Seinfeldia Quotes

“BY 2013, SEINFELD WOULD BECOME the most successful show ever in syndication. Networks buy reruns in packages sold in “cycles,” and Seinfeld was the first show in history to get to a fifth cycle, taking its rerun sales through 2017—nearly twenty years since its finale.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

“It is the story of two men whose sitcom—full of minute observations and despicable characters—snuck through the network system to become a hit that changed TV’s most cherished rules; from then on, antiheroes would rise to prominence, unique voices would invade the airwaves, and the creative forces behind shows would often gain as much power and fame as the faces in front of the cameras. Seinfeld”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

“Seinfeld told his writers that nine was his lucky number, so he just had to go out with his ninth season.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

“Not all New Yorkers embraced it: Locals thought Seinfeld so influential that some, like bohemian artist Penny Arcade, who came up in the city’s downtown scene of the ’70s and ’80s, eventually blamed the show for making the city seem attractive and accommodating to suburbanites who then moved in, gentrifying, chain-restaurantizing, and sanitizing the character right out of Manhattan.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

“David had an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball that Kramer admired, and an unusual dedication to the Yankees for a guy that grew up in Brooklyn, which was Dodgers territory.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

“They would work for something like fifty-six days in a row without a break. That was what it took to replace Larry David.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

“The Seinfeld writers began checking message boards and other sites regularly to gauge fan response to the episodes.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

“Thus it continues to bring in millions of dollars in syndication fees and advertising revenue every year - $3.1 billion total between its 1998 finale and 2014.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

“Oh, you’re the Marble Rye Lady!” Her rabbi went out of his way to greet her now, she told People magazine, and he had a sizable congregation. This was no small show.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

“David and Seinfeld noticed, carping that Friends had ripped off their show’s concept—a group of single friends in New York City. And it was certainly true that from the beginning, Friends had Seinfeld DNA. Courteney”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

“DAN O’KEEFE HAD GROWN UP in mount pleasant, a Westchester County suburb of New York City, celebrating a holiday that his father invented in 1966.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything