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Seinfeld - Season
1 & 2 Nothing? Seinfeld is a show about
everything! It's about the appeal of the posse and
coma etiquette. It's about importing and exporting.
It's about sneaking a peek, and seeing the baby.
It's about this, that, and the other. TV Guide
ranked Seinfeld the best TV series of all time. It
has become the master of its syndication domain. Its
most devoted fans can quote each episode chapter and
verse; their absorption of each scene's minutiae
anything but a trivial pursuit. With such fervent
devotion to the show, and demand for its DVD
release, series creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry
David could have easily just OK'd a bare-bones set
containing nothing but the episodes. |
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Seinfeld - Season
3 For Seinfeld, the third season's--for want of a better
word--the charm. The show has found its misanthropic voice (by
season's end, a fed-up Elaine tells herself, "I gotta get some new
friends"), the ensemble has a firmer grasp of their characters, and
the writers rise to the occasion with episodes that have entered the
Seinfeld pantheon, including the Seinfeld equivalent
of a Very Special Episode, "The Boyfriend," with Keith Hernandez and
the J.F.K. parody, "The Library," featuring Philip Baker Hall
channeling Jack Webb as library bookhound Bookman, "The Pez
Dispenser," and "The Keys," with an L.A.-bound Kramer winding up on
Murphy Brown. Michael Richards, |
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Seinfeld - Season
4
It's hard to believe, but for the
first three seasons nobody really knew that Seinfeld
was about, well, you know. It wasn't until season
4--unleashed here in a four-disc set that's equal in
scope, quality, and quantity of bonus material to
its predecessors--that the show really became
something. In a series which can claim every
installment as classic, the two-parter on disc 1
titled "The Pitch/The Ticket" truly stands out as a
defining episode and, in retrospect, marked Seinfeld
4 as the breakthrough season. It's the one where
(fake) NBC executives express their interest in
working with Jerry Seinfeld on a TV show, then moves
to the who's-on-first shtick of George successfully
pitching Jerry on creating "a show about nothing."
Scattered throughout the discs in commentaries by
cast and creators and in numerous "Inside Look"
documentaries, nearly everyone expresses some
anxiety about the season having a story "arc"
depicting Jerry and his "real" life becoming a
sitcom. The show had been only marginally successful
up to that point anyway, and with the edict, "no
hugging, no learning," still in place, maybe messing
with nothing was a bad idea. What makes the arc so
arch is the self-reflexive way it details the
reality of Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David coming up
with the concept and pitching it to (real) NBC
executives as a show that really was about, well,
you know. In one of the many informally informative
interview segments, Jerry remembers hitting a stride
during this time when a lot of crazy ideas started
to make sense. "Everything was just a wild guess,"
he says, "and it takes a while to get confident that
you're guessing pretty good. I think sometime in
season 4 we realized we were guessing pretty good."
Oh, that we could all be so good at nothing. |
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Seinfeld - Season
5 The fifth season of Seinfeld is without a
doubt the series' best. By their fifth year, the
Seinfeld gang had ironed out the bumps from the
first two seasons, further developing characters.
The loyal fan base that had been accumulating over
the years was now more or less the entire nation's
viewing audience. The pressure was on to give this
new, mega fan base a high dose of their unique,
misanthropic comedy, and Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld),
George (Jason Alexander), Elaine (Julia
Louis-Dreyfus) and Kramer (Michael Richards)
delivered in spades. Yes, other seasons may have
funnier individual episodes, but as a whole season
five consistently delivers the goods, including many
of the show's all-time classic episodes. In the
season opener, Jerry discovers the secret, sexual
power of "The Mango." While vacationing in "The
Hamptons" we not only learn that George's date likes
to sunbathe topless in front of his friends, but
also that cold water has the power to shrink. In
"The Stall' Elaine is rejected while trying to share
toilet paper only to learn that the selfish neighbor
is Jerry's girlfriend. In order to really make a
life change, George decides to do "The Opposite" of
all his instincts and surprisingly everything in his
life falls perfectly into place. And of course, who
can forget the ridiculous puffy shirt Kramer's
low-talking girlfriend talks Jerry into wearing on
The Today Show. This box set also includes the
featurette "Jason+Larry=George" explaining how Jason
Alexander embodied Larry David's alter ego to create
George Costanza, plus deleted and behind-the-scenes
footage and exclusive stand up footage of Jerry
Seinfeld. --Rob Bracco |
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Seinfeld - Season
6 By the time Seinfeld reached season
7, it was already firmly established as one of the
top shows on TV. But Jerry Seinfeld and series
co-creator Larry David still had plenty of stops to
pull out to keep the show at the top of its form.
This is the season where George--yes, George (Jason
Alexander)--gets engaged. Elaine (Julia Louis
Dreyfuss) judges her dates to see who is
"sponge-worthy." Jerry deals with low-flow
showerheads, buys Chinese gum, and tries to date
Debra Messing. And Kramer (Michael Richards)
solidifies his own essential Kramer-ness by putting
a hot tub in his living room, going around town in
Joseph's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, buying jeans
so tight he can't take them off, and taking advice
on court strategy from his caddy. |
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Seinfeld - Season
7
After seven seasons of groundbreaking
comedy, what could possibly be left to accomplish in
season 8 for Seinfeld and company, especially in
this, the first season without co-creator Larry
David at the helm? Plenty, as it turns out. This is
the season that gave us some of the most memorable
episodes in the entire series, including "The Muffin
Tops," "The Bizarro Jerry," and "The Yada Yada," the
episode that proved you can "yada yada" anything in
life. |
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Seinfeld - Season
8 After seven seasons of groundbreaking comedy, what could possibly be
left to accomplish in season 8 for Seinfeld and company, especially
in this, the first season without co-creator Larry David at the
helm? Plenty, as it turns out. This is the season that gave us some
of the most memorable episodes in the entire series, including "The
Muffin Tops," "The Bizarro Jerry," and "The Yada Yada," the episode
that proved you can "yada yada" anything in life. Fortunately by
this point in the series, the comic formula that sustained the show
throughout its run had not yet begun to get tired, and the writers
proved that they could continue to pull a whole lot of something out
of the show about nothing. Case in point: "The English Patient,"
where they created an entire story line out of Elaine's hatred for
the award-winning film. In "The Chicken Roaster," one of
Seinfeld's most underappreciated episodes, Kramer switches
apartments with Jerry and wages a one-man crusade
against a Kenny Rogers' Roasters, only to becomes
like Jerry and become undone by Newman. |
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Seinfeld - Season
9 Seinfeld's final season seems to take its
cue from a little piece of "showmanship" advice that
Jerry offers to the hapless George (Jason Alexander)
in the episode "The Burning": "When you hit that
high note, say goodnight and walk off." In
television, as in comedy, timing is everything, and
that's what Seinfeld, No. 1 in the ratings, did. The
show that TV Guide would later rank the greatest of
all time, left the stage, perhaps not at the top of
its game, but at least on its own terms. To the end,
Jerry, George, Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and
Kramer (Michael Richards) remain true to the show's
misanthropic muse. In the episode "The Merv Griffin
Show," Jerry induces sleep in his new girlfriend so
he can have his way with her retro toy collection. |
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