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Longtime fan since the 90s. Have rewatched in 16:9 many times. I don't care. Seinfeld is just not this kind of show.


It's a show about nothing, watched by people who choose to watch a show about nothing. Such people indeed would not care.


I believe that you're joking, but let me cease this opportunity to address a common misconception. Seinfeld is obviously not about nothing, it's about the minutiae of culture and social interactions that was often ignored on shows from that era. The other reason why it's "about nothing" is that, unlike Cheers from example, the characters don't have real arcs, they don't become better human beings on any level. They never learn, never transcend, remaining pretty much the same selfish assholes they started as. There are no moral lessons. From that perspective, Seinfeld is about "nothing", but a nothing that is actually full of fun little obsessions of no consequence.




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