The best sitcom ever!

Seinfeld was an American TV sitcom which lasted 9 seasons (from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998) and was considered by several magazines the greatest Television series of all times. Its protagonist, Jerry Seinfeld, was at the same time one of its writers. In real life, Jerry is a comedian who can barely act but makes this lack of acting talent just what the character needs to make everything even funnier.

The show is pretty much about the life of neurotic stand-up comedian Jerry and his equally neurotic friends. It is considered to be postmodern and has been many times described as being “about nothing at all”. The characters are all selfish, egocentric people who go through life making others miserable and never learning from their mistakes. However, there’s no single episode in which you despise them or get, at least, a little “angry” at them. The series doesn’t make you feel sorry for anyone.

Apart from all the DVD collections with special scenes, explanations, anecdotes and so on and so forth, there is even a book called “Seinlanguage” which compiles all the catchphrases and terms which were almost invented by the sitcom, and became so popular that they are now used as everyday language, such as “close/low/high-talker” (referring to the distance and volume a talker uses), “slider” (referring to a person who can walk around without being heard), “double dip” (referring to the act of dipping twice) and many more.



The series was not only excellent, but also had the perfect ending it could have existed for it, which almost never happens which such good TV shows. The last episode enjoyed an audience estimated at 76 million viewers making it the third most watched finale in television history.

As many other successful TV shows, it is said to be a curse on its characters since none of the TV programmes they have starred in after “Seinfeld” was successful. The term “curse” is, of course, an exaggeration. Larry Davis, one of the show’s creator and writer, said the idea was even idiotic. But, the thing is that after seeing Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards play the most spectacular characters in the amazing context created by “Seinfeld”, it is very hard to watch them doing something else.

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