Tag: Seinfeld
Hulu built a recreation of the comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment from the 1990s television program Seinfeld inside of Milk Studios to promote the fact that they paid almost $200 million for the rights to put it online. They apparently used up all the money in the deal, because the set started falling apart on the […]
Hulu, which is all the bad parts of watching TV consolidated on a single glitchy website, spent an estimated $700 trillion dollars to buy the digital rights to Seinfeld, a comedy show that has not had a new episode since 1998 and is on television every day. It is a beloved sitcom about a cranky […]
Years after we saw Elaine dancing, or as George called it, a “full body dry heave set to music,” comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus reveals the backstory about her amazing dance moves in Seinfeld during a talk at the 92Y. Sadly, she didn’t feel inspired to offer another performance (at least not in the footage above), but […]
Are you an economics student having trouble understanding some of the concepts? Or perhaps you’re a teacher searching for a new way to engage your students? Prepare by watching Seinfeld. The aptly named online archive project Yadayadayada Econ has found wisdom in the “show about nothing,” extracting clips from the show that illustrate economic concepts […]
As the debate rages on about fictional realism, it’s undeniable that many fictional people and places are so lodged in the public consciousness, that they may as well “exist.” So thoroughly suspended is our disbelief, that we don’t even consider the fact that Seinfeld’s apartment was a soundstage where the rooms didn’t even connect. In the spirit of […]
Russia’s surprise invasion of Ukraine has pundits on the right positively giddy, as they point to statements made during the elections in 2008 and 2012 by then-candidates Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney. But long before someone presumably ghostwrote that foreign policy position for Palin or Romney walked back his stance, it was liberal Cosmo Kramer […]
Gian Franco Morini, director of the Tom’s Restaurant documentary we wrote about in October, sent us this footage Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, and Jason Alexander outside the Morningside Heights eatery they made famous this week. Morini seems to believe they were shooting a Super Bowl commercial. Nothing much happens — which seems fitting — but […]
So, Seinfeld is like some new artist inside joke now? WHATEVER RICHARD PRINCE. Fine, don’t tell me. Here’s a fresh and amazing datamosh mash-up of dozens of Kramer entrances. Look at him moshing up pixels with that door swing. Look, look. PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (2013) is described thusly: the satellite connection to jerry’s memory goes out. kramer […]
