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Seinfeld.

A comedy sitcom revolving mostly around 4 characters (Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine).  A show that specialises in turning small aspects of day to day lives and social interactions into amazing and hilarious plots for it’s episodes.  A show that ran for 9 great seasons from 1989 to 1998.  A show that still nets Jerry Seinfeld millions in royalties and such to this day.  A show to whom Larry David also deserves a lot of credit for..

Anyway, enough on trying to sum up the show for now.

Seinfeld first came into my life in the mid to late 90′s.  I caught the show in syndication on Paramount Comedy or some other network we had on our cable service, and saw it several times as a pre-teen/ teen.  The show is definitely not aimed at someone of that age, so naturally it didn’t jump out at me as must-watch TV back then.  However as I grew older I understood more (same goes for any tv shows aimed at adults) so I appreciated the jokes and laughs.  It definitely stood out to me as a cool show, yet perhaps due to its network, its timeslot, or the fact my friends just didn’t get it back in those days meant it was something no one my age would be talking about.  Yet ever since those days I did have it bookmarked as a great show I should properly watch at some point.  Plus one of the first comedians I properly got into was Chris Rock (also in the late 90′s in my early teens), and Chris Rock had stated in several interviews and such that Jerry Seinfeld was someone who he admired, plus he’s mentioned the show [Seinfeld] in a couple of his stand up specials.

Anyway, fast forward to 2009.  Last year I got into “Curb Your Enthusiasm” as I’d heard a couple of people rave about it in forums, and noticed a couple of actors/ actresses whom I’ve IMDB‘d had been on the show, plus it was from HBO who have a great record when it comes to delivering “must-watch-tv”.  It was through watching Curb Your Enthusiasm that I learnt of how Larry David was one of the creative minds and one of the key people to thank for Seinfeld and it’s success.  So I told myself once I was done marathon-ing (over a few months) through the entirety of Curb Your Enthusiasm (up to it’s current finished season) that I would move onto Seinfeld afterwards.

Now…as I came to the end of my watch through of Curb Your Enthusiasm, I started to feel a slight sense of emptiness growing inside me in a “what new show could possibly make me laugh and give me this much enjoyment when I’m done?” kind of way.

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 8 coincidentally happens to revolve heavily around a fictional reunion of Seinfeld, so this furthered my desire to watch Seinfeld, and once I was done with Curb I got straight onto it.

Over the past 4 months or so I am now only the “Finale” away from having completed Seinfeld (through Season 1 to Season 9), and once again I feel as though I will struggle to get that same flavour of comedy from a TV show anywhere else.  See you really need to watch Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld to see how it differs from your average sitcom like say “Friends” and whatever.  Sure enough there are other comedy series I absolutely adore “Father Ted”, “Flight of the Conchords”, “Spaced”, “How I Met Your Mother”, “Big Bang Theory” and others… but Curb, and Seinfeld are in separate incomparable leagues to other shows (in my opinion).  I’m not trying to argue that Curb, and Seinfeld are the best shows there is, but I do rate them very highly, but just on a scale of there own sort of thing.

Anyway.  I just HAD to do a blog that was PRO-Seinfeld, as it is a show I’ll no doubt re-watch many a times over the rest of my life (same goes for Curb Your Enthusiasm).

Now if you’ve read through this blog (yes you, whom is reading this very sentence).  I URGE you to feed any curiosity you may have gotten from this blog post and start watching Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, if you’re a person, and you live a regular life, then you’ve got many “lolz” in store for you.