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* [[Award Snub]]: The sets for the episode "The Parking Garage" were ironically not nominated for an Emmy for being ''too good'', so that the voters assumed the episode was filmed in a real parking garage.
** More glaringly all the actors in the cast except for Jason Alexander walked away with an Emmy at one point or another (though Jerry Seinfeld's Emmy was as a producer rather than an actor) despite George being the fan favorite character (perhaps tied with Kramer) of critics and most of the fanbase.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In the famous episode "The Contest", Jerry remarks to his mother over the phone that he's watching ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' on Nickelodeon. In 1992, when the episode aired, ''Tiny Toons'' wasn't on Nick; it didn't start airing on Nick until 1995. Additionally, it seems the writers had never seen the show, as "Wheels on the Bus" is heard on the TV. ''Tiny Toons'' never used that song in any episode, and it painted the show as something more appropriate for preschoolers.
** The series finale. Good Samaritan laws do not work that way. They're to ensure someone who helps an obviously ill or injured person cannot be sued later for unintentional injury or death. Even the compulsory good Samaritan laws only apply to people who are injured or ill, not being threatened by a mugger. If anything, the Seinfeld cast should have been commended for getting pictorial evidence of the crime. Not to mention the punishment for violating a good Samaritan law is a small fine ($100-$300) with no jail time.
*** And, regardless of how the Good Samaritan law itself is written, bringing in dozens of "character witnesses" to recount every misdeed the defendants have ever committed is still ''incredibly'' illegal under U.S. law. The writers probably knew this and simply exaggerated the idea and played it for laughs.
* [[Double Standard]]: Present in the episode "The Sniffing Accountant" in regards to "feeling someone's material" (that is, rubbing a part of someone's shirt between the thumb and index finger). When a man does it with a woman's shirt, it's [[Disproportionate Retribution|treated as the nonverbal equivalent of a death threat]] (though Elaine's boyfriend Jake Jarmel was somehow exempted from it). But when a woman does it with a man's shirt, nobody so much as raises an eyebrow.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]:
** Jerry's stand-up about suicide might have produced more grunts of disgust than laughs. Of course, YMMV here, big time.
** There's also the time he purposely bombed on stage to make things harder for Kenny Bania, the guy following him:
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'''Audience member:''' ''I'' have ''cancer''!
'''Kramer:''' ''Ooh, tough crowd.''
** On the other hand, there was some legitimate [[Black Comedy]] as well: the end of the episode "The Checks", where they lost the patient (Elaine's then-boyfriend) because one of the doctors was too busy paying attention to his favorite song ([[Irony|like the boyfriend had done]]).
** The show got in major hot water with the Puerto Rican community when "The Puerto Rican Day" featured Kramer burning the country's flag, despite it being an accident. The DVD set features interviews of everyone lamenting how the joke was blown out of proportion, and cast such a pall over the show right as it was ending.
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** The reunion episode of ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'' basically squelches the Hell theory, as we see the foursome going about their daily lives, such as they are, back in New York.
** ''[[No Exit]]'' does have four people stuck in a waiting room forever as a punishment...
* [[Fountain of Memes]]: Hoo boy... One of the biggest pre-internet sources of [[Memetic Mutation]] in the history of media: "Yada, Yada, Yada", "NO SOUP FOR YOU!", "Hello...''Newman''", "Serenity now!", "[[Not That There's Anything Wrong
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKsUlf20DF0 Relevant to your interests...]
** Also [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hE3tphkOBX4/Se4UmfE-XII/AAAAAAAAAV0/MT5L81bTID4/s400/seinfeld.jpg this.]
** [http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/entries/icons/original/000/005/498/1300044776986.jpg?1301826641 I seriously hope you guys don't do this].
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: In the episode
** Also, either this or [[Harsher in Hindsight]], in the episode "The Fire
** In a
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]:
** One of Jerry's girlfriends was played by Teri Hatcher. Giving Jerry's Superman fandom, it's rather amazing he dated [[Lois and Clark|Lois Lane.]]
** George Steinbrenner uses Kramer's idea to heat Yankee uniforms in the oven and
*** ...In six games...
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: George
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: George feeling relieved over
** [[In
* [[True Art Is Angsty]]: Vincent at the video rental store seems to believe this, much to Elaine's chagrin, as she describes his movies as "emotionally exhausting." When Kramer suggests a summer comedy instead, Vincent does not take it well.
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: In "The Junior Mint".
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** Jerry dates an artist who
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: If successful, Kramer's lawsuit against Sue Ellen Mischke in "The Caddy" would lead to a public
** [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Would your revenge against Sue Ellen have been worth it then, Elaine]]?
* [[Values Dissonance]]: In "The Secretary", George is painted in a positive light for discriminating against attractive applicants. At one point he explains to one that while she is qualified, he would not hire her based solely on her looks.
* [[Wall Banger]]: Enough examples for [[Wall Banger/Live-Action TV/Seinfeld|their own page]].
* [["Weird Al" Effect]]: People are more familiar with George's answering machine message ("Believe it or not, George isn't at home...") than ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]'', whose theme ("Believe it or not, I'm walking on air...") it was based on.
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