adidasss

^^ Wow, blast from the past.

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djchameleon

so people say but I was never able to get into it. The whole meth industry bores me.

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Howard the Duck

uh, you don't "get" NYC-based Jewish humour?

djchameleon

I get the humor because I loved his movie he had Whatever it takes

I also love Curb!

It's just Seinfeld that I never saw the funny side/point of it.

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Howard the Duck

^^ok

Mojo

Everything.

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djchameleon

how can everything be a good answer when the show is about nothing?

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

mannny

Totally agree... but it's on AMC not A&E. They really know what's good for TV shows these days.

I don't understand how you can love Curb but not like Seinfeld. I mean, George Costanza and the Larry David character are extremely similar. Curb may have a slightly different style, with the improv and I guess just more contemporary feel. But Seinfeld has the same humor, and sometimes they even deal with the same situations.

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Mojo

Hehe well it was more of a fan-boy answer to be honest. Seinfeld, however, is my favourite show. The writing was peculiar for what became a mainstream, hit, US sitcom. In its early days the writing really was focused on dialogue and the majority of the humour was found in conversation and the relationships between the characters. It was really ALL about the quality of the scripts.

As it got more popular, was given a bigger budget, and was arguably aimed toward a larger, more commercial market rather than a niche one then they started to include much more physical humour and take steps away from reality. It might have started as a show about nothing but didn't end that way.

The fact that, in my opinion, it remained consistent as it changed, and even after Larry David quit. The fact that the "star" of the show wasn't making any attempt to over-act (as he wasn't and isn't an actor) and supported himself with a solid cast who he shared a spotlight with rather than stroke his own ego. The fact that they were prepared to juggle with some pretty risky topics for a prime-time NBC "family" show and find themselves in a position where they were so popular that they were given the opportunity to run with them rather than have these episodes censored, and the fact that the list of secondary, supporting and guest characters was incredibly strong as well all helped them to set the bar well above the likes of Cheers and other popular sitcoms in the late 80's and early 90's.

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