Seinfeld: Seasons 1, 2 and 3

Customer reviews:

Seinfeld, 2008-01-11
Love Seinfeld - never watched this - thought it was a good gift for my husband, but he watched the re-runs on TV>

Ernie from "My Three Sons" Even Funnier than Seinfeld, 2007-09-13
Let me be the innocent child in "The Emperor's New Clothes," and proclaim:

Jerry Seinfeld is not funny!

Oh, I know what you're thinking: Here's a guy who thinks Seinfeld was unfunny, but his cast was hilarious.

No. At best the rest of the cast was mildly amusing (although Jason Alexander is a talented actor, he is not necessarily hilarious, hence the two stars).

Because, when it comes down to brass tacks, "Seinfeld" *was* a "show about nothing" -- in every sense of the word:

The contrived semi-plots, with choppy one-liner segments.

The cloying, annoying, ejaculatory bass riffs between shots.

Jerry Seinfeld posing as this hipster: Yeah, right, a hipster with a ridiculous bushy mullet. At best, Seinfeld was an Upper West Side Jewish version of Jeff Foxworthy. You want to know why people think Jewish men are smug, metrosexual wimpish know-it-alls? I submit Jerry Seinfeld as "Exhibit A." If a WASP played a Jew such as Seinfeld, he'd be accused of bigoted racial slurs against the Jewish people. Grating, like fingernails down a chalkboard.

Oh, and speaking of freakish hair-do's: Is there anyone alive who thinks that Michael Richards as Kramer would even inspire a single chuckle if shorn of that ridiculous Brillo-pad hair? Within three episodes, he'd have been out of the door, after having been reduced to haranguing black hecklers in the studio audience: He's a [n-word]! He's a [n-word]!

Pathetic.

And, "Elaine"?

Puleeze! She makes Gwyneth Paltrow look like Kate Winslet, she is so flat.

Yawn.