by Richard Serra

Created on: December 10, 2009

After years of never watching the Seinfeld series, a few friends dropped by, and after a while, we decided to watch some TV. I had my favorite show on at the time, when one of my friends asked if I would turn on Seinfeld. I said no way, I'm watching my favorite show, and besides, I'm not all that interested in a boring show.

Boring!? said one of my friends, "are you nuts?" I said, sorry, I just can't seem to get a handle on the name of the show, it just seems like it would be something I wouldn't care to watch. They insisted I try it sometime, but at the time, I wasn't going to miss my show I waited all week to watch. Besides, they just dropped by unannounced, and I hadn't planned on doing anything but watch my show.

As time went on, more and more requests for watching the show cropped up, and there was also a lot of chatter about the show no matter where I went. I thought to myself, how in the world does a dry stand up comic rate so high with so many people. One night I was about to find out as a friend popped in that I hadn't seen in a while, and he asked if we could watch the show.

Well, my favorite show was off the air for the season, and I thought why not. It was within five minutes or so, when I see Michael Richards pop in the door as he does, and things began to get funny. After ten minutes, I was laughing so hard my sides hurt. How could I have passed up a number of years of one of the greatest comedy shows of the century.

These guys were brilliant. They all had the perfect part that they played, and together, it was a harmonious group of laugh producing idiots that came across the air waves. I was a little sad that I never allowed myself the opportunity to at least check it out. But sometimes, I can develop a mental block to certain kinds of entertainment without ever having tried viewing the shows.

I thought to myself that here is one of the greatest comedy shows ever, and I missed the first few years of it, and thought that once the series is over, I'll never get to see what I missed. Thank God for re runs. I must have watched every show from the first to the last at least a dozen times, and I still laugh myself silly even though I know every single line, or every single scene that would come up.

Even the Sopranos, which I loved, and was devastated to see it end, was never in my mind to watch re runs. As good as it was, it just didn't measure up to how much enjoyment watching the Seinfeld series produced over and over again. For a show to have so many fans, and to have them year after year, many years after the show ended, is just not imaginable.

The show was a work of magic, and if anyone knows Larry David, they would know that he is the genius behind the show as he was in very early comedy shows. With a cast like Seinfeld, and the likes of Larry David behind the show, it was an instant winner, and will probably keep airing for years to come.

Its comforting to know that the programers know how much fan fare the show gets, and how important it is to keep the show in re runs for as long as there are viewers who would watch, and we all know there is never a shortage of loyal fans. To sum up the show, well, fantastic is mild, but for lack of a better word, that would be about the best way to describe the show.

Those who watch it regularly know exactly what I'm talking about, and there is no need for further input from me about it as I'm sure there is nothing more I could add to how good the show really is.

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