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See, that's the real issue. I don't have a problem with acknowledging it's high concept, ocassionally funny and mostly easy watching.
But everybody insisting it's endless comedic, best-sitcom-ever brilliance is overrating it. It's overrated.
It's not overrated. It set the standard. It's easy to call it overrated when you live in world influenced by it. It's like calling the Model T overrated as a car. There's even a TVTrope for this concept. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny
Exactly. Seinfeld isn't funny now because all the shows after it copied it. When Seinfeld came out, it was revolutionary. No one was doing that humor. They invented it. Now, everyone and their mother has copied them, so it's played out. And since all these newer sitcoms had time and previous examples to improve on, they do it better, so Seinfeld looks lame by comparison. However, when I as a millennial was watching Seinfeld when it was being originally aired, I thought it was great.
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Oh, hell, no. It's not like Seinfeld invented sitcoms, or even modern sitcoms. It's not the Model T, it's the Ford Escort. Maybe.
And I'm not saying it's unfunny, I'm saying it's a solid 90s sitcom that for some reason people are out here saying is the Model T of sitcoms. I feel like the level of hyperbole puts the burden of proof elsewhere.
And it's also not a case of it now being standard, because I assure you I've had this opinion since it was airing. I very much was of the batch of people who flip-flopped on Family Guy, but I was in the "Seinfeld was mid" camp before anybody ever called anything "mid".
Agree to disagree then
Been agreeing to disagree on this one for like 35 years, I'm good with that.