obviously the marine biologist episode is great, it was very 180 how all the subplots tied together, but one episode doesn't redeem the show

I also found one of the scenes with Elaine on the airplane funny

virtually no laughs outside of those

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49929905)

if you link a good standup vid of his I'll watch and give it a chance later, falling back asleep soon

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49929944)

(I was also regrettably behind the curve on Israel)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49929950)

Like the show being funny sometimes over 9 years versus Seinfeld being a billionaire is the conflict. He should have like $280,000,000k, tops.

Curb does the exact same kind of plots, just shot differently and no laugh track and many proles couldn’t get into it.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49929934)

but a show with more hateable than lovable characters could never be one of my very favorites; that's what keeps e.g. Always Sunny out of my S-tier even though it's hilarious. my favorites have great ensemble casts of flawed but ultimately decent people - Psych, Parks and Rec, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, etc.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49929953)

Im just separating Losers finding this stuff funny from proles being Told that it’s funny when they never would’ve laughed at any of it unless told to. It got more popular than it made sense for it to be.

Irl proles only laugh when something Bad happens to someone they don’t like, or when someone jokes about sex or something. Same people who watched Seinfeld in the 90s and laughed Uproariously at Elaine dancing or George’s parents hating him bc of the laugh track wouldn’t laugh at Curb. Proles can be……. influenced by Jews, let’s say.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49929959)

proles can be influenced by Jews is right!

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49929964)

Seinfeld insists on itself imho

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49929966)

So many of you minorities are like, when criticized, are like, “oh, you must be this OTHER minority group!”no, ffs, we want all of you idiots gone

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49929992)

curb is pretty funny a lot of the time. original curb that is

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49930369)

turn on an episode of this week's Hollywood Squares if you want to see what stupid unfunny network tv is really like.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49930383)

The only reason Seinfeld isn't funny to you is because you've seen 30 years of shows imitating and expanding on what Seinfeld did.

It's like saying "Why do people like Super Mario Bros the graphics are awful" (and btw, Seinfeld itself is still pretty funny and NES Mario is still fun)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49930446)

i think this phenomenon is very underrated in general and applies to many things in society

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49930473)

What were some of your favorite episodes of the Big Bang Theory, brother?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49930904)

This is why the gang never 'win.' You're not rooting for them. They always draw the short end of the stick because they're not meritorious people.

I can't believe I'm explaining humor to a high verbal IQ Jew but here we are.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49930954)

j peterman

soup nazi

ass doctor

basically every scene/plot with steinbrenner

etc etc.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49931043)

For Seinfeld, you could just say "because it's funny," and that would be true and a large part of it. To try to engage a little more with the question, three specific things about Seinfeld that were clever and that help the show remain a good watch:

They did a great job playing with the unexpected. What happened to the breached whale? Kramer's golf ball!

They did a great job pulling together separate story lines. The woman who wouldn't give Elaine toilet paper, the woman at the 900 number Kramer calls, and Jerry's gf are all the same woman. "Don't call me any more.... You either."

They had fantastic characters that amplified ridiculous traits we see in ourselves and our friends, family members, coworkers, etc. These characters went up to the line of being "too much" without going over. "You think you could keep us out of Florida? We're moving in lock, stock and barrel. We're gonna be in the pool. We're gonna be in the clubhouse. We're gonna be all over that shuffleboard court! And I dare you to keep me out!"

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49932111)

and then the "amplified ridiculous traits we see in ourselves" part I also mentioned in my OP as something I don't relate to. I don't see these traits in my friends either. I don't hang out with shitty people imo

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49932126)

Everybody has a George Costanza inside them that is restrained by common sense and good manners. Everyone, especially men, watch George Costanza and think "That's what I wanted to do but couldn't!" and "That's how I felt but couldn't express it!"

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49932174)

favorites are Psych, Parks and Rec, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49932486)

If you don't think that's funny you need to immediately return to whatever country you came here from.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5873073&forum_id=2#49934166)