What was so bad about the Seinfeld Series Finale?

[Xen]

Bad thing about it. It didn't come soon enough. Good thing about it. It finnally came.

Sorry couldn't resist that. Anyways I never really understood why people seemed to think this was the best thing to come to TV(And never liked Jerry Seinfeld at all), same with what people thought of Friends. In the end it came down to watching abunch of smucks on TV hang out with friends, or going out for coffee with my friends

one word: Kramer.

 

[GenMarshall]

I only see a few episodes here and there.

 

[cgannon64]

George becomes a homeless guy. Elaine finally realizes she's gay, comes out of the closet, and moves in with another one of Jerrys ex girlfriends.

No, no, no - George finally realizes he's gay.

If there's one gay character, it's George - by far. Remember all his anxiousness when he found out it "stirred"?

 

[carlosMM]

What was so bad about the Seinfeld Series Finale?

the bolded part:
the Seinfeld Series Finale?

And what's dso good?
the Seinfeld Series Finale?


why do people like this mindless drivel?

 

[punkbass2000]

" What was so bad about the Seinfeld Series Finale?"

Everything. Worst episode. By far. Long, drawn out, boring.

 

[amadeus]

Indeed. Plus, they went to jail (for those of you that have kept the finale on tape for 7 years and not watched it, yes, they went to JAIL.)

That was just dumb and not funny. A dignified ending would've been no ending at all.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

No, no, no - George finally realizes he's gay.

If there's one gay character, it's George - by far. Remember all his anxiousness when he found out it "stirred"?

Oh yeah thats right, when he got the massage from that guy He would just hate being homeless though. I can see it happening too, with his inability to keep jobs. He'd refuse to move back in with his parents, and try to make the best of it on the streets, making believe he loves it. Elaine always seemed gay to me.

 

[IglooDame]

Oh yeah thats right, when he got the massage from that guy He would just hate being homeless though. I can see it happening too, with his inability to keep jobs. He'd refuse to move back in with his parents, and try to make the best of it on the streets, making believe he loves it. Elaine always seemed gay to me.

Refresh my memory - how opposed was she to determining 'by touch' whether they were real or fake, spectacularity notwithstanding?

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Refresh my memory - how opposed was she to determining 'by touch' whether they were real or fake, spectacularity notwithstanding?

I could be wrong about this, but I dont think she was that against it. Hmm, she ended up tripping and grabbing them 'accidentally' iirc? Accidentally on purpose maybe

 

[cgannon64]

Oh yeah thats right, when he got the massage from that guy He would just hate being homeless though. I can see it happening too, with his inability to keep jobs. He'd refuse to move back in with his parents, and try to make the best of it on the streets, making believe he loves it. Elaine always seemed gay to me.

The whole lot of them seem gay.

Jerry, I imagine, is not a ladies man in real life, in any respect.

 

[Neonanocyborgasm]

Everybody says that Seinfeld was a fantastic show until the finale which sucked. I don't know why. I kind of liked the bringing back of classic characters and in the last scene they copy the very first scene of the pilot, which I thought was hilarious. It seemed fine to me, but it has this enormous reputation of being terrible. So could someone explain it to me?

I didn't think it was all that bad. It wasn't the greatest Seinfeld episode ever, but it was ok. It had a kind of poetic justice to it, in that the cast got what was coming to them. For years they had made light of everything that people took seriously. Now they got to do it to each other, in prison, for years, while everyone else mocked them.

I personally think Seinfeld is the greatest work of comic genius in the last 20 years, if not the whole 20th century. The arrangement of the characters and the ridiculous crap they do is outrageous. Also, the way the episodes came together from numerous sub-plots in an unexpected way is an interesting twist of comedy.

 

[Quasar1011]

It had a kind of poetic justice to it, in that the cast got what was coming to them. For years they had made light of everything that people took seriously. Now they got to do it to each other, in prison, for years, while everyone else mocked them.

I personally think Seinfeld is the greatest work of comic genius in the last 20 years, if not the whole 20th century. The arrangement of the characters and the ridiculous crap they do is outrageous. Also, the way the episodes came together from numerous sub-plots in an unexpected way is an interesting twist of comedy.

I agree! In fact, I rarely watch TV anymore, ever since Seinfeld went off the air... and that was in 1998.

The finale was good to the extent that they brought back a lot of old characters. I always thought Jerry was going to get done in by Babu, the Pakistani restaurant owner that got deported because of Jerry not giving him his visa renewal papers because Elaine was supposed to check his mail while he was out of town even though the mailman whom we assume was Newman accidentally put the papers in Kramer's mailbox. Okay, that was a run-on sentence about, well, nothing really.

But I thought the finale was actually a social commentary on the state of American society in 1998. People don't want to get involved in others' lives anymore, especially if there is personal risk involved. People have become detached from interacting on anything more than their own circle of friends. In other words, we're selfish.