curb your enthusiasm is better than Seinfeld

1. "Awards do not recognize quality. Was TITANIC really the best movie of 1997? Of course not! " What? ! Awards are for that exact purpose. It is what the population, or experts on a subject, believe to be the best or worst. Awards are a VERY good gague of quality. All you can say is, 'its funny'. Well, that's pretty hard to quantify. You can't say Seinfeld has 30 Funnies and CYE has 78. While awards may not be your exact opinion, but they are what the most people like. FYI Titanic was a GREAT movie. I don't know why you cited that. It is among AFI's top 100 greatest movies of all time. 2. "Seinfeld is a show about nothing (you admit), with no redeemable social value. CYE has everything good about Seinfeld and more, including plot and social criticism. " No redeemable social value. That's funny. Ha. Ha. Ha. I'm pretty sure my favorite show that was voted the best show of all time has some social value. As I said, its a pop culture phenomenon. NO SOUP FOR YOU! Tell me where that's from. Now give me a line from CYE, and I bet less than half would know from the percentage of the Soup Nazi. Also, Seinfeld is a comedy. Randomness is what makes it funny. It doesn't have to have a powerful plot to be funny, which neither show has. If you are going to argue this, make it about a drama, as a comedy does not need to have a story ark. 3. "CYE is hilarious and the YouTube you provided only affirms this. " See, that's the problem. This is your best argument, yet is easy to defeat. First, we don't know how funny it is compared to Seinfeld. As I said, a show can not have '45 points of funniness'. Second, that's just your personal opinion, it is not based on facts. If I said, 'I think I'm the coolest guy on earth,' you could not argue that because you don't know what I am thinking, even though I am definently not the coolest guy on earth. Third, those are not funny. There weren't even jokes! It's just some crazy people yelling. If you want that, I'll get my camera and put it on youtube. 4. "All the characters you cite as being so great were entirely created by Larry David, and his immense talent is what makes CYE so great. " This seems to be a pointless argument. First of all, it doesn't matter where they came from or who made them. It is still a funny show. Sure Larry David created some characters, but who cares? The characters are awsome in their own way. Second, you never say that the characters in CYE are better, all you say is that Larry David created them. I will agree with that, but Seinfeld's characters are better. 5. "So you admit you haven't even seen many CYE episodes. Ah ha! Watch them all and you will be converted. Again, popularity is no measure of quality. " People definetly don't want to watch every episode of a show, THEN decide whether they like it or not. That is unpratical. Plus, as I said, it doesn't have to have a great story for it to be a great show, at least for a comedy. Comedies are supposed to make people laugh, not follow the plot. Recapping my points- 1. Seinfeld has WAY more awards than CYE. My opponent asserts that Seinfeld is worse because of the censoring, but no. In 1994, one of the greatest episodes in American sitcom history debuted, entitled 'The Contest'. This was about something that the group agreed not to do, and the longest who doesn't wins money. They could not say the word the entire episode, yet they won an EMMY for the best comedy episode. And guess who it was written by? Larry David. Just look at the Wikipedia I gave you. Seinfeld has awards up the wazoo. 2. Seinfeld is random and does not follow a story ark. This means that you can watch one episode without having to watch EVERY SINGLE episode before that. It is a great show that people can sit down and watch. 3. CYE isn't funny overall. My youtubes illustrate this. It is just red faced rants with people screaming and swearing. What's funny about that? Seinfeld points out little annoying things we see every day and makes fun of them. We can all relate to that. 4. The charaters in Seinfeld are great. Although they are created by Larry David, they are pure masterpeice. Every character is unique and fun. Every person can relate to one of the Seinfeld characters. 5. Seinfeld has a wider range of audiences. Even little kids can watch it. CYE must be somewhere from 17-70. Yes that seems like a big number, but who's going to watch CYE with their child? With their grandmother? It can only be 'enjoyed' in one place at one time. All in all, you can clearly see Seinfeld is better the Curb Your Enthusiasm. It is an all around great show.