I think the last episode of Seinfeld when they got everyone from the old episodes was the best episode ever. You get some shows that manage to do occassional "reunion" type shows, but I don't think there's ever been a show that had that many people from previous episodes come back together.
I heard they were thinking of diong a proper reunion special sometime soon. Since it's been like 5 years since it ended and all their careers have gone arse up. That would be cool.
I've seen Curb Your Enthusiasm and I thought it was ****. It was like Seinfeld written by people who really really want it to be funny, but can't quite get there. All the jokes were so drawn out, whereas in Seinfeld you would get say 10 quick jokes in a segment, you get two drawn out jokes in Curb YE. And you can see the punchline coming from a mile away in CYE. I can't belive it's actually popular over there. It was being shown in the middle of the night when I last saw it here and I don't even know if it's still on.
I watched Curb Your Enthusiasm a few times but wasn't overly impressed. But then again, I wasn't a HUGE Seinfeld fan either, so my opinion on comedy will be instantly void from this point on.
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
It’s an NBC dream come true: “Seinfeld” back for the November sweep. Alas, it’s for only an hour, a DVD promo masquerading as a series retrospective. But it’s far better than nothing -- or perhaps in this case, it is nothing.
Of course, for a show famously about nothing, “Seinfeld” was really something. It forever altered the situation comedy form itself, demonstrating that TV could make something wildly original from the irrelevant/irreverent minutiae of life so long as it had comic actors named Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards and Julia Louis-Dreyfus and a tormented contrarian genius named Larry David pushing the writing and production buttons.
This Thanksgiving night special tells the highly improbable tale of how it all came to be. That “Seinfeld” would go on to huge ratings and television immortality is about as fluky as this game gets.
“The ’Seinfeld’ Story” coincides with the release of the first three “Seinfeld” seasons at long last onto DVD, a license to print money if ever there was one (replete with some 24 hours of bonus material, including the “How It Began” documentary from which the NBC hour is culled). Any excuse to watch “Seinfeld” is a good one, and this special is a predictably entertaining blend of vintage clips (from such great early episodes as “The Chinese Restaurant” and “The Parking Garage”) and comment (from the four principals, from the ever-neurotic David and from former NBC exec Warren Littlefield as well as current exec Rick Ludwin) along with behind-the-scenes stories and outtakes.
What started out life as a burned-off pilot titled “The Seinfeld Chronicles” in 1990 was given a four-episode commitment by Ludwin, who emerges here as an unlikely hero of sorts. That finally led to a 13-episode order and a fortuitous move to Thursday nights behind “Cheers” and then in place of it. It’s the fight to sell a skeptical executive bureaucracy on the merits of a show that played by no conventional sitcom rules that proves most interesting here. To think that the world was nearly denied Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer is unimaginable in hindsight. They truly were masters of the primetime domain.
They are showing that promo on TV on Friday followed by a ten hour Seinfeld marathon to "celebrate" (read: promote) the release of the DVD series. Now I am a Seinfeld fan, but ten hours that's intense.
It's supposed to be the best episodes, but they're not even showing the Soup Nazi.
Hey guys! As I big fan of Seinfeld, I'm always looking for new stuff related to it. I was really happy to find this forum and also a website that creates polls. They have a poll dedicated to Seinfeld. Check it out guys, and vote!
They even have a live chat that we could use to get know each other.
07-16-2004 06:39 AM
that's intense. 
