Sh*t Show Podcast: Seinfeld (1989 - 1998)

[@thehunterjk2521]

I’m one of the few people that actually likes the finale. It’s the point where you realize exactly how terrible the main characters were. The ending of each episode is played off for laughs. But in the finale, you realize that nobody else was laughing.

[@ItWasAShtShow]

Hmm. Very good point. Interesting.

[@thehunterjk2521]

@@ItWasAShtShow I also think it caused a bit of cognitive dissonance with the audience. As viewers, we recognize that these characters that we have watched for 9 seasons are truly awful people. With that said, should we want a happy ending for them?

[@matsfrommusic]

I don't thinks so. The story or idea was great but it just wasn't that funny of an episode.

[@THAMAINMAN2025]

The show was like watching paint dry. Jerry is a raging narcissist. F him and his cars.

[@tonys6620]

David (Larry) hated the filming of the pilot because he was very much against the multi-camera sitcom format. During the 80's and 90's,NBC had almost all of their sitcoms be done in a studio set with stage lighting and several cameras at a time to save time. Note how a lot of the scenes in Seinfeld are done using single cameras like close up shots or exterior shots like characters walking along the sidewalk. Not only this but when he got to make his own show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David got rid of the studio audience and 3-walled sets, and filmed it in a pseudo-documentady style using single cam.

[@MaxOakland]

I watched the Seinfeld pilot and it’s *horrible* I’m really glad, for some crazy reason, they decided to turn it into a full show

[@TechnologicallyTechnical]

Community also did a great play/parody of the clip show concept, where, whenever they'd cut to a flashback, it was something that wasn't in any previous episode, it was all newly shot stuff, which on top of being a brilliant idea, also allowed them to just do the most random, out-of-context shit with the clips.

[@somefella6989]

Harmon would later repeat this idea in Rick & Morty as a sci-fi concept, with creatures that can invade memories of your past.

[@noey4560]

On the subject of clip shows: they are the worst. But I love how Community flipped it by filling the clip show episodes with clips that never actually happened. Also, Community’s finale is my favorite series finale.

[@withalittlehelpfrom3]

Then Rick & Morty did the exact same thing. Dan Harmon is the only guy who can make a good clip show twice!

[@KittyMeow1984]

The Community clip show was so good, and I just love how it wraps up the episode by connecting all the seemingly random clips together into a semi-cohesive Winger speech.

[@noey4560]

@@KittyMeow1984 Daniel James Harmon, mang ❤️ he’s the master

[@noey4560]

Side-note: I typed “James” as a middle name randomly as a joke. But looked it up and his middle name is actually James 😂😂

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

Seinfeld didn’t even give a fuck about connecting the clips. They just had Jerry stand there and say “Alright, here’s the clips.”. Something about that seems a bit more honest to me.

[@83aber1]

"Crazy" Joe Davola can fit in as a villain on Law & Order as The Psycho Karate Clown!

[@vassa1972]

This fucking video made me rewatch Seinfeld on Netflix now you bastards LoL

[@ItWasAShtShow]

We’re paid by Vandelay Industries.

[@vassa1972]

@@ItWasAShtShow wasn't the judge's name that too on the last show?

[@watless100]

@@ItWasAShtShow 🤣

[@Howdyasdo]

It made me watch it!

[@gregor0ni927]

I thought of another good clip show, although it’s a clip show fakeout technically. Near the end of season 2 of Community, Dan Harmon fulfilled an idea he had always wanted to do which was a clip show made entirely of clips that weren’t really from previous episodes. Basically, the characters sat around reminiscing about their whacky adventures from throughout the school year, with all the clips being shot specifically for the episode and being completely new to the audience. It was so time consuming to shoot these short clips what with all the different locations and costumes that Harmon made the tag of the episode longer than usual to fill up time. Like Clint, I’ve only seen the first several seasons of It’s Always Sunny but it sounds kind of similar to their clip show in that it’s more concept than a true clip show. Great episode of the podcast as always! Sorry for another rambling comment; I’m a nerd on the internet and it’s what’s expected of me.

[@nathanparker5958]

I would love a Community episode of Sh*t show

[@gregor0ni927]

@@nathanparker5958 there’s definitely a goldmine there!

[@petewillson205]

Clerks clip show was episode #2, so all their memories could only be episode #1, of course ABC in their incident wisdom airing 6 episodes, over 3 weeks before they pulled it aired it as episode 1, so the joke was lost

[@YouMakeItHappen]

This was really the show about how a comedian gets his material. You see this connection/concept shown in the early seasons with Jerry's stand up bits. The "show about nothing" was the show the characters pitched to NBC in one episode.

[@vassa1972]

The original title was called "the stand up" before they decided on just Seinfeld which I was in my 20's when it aired and still think that it's was the best show of all time

[@TypeIIAdventures]

I love that y’all are in UT. Always fun to hear local references.

[@ItWasAShtShow]

SL,UT!

[@antenna_prolly]

33:43 - "but now that you say that..." SAME

[@pvthitch]

The second ever episode of Clerks: The Animated Series was a clip-show.

[@Wheelz_44]

I would read Clint’s Moist Chronicles 😂. Larry David was/is a mad man. Brilliant but sound’s impossible to work with. Absolutely loved this show.

[@frazzlesreviews5379]

One of my favourite examples of a behind the scenes story making it into the show is when Jason Alexander got the role of George, he didn’t know how to play it because he found the character and his actions too unrealistic. But when he asked Larry David about George during the pilot, he told him that it can’t be unrealistic because this all happened to him. After this point Alexander knew exactly how to play George… he played him as Larry David. Which is so funny, they used it when Jerry and George are making the pilot.

[@jonvia]

Here's to feeling good all the time.

[@PetProjects2011]

Watching the two different versions of "The Handicap Spot" (John Randolph in the original, Jerry Stiller in the reshoot) is weird. It's actually a great way of studying how two different actors can have two different performances, with the same scenes and dialogue.

[@manonthemoog]

Has anyone ever noticed the similarities between Seinfeld and the Jack Benny TV show? there are many. One of the reason the show's storylines are more realistic than most TV shows is that instead of being invented by TV writers, many of them actually happened. At first, they were based on things experienced by Larry or Jerry. As they hired more writers, each was encouraged to write storylines based on things that had really happened to them. One writer tells the story about how he was having a hard time getting his initial episode ideas accepted. One day he told Larry about something that had just happened to him, and Larry said, "Now THAT's an episode. Write that up."

[@andyholland2130]

False: There's three great clip show episodes: It's Always Sunny, Community, where they did flashbacks to things that never happened on screen, and Clerks cartoonm where they did it in their second episode and keep flashing back on the same clip.

[@nicklang6798]

Oh, "You can't spare three squares?" 🤣

[@christinaglahn8036]

"I can't spare a square. I have no squares to spare."

[@nicklang6798]

I feel I need coffee while listening to this 🤣

[@ItWasAShtShow]

How do you mean?

[@nicklang6798]

@@ItWasAShtShow I remember Kramer drinking lots of coffee and he was shaking and walking down the street saying "need coffee" he had too much

[@sugarpuddin]

It had to be so easy to write the episodes because that stuff really does happen in NYC!

[@richardanzlovar5372]

To the cats that run this channel; like+new subscriber

[@Jefemcownage]

Can you do a 25 minute version as well? Those are really good.

[@alwaysxnever]

This is one of those shows I rolled with as I didn't have much I could watch in my old tv in the pre-streaming days. That finale made me realize I really didn't like the characters and felt better about not really liking the show. To this day I don't lile movies/shows with shitty/unlikeable people and watching anything I don't like past an episode.

[@zachandrews4035]

I’ll maintain that Puerto Rican Day Parade should’ve been the series finale.

[@Mistahhuntah]

The Six Feet Under finale is definitely the best, same with the Always Sunny clip show definitely the best.

[@Tylerm05]

There was an alternate ending of the finale that was filmed where the gang was deemed innocent, I’m surprised that wasn’t brought up in the podcast.

[@mirrankei]

Can't believe this Community's clip show episode erasure. It's perfect.

[@nicklang6798]

I've been watching this on nickatnite. I forgot how funny they are 🤣

[@adriangaushausindahaus20]

It was the 'Mets' that blew it ... I know it's nitpicky but it jumped out at me.

[@turdferguson353]

Seinfeld is quite meta, and some of that makes its way into Curb too

[@Rykiz_Vidz]

Hey hey you mentioned Delaware! I'm from there!

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

I kind of wish it were called “The Seinfeld Chronicles”. It would be really funny if the title sounded all epic, but it was just two guys complaining about shit.

[@conradsieber7883]

Why is it so funny just hearing a reference to an episode or one line?

[@btw_bp3541]

Community's clips shows are greaaat

[@nicklang6798]

"it wasn't a pick" 🤣

[@Jallandhara]

Hello, new favorite thing!

[@ItWasAShtShow]

Hello new friend!

[@vassa1972]

Love the show

[@linkdk59]

South Park has a similar fake clip show episode, City on the Edge of Forever, 7th episode of season 2 (1998).

[@LanceCorporal_Waffles]

3:40 Impressive. Lol!

[@bryanorourke6898]

Best show of all time

[@lukepurser3432]

The only other clip show I can think of that's great is clerks animated that did a clip show on the second episode.

[@vassa1972]

Pete's luncheon was on the pilot

[@radhiadeedou8286]

I think the real Kramer got a thousand $, not a bunch of money

[@conradsieber7883]

It scares me that when you said 'the waiting for a table in a Chinese restaurant episode' I immediately knew the plot: "she called for me he said Cartwright. Who's Cartwright? I'm Cartwright. You're not Cartwright. I KNOW IM NOT CARTWRIGHT!"

[@conradsieber7883]

I stopped short...

[@conradsieber7883]

Serenity Now Serenity Now Serenity Now

[@allenanderson4911]

Elaine was old hat by the time Seinfeld aired... that ain't nothing new. In fact Alice always stood up for herself against Ralph, and didn't cave in to his bluster. MASH had Margaret, an officer who took zero crap from men. The eighties had Cagney and Lacey, and Murphy freaking Brown. Have you ever seen the show Dallas? 90's Captain Jainway USS Enterprise. Cosby show, female lawyer, respect from everyone. I could go on and on with examples of strong female leads through the decades, equals to men. Ripley in Aliens 1979. Hill Street Blues had a female beat cop, tough woman. Hollywood has been routinely scripting realistic, strong women since the 70's...longer than you've been alive kid. You would have to reference Mary Tyler Moore to find a groundbreaking "Elaine" character. Maude was no pushover either, badass. You don't know what you're talking about, and I'm only 6 minutes in.

[@ItWasAShtShow]

Cool. Thanks for the view!

[@calisongbird]

@@ItWasAShtShow 😂😂👍🏼

[@Big_baasman]

Idk if you read old video comments, but I hope you saw the "nothing, forever" stream or heard about it. AI generated Seinfeld? It will never end! (Until twitch bans it for an off colored remark)

[@YerpDerp17]

It was extremely underwhelming. lol

[@latefortheskys]

Yeah in the 80s having a woman as a main character was very far in between

[@trekkiejunk]

I really wish that one guy didn't vocal fry his entire narration. He keeps dropping his voice low and croaking his way through the words, i can barely hear it. Is he an annoyed 14 year old girl from the Valley?

[@YerpDerp17]

And are you a 50 yr old Karen? No one made you listen/watch. I will never understand the current victim complex where we complain about things we CHOOSE to engage with. Just don't watch. No one else in this comment section is complaining, which should be a sign that you're over exaggerating. Grow up. Weirdo.

[@frankwatts3374]

Please get your facts right! George Steinbrenner wasn't a NY Yankee baseball manager he was the owner of the NY Yankees. and i'm a guy from Boston who had to move to NY to get a job in june 1977 that'd be the best 7 years of my life!

[@mattstone8878]

This entire episode gets a thumbs down because one of you had to make a polarizing political statement. 😂

[@ItWasAShtShow]

A) This is why audience review scores are pointless. One comment makes 59 minutes bad? Triggered much? B) So what?

[@actionhero1983]

I know I'm not the only one who is annoyed by that Podcaster's voice who sounds like he's running out of breathe. 🙄

[@nickkjamess9212]

nobody wants to hear your BS politics.

[@ItWasAShtShow]

Nobody wants to read your BS comments.