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Legend or Loser: Does 'Seinfeld' Still Hold Up After 10…
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Legend or Loser: Does 'Seinfeld' Still Hold Up After 10…

Television – When 'Seinfeld' signed off, it was hailed as a classic-the original must-see TV. Looking back now, you can't help wondering, what were we thinking?

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Definitely Legend...it's a real funny show about nothing.

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People find it hard to believe, but I've only ever watched a handful of episodes of Seinfeld, and those were never on the nights they aired originally.

Was never a fan and usually sit there dumbfounded when someone will quote a scene. I'd say that up against the likes of M.A.S.H., definitely loser.

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I completely agree GregD, I have never been able to figure out what all the hoopla was about. Much ado about nothing, IMO!

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It's like going into a house of mirrors. Wherever you turn, you see yourself in a mirror, sometimes ridiculously distorted, but you can still recognize yourself. That's what makes it so funny, at least to me. I guess, if you can't recognize yourself and your surroundings in the episodes, then you might be wondering what the heck is going on.

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so true. Much of life is like that. Anal comes to mind. You break up with a girl because of her shoes. the ogre "soup nazi" gets his just desserts. Just about every day something happens which reminds me of those episodes

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M*A*S*H was great! So is Scrubs, which is like M*A*S*H in that I can find it at almost any time of the day playing somewhere.

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Was an OK show always overrated, jerry not that good the rest of the cast were alright.

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Let me know when Marc Peyser writes and develops a show that

is better than Seinfeld....

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I have almost the complete collection and still watch them. Legend!

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Still very funny to me...as are many episodes of I Love Lucy and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Like other things, I guess humor is in the eye of the beholder...

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I thought that I was the only one in the country that never watched Seinfeld in its heyday as I thought it unfunny, a bore and predictable. Watching parts of reruns, I still think the same. Must be me as my son and his wife think it's the greatest.

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Never watched much in its prime either. Have watched a few of the "classic" episodes since. There are some funny moments but this show always reminded me of the basic lives of New Yorkers. Like "Friends" I never saw the relevance to the rest of the nation. Very Jewish humor. Yet they have long ruled the comedy world. How else to explain Adam Sandler? Maybe it was the depiction of New York life that made people outside find it so interesting. This show never did "jump the shark", it could have gone on indefinitely.

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"Very Jewish humor. Yet they have long ruled the comedy world. How else to explain Adam Sandler? Maybe it was the depiction of New York life "

Damn Jews & new Yorkers they just don't get the world of mayonaise & white bread

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" as I thought it unfunny, a bore and predictable "

That's why it is legend - most people are exactly that & this show showed that

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Never found his humor very humorous....

LOSER (the show not the man)

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it was silly and LOSER

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Not a patch on "Frasier".

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I'm with you there. Frasier was the funniest sit com in quite a while, better than Seinfeld or Friends in its heyday.

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Loser... I don't get how people were so obsessed with it. Worse was the people who would talk like the stars of the show day in and day out.. Just wanted to drop kick those types every friggin time i heard it.

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Peyser's overly erudite analysis of comedy is like a moth flying from my dad's wallet. His writing is like some artifact from the Museum of Natural History.

It's like writing about swimming. At some point you need to get wet.

The show was and is a legend.

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As long as there are people who forget where they parked their car, are worrying about going bald, picky about who they want to marry, get stuck in lines, are narcistic to the core, I think this show will have appeal. Of course, ever since the Kramer blow up, IF I ever see a rerun and SEE him, I can't help but think of that guy's self-destruction. That was just so embarrassing.

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Just remember that the blow-up was after the show's run had ended

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I didn't think it was the best TV show ever - could one simply ever be?

But Seinfeld did have its moments.

Patrick Warburton as Puddy was classic.

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"Seinfeld" was all about being self-absorbed and self-indulgent. Jerry taught a whole generation of young Americans that it's perfectly all right not to give a damn about anyone but yourself.

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I thought that was Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko?

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The joke was that the show was about "nothing" but in fact it was about everything. Almost every day I have some kind of experience that relates to an episode of Seinfeld.

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Some of the shows were funny....some not. The "Jerry" character was the least funny....George was irritating most of the time.

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I never watched much Seinfeld. I'm not a big sitcom watcher, I admit. I like Scrubs and M*A*S*H and that's about it anymore. My main thing that I watch is the History Channel and National Geographic. Discovery has its moments and Comedy Central as well, along with Sci Fi to.

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Scrubs is great. John C. McGinley as Cox it top flight.

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