In the 22-minute episode, George is desperately trying to get in touch with his girlfriend via a payphone (remember when mobile phones weren’t as common as the cold) and Elaine is just… hungry. No cuts, no change of venue, no other plotline. This episode, inspired by David and Seinfeld’s own experience waiting for a table at Los Angeles restaurant Genghis Cohen, centres around the gang waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant in real-time. Other sitcoms might want to include multiple plotlines and a final resolution event for the ideal 22-minute episode but not Seinfeld. We might have got the “show about nothing” moniker in season four but this episode from the show’s second season is nothing short of groundbreaking. The Chinese Restaurant (Season 2, Episode 11) Get ready for some non-stop laughs and some of the most absurd writing in television history! 1.
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So we took upon the gargantuan task of narrowing down eight episodes (from 180!), for a quick refresher course for Seinfeld newbies, and for those fans who haven’t watched the series in a decade or two. Over the course of nine seasons, Seinfeld received critical acclaim and commercial success, including 10 Primetime Emmy awards out of a whopping 68 nominations!Īnd starting 1 October, this iconic show will be available on Netflix. Seinfeld paved the way for dark, edgy humour on television as opposed to the feel-good sitcoms that dominated the 1980s, and marked its place in television history. To quote Larry David, “There’s no hugging, no learning.” I mean, what can you expect from four selfish characters-Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George Costanza (Jason Alexander) and Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards)-whose every action is rooted in self-interest? There are no lessons to be learnt about family values, relationships or self-growth from this sitcom. “Nothing” here refers to what we can take away from the show. On the contrary, Seinfeld’s writers have probably written about every awkward social encounter and relationship problem out there. Of course, “nothing” here doesn’t really reference the show’s content. What was intended as a joke became a moniker and the creators could not have been more surprised.
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“It’s a show about nothing,” is how George Costanza pitches a series to network TV executives in the season four episode The Pitch. And just like that, an episode that was supposed to mock Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld’s first meeting with NBC gave Seinfeld its identity.
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