Yesterday, on the sixth month anniversary of 9/11, NYC’s Channel 5 showed at 7:30 the Seinfeld episode where the gang went to Massachusetts and got arrested for not helping a guy being mugged. They call on Johnnie Cochron (okay, Jackie Chiles) to represent them. When he hears the charges, he says “You don’t have to help anyone. That’s what this country is all about.”
Great triangle of OJ, Seinfeld and 9/11 coming together.
That one was also on here in Baltimore at 7:00. Add in the almost-plane crash and it was kinda creepy.
Whoops, didn’t mean to quote you like that. The “quote” and “reply” buttons are too close.
Anyway, I think when they show those shows in syndication, they have to show them in order (the order they orginally aired), so yesterday was probably just a weird coincidence. It is part of the finale, so in a day or two, it’ll be back to the start of the series.
The one at 6:00, ironically, was the one where they were casting the show “Jerry” from five years ago, which was why they were on the plane in the other episode. (NBC wanted to re-do the show “Jerry” and Jerry and George were moving to LA to write it.)
I think the syndicator decides the order in which the episodes are shown, not the individual stations. If you go to http://tv.yahoo.com/ and look up the schedules for other cities, you’ll find that that same episode was shown here in Los Angeles and in Dallas. I don’t think that could be a coincidence.
That’s what I meant, the local stations have to air them according to guidelines set down by the syndicator.
The coincidence I meant was that the plane crash/“you don’t have to be nice” theme just happened to fall on the six-month anniversary of 9/11.
I believe that was the last Seinfeld. (finale)
Yes, it was. I mentioned that in my other post.
It ended with the four in jail, and Jerry talking about shirt buttons to George.
Ten bucks says tomorrow’s show is the very first one, that starts out with a scene of Jerry and George talking about shirt buttons.
You’re on!
Here, at least, tonight’s episode was Part II of the final episode, last night’s was Part I–and the episode before that was the very first one, which I had never seen before (which means that I didn’t get the “button” joke in the last episode until that night!)
Can’t remember if it was shown on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday night, though…
David
The final episode of Seinfeld was a travesty. A complete copout. I saw Larry David on TV a few days before it aired talking about how brilliant it was, and how it was going to make television history. I get a really strong “self-centered prick” vibe from that guy.
It seems Kinsey owes SoulFrost 10 bucks. Yesterdays Seinfeld (11:00 or 7:30) in NYC did not have the first episode.
There goes that theory.
I wish they would adhere to showing the episodes in the order they were originlly shown. This always bugs me with the Simpsons. It always seems that they play the same episodes over and over agin.
Yes, I guess if we had actually shaken hands on it, I would owe him $10.
Anyway, the one shown here was one of the first shows, according to this site, the episode The Stock Tip, (which is what I saw), was episode #5 from the first season. So I was close.
My friend explained why this seems to happen, but don’t take my (or his, I guess) word for it:
The way syndication works is that the stations are allowed to air each episode they purchase so many times (let’s say…5.) What they do, is they show the older ones as many times as possible, streched out over a long period of time, interspaced, so theoreticllyit will be a while before the same one is shown again. But, the problem arises when for some reason episodes don’t get aired (usually episodes that people don’t like, or just got a lot of airplay the previous syndiction contract.) Or they get a new batch of episodes from the previous season they are now allowed to air. So it’s the end of their contract, and all they have are five copies of ones that they haven’t shown before. As as result, you see a lot of the same episode, then the contract gets renewed and they go into the same mistakes again.
I agree that the Seinfeld finale was one of the series’ poorest shows.
As to Larry David. It is hard to be a success in show biz without a big ego and a sense of self-importance. They face constant, and what feels like personal, rejection. “You’re not right for the part” or in a review, “This was probably one of the worst Dr. Jekylls every shown” etc., etc.
You’ve got to have a lot of self-confidence to go through that kind of thing.