do you suppose he owns all the work ,
is he still getting residual $

I honestly cannot fathom how anyone doesn't appreciate that show. It was and still is (via reruns) the funniest thing on TV. The comedy was genius.

But of course, that's just my opinion.

No soup for you!!

I don't care if it's your favorite, but if you don't find that show funny then you do not have a sense of humor, objectively speaking. (Not that there's anything wrong with that!)

quote:

Originally posted by bendable:
do you suppose he owns all the work ,
is he still getting residual $

I believe he and his co-creator, Larry David, had a big payday, when they sold the syndication rights. I think it was $200 million each but don't quote me. Reportedly another early investor, who scored big was Steve Bannon of Breitbart.

Loved the show but HATED the finale. By far the worst show they ever did.

I've seen a few episodes and each one seemed hilarious but I didn't watch it as a series. I didn't see the finale and don't know the controversy. Got a tl;dr for me?

I thought the finale was OK. I still watch a lot of Seinfeld and easily one of my favorite shows ever.

I couldn't watch Seinfeld.
The incessant nagging and bickering and high-pitched neurotic NY accents were too grating for me.

quote:

Originally posted by agony:
I couldn't watch Seinfeld.
The incessant nagging and bickering and high-pitched neurotic NY accents were too grating for me.

So what do you think is a funny modern TV show?

I don't have HBO at home, but when I'm out of town I've be3n watching allot of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Larry David was I big part of Sienfeld as I understand.

Curb Your Enthusiasm has very similar humor.

quote:

Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
I honestly cannot fathom how anyone doesn't appreciate that show. It was and still is (via reruns) the funniest thing on TV. The comedy was genius.

But of course, that's just my opinion.

I think what they don't get is how tight the writing is. It's so tight that it's transparent. With every episode there was one main theme that doesn't seem like a main theme until they tie it up at the end.

I laughed at the first showings of Seinfeld and would talk to coworkers about it the next day. I laughed at the reruns when it showed on tv. I bought the whole series but I haven't gotten around to it. Just watched a few here and there.

With regards to the last show, it's going to be hard for it to be as good as a regular season show as they had to strung together a parade of previous episodes. I think it was all they could do to tie all the previous episodes as part of a trial and have it conclude by them being in a jail cell.

I think they could have ended with a jury nullification with comments from the jurors saying it was all about nothing which would have been a final self-reference to the show.

It sucked.

quote:

Originally posted by grumpy1:

quote:

Originally posted by agony:
I couldn't watch Seinfeld.
The incessant nagging and bickering and high-pitched neurotic NY accents were too grating for me.

So what do you think is a funny modern TV show?

Hmmm, I guess I'm not a sitcom person.
I thought the first couple seasons of The Office was funny. Arrested Development was good but short-lived.

Of the classics, I liked Three's Company.

quote:

Originally posted by grumpy1:

quote:

Originally posted by agony:
I couldn't watch Seinfeld.
The incessant nagging and bickering and high-pitched neurotic NY accents were too grating for me.

So what do you think is a funny modern TV show?

I don't think anything on tv is particularly funny - certainly none of the 'late night' crowd is funny, and most of what passes for comedy these days just makes me cringe

a funny show...lots of them

Laugh In, SOAP, Married with Children...all funny without being crude or just argumentative

today's stuff is brought to you by the same brain-dead bunch from Hollywood and NYC that are so out of touch that they think that a remake of Magnum PI will be just the shot their careers need

I really really enjoy Seinfeld. Not a day goes by that I can't fit in a one-liner quote from the show into my normal life. Most people don't get the reference, but I don't mind.

The finale, I think, was fine. It felt like another episode, essentially, which I am ok with... and I love how it ends with the 2nd button joke, a throwback to the first episode.

I thought the finale was pretty good. Loved the old characters. Especially Soup Nazi and Jackie Chiles.

I loved the show. I see a lot of criticism about the characters and stuff. But the content was spot on. There's practically a Seinfeld to cover every situation in life. We are constantly finding similar things at work and home life.

I've dated a girl with man hands, one who ate her food strangely. I've had a problem not knowing what project my boss had assigned me. Rental reservations, heck all sorts of stuff. Therefore, the show still makes me laugh even when I'm not watching it.

quote:

Originally posted by thumperfbc:
I really really enjoy Seinfeld. Not a day goes by that I can't fit in a one-liner quote from the show into my normal life. Most people don't get the reference, but I don't mind.

The finale, I think, was fine. It felt like another episode, essentially, which I am ok with... and I love how it ends with the 2nd button joke, a throwback to the first episode.

Yada, yada, yada.

quote:

Originally posted by agony:

quote:

Originally posted by grumpy1:

quote:

Originally posted by agony:
I couldn't watch Seinfeld.
The incessant nagging and bickering and high-pitched neurotic NY accents were too grating for me.

So what do you think is a funny modern TV show?

Hmmm, I guess I'm not a sitcom person.
I thought the first couple seasons of The Office was funny. Arrested Development was good but short-lived.

Of the classics, I liked Three's Company.

Yeah, I don't find much of modern TV to be funny. Three's Company was decent by my taste but it got to be lot of same old same old. Going older I loved the Honeymooners.