Seinfeld

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Seinfeld

     Seinfeld ranks among the best situational comedies of all time.  It has
been compared to I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners, both of whom received praise
for there pioneering works in comedy.  But I believe that Seinfeld takes the
term sitcom to another level.  This is accomplished by exhibiting the many
attributes of the show.  Seinfeld contains many characteristics of a great
situational comedy.
     The reason why Seinfeld is a unique show is because of its coherence.
This show has a variety of plots in one episode.  Seinfeld takes these plots and
relates them in some odd, but funny way.  The other thing that is coherent in
this show is the cast. I have not seen a cast that relate to each other so well
since I Love Lucy.  This shows cast resembles the cast of I Love Lucy because
both casts have conflicting personalities.  In Seinfeld for example, George and
Jerry's personalities are the exact opposite.  George is a total neurotic, while
Jerry has a take it easy personality.  Same for I Love Lucy, Lucy is always  the
leader and Ethel is always the follower. Without coherence Seinfeld would never
be where it is today.
     Seinfeld is very original in the ideas they use for there shows. This is
where the show starts to resemble The Honeymooners and there unique ideas.  The
Honeymooners' ideas were very unique for their time.  Like the episode when
Ralph had a fight with Alice.  It was a ground breaking idea for the time,
having a couple arguing and yelling at each other.  Seinfeld, whose ideas are
unique for its time, had its most famous episode dealing with a Soup ...

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