Your right, Seinfeld is actually better than I remember

It's one of the few shows that I can watch in reruns despite seeing all of the shows many times. It still holds up for me.

Seinfeld isnt as good as you remember; it’s 10x better.

It holds up very well actually. People still talk about it a lot 30 years later for a reason.

This video makes me want to scream, "Serenity Now!"

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.

Thats true every time I rewatch it I realize that it is even better than I remember.

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

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?!”

My all time favorite line is in the last season: Jerry to George: "Are you feeling anything right now?"

The finale wasn't great, but them ending up in prison after being such horrible people is kinda the right ending lol!

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.

Seinfeld is actually BETTER than I remember. I have been rewatching it, and it is GOLD.

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.

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

The absurd moments in the last two seasons are what make them great. And J. Peterman? One of the greatest characters in television history.

YES! Finally someone said it. Although my favorite season is indeed 7.

How can you dislike the Bizarro World episode in S8?!? One of the best in the series IMO

@8:44 like an old man,trying to send back soup in a deli

Dude I'm currently watching the show. From time to time I watch a couple episodes and I could watch it anytime

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

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

Seasons 8 and 9 were totally hilarious. Completely disagree.

I love how it went off the rails😂😂😂

I kinda jumped the video essay as soon as you said Seinfeld kinda jumped the shark...

Jerry and Larry may have been the co-conceiver of Seinfeld but don’t forget the team of writers. They’re really the unsung heroes here without their input. It would’ve been literally a story about nothing

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.

I don't think it ever "jumped the shark" --until the finale

If I watch the show today and still laugh, then, yes, it's as good as I remember

Great analysis!

The contest is the one that caught my attention

Very good video, and I'm sorry for your loss!

Later absurdity isnt peak of course, but the alternative was to retread ground with diminished returns. At least we got wild ideas instead

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

(In a slow and calming voice … Yes Larry we know this is you!

Really sorry for your mother! Nice video with an interesting take, but I can still rewatch them all over and over.

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.

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.

Huh. I clicked to agree and am actually grateful I disagreed! I saw it from the beginning as a kid all the way to being an older teenager and it still holds up for me today. I like the ridiculous older seasons more than the earliest ones. 🤷🏼‍♀️ anyway, great video. Subscribed!

I hated the show until someone said give it a chance. As in you have to watch more than one episode. Now I’ve seen every episode multiple times.

“The Opposite” would have been a great finale.

I’ve been watching it recently on tv and it’s actually just as good if not better than I remember. A perfect show.

"If your friend jumped off a bridge, would you?"

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

It was a classic moment when Jerry was so offended by Larry King asking if the show had been canceled. King might be remembered if he had shown some guts by pressing Jerry to say if he thought the years without Larry David were any good.

Just saw this for the first time. As a huge Seinfeld fan, I could not agree more. When it went away from the ironies of life in NYC, it was done. From Del Boca Vista to Play Now and Kruger, they totally lost it. Everyone became a parody of themselves instead of being themselves. When reruns are on, I can't even watch the later shows.

I'm not even watching this video, i just came here to say, YES IT IS!!!!!!...YOU ARE DEAD WRONG!

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.

While there is, of course, some truth to what this AI guy is saying, I have to point out that, in spite of some of the groaner episodes in the last two seasons (like the appallingly bad The Butter Shave) there were also some straight-up masterpieces Season 8: "The Soul Mate" is one of my top 20 episodes. The Abstinence, The Little Jerry, The Little Kicks, and The Bizzaro Jerry are all brilliant. The Fatigues, The Pothole (with their take on a classic Marx Bros bit of a packed storage room, and then when the door opens, they all tumble out) are solid. And The Muffin Tops, with George pretending to be a tourist, is sohhh good. Steinbrenner's phone call w/ the Tyler Chicken guy is pure gold. Season 7: The Wink, The Hot Tub, The Pool Guy, The Gum (hysterically funny bit w/ the gum and Jerry's thick glasses), The Rye, The Wig Master, The Bottle Deposit all brilliant. Even Season 9, with its flops and terrible finale, had some incredible work (thanks in part to David Puddy): The Blood, The Junk Mail, The Merv Griffin Show, The Strike (Festivus), The Reverse Peephole, The Strongbox, The Frogger, and The Maid all have segments that are spectacularly funny: Jerry's textbook marathon breakup w/ Julia Campbell in The Frogger; Puddy with the fur coat and then the 8-ball coat, everyone having a "job" at the party; the final scene of The Maid, with Kramer acting like a naive, lost girl getting into the "pimp's" car is incredible. So, in spite of the lousy episodes in S8 and S9, if they had stopped after S6, it would have been a huge mistake.

I can see your point of view. I myself am a psycho fan of Seinfeld. Ending it with the Susan incident would have been really something. Watching your review, I see Seinfeld like Mike Tyson. It's not fully fledged without it's downs. That's what makes Mike the GOAT, his prime along with his now mythical defeats, so is Seinfeld. The office had it way worse. Really relatable chemistry up until Steve left. After that they were completely aimless. The last episode was excruciating. But still, incomparable. Seinfeld with it's perceived downs still the very best, and the office with it's downs. When the office went down, it did it like the titanic.

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???

Back in the 90's. Seinfeld, Friends, Fresh Prince, Simpsons (great decade of programming)

A show finding it's identity, having it's Hey Days, losing it's luster and going for a season or two in decline, is no unique phenomenon. Iconic shows like Cheers or MASH went way longer than their peak and had poor ending shows to close the series out. I do think that one of the very final Seinfeld shows in the last season, the Puerto Rican Parade, was a real stinker, and representative of the decline and running out of ideas.

I've seen each episode about 20 times and I still laugh each time 😂

Like most sitcoms, Seinfeld had a few memorable episodes, but essentially its like Seinfeld himself admits, most television is 'just about a place you like to hang out'.

We still watch Seinfeld and Curb every day. Best shows ever. Agree that they jumped the shark in the last two seasons, but also had some high points.

It’s still good to me damn it

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.

The moral of the story is if you pretend to be an architect, you need at least 2-3 projects you can turn to

The show was slow to take off because Seinfeld as a comedian was considered mid... he was mostly known for late night show gigs, so it was weird for him to have a show using his name. I remember even remarking to a friend the irony of the comedian playing the strait man in his own show about being a comic. That said, the writing and premise was great, and Seinfeld really did hit his stride in that capacity. I do feel if they called it something else and marketed it properly it would have taken off quickly from the start.

4:25 The episode with the MOST seminal content is, of course, The Contest. 7:25 Jerry pitched them a show about how a comedian gets his jokes from his actual life. He NEVER tried to pitch a show about nothing!

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.

Idk man, to quote Larry David playing Larry David "it was a good finale!"

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.

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.

Those last two years weren't the same format but that doesn't make them bad. I could see hating them if there were more than two or three seasons of far-fetched writing, like the Office--which had an endless stream of crazy seasons--but two hilarious seasons hardly seem like a betrayal. (Not to mention the fact that high-concept plots, like Jerry befriending Keith Hernandez or them producing their own TV show were there already from the second season.)

Importer exporter was a running gag

You are actually going through the 'reality' vs 'episode' story? You should update it with the Curb show.

Yes, it is as good as I remember

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.

Remember? I never stopped watching it

I really don't hate the finale as it's generally said. I think it's much more than the chance of past characters to appear again. The idea of them removed from society is like evening the odds. They should pay for all the emotional abuse they subjected the people they came across with. Basically saying that, we're deserving of some jail time for what we did and rightfully so. All of you at home, don't be like us. That's what I always loved about Seinfeld and Curb. Their ability to question the viewer's sense of morality.

Every episode of the final season has at least one quotable gag. I don’t think a future season would have been great, but I think it ended strong.

Sure, that's why I still watch it all the time

Agree to disagree. This show is still great.

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

Season 9 is my favorite. Kruger is hilarious. The cartoonish themes worked brilliantly. Thinking about this video is making me angry! Serenity now!!!

I liked this analysis but I disagree that the show 'jumped the shark' - Jerry turned down $100M which is unbelievable and something many other sitcom stars couldn't do. All the cast mates are professionals and still friends and the way Jerry supports Michael Richards to this day after what happened with him is very cool in my book.

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

How many of us have watched the show , in reruns for years on end , probably seeing each episode 5 --10 times at least ? That's gotta tell you something.

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.

I re-watched the whole series on Netflix recently and it's still great

I agree 100%. When Larry left, many of the episodes became embarrassing to watch. All of the characters became cartoons. Most people don’t notice the transition.

I agree with many of your points here, though I am grateful for the extra seasons and some hilarious moments and many more Thursday nights to look forward to. The final episode was a definite dud and quite unsatisfying. They could and should have done better... but I don't regret all those extra post-Larry episodes we got. Very sorry to hear about your mother. Glad you got to enjoy the show with her... I doubt that either of my parents ever watched a single episode...

Now that we have Unfrosted, it seems like everything you say you hate about Seinfeld is actually just Jerry’s sense of humor. Larry carried the show. When he started getting burnt out Jerry had to start pulling some weight. Jerry’s perspective is actually a bit out of touch, and it became more apparent as his star grew. Larry is the one firmly rooted in reality. Although he can also write slightly elevated he never actually goes over the top. He knows how to use the tiniest of circumstance to his advantage when writing an episode.

Personally I never found it all that great at the time it aired. For me it wasn't that I didn't think it was good but how much people loved it disproportionately. I never understood how it got so popular.

Any show on long enough. Runs into that

!Seinfeld is not as good as you remember???! SERENITY NOW! SERENITY NOW!

Name one sitcom which ended with a blast , don't they all just fade away and bleed to death... ?

I absolutely love Seinfeld Seasons 4-7 and like 1-3 as well. While I like a handful of Season 8-9 episodes, I generally find those seasons difficult to watch.

The contest is one of most perfect episodes of TV Comedy ever!!!

My favorite episode was about Elaine and the cake in her boss's office 😂

Seinfeld was the last sitcom I tried to follow every time it aired in regular seasons. Everything after it never came close. Curb Your Enthusiasm had many very funny moments, but nothing like Seinfeld

Thank you! Someone who finally gets it about the Finale. I loved it. It's a better episode than any of its competitors.

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

I like how the entire series was about the worst most despicable people ever, and we all thought it was great. I guess they were really making fun of how stupid we where the whole time

Frasier held up well though. I didn’t get it as a kid but now that I’m old like that it’s hilarious.

It's weird to hear a first-person review in the voice of someone who's clearly a voice actor.

The simplicity of Seinfeld was its genius. Every great show eventually loses its steam and the writers are forced to make changes to adjust .....it doesn't always work. Furthermore the characters were just getting too old to be acting like that anymore.

I'm watching it for the first time and I love it. Its hilarious 😂