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.
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
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
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
Hey JJ. I thought an AI voiceover with a native American accent would be less distracting than my own voice, but enough people have complained about it sounding robotic and fake so I guess I was wrong. I guess I'll have to start recording the whole narration myself. Thanks for your input!
@@BigFilmRevI personally think the ai is fine but don't be scared to upload with your own unique cadence and voice. You've inspired me to start my channel now I know I don't have to use my own though tbh I have the same fears so I get it. You do you brother!
I think seasons 7-9 are the best seasons. The characters are fully developed and the actors are super comfortable in their roles. Soup Nazi, Bottle Deposit, Little Kicks, Chicken Roasters, Phil Donahue Show, The Millennium, Muffin Tops, Summer of George, Butter Shave, Serenity Now, The Voice (Giant ball of oil), Reverse Peep Hole, The Burning (I got gonorrhea, that's what they gave me...), The Frogger
I would say seasons 3-6 were the prime years in my opinion but I still defend seasons 7-9. Seinfeld never had a bad season like pretty much every other American sitcom. I love The Office but those last two seasons without Michael were bad.
I like J. Peterman, the actor was great and fun fact the actor John O'Hurley actually invested in the real J. Peterman Company and runs part of it to this day, played the part then later owns its in real life along with real peterman. a joke became a reality.
@@michael_c2absolutely not. There are a weird group of people that think that praising seasons 8 and 9 is somehow a knock on Larry David, who left with season 7. They feel weird because they esteem Jerry Seinfeld as lesser than David, so by extension, they must demean the seasons in which Larry David was not involved. It ALWAYS boils down to that. Sorry, but the last two seasons were the best in the entire series. Ironically, it’s the finale which people poopoo, even though that was the one time that Larry David returned to write. It was a massive miscalculation of what made the series great. People loved those characters, and to see them thrown in prison was like the writers making you feel bad for loving them.
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 finale had my favourite line in the show. Frank Costanza yelling at George Steinbrenner, “How could you give twelve million dollars to Hideki Irabu?!”
It's the one where George decides to get a chair for the security guard who works at the Rosses' family owned store. He claims he has a sixth sense for human suffering, and Jerry asks "are you getting anything now?" I don't think that's the last season though (since Susan has died by then), or I'm thinking of the wrong episode.
Most sitcoms lose their fastball after five or six seasons. But, no sitcom ever had so many great peripheral characters. That's what keeps it interesting even after 35 years. Newman, Putty, both sets of parents, J. Peterman, Steinbrenner - it was a credit to Seinfield that he never felt threatened by them and allowed all of those minor roles to develop into memorable characters. What Seinfield fan has never muttered "Newman!" when something goes wrong?
You missed the whole point of the finale "fan". They ran out of ideas was the plot point. Them talking about the button while in prison was the first conversation from the first show, and Jerry saying "Haven't we had this conversation already" was subtle enough for a real fan to understand and feel closure.
Binge watched the whole thing in 2020, it was a great escape from everything going on in the world at that time and it has become my all-time favorite sitcom.
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
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.
The opening sounds like a real person. After that, its a ai voice tool. Possible he got a cold, possilby he used that for time considerations. I've done narrations before and it can be quite time consuming even when you write the content yourself.
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.
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.
The picture of your Mom right at the end actually made me well up. My Mom and I used to watch Seinfeld together when I was a teen, and she passed away in 1993. Watching the show with her is one of my fave memories of us together. Sorry for your loss, brother.
The only thing I know about the finale is that Sinatra died that night. They got to the hospital quick because the streets were cleared of hustle and bustle because everyone was at home seeing what happened to Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer.
I disagree; I watched several episodes of Seinfeld as a kid in the 90's but wasn't that into it at that time. I watched the whole series in 2020 and loved it. One of the very few sitcoms that never had a bad season and I actually liked the ending. I've rewatched many of the episodes these last pushing 5 years.
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
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.
I know Larry David loved The Phil Silvers Show, so it makes sense he’d pay homage to a series that inspired him as a TV writer. I still want to see that series.
I've seen every episode multiple times, and I find it just as enjoyable today as I did when it first aired. The fact it is still attracting new viewers demonstrates its ability to hold up over time.
I didnt grow up watching Seinfeld. It just wasnt' really popular in Switzerland or France where I grew up. I discovered it through the memes and decided to give it a go a couple of years back. And what a ride it was! Most sitcoms, especially from the era, rely on a formula and become a parody of themselves in the later seasons. They often get stuck in endless drama which quickly becomes boring even to the most hardcore fans. Seinfled decided to become goofy and not take things too seriously while keeping its soul. The finale was bad, but bringing everybody back really made it better than most sitcoms finales. I just love it now, and watch some episodes from time to time. You can binge watch a season, watch an episode a month, leave it, come back to it... there's always something to discover in the background or a new line that stays with you. It's just great television.
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
Actually it is. I watched from the beginning and began rewatching it on Netlfix last year. It holds up. The first two seasons are mostly unwatchable, and of course some things are dated, but that's the case with all tv shows. Otherwise, I can watch the rest of the run and it holds up much, much better than any other 90s sitcom.
I think the same but of the last two seasons. I couldn't even watch them. I immediately felt the shift when Larry David went away. The first couple of seasons are standard. They're fine.
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.
I enjoyed watching this video. But I kept assuming that we would get to the part where he argues Seinfeld isn’t as good as we remember it being. This video seems more like a criticism of the final two seasons after a long telling of the show’s well known bio. I would assume most people who watch Seinfeld and watch it enough to know which episodes are from which season also strongly favor seasons 1-7 because of Larry David. That’s an old criticism , isn’t it?
Interestingly enough the same thing happened to curb your enthusiasm. The last number of seasons all featured good finales that could have been the show finale. And then the final actual few seasons were not that memorable. And I got the impression that Larry became very self-aware. Larry has to be a little bit off-kilter, Susie has to curse and insult people and be overly aggressive etc. And also the switch from film to digital gave the show a movie look rather than the documentary look that made it feel more real in the earlier seasons. It ran probably three or four seasons too long. Season 5 and 6 are probably where it should have ended. But 12 seasons. After season 6 it's hard to find a memorable episode.
My wife and I hadn’t seen Seinfeld in years. When it came to Netflix we watched the entire series. It’s better than you remember. Best comedy series of all time and it’s not close.
Back when it ended I would have loved if Jerry took the huge payday for another season. But now all these years later I pretty agree with you. Its still my favorite sitcom of all time but certain episodes in the last couple of seasons haven't aged very well. One episode from late in the series that I do like is The Dealership. Poor George and his Twix candy bar. HAHAHA 😂
I didn't like the storyline about the foundation for Susan in season 8, and I thought the first 2 episodes of season 4 were Seinfeld at it's worst. But aside from that, everything aged very well.
While Seinfeld is a great classic show - you nailed it. Like so many other "sit-coms" it became cartoon-ish and a caricature of itself. In many of the later episodes, it felt like they assumed the audience developed ADHD and would pack in too many story threads. And sometime one of the story threads had some really funny lines and interactions between the characters only to be crowded out by silly/unfunny/cartoon story threads. Again, it is a great show, but unfortunately could not resist the problems that many many shows before it suffered from.
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
Exactly compare seasons 8 and 9 of Seinfeld to The Office and Seinfeld easily wins and is one of the very few American sitcoms that never had a bad season.
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.
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???
I'm glad to hear someone else out there feels how I do on this. I was in my early 30's when Seinfeld first aired and I was arguably their prime audience. I remember the phenomenon. But I would argue that the last good season was #5. As you stated; they became cartoon characters after that and to me unwatchable.
Your take is your opinion but I think the show got funnier as the years went on,some of my favorite episodes were the later years and that's what made the show so good. Some shows for example like the Beverly Hillbillies or all in the family were funny but began to get cobwebs towards the end of their run .That can't be said for Seinfeld.
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.
As a fellow, fan; your critique is spot on. Seinfeld was akin to becoming a comic book fan but not wanting the world to know how great comic books were. Of course, eventually Hollywood minimized the artistic integrity.
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
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.
Newhart had the best final show ever, when Suzanne Pleshette, his wife "Emily" from The Bob Newhart Show, appeared in the bed with Bob and told him that the whole Newhart series was a dream.
@@K37-h1z I agree with you on Friends. It's trendy to hate that show now for whatever reason but every season is a least decent and the ending was pretty good.
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
If they were to be getting married it would have to be under the pretense of some sort of scam. Jerry needs $15,000 of Dental work done and Elaine has a company plan that fully covers a spouse, or something like that. The show was under strict directive by Larry David to not be wholesome or sentimental.
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.
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.
This was good, I think The King of Queens went down a similar path as Seinfeld , I really liked it to a point. But it got a bit cartoonish in later seasons. The finale, however, was done really well . Maybe you could do a review of that series . Thanks!
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.
This guy must really hate Jerry. The finale was the most spectacular episodes finishing on such a high note. They could have even gone on further to make the show, but Jerry decided to end it.
Jerry is a genius and the video starts with me praising him for his integrity to turn down such a ridiculous amount of money. So no, I don’t hate Jerry.
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.
My condolences. I am so sorry for your loss. I appreciate your take on the show and hadn't put a critique on it like yours but I think you're pretty spot on. The finale was horribly disappointing.
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 don’t think Seinfeld ended on a high note, and I think throughout the series there were some episodes which were a lot worse than others. I found it annoying when people wouldn’t hear any criticism about it.
The earlier episodes.. seasons2-6 were better when they had more funny interactions.. in the later episodes each character had their own story’s going on and they would cut to each story for a few seconds and then cut to the others and rinse and repeat
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?
!Seinfeld is not as good as you remember???! SERENITY NOW! SERENITY NOW!
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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.
God bless y’all
Seinfeld is actually BETTER than I remember. I have been rewatching it, and it is GOLD.
*laugh track*
It is gold jerry😅
I was gonna say it was gold, baby! But then you'd be upset I was using your babys.
It's Gold Jerry, GOLD!
The earlier seasons are much better than I remember. Seasons 1-3 are the highlight in my personal opinion.
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.
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.
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
I mean there was a scene in Seinfeld where Kramer wanted to eat Newman.
Larry " Against the World" is sooo funny.
Yes Larry David s schtick is so self involved and repetitive and narcissistic
I loved Seinfeld and never enjoyed Curb your enthusiasm. To me, that title alone was begging me not to watch it.
I totally agree. But even when it's Over the top, curb is still hilarious. But it's true the show was better when it felt more "grounded"
I found the robotic AI voice distracting. You have a nice voice, I think you should narrate your videos yourself.
Hey JJ. I thought an AI voiceover with a native American accent would be less distracting than my own voice, but enough people have complained about it sounding robotic and fake so I guess I was wrong. I guess I'll have to start recording the whole narration myself.
Thanks for your input!
@@BigFilmRevI personally think the ai is fine but don't be scared to upload with your own unique cadence and voice. You've inspired me to start my channel now I know I don't have to use my own though tbh I have the same fears so I get it. You do you brother!
Yes! Loose the lame robot voice for sure! I couldn't even listen to the whole thing because the robot voice was too annoying to me...
AI is lame
I would have never known it was AI if everyone wasn't mentioning it here.
I think seasons 7-9 are the best seasons. The characters are fully developed and the actors are super comfortable in their roles.
Soup Nazi, Bottle Deposit, Little Kicks, Chicken Roasters, Phil Donahue Show, The Millennium, Muffin Tops, Summer of George, Butter Shave, Serenity Now, The Voice (Giant ball of oil), Reverse Peep Hole, The Burning (I got gonorrhea, that's what they gave me...), The Frogger
Totally agree! Every episode was a banger in the last couple seasons
I would say seasons 3-6 were the prime years in my opinion but I still defend seasons 7-9. Seinfeld never had a bad season like pretty much every other American sitcom. I love The Office but those last two seasons without Michael were bad.
How can you dislike the Bizarro World episode in S8?!? One of the best in the series IMO
The backward episode also!!! So good!!!!
@@bryanhester3656 Funny guy!!
The absurd moments in the last two seasons are what make them great. And J. Peterman? One of the greatest characters in television history.
I like J. Peterman, the actor was great and fun fact the actor John O'Hurley actually invested in the real J. Peterman Company and runs part of it to this day, played the part then later owns its in real life along with real peterman. a joke became a reality.
I need the last two seasons are huge regression in that show and pretty much skippable.
@@michael_c2absolutely not. There are a weird group of people that think that praising seasons 8 and 9 is somehow a knock on Larry David, who left with season 7. They feel weird because they esteem Jerry Seinfeld as lesser than David, so by extension, they must demean the seasons in which Larry David was not involved. It ALWAYS boils down to that. Sorry, but the last two seasons were the best in the entire series. Ironically, it’s the finale which people poopoo, even though that was the one time that Larry David returned to write. It was a massive miscalculation of what made the series great. People loved those characters, and to see them thrown in prison was like the writers making you feel bad for loving them.
@@JS-ln4nsevery episode in the last two seasons is bad. Even season 7 is bad
Who doesn't want to wear the ribbon?
Ha.
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 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.
My all time favorite line is in the last season: Jerry to George: "Are you feeling anything right now?"
Which episode!
It's the one where George decides to get a chair for the security guard who works at the Rosses' family owned store.
He claims he has a sixth sense for human suffering, and Jerry asks "are you getting anything now?"
I don't think that's the last season though (since Susan has died by then), or I'm thinking of the wrong episode.
Most sitcoms lose their fastball after five or six seasons. But, no sitcom ever had so many great peripheral characters. That's what keeps it interesting even after 35 years. Newman, Putty, both sets of parents, J. Peterman, Steinbrenner - it was a credit to Seinfield that he never felt threatened by them and allowed all of those minor roles to develop into memorable characters. What Seinfield fan has never muttered "Newman!" when something goes wrong?
I loved the gag with Putty, who was going to break up with who first. They were both so competitive.
You missed the whole point of the finale "fan". They ran out of ideas was the plot point. Them talking about the button while in prison was the first conversation from the first show, and Jerry saying "Haven't we had this conversation already" was subtle enough for a real fan to understand and feel closure.
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*
I'm 23 and I've only ever watched it in the past 3 years. It is fantastic
Binge watched the whole thing in 2020, it was a great escape from everything going on in the world at that time and it has become my all-time favorite sitcom.
@@BishopWalters12 Love to hear it. Best sitcom ever for sure.
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
_"High five!"_
Yeah, the last seasons were better than the earlier seasons.
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
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!
Why did the video’s narrator suddenly lose his accent at the :58 second mark?
The opening sounds like a real person. After that, its a ai voice tool. Possible he got a cold, possilby he used that for time considerations. I've done narrations before and it can be quite time consuming even when you write the content yourself.
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 has aged very well IMHO. Rated the #1 TV show of all time too!
The picture of your Mom right at the end actually made me well up. My Mom and I used to watch Seinfeld together when I was a teen, and she passed away in 1993. Watching the show with her is one of my fave memories of us together. Sorry for your loss, brother.
The only thing I know about the finale is that Sinatra died that night. They got to the hospital quick because the streets were cleared of hustle and bustle because everyone was at home seeing what happened to Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer.
I disagree; I watched several episodes of Seinfeld as a kid in the 90's but wasn't that into it at that time. I watched the whole series in 2020 and loved it. One of the very few sitcoms that never had a bad season and I actually liked the ending. I've rewatched many of the episodes these last pushing 5 years.
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
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.
I know Larry David loved The Phil Silvers Show, so it makes sense he’d pay homage to a series that inspired him as a TV writer. I still want to see that series.
Once David left, both Elaine and George got noticeably angrier. George was flying off into a rage every other episode.
I've seen every episode multiple times, and I find it just as enjoyable today as I did when it first aired. The fact it is still attracting new viewers demonstrates its ability to hold up over time.
The title of this video should read, Seinfeld isn't as good as I remember. Because you're speaking for yourself. And that's ok
I didnt grow up watching Seinfeld. It just wasnt' really popular in Switzerland or France where I grew up. I discovered it through the memes and decided to give it a go a couple of years back. And what a ride it was!
Most sitcoms, especially from the era, rely on a formula and become a parody of themselves in the later seasons. They often get stuck in endless drama which quickly becomes boring even to the most hardcore fans.
Seinfled decided to become goofy and not take things too seriously while keeping its soul. The finale was bad, but bringing everybody back really made it better than most sitcoms finales.
I just love it now, and watch some episodes from time to time. You can binge watch a season, watch an episode a month, leave it, come back to it... there's always something to discover in the background or a new line that stays with you. It's just great television.
Just looking at these clips the show is as amazing as I remember
This is a recap of episodes rather than an analytical analysis of whether it was as good as we remember
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
Actually it is. I watched from the beginning and began rewatching it on Netlfix last year. It holds up. The first two seasons are mostly unwatchable, and of course some things are dated, but that's the case with all tv shows. Otherwise, I can watch the rest of the run and it holds up much, much better than any other 90s sitcom.
I think the same but of the last two seasons. I couldn't even watch them. I immediately felt the shift when Larry David went away. The first couple of seasons are standard. They're fine.
@@afonsolucas2219 Seasons 8 and 9 were better than season 7. Larry was burned out and we saw what happened with Curb going downhill.
Came here from the breaking bad video, seeing a comment about your accent. Nothing wrong with it! Better than the AI, for sure.
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.
You are actually going through the 'reality' vs 'episode' story?
You should update it with the Curb show.
Later absurdity isnt peak of course, but the alternative was to retread ground with diminished returns. At least we got wild ideas instead
I enjoyed watching this video. But I kept assuming that we would get to the part where he argues Seinfeld isn’t as good as we remember it being. This video seems more like a criticism of the final two seasons after a long telling of the show’s well known bio. I would assume most people who watch Seinfeld and watch it enough to know which episodes are from which season also strongly favor seasons 1-7 because of Larry David. That’s an old criticism , isn’t it?
I rewatched it all recently. It's still golden
GOLD GARETT! GOLD!
Dude I'm currently watching the show. From time to time I watch a couple episodes and I could watch it anytime
Interestingly enough the same thing happened to curb your enthusiasm. The last number of seasons all featured good finales that could have been the show finale. And then the final actual few seasons were not that memorable. And I got the impression that Larry became very self-aware. Larry has to be a little bit off-kilter, Susie has to curse and insult people and be overly aggressive etc.
And also the switch from film to digital gave the show a movie look rather than the documentary look that made it feel more real in the earlier seasons. It ran probably three or four seasons too long. Season 5 and 6 are probably where it should have ended. But 12 seasons. After season 6 it's hard to find a memorable episode.
My wife and I hadn’t seen Seinfeld in years. When it came to Netflix we watched the entire series. It’s better than you remember. Best comedy series of all time and it’s not close.
Back when it ended I would have loved if Jerry took the huge payday for another season. But now all these years later I pretty agree with you. Its still my favorite sitcom of all time but certain episodes in the last couple of seasons haven't aged very well. One episode from late in the series that I do like is The Dealership. Poor George and his Twix candy bar. HAHAHA 😂
I kinda jumped the video essay as soon as you said Seinfeld kinda jumped the shark...
I didn't like the storyline about the foundation for Susan in season 8, and I thought the first 2 episodes of season 4 were Seinfeld at it's worst. But aside from that, everything aged very well.
@8:44 like an old man,trying to send back soup in a deli
While Seinfeld is a great classic show - you nailed it. Like so many other "sit-coms" it became cartoon-ish and a caricature of itself. In many of the later episodes, it felt like they assumed the audience developed ADHD and would pack in too many story threads. And sometime one of the story threads had some really funny lines and interactions between the characters only to be crowded out by silly/unfunny/cartoon story threads. Again, it is a great show, but unfortunately could not resist the problems that many many shows before it suffered from.
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...
You call season 9 unrealistic?? Having deal with pigeons is one of the realistic thing in the entire show.
Exactly compare seasons 8 and 9 of Seinfeld to The Office and Seinfeld easily wins and is one of the very few American sitcoms that never had a bad season.
@BishopWalters12 Office first 3 seasons were way better than Seinfeld first 3 though. Seinfeld started slow, Office fizzled out
It’s a fair take honestly, with shows you’re so caught up in and starstuck by, you don’t want to criticize things.
Very good video, and I'm sorry for your loss!
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.
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???
I'm glad to hear someone else out there feels how I do on this. I was in my early 30's when Seinfeld first aired and I was arguably their prime audience. I remember the phenomenon. But I would argue that the last good season was #5. As you stated; they became cartoon characters after that and to me unwatchable.
Your take is your opinion but I think the show got funnier as the years went on,some of my favorite episodes were the later years and that's what made the show so good. Some shows for example like the Beverly Hillbillies or all in the family were funny but began to get cobwebs towards the end of their run .That can't be said for 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.
Really sorry for your mother! Nice video with an interesting take, but I can still rewatch them all over and over.
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.
As a fellow, fan;
your critique is spot on.
Seinfeld was akin to becoming
a comic book fan but not wanting the
world to know how great comic books were.
Of course, eventually Hollywood minimized the artistic integrity.
Season 8 and 9 are just as good as the others, better in some cases.
Agree 100%. Season 8 and 9 were good.
Great video!
-Colton from ScreenCrush
Thank you Colton!
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
I just went back & re-watched it. I appreciate its timelessness even more now.
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.
Text to speech voice because these videos are translated from Italian! I feel privileged to experience your great writing :)
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.
@@K37-h1zFriends? We are talking about sitcoms. Friends had to rely on too much romantic crap to keep people hooked.
Newhart had the best final show ever, when Suzanne Pleshette, his wife "Emily" from The Bob Newhart Show, appeared in the bed with Bob and told him that the whole Newhart series was a dream.
@@K37-h1z I agree with you on Friends. It's trendy to hate that show now for whatever reason but every season is a least decent and the ending was pretty good.
Seinfeld, Friends, Fraiser, Cheers and Wings stayed pretty consistent. None of them had a bad season.
Yeh, been watching it recently after a few years of not watching and I am crying with laughter. I'm on Season 4 with Crazy Joe Davola 😂
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
@@eamano8474I completely agree with you....4-9 were amazing
@@mysterbearMy father’s way off!
I liked when Jerry took.over, it was so Looney Tooney and comicy.... I wish he took that deal and made 2 more seasons.....
Austin McConnell? is that you secretly doing the voiceover?
I don't think it ever "jumped the shark" --until the finale
Too bad Ted McGinley didn't play the judge.
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 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.
If they were to be getting married it would have to be under the pretense of some sort of scam. Jerry needs $15,000 of Dental work done and Elaine has a company plan that fully covers a spouse, or something like that. The show was under strict directive by Larry David to not be wholesome or sentimental.
Sorry but the last years were my favorites. The earlier seasons were like Woody Allen parodies.
It’s still good to me damn it
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 love how it went off the rails😂😂😂
This talking is a idiot.
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.
Yes, it is as good as I remember
I never get tired of watching the reruns. Great show!
It’s actually better!!
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.
(In a slow and calming voice …
Yes Larry we know this is you!
Actually, I remember it as medicocre, and these clips support that. It was on Thursday night opposite The Simpsons, which was much funnier.
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
This was good, I think The King of Queens went down a similar path as Seinfeld , I really liked it to a point. But it got a bit cartoonish in later seasons. The finale, however, was done really well . Maybe you could do a review of that series . Thanks!
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.
One of my favorite memories of the show now is the Kenny Bania character. The David Puddy bits are classic too!
The car dealership episode is absolutely terrible.
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.
Oh, Seinfeld was better than i remember.
Well I remember watching the Chinese Restaurant and the Puffy shirt a few days ago and gave me a few chuckles
This guy must really hate Jerry. The finale was the most spectacular episodes finishing on such a high note. They could have even gone on further to make the show, but Jerry decided to end it.
Jerry is a genius and the video starts with me praising him for his integrity to turn down such a ridiculous amount of money.
So no, I don’t hate Jerry.
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.
My condolences. I am so sorry for your loss.
I appreciate your take on the show and hadn't put a critique on it like yours but I think you're pretty spot on. The finale was horribly disappointing.
Thank you!
I didn't care for the finale at first but the more I watch it the more I like it
I loved the finale. I don’t know why people second guess Larry on this. Putting the gang on trial for being so callous to so many people is sublime!
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
Agree to disagree. This show is still great.
I don’t think Seinfeld ended on a high note, and I think throughout the series there were some episodes which were a lot worse than others. I found it annoying when people wouldn’t hear any criticism about it.
The earlier episodes.. seasons2-6 were better when they had more funny interactions.. in the later episodes each character had their own story’s going on and they would cut to each story for a few seconds and then cut to the others and rinse and repeat
Very good point.
She must be so proud of you sir. Big hug.
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?