10 Best Minor Seinfeld Characters
The Show About Nothing's Best Minor Characters Ranked For Your Pleasure.
Seinfeld is the show that, along with Friends, dominated the '90s. Both shows were totally unmissable in their era, and to this day, two decades later, Seinfeld still has a huge impact on pop-culture. From memes to the reported $100 million deal that Netflix signed to have Seinfeld on their service in 2021, the show about nothing is still a massive part of the TV lexicon in the modern era.
The greatest strength that Seinfeld has was the ability every character displayed to be completely dismissive of everybody else around them outside of the group. From Jerry's numerous girlfriends to the weird and wonderful plethora of Kramer's acquaintances, Seinfeld brought characters in and out of the group's lives as much or as little as they saw fit.
As the show got bigger and bigger, the lives of Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer got more and more filled with people that wrought havoc on them for 20 or so minutes at a time.
But who were the best of them? Those small-timers that came in and left again without so much as a second thought. Well, we thought we'd rank them for you, enjoy.
10. Leslie (The Quiet Talker)
The episode 'The Puffy Shirt' has gone down in Seinfeld history as one of the best episodes the show ever made. The situation is thus, Kramer is dating a woman who talks so quietly that neither Jerry nor Elaine can hear her speak. Then, when they are all having dinner together, Jerry just agrees to something that she says that he can't hear, the next thing he knows he has been roped into wearing a weird pirate-themed puffy shirt on TV.
The reason why Leslie is so funny is that when she becomes enraged at Jerry for mocking the shirt on TV, she swears at him so loudly even those in the back row of the audience can hear it.
From then on in she is shouting and we can all hear her perfectly, and just to add one last brilliant moment onto her single appearance, she pushes George when he too mocks the shirt and he grabs a hot iron as he falls. Ruining his newly-found hand modelling career.
When the episode becomes legendary so do the people who made it so, and Leslie was definitely one of the finest one-off characters the show ever had.