Seinfeld is best TV Sitcom ever

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  • cavia
    cavia Posts: 457 Member
    Maximus wrote: »
    rkalllison wrote: »
    Seinfeld = STUPIDEST SHOW EVERY IMAGINEABLE

    You are hereby banned from posting ever again. On any forum. On any world.
    No more Sponges either!!!!

    Definitely not spongeworthy!
  • Joannah700
    Joannah700 Posts: 2,665 Member
    Arrested Development

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  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,032 Member
    rkalllison wrote: »
    Maximus wrote: »
    rkalllison wrote: »
    oh, and gladiator was stupid, too...just sayin

    You're just jealous of my av. And my Roman sandals

    actually...in all reality...I think guys look rather dumb in sandals...lol...and I can't stand Russell Crowe...yuck
    says the family of racoons B)

  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,032 Member
    edited October 2014
    Serenity Now!
  • 13bbird13
    13bbird13 Posts: 425 Member
    Sorry; I couldn't stand the people on it long enough to finish an episode of "Seinfeld". The writing may have been clever but I was so turned off by the characters I couldn't enjoy it.

    I resist labels of "best ever" and obviously everyone has their own opinion, but I'd have to throw "Frasier" out there for consideration. They kept up the momentum for... was it 12 seasons?... and they were consistently hilarious.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    It's very good, especially among American sitcoms. But I can't say it's the best sitcom ever when there are so many British sitcoms that are just better.
  • krislshoe
    krislshoe Posts: 459 Member
    LOVE SEINFELD......NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!!!!
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    i love the show. it doesn't matter to me where it ranks as far as "all time" status, because i like it. I watch it in re-runs all the time. I quote it all the time, too... sometimes without realizing it.
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  • ruffnstuff
    ruffnstuff Posts: 400 Member
    That's it. I'm out.
    John F. Kennedy, JUUN-YAAA!
  • headofphat
    headofphat Posts: 1,597 Member
    i concur
  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,769 Member
    As a New Yorker, I loved (and still love) Seinfeld. It always amazed me that the show was so well-received outside the NYC area, because some things about it were SO New York. I think we just enjoyed it on a whole other level.

    But there have been other great sitcoms over the years. I would certainly rank Cheers and Frasier among the best...and some of the 1970s shows like All In the Family. Mary Tyler Moore, and M*A*S*H were brilliant. Also Taxi. And I loved Friends, because I watched it as a single 20-something living in NYC.
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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    It's definitely one of my all time favorites! So is Frasier, Cheers, The Office, and even Friends. But I really do not get why The Big Bang Theory is such a hit. I've tried to watch it, and it's just not funny. Not even a little bit.
    It's a hit because it IS funny. Maybe not to you, but it's funny.

    Friends was great the first two seasons. It was OK after that. It lost its magic, though.

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  • kmorgan221
    kmorgan221 Posts: 206 Member
    No television series is more quotable than Seinfeld. Every day I encounter a situation that will require a Seinfeld quote. No other TV show, or movie even, can say that.

    Does that make it best ever? Possibly, and certainly for me.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Maximus wrote: »
    It's a hit because it IS funny. Maybe not to you, but it's funny.

    Friends was great the first two seasons. It was OK after that. It lost its magic, though.

    Not sure if I agree. I don't think it ever jumped the shark. I do think Monica's and Ross' characters got weird the last few years but overall I thought the show ended strong.
    I wouldn't say it jumped the shark. It was still decent. It just wasn't nearly as good. Those first two seasons were awesome.
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  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,064 Member
    I agree.....best show ever.

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  • leadslinger17
    leadslinger17 Posts: 297 Member
    Hmm interesting point. Does a show deserve to be the "best" if it has one or two exceptional seasons, and then a bunch of mediocre ones at the end?

    I don't have a good answer for comedies... but I love Scrubs. Drama wise, I have a number of shows that have great premises, really engaging seasons and then die off: the X-files, Dexter (way to stay strong and then pooch it in the last couple episodes), Lost (although I didn't hate the ending like a lot do). For me Breaking Bad set the bar for dramas since it started out slow but got progressively more intense and even had a satisfying ending.

    I haven't found a comedy like that. After a while they all seem to get into a rut. I think when they are good, they just need to stop after about 100 episodes (5 or 6 seasons) to avoid getting stale.
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,032 Member
    I agree.....best show ever.

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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    LMAO

    So I had to do some stupid training PowerPoint for work and take a stupid quiz on it and one of the quiz questions used "Art Vandalay" as a name.

    Awesome.
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,032 Member
    edited October 2014
    You very bad man, Jerry. Very bad man. – Babu Bhatt


    •Jerry: Is that your "chicken" making all that noise?
    Kramer: Oh, Little Jerry loves the morning.
    Jerry: Who?
    Kramer: Little Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah I named my chicken after you.

    Just remember, when you control the mail, you control... information. –Newman


  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,032 Member
    edited October 2014
    Nothing like Seinfeld quotes for a Wednesday Morning smile!
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,032 Member

    i love the show. it doesn't matter to me where it ranks as far as "all time" status, because i like it. I watch it in re-runs all the time. I quote it all the time, too... sometimes without realizing it.

    Yup, this! Exactly why I've loved it all these years... it's everyday life... something happens in my day and I nearly bust out laughing because it's already been in an episode of Seinfeld years ago. giggle.gif

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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Maximus wrote: »
    rml_16 wrote: »
    LMAO

    So I had to do some stupid training PowerPoint for work and take a stupid quiz on it and one of the quiz questions used "Art Vandalay" as a name.

    Awesome.

    I've had Art Vandelay paged at airports before.

    LMAO

    I can't believe they didn't get it!

  • JtKeil
    JtKeil Posts: 1,389 Member
    I'm watching the Marisa Tomei episode where the Art Vandelay lie is told to Susan...best show ever! <3
  • mikeshockley
    mikeshockley Posts: 684 Member
    Seinfeld is a classic, to be sure, but nothing has ever made me laugh out loud like Modern Family.
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