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** At the conclusion of "The Big Salad", in the overhead shot of the cop cars chasing Kramer and his friend, the cars are black (it's footage of the infamous OJ Simpson/Bronco chase), but when the shot is inside the car, the cars behind them are now blue.
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** At the conclusion of "The Big Salad", in the overhead shot of the cop cars chasing Kramer and his friend, the cars are black (it's footage of the infamous OJ Simpson/Bronco "Creator/OJSimpson white Bronco" chase), but when the shot is inside the car, the cars behind them are now blue.
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** At the conclusion of "The Big Salad", in the overhead shot of the cop cars chasing Kramer and his friend, the cars are black (it's footage of the infamous OJ Simpson/Bronco chase), but when the shot is inside the car, the cars behind them are now blue.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** The luncheonette was originally Pete's Luncheonette, and had Claire (played by Lee Garlington) as a waitress, who was a regular. Pete's was replaced by Monk's Café, and Claire's role was taken over by Elaine (plus Ruthie Cohen and the other waitresses at Monk's) because having the female lead be from such a different social status compared to the rest of the cast would be unworkable.
** The first two seasons had Jerry's stand-up segments alternating with the regular scenes from the plot -- declining around season 3, which showed only one of these segments mid-episode. Later seasons (at least until season 7) used ''Seinfeld'''s iconic format of only showing stand-up segments at the beginning and the end.
** Also, until [[Recap/SeinfeldS3E6TheParkingGarage "The Parking Garage"]] first the last stand-up segment ran, and only then ran the credits with the ThemeSong. Starting with [[Recap/SeinfeldS3E7TheCafe "The Café"]] the last stand-up segment ran simultaneously with the credits and the theme song.
** The luncheonette was originally Pete's Luncheonette, and had Claire (played by Lee Garlington) as a waitress, who was a regular. Pete's was replaced by Monk's Café, and Claire's role was taken over by Elaine (plus Ruthie Cohen and the other waitresses at Monk's) because having the female lead be from such a different social status compared to the rest of the cast would be unworkable.
** The first two seasons had Jerry's stand-up segments alternating with the regular scenes from the plot -- declining around season 3, which showed only one of these segments mid-episode. Later seasons (at least until season 7) used ''Seinfeld'''s iconic format of only showing stand-up segments at the beginning and the end.
** Also, until [[Recap/SeinfeldS3E6TheParkingGarage "The Parking Garage"]] first the last stand-up segment ran, and only then ran the credits with the ThemeSong. Starting with [[Recap/SeinfeldS3E7TheCafe "The Café"]] the last stand-up segment ran simultaneously with the credits and the theme song.
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* LaterInstallmentWeirdness:
** Season 7 had Jerry's stand-up act shown only at the beginning, while seasons 8 and 9 completely abandoned its use, due to the storylines becoming denser, faster-paced and more referencial of past episodes, as well as Larry David leaving as showrunner beginning with season 8, leaving Jerry to pick up the slack and no longer having time or energy. (With the notable exception of [[Recap/SeinfeldS9E23TheFinale "The Finale"]], which featured a regular stand-up act scene and a variation on the final one [[spoiler:where he does the act ''in prison'' instead of at his usual club]]. That's because the finale had been written by Larry David years before the show ended -- and before he quit.)
** Related to the former, during seasons 7, 8 and 9, most of the credits ran simultaneously with the last regular plot scene, while before that began there was a still of the penultimate scene with the ThemeSong, reduced to only a few seconds, and the first bit of the credits running.
** Season 7 had Jerry's stand-up act shown only at the beginning, while seasons 8 and 9 completely abandoned its use, due to the storylines becoming denser, faster-paced and more referencial of past episodes, as well as Larry David leaving as showrunner beginning with season 8, leaving Jerry to pick up the slack and no longer having time or energy. (With the notable exception of [[Recap/SeinfeldS9E23TheFinale "The Finale"]], which featured a regular stand-up act scene and a variation on the final one [[spoiler:where he does the act ''in prison'' instead of at his usual club]]. That's because the finale had been written by Larry David years before the show ended -- and before he quit.)
** Related to the former, during seasons 7, 8 and 9, most of the credits ran simultaneously with the last regular plot scene, while before that began there was a still of the penultimate scene with the ThemeSong, reduced to only a few seconds, and the first bit of the credits running.
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* FollowTheLeader: You can't deny how influential the show was. To this day the majority of sitcoms, whether they're about single people or families, focus on immature, petty characters who rarely ever learn from their mistakes by the end of the episode. Also, in the '90s there were many, many sitcoms (especially those about single people) that loved to borrow two very specific concepts made famous by "Seinfeld". One was the BottleEpisode structure of episodes such as "The Chinese Restaurant" and the other was having main characters obsess over the odd quirks of their Boy or GirlOfTheWeek.
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* OutOfOrder:
** With the exception of the final season, each season had a few episodes that were aired out of chronological order (for instance, "Male Unbonding" is the second episode of the series, but the fourth to originally air).
** A particularly notable example is "The Stranded", which aired during season 3 but was produced during season 2. It's notable because George was unemployed during season 3, but had a job during season 2. This is why Jerry gave a brief introduction in the original airing that the episode was meant to air earlier in the run.
** In [[{{Rerun}} reruns]], no channel seems to have any particular order in which they air episodes... one common practice is that whenever a channel airs the show back-to-back as part of their regular schedule, one will be an episode from an earlier season, and the other from a later season, and vice-versa (in the case of TBS, whenever reaching a two-parter, both airings would be reserved for both parts). Near the end of their rights to the series, TBS began airing three episodes a night, and started play three episodes in chronological order up till certain points when they will bounce ahead or behind a few seasons (for example, Season Four will air for a week or so, then they will bounce to Season Nine).
** With the exception of the final season, each season had a few episodes that were aired out of chronological order (for instance, "Male Unbonding" is the second episode of the series, but the fourth to originally air).
** A particularly notable example is "The Stranded", which aired during season 3 but was produced during season 2. It's notable because George was unemployed during season 3, but had a job during season 2. This is why Jerry gave a brief introduction in the original airing that the episode was meant to air earlier in the run.
** In [[{{Rerun}} reruns]], no channel seems to have any particular order in which they air episodes... one common practice is that whenever a channel airs the show back-to-back as part of their regular schedule, one will be an episode from an earlier season, and the other from a later season, and vice-versa (in the case of TBS, whenever reaching a two-parter, both airings would be reserved for both parts). Near the end of their rights to the series, TBS began airing three episodes a night, and started play three episodes in chronological order up till certain points when they will bounce ahead or behind a few seasons (for example, Season Four will air for a week or so, then they will bounce to Season Nine).
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** Jason Alexander disliked working with Heidi Swedberg, as he felt as though their comedic styles didn't gel and they generally weren't on the same page. He repeatedly pleaded with Larry David to remove her from the show, as he didn't like working with this person whom he felt threw him off his game. David countered that Alexander's discomfort with Swedberg was exactly why the George/Susan relationship was so hilarious, as the actor's contempt for the actress perfectly spilled into his role as a deeply unhappy fiance.
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** Jason Alexander disliked working with Heidi Swedberg, as he felt as though their comedic styles didn't gel and they generally weren't on the same page. He repeatedly pleaded with Larry David to remove her from the show, as he didn't like working with this person whom he felt threw him off his game. David countered that Alexander's discomfort with Swedberg was exactly why the George/Susan relationship was so hilarious, as the actor's contempt for the actress perfectly spilled into his role as a deeply unhappy fiance.fiancé.
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* FunnyCharacterBoringActor: The extremely wacky and off the wall Kramer is the polar opposite of his actor, Creator/MichaelRichards. Who was often noted to be a ''very'' serious person and meticulous actor to a diva like extent.
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** In one episode, Elaine's boyfriend claims he thought she was Hispanic because of her last name and dark hair, which Elaine quickly denies. [[note]]Elaine's subplot in that episode is she thought he was a very light skinned black man, due to being from Africa, but he reveals he's not, and is a white South African.[[/note]] Julia Louise-Dreyfus is actually part Mexican. Similarly, another episode had a plot revolving around Elaine's "[[ShiksaGoddess shiksappeal]]," despite Louise-Dreyfus being Jewish.
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** In one episode, Elaine's boyfriend claims he thought she was Hispanic because of her last name and dark hair, which Elaine quickly denies. [[note]]Elaine's subplot in that episode is she thought he was a very light skinned black man, due to being from Africa, but he reveals he's not, and is a white South African.[[/note]] Julia Louise-Dreyfus Louis-Dreyfus is actually part Mexican. Similarly, another episode had a plot revolving around Elaine's "[[ShiksaGoddess shiksappeal]]," despite Louise-Dreyfus Louis-Dreyfus being Jewish.
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** Frank Costanza was played by Creator/JohnRandolph in "The Handicap Spot", but in syndication his scenes were re-shot with Jerry Stiller, who had replaced him as of "The Puffy Shirt", to provide continuity. The crew wanted to do this with Jerry's father in the pilot after Barney Martin was cast, but everyone had aged too visibly for it to work.
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** Frank Costanza was played by Creator/JohnRandolph in "The Handicap Spot", but in syndication his scenes were re-shot with Jerry Stiller, who had replaced him as of "The Puffy Shirt", to provide continuity. The crew wanted to do this with Jerry's father in the pilot after Barney Martin Creator/BarneyMartin was cast, but everyone had aged too visibly for it to work.
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** In addition, Creator/BobBalaban's recurring role of Russell Dalrymple, the fictitious president of NBC who works with Jerry and George on a television pilot and later becomes Elaine's love interest, was modeled on then NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield, who had allowed David and Seinfeld to produce the ''Seinfeld'' pilot. Amusingly, Balaban later went on to play Littlefield outright in the 1996 made-for-TV film ''The Late Shift'', a dramatization of the struggles that occurred at NBC when Littlefield selected Creator/JayLeno to replace Creator/JohnnyCarson on ''Series/TheTonightShow'', instead of Creator/DavidLetterman, as well as narrate the audiobook version of ''Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV'', a book Littlefield co-wrote with T.R. Pierson which documented Littlefield's career at NBC.
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** In addition, Creator/BobBalaban's recurring role of Russell Dalrymple, the fictitious president of NBC who works with Jerry and George on a television pilot and later becomes Elaine's love interest, was modeled on then NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield, who had allowed David and Seinfeld to produce the ''Seinfeld'' pilot. Amusingly, Balaban later went on to play Littlefield outright in the 1996 made-for-TV film ''The Late Shift'', ''Literature/TheLateShift'', a dramatization of the struggles that occurred at NBC when Littlefield selected Creator/JayLeno to replace Creator/JohnnyCarson on ''Series/TheTonightShow'', instead of Creator/DavidLetterman, as well as narrate the audiobook version of ''Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV'', a book Littlefield co-wrote with T.R. Pierson which documented Littlefield's career at NBC.
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** The above irony also goes for the respective mothers of Jerry and George; Creator/LizSheridan (who played Jerry's mother Helen) was ''not'' Jewish whereas Creator/EstelleHarris (who played George's mother [[TheDanza Estelle]]) ''was'' Jewish [[note]]although it has been speculated, including by Creator/JasonAlexander himself, that her character was intended to be Jewish (making George half-Italian Catholic and half-Jewish) and there are subtle aspects of this dropped throughout the show, making the character firmly AmbiguouslyJewish[[/note]]. Though obviously averted entirely with Len Lesser playing Helen's brother Uncle Leo, [[ActorSharedBackground as both the actor and the character]] are firmly Jewish.
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** Creator/JerrySeinfeld's character is named... "Jerry Seinfeld." ([[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that Character!Jerry is a fictionalized version of Real!Jerry.)
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** Creator/JerrySeinfeld's character is named... "Jerry Seinfeld." ([[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that Character!Jerry the character is a fictionalized version of Real!Jerry.the real one.)
