# Re-watching "Seinfeld"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-seinfeld/1003983
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted
**Created:** [July 10, 2024, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-seinfeld/1003983 "2024-07-10T03:29:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2024, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-seinfeld/1003983/141 "2024-07-24T23:23:37Z")
> [@wolfpup](#):
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> The re-watch was lots of fun but in all honesty the original brilliance was starting to fade by Season 9.
Season 9 had some of my least favourites (e.g. The Butter Shave, The Merv Griffin Show, The Betrayal) but also some of my all-time favourites (Festivus! Kramer opts out of getting mail! Elaine plagiarizes Ziggy!)
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### Author:  [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-seinfeld/1003983/142 "2024-07-24T23:51:10Z")
> [@wolfpup](#):
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> “The Betrayal” – the one about the wedding in India – was just downright bizarre.
It’s kind of a weird inside theater joke. It’s inspired by the Harold Pinter play…“Betrayal”
[Wikipedia link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal_(play)#:~:text=Pinter's%20particular%20usage%20of%20reverse,and%201973)%20move%20forward%20chronologically.)
Pinter is the name of the groom in the episode IIRC.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-seinfeld/1003983/143 "2024-07-25T00:07:34Z")
Thanks. I wasn’t aware of the connection to the Pinter play.
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-seinfeld/1003983/144 "2024-07-25T00:30:45Z")
> [@hogarth](#):
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> Season 9 had some of my least favourites (e.g. The Butter Shave, The Merv Griffin Show, …
Those, and “The Andrea Doria” (which I think was in Season 8) were probably examples of Jerry Seinfeld’s wackiness untempered by the absent Larry David. I rather enjoyed them anyway; they just required the same suspension of disbelief as when watching Bugs Bunny cartoons! 😉
Another wacky one (don’t remember the episode, but it was Season 9) was when Kramer installs a discarded screen door on his apartment door, then sets out a patio chair, wind chimes, and something that looks like a bird feeder outside his apartment! 😁
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> I wasn’t aware of the connection to the Pinter play.
I wasn’t, either. I guess that was clever, but for me that still doesn’t make the episode funny.
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-seinfeld/1003983/145 "2024-07-25T00:34:36Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#):
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> It’s kind of a weird inside theater joke.
“The Chinese Restaurant” from Season 2 is something of a riff on _Waiting for Godot_ and/or _No Exit_.
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-seinfeld/1003983/146 "2024-07-25T02:56:10Z")
It’s fun guessing the vintage of an episode that comes on after the news, just based on Jerry’s mac. He even had a short-lived Duo, where you could pull out the center and that’d [function as a laptop.](https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/08/20-macs-for-2020-19-powerbook-duo/)
> [@beowulff](#):
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> he might have had the rare 20th anniversary Mac
So did Alfred (in Batman & Robin, it was dramatically lit and looked gorgeous).
> **[Apple Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh Computer Used By Michael Gough In...](https://productplacementblog.com/movies/apple-twentieth-anniversary-macintosh-computer-used-by-michael-gough-in-batman-robin-1997/)**
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> On January 4, 2019, I analyzed a Movie and spotted product placement: Apple Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh Computer Used by Michael Gough in Batman & Robin (1997).
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2024, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-seinfeld/1003983/147 "2024-07-26T07:40:55Z")
Well, I’m done the binge-watch of the whole series, except for a couple of the early episodes that I skipped that I guess I’ll now go back to.
I was mistaken in saying earlier that some half-remembered song about “time of our lives” was in the finale, and it was the wrong song,anyway. But there’s a part of “The Clip Show” preceding the finale where highlights of the clips and bloopers from the previous nine years are played to a tune that includes the lyrics:
> _For what it’s worth it was worth all the while_
> _It’s something unpredictable but in the end is right_
> _I hope you had the time of your life._
It was a great team of cast and writers and a historical contribution to television entertainment. Now that I’m done, except for a few old episodes, I haz the sad. 😢
ETA: They absolutely should have ended the series with “The Clip Show”, a nostalgic review of the previous nine years, including funny outtakes. Despite the genius of the series overall, I have to say that the finale was really disappointing and should never have been done.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-seinfeld/1003983/148 "2024-07-26T12:47:07Z")
That song is “Good Riddance” by Green Day.
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