Seinfeld

This show has a lot of stuff. A lot. But to start off the series ran from 1989-1998. It had a total of 9 seasons with 180 episodes. Each episode is about 22 minutes long. This is a comedy show with mild language, low nudity, and lots of sexual humor. No violence either, just comical injustices and unfortunate situations.

The show revolves around comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his 3 closest friends. Elaine Benes, his old girlfriend, but they still remained friends even after the breakup. His good friend George Costanza, a shorter balding man who acts and talks as the Forever Alone Meme. And of course his next door neighbor and almost always ridiculously funny Cosmo Kramer. This group of 4 travel through the series experiencing love, loss, misfortunes, destroyed Frogger Machines, fiance's death, cold-water shrunken body parts, bets and wagers, neon chickens, insane parents, restaurant visits, bad comedians, creation then failure then recreation of a nothing sitcom show, Fantastic Soup and its strict Nazi-like creator, Low IQ's, shower heads used only for elephants, hot tubs, odd magazine owners, oblivious and over-talkative baseball team owners, Art Vandelay and his immense accomplishments, horrid dancing, coffee table books that can be a coffee table itself, man bras, sponge shortages, puffy shirts, and of course Newman. This cast of kooky characters with the side cast of reoccurring characters, who are often even more kooky then the main cast, create an amusing environment about usually nothing.

Many episodes are completely about nothing, like waiting for a movie, waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant, and many other random and seemingly mundane activities. Most episodes start with some sort of event that occurs to one of the 4. But usually by the end of the episode the event has affected all the others in one way or another. For the first 6 seasons or so each episode is separate. In one episode Jerry will have a girlfriend, and by the end of the episode he will still be with her, but the next episode he is single again without any mention of the previous girl. Various inside jokes occur through the entire run of the show, little mentions to previous events without reexplaining what had happened before. This adds an air of connection with the characters for those who watch from beginning to end. The separate episodes pretty much end by season 7. There still are a few, but for the most part each episode is connected a bit to the previous one. This creates the necessity of watching each episode in order. While you still could skip around a bit, the plots and jokes in the next episode will make a lot more sense.

Another rather funny thing about the show is George Castanza's constant talk of never having a date or a girlfriend. But during the entire run of the show George ends up having a total 62 girlfriends. Which the national average for men is to have around 4-7 girlfriends, in their entire lifetime. This contradiction is quite humorous throughout the series if you notice it. However it still can be said that George never has a successful relationship with any of those women. He almost got married, but then he accidentally killed her because he is so cheap.

It should also be said that the show received many awards over the years. Including on multiple different occasions episodes that were rated within the top 100 television episodes of all time. Even receiving #1 for "The Contest." An episode completely about all 4 characters and their struggle to last the longest without masturbating. Which is one of my 2 favorite episodes within he entire run. The other being "The Frogger" which came out in the final season. This episode involves George Castanza and his attempt to keep his arcade game score on Frogger*, which if unplugged will erase the scores. In the end it actually has him and a few other people moving the machine itself across the street, which as shot from above is them playing a real life Frogger game.

*Interesting side note, the score claimed by the show was a fictionally high number of 860,630 which was thought to be unattainable. Until December 2009, George's fictional score was finally beaten in real life by Pat Laffaya with a score of 896,980. This was over 10 years after the episodes claim.

Finally we come to the series finale. What the Fuck. The series finale is the most ridiculous two episodes from the entire series. Completely comes from out of nowhere. But it is pretty entertaining because all kinds of characters from all 9 seasons return to tell their sides of the 4's wrongdoings and idiocy. Recognizing each of these random characters, some of which were only in one episode, and remembering what occurred back then is quite funny. In the end it was a very clever way of wrapping up the whole series, even if its plot was completely random. I would give the Finale an 8 out of 11 because it completely takes you by surprise, but is still clever.

I found the show to be enjoyable, while at times the humor was dry. In the end though i have to say the show was cleverly done and quite humorous throughout its entire run. I give Seinfeld an 8.5 out of 11.