--- title: "Seinfeld Season 8" categories: - blog abstract: at season 8, Seinfeld is still going extemely strong. date: 2023-02-09T12:44:04+01:00 year: 2023 draft: false tags: - Seinfeld - sitcom - TV --- For the last year or so, I've been rewatching [Seinfeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld). I need to return to [Voyager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Voyager), but Seinfeld feels so good. Yesterday I finished watching [season 8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Seinfeld_episodes#Season_8_(1996%E2%80%9397)). I have forgotten how many amazing episodes are here! I have trouble remembering another sitcom that kept its momentum for such a long time. Are [Friends](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends) in season eight any good? Meh. [That 70s show](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_%2770s_Show)? Meh. [Married With Children](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married..._with_Children)? [Brooklyn Nine-Nine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Nine-Nine)? [How I Met Your Mother](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother)? [Two and a Half Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_and_a_Half_Men)? All meh at this point. [It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Always_Sunny_in_Philadelphia) still keeps strong, so yeah. There's one contender. What keeps Seinfeld so strong is a complete lack of progress. When other shows keep mixing things up and evolving characters - Seinfeld is basicaly as it was in episode 1. The evolution {{}} is especially dangerous, as characters become parodies of themselves - just look at Ross from Friends. Here? Kramer changed, but in a way that makes Kramer the most Kamer of all Kramers. He is still himself. He has crazy adventures, but he never jumps the shark. Yes, there are season-long stories, like George's engagement, but they do not impact the characters. And there are no babies. Whenever a sitcom introduces a baby, the dynamic changes, it's nothing more than a surrender of the show. The creators have nothing more to do with what they've created and need to move to a new show - but without all the cost of a new show. So, season 8. We are almost at the end of Seinfeld. And boom - the most iconic episode of all happens, [The Soup Nazi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Nazi). And my personal favorite, [The Abstinence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abstinence) (yup, I am that infantile). In fact, there is not a single bad episode here. You can't go wrong with watching any of them. Personal top 3 episodes in no particular order are: - [The Abstinence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abstinence) - [The Money](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Money) - [The Chicken Roaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_Roaster)