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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.

* [[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! }}

** 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.

** 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.

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