'Seinfeld' turns 25 still master of its domain
"Seinfield" premiered on NBC 25 years ago this week, as a summer replacement show called "The Seinfeld Chronicles." As a piece at The Week puts it, "though it hasn't produced a new episode since 1998, the series has earned $3.1 billion from reruns alone and still lords over the writers' rooms of dozens of sitcoms looking to replicate its success."
In Case You Were Looking For Another Reason To Feel Old...
In Case You Were Looking For Another Reason To Feel Old...
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Thanks for that, LJ. You couldn't wait for a couple of more hours to post? It's way too early here for a drink to "health". 
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And it's as stupid now as it was then!
Treat Gaza like Carthage.
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I have never seen a full episode of that show. Should I feel regret?
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Nope.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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Not unless you have this weird desire to be lobotomized through a television.
Treat Gaza like Carthage.
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Fawlty Towers will be ....40 years old.... in two years time...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Seinfeld was one of those shows that was pretty good when an episode hit--the soup Nazi, the masturbation contest, losing the car at the mall, etc., it could be pretty good, but many times it was just tedious and repetitive (how many times can you watch Jason Alexander going on and on like a crazy man?). I'll admit I still haven't seen most of the episodes, but a friend has the collection on DVD and pointed out which ones to see. Stupid? Sure? But funny and different in its own way. Hardly (as TV Guide asserted) the best comedy ever on TV (I reserve that for the Honeymooners, but there are many ahead of Seinfeld), but it could be entertaining.