Título: Seinfeld
Seção: Themes
Background: Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that ran for nine seasons on NBC, from 1989 to 1998. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, with the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself. Set predominantly in an apartment building in Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York City, the show features a handful of Jerry's friends and acquaintances, particularly best friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander), former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and neighbor across the hall Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). It is often described as being "a show about nothing", as many of its episodes are about the minutiae of daily life.

Conteúdo: The series was often described as "a show about nothing". However, Seinfeld in 2014 stated "the pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that." Seinfeld broke several conventions of mainstream television. The show offers no growth or reconciliation to its characters. It eschews sentimentality. An episode is typically driven by humor interspersed with the superficial conflicts of characters with peculiar dispositions. Many episodes revolve around the characters' involvement in the lives of others with typically disastrous results. On the set, the notion that the characters should not develop or improve throughout the series was expressed as the "no hugging, no learning" rule. Also unlike most sitcoms, there are no moments of pathos; the audience is never made to feel sorry for any of the characters. Even Susan's death elicits no genuine emotions from anybody in the show. The characters are "thirty-something singles with vague identities, no roots, and conscious indifference to morals". Usual conventions, like isolating the characters from the actors playing them and separating the characters' world from that of the actors and audience, were broken. One such example is the story arc where t

user: What is a theme in the show?

assistant: was we want to show how a comedian gets his material.

user: How did it get that description?

assistant: The series was often described as "a show about nothing".

user: What else is notable about the show?

assistant: The show offers no growth or reconciliation to its characters. It eschews sentimentality.

user: What conventions did they break?

assistant: Many episodes revolve around the characters' involvement in the lives of others with typically disastrous results.

user: Are there examples of this?

assistant: The characters are "thirty-something singles with vague identities, no roots, and conscious indifference to morals".

user: anything else interesting?

assistant: The fictional Jerry was launched in the season four finale, but unlike Seinfeld, it wasn't picked up as a series.

user: What kind of influences?

assistant: Seinfeld became the first TV series since Monty Python's Flying Circus to be widely described as postmodern.

user: anything else?

assistant: Also unlike most sitcoms, there are no moments of pathos; the audience is never made to feel sorry for any of the characters.

user: Any other abbot and costello influences?

assistant: Jerry Seinfeld is an avid Abbott and Costello fan, and has cited the Abbott and Costello Show as an influence on Seinfeld.