Seinfeld...overrated or classic treasure? What is your take?

[Anonymous]

Seinfeld...overrated or classic treasure? What is your take? I love it!

[Anonymous]

Seinfeld just plain sucked. Overrated, overacted, and just plain self-absorbed crap. It is a crime to comedy that Jerry S. has become as wealthy as he has from the residuals of this turd of a program.

The reason it ranks so high, is because so many of today's voters know only the recent sitcoms and very little of superior older ones for the most part.

As for sitcoms during the 90s, I think "Frasier" is easily the best written and suffers only because it aims too high for low-brows who are satisfied with dumb catch-phrases and pop-tart jokes.

[MrOracle]

It was funny, but it wasn't "great." It was just pretty good, and was better than a lot of the crap on TV at the time. The humor had a strong NY basis, so maybe folks who live around there identify with it more, and thus like it more. It's not that I didn't "get it", I did. It's just that I don't CARE about the same old "jew living in NYC" jokes that people have been doing for 100 years.

[MrDarcy2015]

Having only seen as much Seinfeld as I could stomach, and not laughing, I never got the impression the show wore "Jewishness," per se, on its sleeve. The show seemed little more than dumb observations anyone with two brain cells could observe without Jerry to point them out.

The biggest sin is that the situations were so situationally-based, that the characters were almost impossible to invest in emotionally. This is why, "All in the Family," "Frasier," and "Mash" were so much better.

For those who never liked the show, the out sized praise for Seinfeld has always had the forced quality of being made to laugh at something stupid in a high school pep rally.

If I can find humor in damn-near every half-way good sitcom ever made, and not so much as crack a slight smile in any single episode of Seinfeld, it is likely the fault of the show.

[TheoryOfAvarice]

I'm a pretty big fan. Me and my dad watch it together all the time.

I know this one guy who has like every episode memorized, and he'll just sit there and say everything along with the characters and that is just a bit extreme, lol...

But so yeah. It's not my most favorite show but I do enjoy watching it. Classic is a good word I think. I always love the episode where they're all lost in a parking garage, haha..

[Paris13]

It was Actually a show about Nothing but I really liked it. It was Amusing to me and I think that the Characters Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer, not to forget the Rest of the others, made it Funny with just Something silly to say.
I don't see anything that Great right now that I would say is really hilarious, although "King of Queens" was One Great comedy and right up there with Seinfeld.
Good luck. xx

[Brando]

Seinfeld's standup is much, much better than the show. He has a clean type of comedy which is mostly good and took a long time to grow on me. I just don't find his show to be all that funny.

[SillyG0000se]

i liked it. seinfeld was OK, but I mostly watched the show for george and elaine

[kairon156]

it's overrated. it was an alright show, I still watch it when there's nothing else on but to me it's no classic.

[Misty_04]

Cannot stand it.

[Lj236]

Worst show ever I think lol

[dudeman]

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