Seinfeld: Classic or Dud

enrique: apparently the cast members had been in some sort of dispute over royalties--it's supposed to be out on DVD soon though.

enrique I think the other cast members were jealous of seinfeld's creator/producer credit and the spectacular amounts of money he made from that

you are clearly wrong, and not only is EVERY simpsons episode watchable (even if they suck, which many do) the best were written by Conan O'Brien.

also Janeane Garofalo, who i love love love, appears as the interviewer in the episode where George and Jerry get accidentally ovrheard while pretending to be gay - "...not that there's anything wrong with that!"

i have downloaded several episodes as mpg through Limewire - i dare say through Kazaa or soulseek you can get many more.

Greatest TV Comedy like, ever.

That wasn't JG. She did appear in another episode as Jerry's dream girlfriend, though, who too loved cereal for lunch, dinner and in between.

But yeah, I'll definitely get it on dvd. I liked Comedian a whole lot. The process of putting together his new act was interesting (especially the bits where he blanked out completely), but seeing all the snippets just made me want to see the complete product. I remember thinking that the commentary track was very good, but I can't remember why. Maybe just because Jerry is a funny guy and Colin Quinn is funny as an idiot.

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We don't *need* commentary on Seinfeld, just give us all the episodes to watch when we want!

amateurist, wow. incredible wrongness.

i revived this thread to say that "bizarro jerry" must be top 3, easy. i just saw it again and realized that it features
1. bizarro jerry ("does he live underwater? is he black?")
2. man-hands ("there's a beach towel on the rack...")
3. kramer's fake 9-to-5 ("you know this is my crazy time of year!")
and
4. the meat packing plant turned secret model hangout fortress ("i guess the dj booth was over there, by the bonesaw").

god, unbelievable.

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i think you're in part right about this but "splendor" is the wrong word--it's just a slightly exaggerated parody of the meaningless things we find important. i mean people could be smug and watch seinfeld--but then i think they are missing the point, and it's not fair to judge something by its audience, esp a sitcom.

(also -10 million points for the slap bass)

Jerry/Larry is easily the best character on the show.

i think this was true once, back when a lot of the ideas within the show were stand up comedy material, but the sitcom style seemed to actually deify the shallowness it once parodied. i'm not sure sitcoms *have* to do that, just saying that "Seinfeld" did. To me that made it unlikeable and even undermined a sound basic premise - that the meaningless ticks people have really are intrinsically funny.