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* [[Acting for Two]]: Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza, and the implied relative Giuseppe in "The Doll", poorly disguised by Seinfeld standards, even compared to Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander playing their characters in high school in "The Library".
* [[Actor Allusion]]: In the ''[[JFK]]'' parody in "The Boyfriend," Newman replicates his position standing in front of Kramer, just as Wayne Knight did in the movie standing in for John Connally in the courtroom demonstration of the "magic bullet" theory.
** A picture of a dinosaur appears in Newman's apartment, referencing Knight's role in ''[[Jurassic Park]]''.
* [[The Danza]]: Jerry Seinfeld's character is named... "Jerry Seinfeld".
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** The project began as just a 90 minute special about a day in Jerry's life, and how it inspires his stand-up material that night. Jerry and Larry David couldn't quite stretch the script to fill the 90 minutes, so they reduced in down to half an hour as a series pilot. As Jerry would later say, "We couldn't make 90 minutes, so we made 90 hours."
** Elaine's father was intended to be a recurring character, but then they hired the notoriously ill-tempered and intimidating Laurence Tierney to play him, and after filming the episode, no one wanted to work with him again.
** An episode called "The Bet" was scripted but never produced. When the script, whose plot revolved around Elaine buying a gun, reached the table read stage, it came off as unfunny and unnecessarily dark. Pretty much everyone present realized on the spot that the concept wouldn't work, so the entire script was shelved.
*** "The Bet" lives on as an Internet urban legend in the form of a "creepypasta" story alleging the episode was filmed and all but one copy destroyed. Naturally, the episode supposedly contains disturbing and supernatural phenomena happening to the actors and crew.
* [[Write What You Know]]: Larry David based the George character off of himself, and many of the plotlines allegedly were based on real life experiences he had, and how he reacted to them.
{{quote|(paraphrasing) ''Jason Alexander'': This is ridiculous. This could never happen to someone, and even if it did, no one would react that way.
''Larry David'': What are you talking about? It happened to me, and that's exactly how I reacted! }}
** Kramer was based on David's neighbor Kenny Kramer.
*** This was even parodied in the series: In "The Muffin Tops", Kramer starts his own bus tour, proclaiming himself to be the ''real'' J. Peterman (to differentiate himself from the anecdotes he supplied to J. Peterman's autobiography). This mirrors real life, as Kenny Kramer has run Kramer's Reality Tour and Kramer's Reality Road Show, the gimmick being that he's the ''real life'' Kramer.
** In addition, Bob Balaban's recurring role of Russell Dalrymple, the fictitious president of NBC who works with Jerry and George on a television pilot and later becomes Elaine's love interest, was modeled on then NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield, who had allowed David and Seinfeld to produce the ''Seinfeld'' pilot. Balaban later went on to play Littlefield outright in the 1996 film ''The Late Shift'', a dramatization of the struggles that occurred at NBC when Littlefield selected Jay Leno to replace Johnny Carson on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'', instead of [[David Letterman]].
** The famous Soup Nazi was based on a real soup kitchen owner in New York. He did not take it well, and banned the entire cast and crew of the show from ever coming to his kitchen.
* [[Written by Cast Member]]: Jerry Seinfeld co-wrote at least one (and usually more than one, especially in the early years) episode in all but the last two seasons.
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