And yet Jerry rode that mullet thing right to the end.
And by today’s standards, the “bad haircut” he gets in “The Barber” is the best his hair looked in the whole series.
My ex-wife wore Laura Ashley dresses like Elaine’s commonly.
I don’t agree, but I can’t really say why in specific hairstyling detail. Maybe just because it was so different from Seinfeld’s normal hairstyle, or maybe it somehow didn’t suit him, but it was deliberately intended to look funny. It got a big laugh when it was first revealed, and I’m sure would get a big laugh today – it did from me! To me, Seinfeld looked like a 12-year-old boy.
I have virtually no knowledge of women’s fashion so I can’t speak to the changes in Elaine’s wardrobe, but perhaps a factor in changes over the years was that as the show became wildly successful and its principal actors very famous, the real-life Julia Luis-Dreyfus might have wanted to present herself more fashionably, and as this happened to coincide with the story arc of Elaine now in an established career, it worked.
I recall reading that some of Elaine’s wardrobe choices were to hide her being pregnant.
I’ve also heard (from Julia in interviews) that Jerry and Larry wanted to work her pregnancy into the show. But instead of Elaine getting pregnant, the story would’ve been that she got fat. Pregnant hormonal Julia didn’t think it was funny at all, and put the kibosh on it, but has since come to admit it would’ve been a good/funny story arc.
Isn’t that exactly what they did for Jane Leeves on Frasier? Rewatching it, those episodes are very cringe inducing.
A few months ago I saw part of an early episode (The Busboy - Wikipedia) in which George was rather different from what he eventually became - he inadvertently harms someone and seems to feel sincerely bad about it (and not just concerned about what other people will think). Weird (for George)!
Again, her clothes were fashionable at the time she wore them. Her clothes changed later because the show ran nine seasons (right?), and the styles themselves changed over time. I wore a lot of outfits similar to what Elaine wore in the early years.
Re-watching Veep now I’m noticing more little details than I did the first time. One thing that really stands out to me this time is how form-fitting JL-D’s dresses are. Like a second skin form-fitting. That was the style when she made the show, but it is noticeable to me now because the styles have changed.
I never watched either “Seinfeld” or “Friends” until they went into syndication, and I’ve probably seen only a half-dozen eps of either. Wouldn’t mind watching the whole series (both), but the sheer number is pretty intimidating.
If it helps, the whole series of Seinfeld is available to stream on Netflix. If you subscribe to the ad-free tier, you can binge it. Each episode is about 23 minutes.
Jerry had several Macintosh computers over the run of the series, but he was never shown using them, and I don’t think they were ever turned on.
The Seinfeld episodes are just under 23 minutes long, and it’s amazing how fast my re-watch has been going. I’m nearing the end of Season 7 and I will be very sad when this time-travel back to the 90s is over. It’s just been absolutely delightful!
And the 180 episodes are really less than that if one excludes episode 1, episode 100 (which is really just an anniversary collection of highlights from previous episodes), and maybe even a few others. Though when I sadly get to the end, I’m definitely going back to some of the episodes that I skipped.*
I haven’t watched Friends because, rightly or wrongly, I resent it as a copycat, and dislike some of the actors.
* In fact I already went back and watched The Baby Shower in Season 2 that I’d skipped before. Elaine organizes a baby shower in Jerry’s apartment because Jerry is away. Just the girls, of course. But George shows up to exact revenge on a former girlfriend, Jerry shows up because his show was cancelled and is accosted by a vengeful former girlfriend, and Kramer shows up with two Russians to install the illegal cable Jerry had agreed to. All while Elaine is trying to host a happy baby shower! 
He never rode the green bicycle hanging on the wall either.
Yes, I remember the computers changing over time. One was what is now known as the Macintosh Classic, the other had a large monitor and it was hard to tell what it actually was, but I presume a later Mac.
I’m pretty sure that there’s one episode in which the computer is actually on, because I recall seeing the unstable image that results from the difference between the screen refresh rate and the camera frame rate.
I think he might have had the rare 20th anniversary Mac:
He did have one of those. I remember it being something we Mac users discussed at work shortly after it first appeared.
I’m nearly halfway through the final season now, and I know it will be depressing when it’s all done which will probably be tomorrow night. It’s been a real fun ride.
One thing about binge-watching is that you’re more aware of the stylistic changes as the seasons progress. The early ones had a kind of directionless uncertainty about where they were going. By around Season 4 it had really established itself and the writing was more confident and exuberant. I have to say, though, that by Season 8 it had started to falter a bit; there were still many excellent episodes, but a few that were a bit sub-par. Season 9 had more sub-par episodes. “The Betrayal” – the one about the wedding in India – was just downright bizarre.
Anyway, I loved the series at the time and I still love it today. The re-watch was lots of fun but in all honesty the original brilliance was starting to fade by Season 9. It was the right time to call it quits.
Loved Seinfeld when it first aired and am always up to watch an episode. Probably the best overall sitcom every IMO. One thing I really like about the currently airing/streaming versions is there were able to make HD video from the old film, it looks even better than when it first aired!
Yeah, the last few seasons were pretty uneven - they were going for over-the-top zaniness and that wasn’t true to the show’s comedic core. I’m sure that was due to Larry David leaving after season 7.
I liked “The Betrayal” - the backwards episode with the wedding in India. Hard to pull off but they did it and it was very funny. It ended 11 years earlier with Jerry moving into his apartment and meeting Kramer for the first time.
JERRY: Oh, hi. I-I’m Jerry Seinfeld. I’m movin’ in. I saw your name on the buzzer - You must be Kessler.
KRAMER: Uh, no. Actually, it’s Kramer.
JERRY: Oh.
KRAMER: Uh, you need any help, or…?
JERRY: No, thanks. But I ordered a pizza. You want some of it?
KRAMER: Uh, no, no, no. I couldn’t impose.
JERRY: Why not? We’re neighbors. What’s mine is yours. (And with that, Jerry made the most fatal mistake of his life)
KRAMER: (Eyeing Jerry’s empty apartment) Really?