Jerry Seinfeld Hinted At A ‘Seinfeld’ Reunion And Now It’s All I Can Think About

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You know, I was never really a fan of this new wave of rebooting old TV shows and movies in a brazen attempt to milk nostalgia for views. Nothing kills your love of a show like The Office quite like a rebooted bastardization that’s not nearly as good as the original. Recent failed reboots like 24, the X-Files, Fuller House, McGuyver, or Arrested Development prove that love for the source material only gets you so far. Reboots like Will and Grace or Roseanne look poised to ruin their sterling legacies by attempting to go back to the well of humor that has since run dry due to the passage of time.

For those of you who are unaware (how dare you), I’m kind of a big fan of Seinfeld. So when Jerry recently went on Ellen and said that it was a “possibility” that they could launch a rebooted version of this classic show, you might expect for me to begin wringing my hands in dread. After all, the show ended on a controversial finale and was briefly resurrected on Curb Your Enthusiasm with a fairly satisfying reunion. Why rock the boat any further?

But nope, I’m all in on this. I’ve wanted for Seinfeld to return to my airwaves literally since it ended. I don’t even need them to keep running full, 20-episode seasons. I’ve long maintained that NBC should pay the cast plus Larry David $5 million dollars each to make one episode per year, to air after the Super Bowl. You tell me that doesn’t get at least 50 million viewers.

The fact of the matter is that Seinfeld isn’t so appealing for a reboot because it’s funny; it’s because of the wealth of societal observations that we’ve missed from this wonderful gang in the last two decades. I mean, the show ended before terrorism, cell phones, Internet stalking, and Donald Trump, yet it still resonates because, at its core, the show is about the unsaid quirks of human interaction. And how we interact has changed vastly since the gang was sent to prison for violating the Good Samaritan Law. For instance, how amazing would it be to hear George’s take on ghosting?

GEORGE: What the hell are you two talking about? Ghosting?

JERRY: It’s when you want to break up with someone but you don’t want to have the actual break up text, which derived from the ancient break up talk. So you just continuously ignore their messages until they eventually get the hint that you don’t want to see them again.

GEORGE: And people do this all the time?

JERRY: Oh yeah.

GEORGE: AND YOU DIDN’T THINK TO TELL ME??

JERRY: Tell you what?

GEORGE: Over the past few months, I’ve spent countless hours of my life agonizing over how to break up with women. Drafts of text messages, exit strategies, nervous hives. And all that time, I could have just ended things by doing nothing??

JERRY: George it’s a coward’s way out. A lazy excuse for degenerates to avoid any discomfort, shame, or unpleasantness in their life. I naturally assumed you were aware of this. Hell, when I heard about the notion, I’d have put money that you were the one who came up with it!

You see, the possibilities for this group to tear apart how our society has evolved are near infinite.

Maybe Kramer opens a new hipster food truck selling avocado toast? Maybe Puddy gets married and Elaine, in her fit of jealousy, begins stalking him on social media unaware that she’s sending him notifications? What if Jerry reveals that he only takes dates to restaurants with bad Yelp reviews, concerned that if the date goes south it might ruin one of New York’s finer establishments?

I know we’ve salivated at the notion of Kenny Bania as an Uber driver, but what if Newman was a Soulcycle Instructor? Or if Jerry gives his parents a drone that they use only to bring them Diet Cokes? Maybe Frank Costanza gets addicted to Overwatch, and becomes a viral streamer on Twitch when his tirades entertain masses? And who doesn’t want to watch an episode where Tim Whatley hosts a Friendsgiving but doesn’t invite George (“it’s called FRIENDSgiving, not PEOPLE-I-CAN’T-STANDgiving”)? Of course, it would surprise none of us if Kramer somehow stumbled into the Trump/Russia collusion mess and had to turn to his trusty lawyer Jackie Chiles to get him out of it. Finally what if, in a callback to the classic episode “the Contest” the gang makes a bet to see who can get the most matches off Tinder in a week? I mean, do we even know if Kramer’s kavorka translates via social media?

So please, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Google, whoever, I implore you to make this revival happen. Pay Larry and Jerry whatever money they want. Just let them take as much time as they want, film episodes whenever the gang is free, and release the episodes whenever they’re done. I’ll take one or two new Seinfelds a year. But I can tell you in no uncertain terms how all of America will react the day that a new episode of the greatest comedy of all time drops after years of silence.

So yeah, I’m for it. .

[via Huff Po]

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