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...This prophet was correct, however, in that TV will be the medium of the apocalypse; he just had the wrong listing. The end of the world will come on May 14, 1998, at 9:59:59 p.m. (E.T.) on NBC, when the last second of the last episode of Seinfeld is broadcast. (On the West Coast, the world will end three hours later...
This is what you might think, anyway, given all the hysteria surrounding Seinfeld's last episode--the planned mass viewings, the daily "Sein Off" headlines. It's as if none of us will be able to survive past Thursday. Somehow we will have to carry on, though, and to do so it may help to scrutinize exactly what it is we will be losing when Seinfeld goes off the air and whether all this fuss is justified. One way to approach these questions is to look at the show in the historical context of America's signature contribution to Western...
Hollywood is busy right now, as the networks scramble to put together their fall schedules and wrestle with such weighty problems as which show will get Seinfeld's time slot and how quickly they can clone Ally McBeal. This spring, however, the most intriguing moves are being contemplated at the network news divisions. The result could be a big step on the road to a long dreamed of, but never realized, goal: a network newscast in the lucrative, heavily viewed hours of prime time...
...suggesting that everybody greet and act friendly with everybody else, especially those people you just don't like. Anybody who has seen a certain episode of "Seinfeld" knows that saying hello to everybody around is you is completely futile and extremely annoying. It is, after all, everybody's God-given right to be mean...
...first house call anyone can remember the Nike Lady making was to the Seinfeld set. Her impact was immediate--especially on the show's star, who apparently had an unambiguous sense of entitlement. Seinfeld's appetite for free sneakers became legendary. His office overflowed with shoe boxes, and one ex-writer remembers Jerry emerging "like Evita, tossing extra sneakers to the staff." In time the staff members too became hooked, and for them Tracy provided a catalog in which they could check off whatever they wanted. "It was everything--running shoes, hiking boots, sandals. People were taking up extreme sports...