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Writing sitcoms
Seinfeld changed the way sitcom stories are written. Until then, most sitcoms had A-story and a B-story, and a joke continued throughout the episode and told a very loose story but didn’t do much more than that.
Seinfeld didn't follow that pattern, because every character has their own storyline, all four of which converge in the final moments to create a whole that’s larger than its parts.
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The death of the multi-camera sitcom
Until then, a sitcom usually functioned like a filmed play, with multiple cameras in fixed positions capturing the action of a sitcom taping, usually in front of a live audience.
But as time passed by, Seinfeld inserted even more single-camera sequences into the action and it broke up it...
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The influential female character
Thanks to the work of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, one of the great comedic actresses of American television, Elaine could be both deeply weird and deeply feminine.
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Seinfeld
It's one of the most successful TV shows ever made. Its pilot, “The Seinfeld Chronicles,” aired in 1989, but its second episode didn’t air until May of 1990.
Jerry Seinfeld's observational humor influenced many other shows of that period and even long after. The “single people living in...
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The age of antiheroes
George, for example, is perhaps the show’s most repulsive character, but the public empathized with him because they recognize in him ...
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A changing television landscape
But at the beginning, as it struggled in the ratings, it was not only kept alive because it earned critical acclaim and awards attention, but because the people who were watching i...
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