How A Real-Life Event Forced A Seinfeld Season To Premiere Early

“Seinfeld” is widely recognized as one of the biggest sitcoms of all time Because your ingenuity is to think outside your TV restriction. The NBC comedy continued the episode in one place, such as “Chinese restaurant” or breaking the TV stables with a masturbation competition (which never even says the word) continued new land. Everything makes sense when you remember that the exhibition was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, both of whom were comedians throwing all these crazy ideas to see what to catch. “Seinfeld” was certainly abuse along the wayBut for the most part, its plots and gags began to penetrate the pop culture with Zeitgeist. However, it took time that the exhibition really became a water cooler phenomenon, which is remembered.

Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), George (Jason Alexander), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Kramer (Michael Richards) quickly became a chaotic but memorable television character who did not follow any life lessons or moral base of life. It was really unpredictable what anxiety they were going to get to the next. By the time “Seinfeld” had reached the fourth season, it was out of the race, Some people keep it for the best season for the exhibition.

In addition to getting a sad episode such as “The Bubble Boy”, Season 4 was really relying on the multi -part arches, and the most famous Jerry and George tried to sell their comedy pilots to the NBC. But like the clock, they get into some kind of obstacle in the process, leading to its extra delay. The end of season 3 culminated in a rock exchanger when Kramer was up and went from New York to live in Los Angeles. “Seinfeld” would seem naked without a Kramer among the band, so it was not so much if They bring her back and more how. The 4th premiere of the season’s 4 The Trip “was a hilarious two-piece, who saw Jerry and Georgia to be headed to La and accidentally wrapped in Kramer to make a local serial killer called” Smog Strangler “.

Most of the shows with 22 episodes often start in the fall in September, so that all these aircraft are going to the next year, but the “trip” got a leading trip to all other television viewers of the world event that had already been glued.

Can surprise you to learn that the NBC was not only “Seinfeld” home (shocking, I know), but it was also a central center of the Olympic expression. 29 July-9 In August 1992, the games were held in Barcelona, ​​Spain, with all eyes to the celebrated network to send a week of sports back to the United States. A DVD Featurette“Seinfeld” writer Larry Charles talks about how the NBC saw the classification as a complete opportunity to get more eyeballs on “Seinfeld” by hitting the 4 premiere of the season earlier:

“[NBC executive] Warren Littlefield wanted to take advantage of the Olympics as a kind of exhibition platform and Larry [David] It just wasn’t really the mood to do it. And he said, “If you want to do it, go ahead and do it.” So once again, it gave me the opportunity to be ambitious and explore and try, and the idea of ​​a three -part episode that is actually completed by opening the next season, really interested me. “

The “journey” would be only two parts, but it was a successful gambit that attracted 16.3 million viewers in the process. However, the most interesting thing about this strategy was that “Part 1” was presented on August 12, 1992, three days after the Summer Olympics had already ended. You think you want to express a hot new property as soon as the games had decided to take advantage of the day to use stragging viewers. Presenting special episodes or future pilots is tactical networks that use events such as Academy Awards, Grammy and Super Bowl. We all remember the “animal exercise”, right? But in this case everything was over.

If something, it gave at least “Seinfeld” an advantage over everyone else, especially when “Part 2” appeared the following week on August 19. Season 4 will continue from this point more than a month later on 16 September.

Each “Seinfeld” episode streams on Netflix.