After four seasons spent using George’s homophobia as a character flaw, the show wholeheartedly embraces gay panic as a plot device to a nonsensical, largely unfunny degree.
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It’s the loosest version of a bottle episode to come out of the writers’ room - and of all the bottle episodes in Seinfeld’s run, it’s the dullest, full stop.ġ68.
An episode so racially offensive that NBC had to apologize upon its airing, the second-greatest crime that “The Puerto Rican Day Parade” commits is simply not being funny enough. “The Puerto Rican Day Parade” (Season 9). The bingeing is going to be real, and it’s going to be spectacular.ġ69. That said, even the worst (well, maybe the fourth-worst) episode of Seinfeld is better than most of what you’ll currently find on network TV - and now it’s just a Netflix account away. With every episode now available on demand, why waste time watching highlights? We arrived at a count of 169 by considering all two-part and hour-long episodes as single entries. The ratings are based less on cultural significance - you’ll find many recognizable episodes fairly low on the list - and more on the density and quality of jokes, the inclusion of multiple strong narrative arcs, and, to a lesser extent, how well the comedy and stories have aged.
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In the interest of both helping novices prioritize and reminding veterans about forgotten jewels, we’ve ranked every episode in the series from worst to best. But with 169 episodes in the Seinfeld archive, it’s understandable if you’re intimidated by the idea of entering the vault without a guide. So you’re ready to go back for a double dip into Seinfeld or - if you’ve been living with a massive blind spot in your pop-culture knowledge - finally see what all the fuss is about. Following years of speculation about when and where the historic sitcom would arrive online, it became available to stream on Hulu in 2015 before making the move to Netflix, its current home, in 2021.
This story was originally published in 2015 and is being republished in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Seinfeld series finale. From left to right: Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes, Jerry Seinfeld as himself, Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer, and Jason Alexander as George Costanza.
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