Seinfeld plays a fictionalized, Jerkass version of himself as the ostensible main (though in practice arguably least interesting) character, who works mostly as a foil for his best friend George Costanza ( Jason Alexander), a similar caricature of Larry David who can make your regular Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist look like a winner his sassy ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes ( Julia Louis-Dreyfus), who couldn't spell "tact" if her life depended on it and his eccentric neighbor Cosmo Kramer ( Michael Richards), who had a tendency to burst into Jerry's apartment unannounced. Part of what contributed to the authenticity of the "about nothing" theme was the fact that a great deal of the plots were based on personal stories from the lives of Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, and various members of the writing team.
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To use an analogy, Seinfeld is to TV shows what The Godfather is to movies (which makes it only fitting that the show directly spoofed The Godfather in the episode about the mohel).
It remains very difficult to describe to younger generations just how huge the show was in the '90s, and how memetic its plots and sayings became. Seinfeld was so revolutionary in America, in fact, that it was mercilessly copied. The show's style of comedy was revolutionary for its time, as the idea of characters spending whole episodes doing and resolving basically nothing, with all humor based on Slice of Life events and their discussions around inconsequential social protocols (eventually dubbed the Seinfeldian Conversation by many), was unheard of in 1989 America. Seinfeld was named the greatest television program of all time by TV Guide in 2002.
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Initially starting life as a one-off TV special called The Seinfeld Chronicles in 1989 before turning into a full series the following year, it lasted for nine seasons, only ending when Jerry Seinfeld himself refused to go on, even after being offered 5 million dollars an episode for a tenth season. One of the most popular shows yet/ever made, Seinfeld mostly centered around a quartet of self-absorbed Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists obsessing over the minutiae of modern life. Check out our list of the 15 best romantic comedies of 2023, below.Seinfeld, a sitcom created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David which ran on NBC from 1989 to 1998, is a show about nothing. There are some adaptations that can guide your book club’s next pick as well as some original stories that will keep you guessing even though you’re kinda-sorta already 100 percent sure you know who’s going to end up with who.
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This year is off to a promising start with some upcoming 2023 romantic comedies that feature tried-and-true movie stars you’ve loved for ages. top tier? But that was only like 1/3 of the movie, so we can't list it. Honestly, the chemistry and romantic comedy elements of the live-action The Little Mermaid in 2023 were. You can love a trope or hate a trope all you want, but it’s all in the execution. Any connoisseur knows all that really matters is when the actors have ~chemistry~. It’s simply not going to happen! Rom-coms are always a little bit predictable, but they’re always a little bit different too. Movies are never going to run out of hilariously contrived ways for love interests to meet and then *not quite* fall in love until the very end because of all these pesky obstacles in the way of their true feelings. It's great to laugh and cry and AWWWWW with other people, right? Plus, maybe the fun we had with Barbie will convince people to go to the theater for more comedies again. But it doesn’t mean that Hollywood has abandoned the best genre. It’s so much more fun to laugh with a crowd and then, months later, relive those moments at home on your umpteenth rewatch. That’s annoying and concerning, don’t get me wrong. They just sometimes happen to be direct to streaming service and your couch, where the cabernet is by the bottle and the popcorn is microwavable rather than steaming up (and cracking up) your local movie theater.
Love actually is all around, and there are more new rom-coms than you think. People say the romantic comedy is dead, and to them I say: Look harder.
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