Seinfeld - The Breakthrough Season 

Only show you can watch each episode 5 times without losing interest and still laughing

“Why am I watching it?” “Because it’s on tv!” Larry David predicted future television

Every single episode of season 4 except for one episode is a masterpiece. No television season will ever be as perfect as season 4 of Seinfeld.

To this day, if I can't find my wallet, I yell, "my wallet's gone! My wallet's gone!"

“We were all worried about wether the show was going to make it” Jerry and Larry: we never gave a shit

"I come home and find my son treating his body like it's an amusement park" is one of those lines that's only funny when someone says it in a funny way.

I love how Jason says how wrong he was. Shows character.

Larry David is a legend, i dont know how he STILL manages to come up with some of the funniest premises and scenarios. there are times where i watch curb and you think you know where things are going and BAM it does a complete 180 and it all manages to come full circle in a Houdini kind of way

I remember back in about 1992 it was shown on Australian tv at about 10.30 pm in some random timeslot and I saw the episode where they got stuck in a car park and they couldn't find their car and Elaine was yelling abuse at everyone and it was one of the funniest things id seen. Soon after it was in the prime time slot of 7.30 pm on a Thursday and everyone was watching it.

absolutely positively the most original sitcom ever

I must say, if it's one thing I love about 'Seinfeld' is its consistency. Hands down. Top to bottom.

In my mind the 4th season is where the show gets really good. But gosh darn i still love the first 3 seasons too

The best sitcom ever period

"you saying you wanna piece of me?" Frank costanza

The guy who plays Kramer takes the box of raisins at the audition and George is incensed...classic!

" No hugging, no learning," Words to live by.

Quite possibly the most solid television ever produced. Excellent arc, every episode was strong on its own as well. The acting and comedic timing was perfect.

I was hooked on the show from the very first full season. I even remember watching the pilot episodes that happened over the summer a whole year earlier. I thought the show was smart and funny from the get-go. The dialogue between the 4 main characters was fluid and never seemed forced. The way the lines were delivered along with their facial expressions and body language just worked in a way not really seen before in sitcoms.

Season 4 is DEFINITELY the turning point. They took it to another level with so many of the classics in that season

The best serie of the word !! CONGRATULATIONS, JERRY AND ALL TEAM !!! Sorry my english.... Fábio BRASIL.

It took 4 years (!) for the show to pick up?? Never knew this, i thought it was an instant success. There´s no show quite like this, ever.

The 39 second montage from 7:10 is amazing. _All that brilliance_ in one season of a TV sitcom. It makes you realize all over again that yes, eventually it would catch on, as Larry Miller said.

While I am glad I can watch Seinfeld in it's entirety. I do have to admit, it would've been cool to be around as it was airing. Like when they talk about how "The Contest" was on everyone's mind the next morning, it would've been cool to experience that feeling with other viewers!

Nobody can make a show like seinfeld ..its best ...the best show ever...only humour no emotion no love triangle nothing ...just pure comedy

The casting for that arc was genius as well! That helped to make it funny!

It's incredible that even the co-writer/ creator of the show is a character all his own, and is just as funny, if not funnier than the rest. Then gets his own show which becomes iconic in itself.

This show was like... Discovering Plutonium.. BY ACCIDENT!!

I’ve always thought of it as a show about YOU! Especially with those “Seinfeld moments” in real life, the show seems to be trying to portray the viewer’s life in a comedic way. Genius

It's 2019 and still is the best sitcom ever period

Ohhhh, gosh....my youth! I was 18 years old, only a few months out of high school when Season 1 premiered sometime in 1990 or 1991, I think. Just sheer dumb luck that I stumbled onto episode three one night but I was INSTANTLY hooked and never looked back. I searched for it every week for a YEAR before it was on again and I made it a point to tell everyone I knew about it and how great it was but it would be another two years -- fall of 1993 while I was at college in Virginia -- before I finally got my three roommates totally into it as well. I was a part of that original audience that "got it" right from the beginning. And it felt sooooo good. And I can remember that Season 5 explosion, too! By 1995-96, EVERYONE was watching it. If you weren't, you were a total loser with NO freaking life man. Best TV show ever made. Even better than I ❤️ Lucy. Which is saying something. There'll never be anything else like it again. What a marvelous time it was to be under 30!!!

I've been watching sitcoms since "I Love Lucy" in the '50s. I later thought nothing could ever be better than "The Dick Van Dyke Show" in the mid-'60s, then "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in the '70s, then "Cheers" in the '80s, but it's now 2020 and there hasn't been anything as good or better than "Seinfeld" since.

When Jerry and George are in the meeting room at NBC you can see the Empire State building in the background and Rockafeller center would be about that same distance away. Nice little touch they did there to be extra accurate 👌

The plane is going down George: I cheated in the contest Jerry: Why?? George: Because I’m a cheater!!

71 people are not Masters of their Domain.

No ones talking about Cheers. For years people will be talking about Seinfeld.

Season 4 of Seinfeld is one of the greatest seasons of a sitcom ever made. It's perfect.

My son was born that year in 1992 and watches the reruns on HULU all day long. LOVES IT

At one stage in my life I was George Costanza ... 'worlds colliding !!!' ... getting engaged etc ... at the age of 54 I look back and appreciate this piece of TV artistry more than ever :)

Season 4 was definitely better than the previous seasons, but season 5 is when I truly started enjoying the writing.

Even all these years later, I'm still noticing "Seinfeld Moments" in my own life.

Love it. No comedies are made like this anymore. Total Classic

Seinfeld was my favourite show. Elaine and Kramer were my favourite characters. I wish the show lasted longer so we could see their lives continue and move forward it was a really unique comedy and interesting show. Way better then other comedy shows.

What comedic genius it took in Larry and Jerry to come up with the idea to do the arc...I luved it...the show imitating the show which was real but the arc wasn't which led to the not real arc being a real hit... :)

Seinfeld moments . So true. They somehow covered every thing that’s happened in my life so far. Most recently i had my first quiet talker gf. And i actually just nodded and agreed with her sometimes not knowing what she said 😂

To me, this 4th Season was absolutely the peak season of the show. Every episode was an absolute home run. After this season, the show went from #40 to #1 or 2 for the rest of its run.

This is gold, Jerry. *Gold!*

George Costanza prophesied reality shows, I would reckon.....it's like life

I watched Seinfeld from early on. Not quite the beginning but not too far in. I was obsessed with it. When the network started moving it around to different nights and times I remember thinking, “Well that’s the kiss of death. Why don’t more people watch this? It’s really funny.” That was, of course, right before the move to Thursday night and the rest is, as they say, history.

What a time! New Seinfeld and Friends episodes every week!

Thanks. I have seen this for the first time. Watched every episode on TV. One of my all time favorite shows.

Amazing sitcom. I was a teenager and young adult in the 1990's, and it was something I could watch with my parents and we both found it funny. It crossed generations.

A show being a breakthrough in it's 4th season is something that probably can't happen today. No way does a network give a show that much time to build an audience anymore.

Great video! This was the season where I started watching (The Pitch was the very first episode I saw, which was good timing). The energy and confidence of the characters and the writing really shone through. Going back to watch previous seasons, I enjoyed those too, but this season was my favorite. It's not just about the NBC pilot arc that made it unique, but all of the other ones that complete that season (The Contest, The Junior Mint, The Bubble Boy, The Cheever Letters, The Implant, The Handicap Spot, The Pick, The Outing, etc.). For me, it's the strongest season, and certainly the one that made Seinfeld a way of life for me during my college years. My friends and I spoke in quotes, almost entirely from this season. Probably still unconsciously do to this day! I feel like the characters became less likable in future seasons, and the cast had that self-aware "we know we're in a hit show" thing going, which gave it a different, less jovial vibe. Maybe that's just a natural part of something becoming wildly popular though.

That's what made the show so brilliant and they even managed to get some oral sex humor in there too with the Saxophone player. The most adult humor made appropriate for tv and I haven't seen anything to that level of genius yet.

Still actually laugh at the reruns/clips etc. even though I've seen them many times I don't say, "oh, hear comes that bit again", it's just as enjoyable as the first time around........maybe better!

Seinfeld > Friends

thank you, thank you so much! i have so many people i wanna thank i don't wanna forget anyone

"What writer... were talking about a sitcom"... boy never has that been more true.

They were right to focus on "The Contest". That was the show that truly convinced me about Seinfeld. I continue to think that it is the funniest episode ever aired on a network sitcom.

To me two little parts are best remembered; His standup routine and the audio bass riff.

It's gonna catch on was a true concept. I remember not really being into Seinfeld while friends of mine were into it. I remember the Kramer scenes where he would come crashing and sliding onto the set then one night I thought everyone was into it I'd better check it out and BINGO I was hooked.

Thanks ❤ my favorite show of all time

Seinfeld, the TV show: The greatest continuously producing oil well in the history of entertainment.

I haven’t seen the two final episodes of Seinfeld... I think the magic will go away 😔

The reason is that the humor was so ahead of its time. People dint get it back then, except a small number. Im happy to be one of the original fans!

"The Contest" kids these days will NEVER understand how taboo that was in the 90's!!

It's just so darn good to see good things happen to people that...good.

He's right. I worked in a factory and EVERYBODY was talking about the masturbation episode the next day. There was no office and no water cooler - It was a factory. Filled with hard scrabble factory type guys. Still, EVERYBODY was talking about it around the coffee machine and everywhere else. Most crazy episode of network TV anybody had ever seen, even surpassing the Chinese restaurant. In my memory after that, Seinfeld became required viewing.

Haha that ladies outburst at 16:51 . . .uh awkward! I think she thought Jerry was singling her out for a moment.

"All right everybody just go long" - and Kramer runs into the door! LOL

Love these videos

one of the few TV shows that gets better with age

Right now we have two long form comedy writers, the D'Agostino Brothers, who are on their verge of breaking through big time. Critics reviews of their novels are stunning so far: "NASA's 1st Mission to Mars - for What?!" "Back to Sovietsky," "Too Good For The Hood." And then there is "Beasts Shall Reign Over the Earth," number one on Amazon's Free Ebooks list, Sept 17. Can't wait to see their first movie.

"Seinfeld" did not start off as a show about nothing. The concept behind it initially was to display how stand-up comedians come up with their material. That concept was later abandoned, and then it became the show about nothing it is now synonymous for.

Season 4 will always be the best season in my opinion, it's a true masterpiece. 👍

There will never be a bitter sitcom. Seinfeld transcends comedy!

I agree that Season 4 was a real breakthrough. To be honest, the first two seasons of Seinfeld I found to be hit or miss with the third season starting to become more consistently funny. The seasons 4-6 is just one classic episode after another. 7-9 I felt were still fairly strong by there was a slight decline with each one.

Kramer is the best sitcom character ever

These pretzels are making me thirsty!

Todavía me mato de la risa con Seinfeld. Han pasado tantos años y aún está tan vigente .además las situaciones son perfectamente chilenas o más bien se pueden dar en cualquier grupo humano.

When Rob Reiner shows up at 17:29, I can't help but think, "What is Marty DiBergi doing on a Seinfeld video?"

The other day at work I yelled out “these pretzels are making me thirsty” all the Millennials looked at me and told me to go drink some water 🤦‍♂️

The whole "show about nothing" thing is so legendary that when I saw that Warren Littlefield was an exec producer on Fargo, my mind immediately produced an image of Bob Balaban. Seinfeld is now part of the popular culture, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Anytime we can’t sell something at work we call it a muffin stump. Seinfeld is awesome.

Wonder if anyone was enough of a visionary to have videotaped these early years? It would be fascinating to find those advertisers that stayed on board..

Funniest sitcom in history

really good show

Shows about human foibles, done well, will always sell. And they will prove to be timeless. Because human foibles are timeless.

fred norris...you missed the best years.

I miss them

I can watch Seinfeld all day. I can also watch people talking about Seinfeld all day!

I personally feel like the real breakthrough seasons were 5 and 6, not 4. Season 4 really only had a small handful of good episodes towards the end, but Seasons 5 and 6 were when the show really started to come alive. Season 5 expanded the writing team beyond Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld (even though they would write the final draft of each script), and the addition of new writers helped breathe some new, fresh blood to the show. Season 6 is when the budget increased, and the production values improved greatly: we had the addition of the New York Street set, and the format of the show really expanded to where it broke beyond the confines of your traditional multi-camera sitcom that plays out like a televisual stage play - it almost felt like a hybrid of a multi-cam sitcom and a more cinematic single-cam sitcom.

Best comedy ever on tv..

Imagine any of this today, law suits all over he place... I love this show.

i watched seinfeld from the beginning. told my friends about it but they didn't care. as fate would have it, my brother watched it for the first time and it was the contest. i couldn't watch that night. my brother loved it and then all my friends started watching it. snowballed from there.

they are the beatles of comedy

The glasses guy he says the show is about nothing to in NBC office is Frank Buffet.

*Wished you uploaded more*

It was a torch passing moment at the time

Substitute Rush for Seinfeld...record executives for TV executives...Thursday night for 2112 Will quality like this ever have a chance to rise again in our increasingly milquetoast pop culture?