's fiance died from licking toxic envelopes, Kramer burns down the cabin of Susan's (Jerry's girlfriend) father's cabin, they discover a box of letters which revealed that her father was in love with John Cheever, the Bubble Boy turns out to be an obnoxious lech, a reporter overhears a conversation where she surmises that Jerry and George are gay lovers... I didn't like the fact that they were using gay references for laughs. Some of the episodes were so contrived, it was like they were deliberately forcing the humor instead of just letting it happen naturally.

The last episode of Season 4 was when Jerry and George tried to pitch an idea to NBC about a pilot for a show that was about nothing - which was an obvious reference to "Seinfeld." When they started blowing their own horn, so to speak, that's when I lost interest.

As for "Friends," I think I watched the maybe five or six episodes all the way through. None of the characters interested me, and I liked the actors even less. And when they demanded $1 million per episode, and got it, I never watched another episode again.

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"The Contest" was part of Season 4. I thought this part was funny...
but I can't see how it won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy series...

 

[ronboy]

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