I have never seen Seinfeld

first couple of seasons are weak because he's trying to find out how the show works but it is iimportant because later on the show sort of satirizes itself with the whole "seinfeld within seinfeld" plot line.

you will be annoyed with how they handle conversation and jerry is the worst character.

Everybody knows you're supposed to skip the first two seasons

The show's initial seasons are considerably weaker than what comes after because the show was still developing, and the characters's personalities had yet to really develop. Plus you had things like the "Jerry + Elaine becoming friends with benefits" scenarios that went absolutely nowhere. Plus Jerry gets too much focus early on and he's obviously not the comedic or acting highlight of the show (and the show actually does kind of address this).

But if you really want to get the full experience out of Seinfeld and to get a grasp on just how influential it was, and how good it is, watching the first seasons is kind of essential to see how the show develops.

Seinfeld set the pattern for sitcoms to come and it can still be considered one of the greatest of all time. You may be thrown off by "cliches" and humor that may strike you as outdated, but you really do have to understand that if those things strike you as "done before", it's only because Seinfeld did them first.

Viewing art on any scale in the context of the era it came out is crucial and given what Seinfeld was competing against and what came before it, the show was a monolith of innovation, and it broke quite a few molds (several of which are still followed to this day).

Basically, you can skip the seasons and just pick any episode if you want, but if you really want to appreciate Seinfeld, ignore the memes, watch all the seasons (it's not really that long anyway), keep in mind the cultural context, and determine for yourself. You can always come here to complain about it if you hate it, but I personally consider it amazing.

It's up to you.

>you really do have to understand that if those things strike you as "done before", it's only because Seinfeld did them first.

like what?

I don't know, they handled the loss of larry better than pretty much every other show that lost its show runner. Much better than you'd expect.

There's still tonnes of classic episodes in those seasons

For starters, Seinfeld was edgy. Not edgy as in, say, "craawling in my skin", but edgy in the sense that it had discussions and jokes on topics that were considered taboos and weren't really addressed in television, let alone a sitcom. Nowadays, it's not a big deal for a primetime comedy to make jokes about homosexuality, pornography, masturbation and etc, but back then, this kind of shit was controversial.
I'm sure by now you've probably heard of the masturbation episode. Can you name a show from the 80s-90s that was as open and honest about a female character's sexual habits as Seinfeld was with Elaine ? Nowadays all female comedians do is joke about their sex habits, but this was new ground back then.

Or how Seinfeld was a show that didn't really have any morals and it's protagonists were pretty awful people and the show was "about nothing". Nowadays a lot of shows are like this, but compare it to, say, Full House or Happy Days and you'll see my point. Even if Seinfeld wasn't the first, it popularized it.

For example, episodes like The Chinese Restaurant, where absolutely nothing really happens and it's just the charactersc omplaining and bantering as they waited for a table in real time for 23 minutes, was considered almost completely unworkable by the network executives. NBC executives thought it was going to bomb because of its lack of an involved storyline, and yet it was a huge success.

You can even find that several character archetypes like Kramer (the cartoony clown who stands out agaisnt the more down-to-earth cast) or Newman (the petty neighbor who acts as the enemy), while not necessarily created by Seinfeld, became a lot more popular because of Seinfeld.

Wasn't that episode originally normal, and someone pitched the backward idea so they went and filmed a few more shots like the lollipop bit?

Skip S1. Don't touch anything else.

Those 5 episodes are by far the weakest of the show. It's amazing thinking about how much better it got.

>Nowadays all female comedians do is joke about their sex habits, but this was new ground back then.

Seinfeld even handled it better way back then. It was just normal conversation between guys and a girl about her sexual habits. No big deal.

Nowadays if a woman mentions her vagina it's a huge fucking event that's met with a standing ovation and millions of tweets from progressive numales. Fuck this decade.

IMO, the first seasons aren't bad, the pacing is just slow. If I were you I'd start with 3 or 4, finish those, then watch 1 and 2 and continue.

Also don't listen to people who say it goes to shit when Larry left. It doesn't. The writing is less polished, but some of the best and funniest episodes are in those seasons.

Based Seinbro, enjoyed reading, and good points.

You are telling me that the show gets better? Holy shit

Show gave me a woman's business wear fetish.

on the dvd george's dad is not played by jerry stiller

Watch the SUPERIOR sitcom "Friends".

>s1 is bad
no its not, the storys are just more grounded in reality, as the show progresses it becomes more and more surreal and crazy. both appoaches are fine but towards the end they really overdo it and it becomes too big and popular for its own sake.

I watch random episodes regularly and I don't have a problem with season one at all really. The "signals" bit from the pilot, the airport greeting and Art Vandelay making his first appearance were some of my favorites from that season. George finding his character is pretty fun