10 Best Standalone Seinfeld Episodes
3. The Parking Garage
Perhaps the most bare-boned idea for a plot in, well, any fictional medium, The Parking Garage, as the name implies, spends the duration of its runtime in a multi-storey car park; somehow creating multiple individual stories while still maintaining an overarching plot in an incredibly vacuous setting.
Not only should we praise it for its fantastic writing - which is testament to Larry David's viscerally unique writing style - but this early season episode solidified Seinfeld as a regularly viewed show from households across the land.
Even eviscerating the earlier episode - The Chinese Restaurant - which is stylistically, thematically and structurally the closest in comparison to this outing, bearing one humongous flaw which sees it beaten; a complete lack of Kramer.
Although we get a more reserved than we know Kramer (given the circumstances), the witty, razor-sharp dialogue-based gags that stretch from the beginning of the episode all the way to the end, paired with the relatability of the situation the issue is quickly forgotten about.
The episode overall still endures and translates flawlessly to the modern day, with The Parking Garage's mundane concept taking such a hollow premise and amalgamating the attention to detail in the patented Seinfeld way.