| Seinfeld, one of the finest sitcoms ever made, starred Jerry Seinfeld who played a character named and largely based on himself. It was set in an apartment block in Manhattan, New York. It featured an eclectic cast of characters, mainly Jerry's friends and acquaintances - unlike many of the sitcoms of the 1980's that based themselves around family units with quotas of cute but smart-alecky children.
The show was famously described as "the show about nothing", and the comment is largely accurate, as most of the comedy was based around the largely inconsequential minutiae of everyday life, often involving petty rivalries and elaborate schemes to gain the smallest advantage over other individuals.
Many of Seinfeld's distinctive traits can be found in subsequent popular sitcoms, most notably Friends.
Among the characters:
- Jerry Seinfeld(played by Jerry Seinfeld) - a relatively successful stand-up comedian, who seeks out relationships with attractive women which rarely last more than one episode. Quite a few episodes involve some obsession of Jerry's that results in offending the romantic interest and breaking the relationship.
- George Costanza (played by Jason Alexander) - a short, balding, neurotic individual domineered by his parents, especially his father.
- Cosmo Kramer (played by Michael Richards) - tall, wild-haired, Kramer is the Seinfeld character with the loosest grip on reality, decorum, or concepts of property.
- Elaine Benes (played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus) - like Seinfeld, much of Elaine's life revolves around trying to arrange relationships with attractive individuals, although some of hers last rather longer than Jerry's.
A few notable expressions from Seinfeld became popular phrases in everyday speech. Among the most famous:
- yada yada yada- used largely like "etcetera etcetera", although in the original Seinfeld episode it was used to gloss over important details
- not that there's anything wrong with that - used to indicate that while one was not homosexual, one did not particularly disapprove of it
- master of my domain - used to describe one's fortitude in refraining from masturbation.
- spongeworthy - that a potential partner is particularly attractive; in the original episodes, being "spongeworthy" meant Elaine was willing to use one of her limited supply of (no longer produced) contraceptive sponges with this person.
- man hands - phrase to describe a woman's hands when they are 'less than feminine.'
- mimbo - a male bimbo
- low talker - a person who speaks very softly. this can have very adverse effects especially when Jerry was 'low talked' into wearing a puffy shirt on the today show.
- high talker - a person who speaks in an abnormal high pitch, usually to describe a male who sounds like a female.
- close talker - a person who doesn't understand the concept of personal space during conversation.
- the jimmy leg - a condition that people have when their leg undergoes spasms while sleeping causing his/her significant other to lose sleep. this condition may cause a couple to sleep in different beds; Frank and Estelle Costanza resorted to sleeping in twin beds as a result of her jimmy arm.
Includes:
- Features 32 DVDs with all 180 episodes
- More than 104 hours of amazing extras
- The Official Coffee Table Book: a 226-page bound anthology filled with photos, quotes, and trivia from every episode
- Bonus disc featuring the reunion of the cast plus Larry David on the ninth anniversary of the series finale
- Packaged in a handy collector's case that will look great on your shelf
- Documentaries for all nine seasons
- Inside looks
- Not That There's Anything Wrong With That (bloopers)
- In the vault (deleted scenes)
- Yada Yada Yada (commentaries)
- "Sein-Imation"
- Notes about nothing
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