“Something is going to happen that has to do with that ending. It hasn’t happened yet,” Seinfeld said to big cheers. “Just what you are thinking about, Larry [David] and I have also been thinking about. So, you’ll see.”
Could it be another plotline of the upcoming season of Curb Your Enthusiasm? A one-off follow-up special? Admitting the whole finale was just a Kenny-Rogers-Chicken-induced fever dream of Newman? Another Super Bowl ad?
The cast all awake from their collective fever dream and discover they have crashed their boat on an uncharted Pacific island along with an influencer, a cryptocurrency tycoon and his wife.
Whatever it is, Jerry is way too smart to believe that Seinfeld could be resurrected in any way. Remember when Seinfeld and Steven Spielberg had a chat about maybe Seinfeld making a movie with Dreamworks? And they did, co-written by Seinfeld, co-produced by Seinfeld, funded by Dreamworks Animations, voiced by major stars. Bee Movie. It was pretty awful.
The Seinfeld series was the kind of rare synergy of talent that very rarely happens, where the result is far greater than the sum of its parts.
Agreed. “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” is basically the show Jerry originally wanted to make when he was first trying to create Seinfeld. It’s hilarious but very different.
“It’s always Sunny” is the only show I’ve seen successfully copy Seinfeld’s format. It’s entertaining but not nearly as funny.
Minority opinion here but I never watched Seinfeld during its original run - only caught it in reruns - and without all the hype, the series finale is a perfectly good episode.
For those of us who watched it live, it’s worthwhile noting that NBC ran a “Clip show” Feature just before the actual Finale.
But the Finale had a clip show ingredient as well. So when viewers watched them back to back, it was kind of like watching the same thing twice.
Personally, I was put off a bit by the the insistence that these four people were inherently awful people. Sure they had their selfish moments, but their behavior largely seemed normal in the heightened reality of the show.
And not for nothing, the episode’s ridiculous misunderstanding of “Good Samaritan” laws that earned them prison time kinda stuck in my craw as well.
I believe this, too. But I think it’s purgatory, not hell. Because they aren’t ‘good people’, whatever they are - but they aren’t malevolently deliberately evil, either.