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DVD Seinfeld - Season 4
It's hard to believe, but for the first three seasons nobody really knew that Seinfeld was about, well, you know. It wasn't until season 4--unleashed here in a four-disc set that's equal in scope, quality, and quantity of bonus material to its predecessors--that the show really became something. In a series which can claim every installment as classic, the two-parter on disc 1 titled "The Pitch/The Ticket" truly stands out as a defining episode and, in retrospect, marked Seinfeld 4 as the breakthrough season. It's the one where (fake) NBC executives express their interest in working with Jerry Seinfeld on a TV show, then moves to the who's-on-first shtick of George successfully pitching Jerry on creating "a show about nothing." Scattered throughout the discs in commentaries by cast and creators and in numerous "Inside Look" documentaries, nearly everyone expresses some anxiety about the season having a story "arc" depicting Jerry and his "real" life becoming a sitcom. The show had been only marginally successful up to that point anyway, and with the edict, "no hugging, no learning," still in place, maybe messing with nothing was a bad idea. What makes the arc so arch is the self-reflexive way it details the reality of Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David coming up with the concept and pitching it to (real) NBC executives as a show that really was about, well, you know. In one of the many informally informative interview segments, Jerry remembers hitting a stride during this time when a lot of crazy ideas started to make sense. "Everything was just a wild guess," he says, "and it takes a while to get confident that you're guessing pretty good. I think sometime in season 4 we realized we were guessing pretty good." Oh, that we could all be so good at nothing.
Season 4 also gave us the episodes "The Bubble Boy" ("He lives in a bubble!"), "The Pick" ("There was no pick!"), and, perhaps most memorably, "The Contest." Recalling how nervous he thought NBC might be about a show based on how long a person can remain--ahem--master of his domain, Larry David says that he kept the idea hidden for a long time. He may have had NBC sweating, but the episode goes by without anyone uttering the word that it's really about. The curmudgeonly David also observes that another famous season 4 episode, "The Outing," only made it on the air due to a network "note" about making sure it wouldn't be offensive to homosexuals. Hence we have the addition of another standard to the Seinfeld lexicon of American pop culture: "Not that there's anything wrong with that!" Not only wasn't there anything wrong with it, the episode won a GLAAD Media Award. Season 4 also brought Seinfeldits first Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. Stay tuned for season 5 (and a move to the coveted Thursday-at-9 slot) when the volcano we now know was always brewing really blew its comedic top. --Ted Fry
I think this is probably the show's best work. So many classic episodes. The actors were definitely comfortable with each other by now, but they were still fresh. I tend to think people who buy TV series on DVD start at season one and buy each one, so don't stop at three. If you don't buy in order (which isn't really necessary for Seinfeld because it has no plot), season four might be a good place to start.
Seinfeld at its creative peak
Seinfeld - Season 4 saw the sitcom grow from cult hit to national phenomenon. While a time switch to Thursday nights at 9:30 pm following the excellent sitcom, Cheers, certainly helped bring the show to a new audience, it was the writing and the rapport of the characters that had the masses coming back every week. Many fans, including Jerry Seinfeld himself, call this the show's best season and it's hard to argue this since every episode was so strong. The characters also developed to fruition as George became the ultimate neurotic while Kramer's popularity led to wild ovations upon his entrances. And like Season 3, many of the off the wall storylines came from the writers' experiences.
Disc 1 primarily centers around the "Jerry" series that George and Jerry were creating based on their lives that ironically mirrored the ones they played on TV. The entire disc is very funny with the "The Pitch/The Ticket", which features another hilarious scene involving Newman and Kramer, this time in a courtroom, being a classic. "The Watch" and "The Wallet", which feature visits from both Helen and Morty Seinfeld as well as Uncle Leo, are also very good. Like Season 3, Disc 2 is flawless. "The Bubble Boy", "The Virgin", "The Cheever Letters", and "The Contest" are all classic episodes. In fact, "The Contest", arguably the finest Seinfeld episode, broke down walls with its subject matter (which you all know unless you live in a cave), and thus expanded the boundaries of television during the politically correct `90s. Disc 3 is also stellar as "The Pick", "The Visa", "The Shoes", and "The Outing", which gave us the catchphrase `Not that there's anything wrong with that', are all classics. Disc 4 is top notch with the best episodes being "The Implant", which spawned another catchphrase, `They're real and they're spectacular', "The Junior Mint", "The Old Man", and the two-part season finale, "The Pilot", that shows the Jerry show finally seeing the light of day, one of the rare times the sitcom showed the continuity that is common in television. And like the other volumes, the special features section which contains inside looks, bloopers, deleted scenes, commentaries, and Notes About Nothing, is top notch. All told, Season 4 is Seinfeld at its creative peak and this would lead to the show's wild popularity for the rest of its run. Highly recommended.
Why can't there be more tv like this?!!!
The Bubble Boy! How brilliant! Forget making him sympathetic, but an angry, bitter bubble boy - sort of like some amazon reviewers. So clever, so funny! And The Contest! Seinfeld execs had a lot of guts to air this one but it was AN INSTANT CLASSIC! And the ending: Marla the virgin ends up with JFK. "Oh, John, that was wonderful." HILARIOUS! And of course Seinfeld taking the ulimate step of spoofing itself with The NBC pitch! So much fun! So funny! Buy this one right away!
The fifth season of Seinfeld is without a doubt the series' best. By their fifth year, the Seinfeld gang had ironed out the bumps from the first two seasons, further developing characters. The loyal fan base that had been accumulating over the years was now more or less the entire nation’s viewing audience. The pressure was on to give this new, mega fan base a high dose of their unique, misanthropic comedy, and Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), George (Jason Alexander), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Kramer (Michael Richards) delivered in spades. Yes, other seasons may have funnier individual episodes, but as a whole season five consistently delivers the goods, including many of the show's all-time classic episodes. In the season opener, Jerry discovers the secret, sexual... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Tom Cherones DVD Release Date: Released the 22 November 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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By Season Six, the Seinfeld crew had their formula and character development down pat making it easy to churn out one classic episode after another. Not only do we learn a lot about Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), George (Jason Alexander), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Kramer (Michael Richards) in Season Six, but we also learn wealth of life lessons. For instance, just because you wear a toupee doesn’t mean you won't be rejected by bald women ("The Beard"). If you think everyone is giving you the finger, they probably are ("The Pledge Drive"). As ridicurous as is sounds, just because a woman has a Chinese name doesn't make her Chinese ("The Chinese Woman"). Eating out of trash is AOK, as long as your girlfriend's mother doesn't catch you ("The Gymnast"). If you try to make the... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Tom Cherones DVD Release Date: Released the 22 November 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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For Seinfeld, the third season's--for want of a better word--the charm. The show has found its misanthropic voice (by season's end, a fed-up Elaine tells herself, "I gotta get some new friends"), the ensemble has a firmer grasp of their characters, and the writers rise to the occasion with episodes that have entered the Seinfeld pantheon, including the Seinfeld equivalent of a Very Special Episode, "The Boyfriend," with Keith Hernandez and the J.F.K. parody, "The Library," featuring Philip Baker Hall channeling Jack Webb as library bookhound Bookman, "The Pez Dispenser," and "The Keys," with an L.A.-bound Kramer winding up on Murphy Brown. Michael Richards, especially, comes into his own this season as Kramer. The first two seasons built up the mystique... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Tom Cherones DVD Release Date: Released the 23 November 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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im a hug fan of the show... :-) me and my brother watch is all the time... :P such a classic series thayt we all wished never ended right?... realy fun idea the put a mini shirt with it... too bad no real size... lol. five stars and its deserves every one of them :) More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jerry Seinfeld DVD Release Date: 22 November 2005
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Nothing? Seinfeld is a show about everything! It's about the appeal of the posse and coma etiquette. It's about importing and exporting. It's about sneaking a peek, and seeing the baby. It's about this, that, and the other. TV Guide ranked Seinfeld the best TV series of all time. It has become the master of its syndication domain. Its most devoted fans can quote each episode chapter and verse; their absorption of each scene's minutiae anything but a trivial pursuit. With such fervent devotion to the show, and demand for its DVD release, series creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David could have easily just OK'd a bare-bones set containing nothing but the episodes. Not that there would have been anything wrong with that, but instead, the creative team came together to... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Tom Cherones DVD Release Date: Released the 23 November 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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