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  1. Just finished Seinfeldia. As the biggest Seinfeld fan I know, this book was made for someone like me. A fun deep dive into the show and where so many of its plotlines really came from. Recommended for true fans.
    #Seinfeldia #Seinfeld #BookReview #90sTelevision #NonfictionBooks

  2. Oh, look! 🎉 A digital #homage to a show about nothing. Our brave author finally discovered #Seinfeld, just a casual 30 years #late. 😂 But hey, at least they could #binge it on #Netflix after Netflix emptied their piggy bank for it. Good for you! 👍📺
    seinfeld.visualisingdata.com/ #Comedy #Discovery #HackerNews #ngated

  3. Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander apologizes to Courtney Stodden for ‘inappropriate’ sketch made when she was a teenager
    By Sian Cain

    The actor, who is one of the writers credited for the Funny or Die sketch, said he was ‘deeply sorry for any harm or distress’ caused by the 2012 skit

    theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

    #Television #TVcomedy #Comedy #Seinfeld #Culture #Televisionradio #UStelevision #TheGuardian #SianCain

  4. “It’s about nothing”*…

    source

    Seinfeld, which originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998 (for a total of 180 episodes over nine seasons) ruled the airwaves during the 90s. Its reign continued, first in syndication, then streaming, and hold sway to this day. The series won all of the major awards for which it was eligible (a few, several times over) and is universally regarded as one of the greatest and most influential American shows of all time. Quotes from several of its episodes have become catchphrases in popular culture.

    Most of us know Seinfeld, but not all of us… and even those if us who do, have more to learn. Andy Kirk is here to help…

    I was intrigued by the possibilities of mixing work with pleasure: visually exploring a sitcom through its data.

    Intrigued became compelled. I wanted to explore how Seinfeld and David, with the support of their evolving pool of talented writers, managed to achieve such sustained sitcom brilliance. Much like a sports coach seeks to assemble the right players in the right combinations, to win a game, how did the Seinfeld ‘coaching team’ use their resources to assemble the right characters in the right scenes, in order to score the laughs and create TV gold?

    And so began a self-motivated, long-running, entirely unnecessary, data-driven exploration of every episode of Seinfeld.

    The first product of this work was my 2020 publishing of The Seinfeld Chronicles, a limited-edition printed book presenting all my extensive analysis. With 176 copies released, matching the number of written episodes, this reached a small but exclusive, passionate, and generous audience.

    A few years later, I decided it was time to revisit this work and develop a new format that could reach a wider audience…

    A trove of insight into a epoch-defining sit-com and a glorious example of data visualization: “The Seinfeld Chronicles: Digital Edition,” from @visualisingdata.com.

    George explaining the premise of the show he and Jerry are trying to pitch to NBC

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    As we codify comedy, we might recall (on this, National Junk Food Day) that it was on this date in 1988 that The New York Yankees traded Jay Buhner (along with minor leaguers Rich Balabon and Troy Evers) to the Seattle Mariners in exchange for 33-year-old first basemen and designated hitter Ken Phelps– widely considered one of the most lopsided deals in MLB history. While Phelps had a brief, productive stint in New York before being traded again, Buhner became a fan favorite and a legend in Seattle. Over his 14 seasons with the Mariners, he hit 310 home runs and was a key piece of the team that reached the ALCS in 1995, 1997, and 2000. He was inducted into the Seattle Mariners Hall of Fame in 2004.

    In Seinfeld‘s seventh season episode “The Caddy,” Yankee’s owner George Steinbrenner (voiced by Larry David) visits George’s parents to (mistakenly) inform them that their son is dead. While George’s mother tears up, George’s father Frank (Jerry Stiller) responds…

    https://youtu.be/cUwSxqnRW-8?si=ucwB7Ts686TSE8we

    #AndyKirk #comedy #culture #dataVisualization #history #JayBuhner #junkFood #NewYorkYankees #SeattleMariners #Seinfeld #television #VisualizingData
  5. the garbage fire group chat: why the absolute worst groups of people make for the absolute best television

    there is a very specific type of tv show where you realize about three episodes in that there is not a single person on screen you would willingly choose to be in a room with, much less share an Uber with, and yet you cannot look away because watching a collection of absolute monsters ruin each other’s lives is apparently the highest form of human entertainment it is the "the whole gang sucks" trope and honestly fwiw it is carrying the entire television industry on its back traditionally, […]

    tacobout.online/2026/07/16/the

  6. I tried to talk to Mitch McConnell in the hospital, but he just sat up abruptly, said one word twice, and laid back down.

    #ISpokeWithMitchMcConnellToday
    #MitchMcConnell
    #USpol
    #Seinfeld

  7. Probably unpopular opinion, but I never thought #seinfeld was funny.

    I "get" what should be funny, but it felt always "meh" to me

  8. @enigmatico same with TV:

    #Netflix licensed #Seinfeld for $500M;
    latimes.com/entertainment-arts

    A show that propably had a budget if <$5M for everything during it's productIon run!

    - Because that stuff is actually being enjoyed by people!

  9. "The Jerk Store called & they're running out of you!" George Constansa #Seinfeld S08E13 The Comeback, 1997 imdb.com/title/tt0697678/quote

    That's the line I thought of when I saw the pic, but sadly the Jerk Hut was where 1 man was killed & 7 others injured on June 14, 2026 in Columbia, South Carolina.

    Cops still haven't caught the shooter & don't know the motivation.
    Read this well written story:
    "Locals call for reflection, greater gun regulation after Jerk Hut shooting"
    yahoo.com/news/us/articles/loc