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	Seinfeld
		Jerry Seinfeld, American standup comedian and author of the best-selling book SeinLanguage (1993), is now best known as the eponymous hero of Seinfeld, a sitcom that has been a great success for NBC for the last five years.
		In Seinfeld disasters multiply for each character, except for the mysterious Kramer, a trickster figure, who like trickster figures through the ages always gets out of daily work, is a renowned sexual reptile, generally out-tricks every adversary, and ignores the havoc he insists on causing.
		Seinfeld himself comments that in Seinfeld, "You can't change the basic situation or the basic characters." Nevertheless, he rejected the suggestion that even the show's devotees think the characters are becoming increasingly obnoxious and the jokes forced (TV Week, 4 March 1995).
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/seinfeld/seinfeld.htm (1058 words)

	Seinfeld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seinfeld is a television sitcom, considered to be one of the most popular and influential of the 1990s in the U.S., to the point where it is often cited as epitomizing the self-obsessed and ironic culture of the decade.
		It stars Jerry Seinfeld playing Jerry Seinfeld, a character named after and based largely on himself, and is set predominantly in an apartment block in Manhattan's Upper West Side, New York.
		One of the most popular characters on the show, he is often described as the "action character" that draws audiences with his wild and unusual antics and movements.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seinfeld (4611 words)

	Seinfeld - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		The characters have also been described as utterly selfish and amoral, and to a degree that is accurate; the show stands out in deriving nothing but amusement from it.
		By this device the distinction between the actor Jerry Seinfeld and the character who is portayed by him is deliberately blurred.
		Undoubtedly the most popular character on the show, he is often described as the "action character" that draws audiences with his wild and unusual antics and movements.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Seinfeld (1899 words)

	Seinfeld characters and culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The television show Seinfeld was known for featuring many characters, each with their own special characteristics.
		Seinfeld was also responsible for the entering of many terms from the show into popular culture.
		Jerry Seinfeld: Kal (or Kel) Varnsen; the arch-rival of Pennypacker and a wealthy developer/industrialist.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/seinfeld_characters_and_culture (3754 words)

	Seinfeld characters and culture - Definition, explanation
		The television show Seinfeld was known for featuring many characters, each with their own special characteristics.
		Seinfeld was also responsible for the entering of many terms from the show into popular culture.
		Jerry Seinfeld: Kal (or Kel) Varnsen; the arch-rival of Pennypacker and a wealthy developer/industrialist.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/se/seinfeld_characters_and_culture.php (6125 words)

	Vinod's Blog:Desi & Jewish Pop Culture
		Young South Asians are transforming America's cultural landscape, setting the pace in business, the arts and media as well as the traditional fields favored by their parents' generation, medicine and technology.
		Cultural authenticity is a tough thing to describe but you know it when you see it - and, as I argued in my WTPY review, I contend we truly are seeing it within the 18-25 crowd.
		Hollywood) but have only been partially successful at producing clearly Jewish cultural icons for their own youth much less mass culture (Seinfeld comes to mind as a somewhat overtly Jewish figure; Adam Sandler also occasionally leads with Jewish cultural themes in his work).
	www.vinod.com /blog/News/DesiJewishPopCulture.html (727 words)

	Everything you wanted to know about 'Seinfeld' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Seinfeld is a television sitcom, considered to be one of the most popular and influential of the 1990s in the U.S., to the point where it is often cited as epitomizing the self-obsessed and ironic culture of the decade.
		Another attribute that makes Seinfeld exceptional is that in almost every episode, several story threads are presented at the beginning, generally involving the various characters in separate and unrelated situations, which then converge and are interwoven towards the end of the episode in an ironic fashion.
		Undoubtedly the most popular character on the show, he is often described as the "action character" that draws audiences with his wild and unusual antics and movements.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0405/entertainment/seinfeld_ev.html (1755 words)

	Journal of Popular Film and Television: Sitcoms Say Goodbye: THE CULTURAL SPECTACLE OF SEINFELD'S LAST EPISODE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Their concept was that the show would be, like Seinfeld's act, about "the spaces between life" (Hirschberg 246) or, as it has come to be known, about nothing, that is, a comedy of manners about "life's minutiae, people's foibles, and mankind's quotidian moments of angst" (Collins 2).
		Self-reflexivity was embedded within its premise Jerry Seinfeld played himself as a stand-up comic who used his own experiences as the basis for his on-stage performances, in much the same way that the real comedian bases his act on acute observations of the small moments of his own off-stage life.
		Seinfeld's final episode was written and produced by Larry David, who had left at the end of the seventh season but returned for the finale.
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	The Chronicle: June 16, 2000: Much Ado About 'Friends': What Pop Culture Offers Literature
		Some characters are apprehensive and fearful about marriage and commitment, others more enthusiastic, but all are torn between the conflicting obligations of love and friendship.
		In greatly abbreviated form, Springer's guests are tragic characters, his audience is the chorus, and Springer himself is the chorus leader.
		Seinfeld (and wouldn't Kramer be excited about this!) is a contemporary variation on George Etherege's Restoration comedy The Man of Mode, and Cheers (as Diane Chambers might point out) a variation on Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal.
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	Laura Shank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The "Seinfeld" characters are not concerned with other people's feelings, and therefore they are completely honest with everyone they meet, in fact they are also too blunt and completely politically incorrect ("Seinfeld Forever" 32).
		When one of the characters is accused of being homosexual they quickly respond, "no"-- then add their disclaimer, "not that there's anything wrong with it." Unfortunately in our society homosexuals are attacked so often that it is almost necessary to add a disclaimer like that.
		Part of the appeal of "Seinfeld" is that even though someone may be worrying about what prison uniforms look like, that should obviously be the least of their worries.
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	Seinfeld - Jump The Shark comments continued (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Once Susan died, however, all four characters (George especially) became flat illustrations of apathy and even inhumanity, which led inexorably to their appropriate incarceration (lame as it was) in the final episode.
		Seinfeld jumped a major shark when Elaine's hair changed, but more importantly, when her character became downright mean.
		Maybe her character was already evolving into something different and the fact that her appearance changed caused viewers to become more aware of that change.
	www.jumptheshark.com /s/seinfeld/seinfeld2.htm (7158 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Seinfeld" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		You don't have to be a cultural nostalgist to admit that, if nothing else, the artists of the past seemed technical masters of their media in a way that almost nothing today approaches.
		("Seinfeld's" uncompromising take on him, of course, is that George has a largely unattractive personality in addition to his genetic complaints; this gives his character its almost unwatchable pathos.
		After a while it's hard not to see virtually everything the show did leveraged against this worldview: The characters seem to operate almost as characters in a hellish, upside-down version of a miracle play, the saints replaced by sinners, their deeds endlessly examined.
	www.salon.com /ent/masterpiece/2002/01/07/seinfeld/print.html (2657 words)

	The Columbia Current
		Seinfeld drew heavily on American Jewish themes, stereotypes, and humor while only rarely acknowledging explicitly that any of the characters were Jewish.
		Fans of Seinfeld identify with this outsider quality— not with the implicit Jewishness of the characters.
		Judaism is simply a small part of the broader outsider identity of the characters, and since it reinforces rather than contradicts that identity, it remains in the background.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/current/articles/summer2006/luck.html (1646 words)

	Eye Weekly - Jerry Seinfeld and the decline of western civilization - 05.14.98
		Maybe it's a reaction to the suffocating clouds of celebrity fluff that count for cultural criticism in most arenas, but it seems that hardly anyone is speaking or writing critically about contemporary cultural artefacts.
		Seinfeld has been celebrated as "a show about nothing," a tag line from the episode in which two characters pitch a situation comedy to network executives.
		The war supplied situations and relationships between characters, but the scripts were about interplay between characters with one laugh line in every three.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.14.98/news_views/media.php (480 words)

	Seinfeld - PopCultureReference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The characters have also been described as utterly selfish and amoral, and to the degree that is accurate, the show stands out in deriving nothing but amusement from it; unlike other sitcoms, even The Simpsons, when a moment was just about to lapse into sentimentality, it managed to regain its balance.
		Another attribute that makes Seinfeld exceptional is that in almost every episode, several story threads are presented at the beginning of the plot, generally involving the various characters in separate and unrelated situations, which then converge and are interwoven towards the end of the episode in an ironic fashion.
		Of all the characters on the show, Kramer tends closest to following the sitcom formula: He is a classic example of the "wacky neighbor." In one show, Kramer is called a "hipster doofus." He is based on Larry David's sometime neighbour (Gantz 2000), Kenny Kramer.
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	Seinfeld - Show Description
		The group's core is Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), a stand up comedian whose professional path includes a shot of creating a network sitcom, a guest spot on the "Today" show, and a wealth of other quests gone-awry with a personal life rife with an endless parade of never-quite-right girlfriends.
		Seinfeld's national demographic rating in syndication, particularly among males and young adults, have outrated the best of current broadcast network and cable programs.
		The characters also keep on resonating with audiences: George Costanza and Kramer were named by TV Guide as two of TV's greatest characters.
	www.sonypictures.com /tv/shows/seinfeld/about (666 words)

	NTU Info Centre: Seinfeld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It stars Jerry Seinfeld playing a character named after and based largely on himself, and is set predominantly in an apartment block in Manhattan's Upper West Side, New York.
		Originally called "The Seinfeld Chronicles," the initial plot of the series was to tell how a comedian got his material, hence, the insertion of clips of Jerry's Seinfeld routine.
		The character of George was largely based on the show's co-creator and Seinfeld's nonfictional best-friend Larry David (Gantz 2000).
	www.nowtryus.com /article:Seinfeld (1594 words)

	Minor characters in Seinfeld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Susan hates Kramer for various reasons: In one episode, he drinks some bad milk and throws up on her; in another, Kramer burns down her father's cabin; and in the last episode in which Susan was alive, Kramer forgets her name (he calls her "Lily").
		The Drake: a mutual friend of main characters, often referred to with the phrases "love The Drake" or "hate The Drake".
		He also appears briefly in “The Wizard” as the hot dog vendor talking with George, although his character's name is not revealed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seinfeld_characters_and_culture (4288 words)

	SEINFELD : Encyclopedia Entry
		Seinfeld is an Emmy Award-winning sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, running a total of nine seasons.
		Seinfeld was largely co-written by David and Seinfeld, with later input from numerous script writers, including Larry Charles, Peter Mehlman, Gregg Kavet, Andy Robin, Carol Leifer, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer, Steve Koren, Jennifer Crittenden, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, Alec Berg and Spike Feresten.
		Jerry Seinfeld (played by Jerry Seinfeld)—Jerry is the "passive central player" in the show, a figure who is "able to observe the chaos around him but not always be a part of it." Jerry works as a comedian in the show.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Seinfeld (5207 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Press Release Archive
		Seinfeld will be available from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment in two volumes or as a deluxe holiday Gift Set (not to be "re-gifted"), which includes a limited edition script with handwritten notes from Larry David, exclusive "Monk's Diner" salt and pepper shakers and collectible playing cards.
		Seinfeld: Volume 1 includes all 18 episodes of seasons one and two on four discs and Seinfeld: Volume 2, also on four discs, TV Guide ranked Seinfeld #1 on its recent list of the "50 Greatest Shows of All Time." includes all 22 episodes from season three.
		Seinfeld changed the landscape of TV forever, leaving the air in 1998 as the number one Nielsen-rated show in both comedy and drama.
	www.dvdfile.com /news/web_wire/press_release/titles/seinfeld.html (1096 words)

	TheoCenTriC: Seinfeld's Final Episode
		As the parade of shattered and devastated victims to the New York Fours' heartless escapades reaffirms again and again their twisted character and overall lack of concern, we slowly come to the realization that the characters we have grown to love have been and continue to be unworthy of our love.
		The sad reality is that the Seinfeld gang equally had nothing to say, but they are quite comfortable with this, revealing their emptiness and soullessness -- and perhaps ours as well.
		In their final scene, the Seinfeld gang is trapped as well, but it is more of an inconvenience to their trivial pursuits, rather than a cause for anguish to their human souls.
	www.theocentric.com /culture/arts/seinfelds_final_episode.html (1497 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Seinfeld
		Like Benny and Burns, Seinfeld retained the privilege of walking back and forth across a metaphoric proscenium, speaking to the audience presentationally (i.e., in the second person) as a standup comic in a nightclub, and representationally (in the actions of a third person).
		In this way, Seinfeld shares more with the early fiction of Phillip Roth (especially Good-bye, Columbus, and Portnoy's Complaint) than with the Jewish-American characters that can be found in such sitcoms as The Goldbergs, Briget Loves Bernie, and Rhoda.
		But somehow, like the early Roth characters (especially the title character "Eli the Fanatic"), Jerry cannot help but be heir to the legacy of the Diaspora.
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	Seinfeld Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		'''''Seinfeld''''' is a television Situation comedysitcom, considered to be one of the most popular and influential of the 1990s in the United StatesU.S., to the point where it is often cited as epitomizing the self-obsessed and ironic culture of the decade.
		The show stars Jerry Seinfeld playing a character named after and based largely on himself, and is set predominantly in an apartment block in Manhattan's Upper West Side, New York CityNew York.
		In the United KingdomUK ''Seinfeld'' was screened on BBC TWO, usually at around 11:30 PM.
	www.echostatic.com /Seinfeld.html (2289 words)

	EW ONLINE - The Seinfeld Chronicles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		NBC originally passed on Seinfeld after test audiences deemed the 1989 pilot episode "weak." It only lives thanks to Rick Ludwin, NBC senior VP of specials and late night, whose faith was so strong he gave of his own budget to create four more episodes, which aired in the summer of '90.
		By January 1991, Seinfeld was a mid-season replacement, inaugurating an uninterrupted six-year run that culminated in its current Must See Thursday slot.
		Seinfeld concurs: "He knows what he wants and goes after it.
	www.ew.com /ew/seinfeld/intro.html (655 words)

	Yada Yada Yada, Sojourners Magazine/November-December 2001
		The characters in Seinfeld are vain, and their lives seem futile.
		Just like Qohelet, the characters in Seinfeld decide it is best to enjoy life's little pleasures, such as the humor in the nagging irritants of modern life.
		The characters in this show find their salvation in the material things and activities that make up a mundane life: a nice car, going to the movies, eating out, having coffee with friends.
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	Amazon.com: Seinfeld: Seasons 1 and 2: DVD: Tom Cherones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Seinfeld and his collaborator/co-creator/co-producer and frequent co-writer Larry David pushed TV comedy to its boundaries and then demolished them.
		Seinfeld's and David's mantra "learn nothing and be about nothing" proved that TV touching on the absurdity of real life could be funnier than TV where the characters learned valuable lessons and became better people.
		Seinfeld grew to be one of the best comedy shows on TV, but it isn't hard to understand why it originally struggled.
	www.amazon.com /Seinfeld-Seasons-1-Tom-Cherones/dp/B00005JLEX (1843 words)

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