Seinfeld: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best
Ranking The Seasons Of A Show About Nothing..
The show famously coined as being about nothing. Well, for a show about nothing it sure has a huge legacy behind it, not to mention a massive fanbase around the world to this day.
Seinfeld is the creation of comedian Jerry Seinfeld and comedy writer Larry David; as is suggested by its title it is a show about the daily happenings of the fictional version of Jerry Seinfeld and his three best friends George, Elaine, and Kramer.
Now, on the face of it that doesn't sound very interesting, right? Wrong. Seinfeld has endured for so long for one reason, it's one of the greatest shows in history. It took mundane every day situations and twisted them back at the audience to show you just how absurd and surreal those occurrences really are.
As for the lead characters. Jerry was a more narcissistic version of the real Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza's character and neurosis was actually a based on the show's head writer Larry David, and Elaine Benes was a composite of many differing influences, including that of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Then you arrive at Kramer, a complete screwball of a character that took the audience by storm. He is mostly based on a real neighbour that Seinfeld himself once had called Kenny Kramer, though Michael Richards refused to meet him in order to not influence his own performance.
The journey and adventure the foursome go on has been widely parodied and paid homage to over the years.
So here we rank their best seasons.. about nothing.
9. Season 9
The show really lost something when Larry David called it quits after season 7, never was that more evident than in the show's final run.
There was a malaise over the actors during that season that just wasn't there before, and that tiredness permeated the whole show. Upon a re-watch, season 9 just isn't up at the level that the others were.
That being said season 9 had its good moments. Looking at episodes such as 'The Merv Griffin Show,' in which Kramer finds the set of the old Merv Griffin Show and sets it up in his apartment. As well as 'The Junk Mail', in which Kramer tries to stop his mail from being delivered completely.
It was clear that the show had come to its natural end, with Jerry Seinfeld rejecting a huge payday of over $100 million for a tenth season.
All this mixed with the polarising reception to the final episode 'The Finale' meant that Seinfeld was ready to go without a fuss from all who worked on it.