History Seinfeld / TropesAToH

* CelebrityParadox: In "The Pitch", the NBC lobby is adorned with posters for its current shows, one of them being ''Reasonable Doubts'', a legal drama starring Mark Harmon and Marlee Matlin, who are featured on the poster. Marlee Matlin later guest-starred as Jerry's (deaf) girlfriend of the week in the episode "The Lip Reader" the following season.
** "The Raincoats" involved Jerry and his then-girlfriend making out while watching ''Film/SchindlersList''. Later on, in "The Gymnast" Jerry dates a woman played by Elina Löwensohn who had a small role in that film.

* 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.

* ForTheWantOfNail: If George didn't drive like a maniac, the plan of seeing the Bubble Boy for 20 minutes then going to the cabin would've gone without a hitch; they would've arrived at the cabin early enough to put the fire out; the cabin would've been salvaged; and Mr. Ross' affair with John Cheever never would've come to light.

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: In "The Cartoon", when Jerry and George discuss how Jerry's latest girlfriend, Janet, looks a lot like Jerry:

* DontExplainTheJoke:

* FinishingEachOthersSentences: One of Jerry's girlfriends did this; the trope is subverted in that how she finishes Jerry's sentence is not what he was going to say at all.

** In "The Handicap Spot", George can't find a parking spot at the mall and Kramer tempts George to park in the handicapped spot, to which George protests that a handicapped person might need it. Kramer talks him into doing it anyway, which ends up getting him into trouble when a woman in a wheelchair is injured as a result of having to park somewhere else. At the end of the episode, the foursome return to the same mall and George again can't find a parking spot. Kramer tempts George to park in the fire lane, to which George protests that there could be a fire. Kramer says, "[[TemptingFate Now what are the chances of]] ''[[TemptingFate that?]]''" [[HereWeGoAgain It's highly likely that George took Kramer's advice again.]]

* DisabledLoveInterest: Lola, who was denied "The Handicap Spot".

** Jerry is an avid fan of ‘’Franchise/{{Superman}} and even mentions the Creator/ChristopherReeve films. In “The Good Samaritan”, a character played by Creator/HelenSlater appears. Slater played ‘’Film/{{Supergirl}} in a film that was a SpinOff of the Reeves series.