How a real -life event forced the Seinfeld season to show for the first time early

“Seinfeld” is widely recognized as one of the largest sitting comedy ever because of his ingenuity to thinking outside his television restrictions. Whether it’s an episode that occurs in one location like “The Chinese Restaurant” or cutting TV taboos with a masturbation competition (that never even says the word), NBC’s comedy was still breaking new ground. It all makes sense when you remember that the show was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, both of them comedians throwing all these crazy ideas out there to see what sticks. Certainly “Seinfeld” had his misdemeanions along the wayBut on the whole, his lines and gags were starting to immerse yourself in the pop culture zeitgeist. It took time, however, for the show to become a water cooler phenomenon that it is actually remembering.

Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), George (Jason Alexander), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Kramer (Michael Richards) were fast becoming a sort of chaotic, but memorable, television characters that did not stick to any semblance of life lessons or moral foundation. It was truly unpredictable what kind of predictions they were going to find themselves next. By the time “Seinfeld” reached its fourth season, it was off to the races, with some regarding it as the show’s best season in general.

As well as having famous episodes like “The Bubble Boy,” season 4 pressed into a multi-chapter arcs, and the most famous Jerry and George were trying to sell their comedy pilot to NBC. But, as a clock work, they would run into some sort of road barrier in the process, leading to further delays. The end of season 3 ended with a cliff with Kramer up and leaving New York to go live in Los Angeles. “Seinfeld” would feel naked without kramer among the ensemble, so it wasn’t so much of a matter of if they would bring it back, and more matter of how. The Première of Season 4 “The Trip” was two very funny parts that Jerry and George inadvertently saw and inadvertently wrapped in Kramer being mistaken for a local serial murderer called “Smog Strangler.”

Most shows with 22 chapter pieces are often started in the fall around September to accommodate all those that go into the following year, but “The Ehip” started everyone else because World Event TV viewers have already been shipped.

May surprise you learn that NBC was not righteous “Seinfeld” home (shocking, I know), but it was also a central focus for broadcasting the Olympics. Between July 29 and August 9, the 1992 Games were held in Barcelona, ​​Spain, with all the eyes on the famous network to broadcast the week of athletics back to the United States. In a DVD feature.

“(NBC Executive) Warren Littlefield wanted to take advantage of the Olympics as a kind of platform for the show, and Larry (David) wasn’t really in a mood to do that. And he said ‘If you want to do it, go ahead and do it.’ So, once again, it gave me an opportunity to be ambitious and explore and experiment, and the idea of ​​a three -part chapter that would actually be completed with the opening of next season of great interest to me. “

“The journey” would eventually only have two parts, but it was a successful gambit nonetheless, collecting 16.3 million viewers in the process. What is most interesting about this strategy, however, was that “Part 1” was broadcast on August 12, 1992, three days after the summer Olympics have already ended. You think you would want to air your hot new property after the games end for the day to take advantage of wandering viewers. Broadcasting special episodes or upcoming pilots are all the time tactic networks left with events such as Academy Awards, Grammys and Super Bowl. We all remember “practice animals,” are we not? But in this case, everything was already over.

If anything, he at least gave an advantage to “Seinfeld” over everyone else, especially with “Part 2” flying the following week on August 19. Season 4 would continue from this point over a month later on September 16.

Each episode of “Seinfeld” is currently streaming on Netflix.