14 DAY TRIAL // Imagine that you would turn on your TV tomorrow night and you would find, to your surprise, that they are showing brand-new episodes of what is widely regarded as the best sitcom of all time: “Seinfeld.” You would freak out, right? Well, Jerry Seinfeld doesn't think it's such a hot idea.
The comedian who was, together with Larry David, the creator of the show, thinks that the world has had enough of Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer, and he has no interest in any continuation of his sitcom.
He made the announcement in a recent “AMA” session on Reddit, where fans kept pestering him to disclose when a reunion would be taking place. That was because this month the sitcom celebrates its 25th anniversary, so people thought it would be nice to have a new season to mark the occasion.
It has to be said that the cast has appeared in incomplete forms at various times on screen, like in a “Curb your Enthusiasm” episode and, most lately, a Super Bowl commercial, but a full-fledged reunion hasn't yet been made, nor will it be.
Seinfeld was adamant, “I think it would be lame, and I think it would be an embarrassment to the nice place that the show occupies. I'm absolutely happy keeping it the way it is. You can't keep asking for more of certain things, you know?”
He went on to explain why he considered that the world had had enough of his show and why continuing to make episodes would ruin it, “you want to do a certain amount of it, so that when people look back on it and they love it. I could have easily done the show for one or two or three more years, but it would have changed the way people look back at it.”
Of course, fans weren't too pleased with this reply, but Seinfeld isn't about to give in to pressure because he made up his mind a long time ago. Besides, he does have a point when he says, “people like the show now even more than they did in the 1990s, because it didn't get worn out.”
The conclusion is that the old adage of “too much of a good thing is bad for you” remains true to this day and it apparently applies to TV shows too. It looks like you'll have to be holding on to that “Seinfeld” DVD set for a little longer or keep watching those re-runs.