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...SEINFELD SEASONS 5 & 6 By Fall 1993, this sitcom was reaching the apex of its catchphrase-minting cultural power--so much so that mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani made a cameo in an episode about bogus nonfat frozen yogurt. These 46 episodes include "The Puffy Shirt" (in which Jerry agrees to wear a flouncy pirate top on the Today show), and introduced J. Peterman (John O'Hurley, before he danced with the stars) and the concept of "regifting." Seinfeld's best and darkest seasons were just ahead, but no one is likely to regift this set, all the same...
...REST OF US Festivus, the Dec. 23 Seinfeld celebration of airing grievances and showing feats of strength, has led to enough real-life gatherings to warrant a new how-to book...
...with Harold Lang in the Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale (top). But the glamour girl's insistence on aging naturally led to memorable roles on TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as Lou Grant's savvy lady friend, and as Kramer's mother on Seinfeld...
...most amazing things about “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (and “Seinfeld,” for that matter) has been the ability of Team Larry David to make numerous, seemingly unrelated (and insignificant) developments coalesce into a terrifically funny ending. Oh, that Davidian-Seinfeldian joy, when all the little details would rise into one enormous fugue of laughtrack-driven ecstasy as George collapsed to the floor in his undies or Kramer made a final exit. Not only were all of these developments funny on their own, but when they came together for a magnificent denouement...
...hooker--bang, you got 30 million people's attention. Sitcoms depend on gradual bonding with characters, and today's networks, part of media conglomerates, want instant hits. "Laughs are in characters, and no time is being given to establishing them," says Phil Rosenthal, creator of Raymond, which--like Seinfeld and Cheers--had poor ratings its first season...