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Is 'Seinfeld' a Legend After 10 Years?

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue May 13, 2008 4:51 PM EDT
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Are you ready to feel old? It was 10 years ago this month that "Seinfeld" went off the air. The decade may have flown by in less time than it took Jerry to find his next girlfriend, but a decade seems like the right distance from which to evaluate how successful the show really was. When it left prime time in 1998, "Seinfeld" was widely considered to be a classic, and many fans call it the best sitcom ever. Was it either?

Or neither. As someone who doesn't dip into its bottomless rerun pool much, I was surprised when I sat down with the show again by how poorly "Seinfeld" holds up.

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vacelts

I was never a big Seinfeld fan. I didn't see it as a classic then and I don't see it as one now. Anyone else feel differently?

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Reply#1 - Tue May 13, 2008 4:54 PM EDT
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FDBryant3

I always thought Seinfeld was overrated myself. It was ok but certainly not worth the hype. I only watch it now as a last resort.

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#1.1 - Tue May 13, 2008 6:37 PM EDT
{"commentId":1796834,"authorDomain":"vacelts"}
vacelts

I only watch it now when my husband makes me. :-)

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#1.2 - Tue May 13, 2008 6:40 PM EDT
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Scott (Scoop) Butki

I could never get into it. It was observational humor but he was often observing things others, including me, had noticed but not put into words.

I preferred the observational humor of people like Stephen Wright.

When the show went off the air I celebrated that.... only to later work with people who loved the show and wanted to watch it while I looked for things to grab to poke my eyes out.

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#1.3 - Wed May 14, 2008 9:24 AM EDT
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vacelts

Well so far the consensus is that it wasn't even great 10 years ago. Surely there's a Seinfeld fan out there that wants to argue differently.

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#1.4 - Wed May 14, 2008 9:36 AM EDT
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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Someone's buying all those dvds!

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#1.5 - Thu May 15, 2008 11:25 AM EDT
{"commentId":1803148,"authorDomain":"fdbryant3"}
FDBryant3

Maybe they don't read Newsvine. Wonder what that says about them?

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#1.6 - Thu May 15, 2008 11:43 AM EDT
{"commentId":1803339,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}
Scott (Scoop) Butki
Maybe they don't read Newsvine. Wonder what that says about them?

That they have bad taste in both tv shows and web sites?

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#1.7 - Thu May 15, 2008 12:24 PM EDT
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