Rating:  - Seinfeld DVDs are master of my domain
Seinfeld is super fantastic. If you don't like it then I feel bad that you're missing out on the finer things in life.
Rating: - The "show about nothing " certainly has something in this season
Seinfeld was at the top of its game during this season. Not only because of some brilliant individual episodes, but because of a story arc that poked fun at network television itself. Specifically, the story arc consists of satirizing network suits and the ridiculous ways decisions are made as to which shows make it to the screen, and which do not. After watching season 4 of Seinfeld, we begin to wonder if South Park doesn't have it right - maybe Manatees really are writing dialogue for our most popular shows? Jerry and George have finally gotten their foot in the door with NBC and are pitching ideas for the pilot episode of their show "Jerry". The pair offer up what is essentially the script of the actual Seinfeld episode "The Chinese Restaurant", which was both popularly and critically acclaimed. The NBC suits are unimpressed. The next idea the pair present, however, which is a ridiculous plot in which a judge sentences someone who has hit Jerry's car to be his butler is lauded by the network suits as a great original idea.
The show is often absurd, and though it seems impossible that such a group of self-absorbed people could carry on even the pretense of a multi-year friendship, something about it is oddly familiar to most of us. That is at least partly because of the great interaction between the main characters in which they have both comic and straight-man duties depending on the situation, making their relationships seem real although exaggerated.
As for the individual episodes, "The Contest" had quite daring material in 1992. But the wit of the episode and the character interaction makes it stand up 15 years later after the shock value has long since passed. "The Bubble Boy" presents the audience with a rude and obnoxious individual as the victim of an immune deficiency disease versus the patient angels that usually play this role. "The Outing" introduced the phrase "not that there's anything wrong with that" into American pop culture and also smartly satirized political correctness. "The Junior Mint" shows George in familiar form when he pleads with Jerry not to intervene to save an artist's life because it would devalue the artist's paintings he has purchased in anticipation of that same artist's death. "Seinfeld" truly has a gift for entertaining while pushing the audience to the brink of offense.
I highly recommend this Emmy award-winning season of "Seinfeld" as one of the best seasons of any comedy show ever.
Rating:  - Probably the best season
I think this is probably the show's best work. So many classic episodes. The actors were definitely comfortable with each other by now, but they were still fresh. I tend to think people who buy TV series on DVD start at season one and buy each one, so don't stop at three. If you don't buy in order (which isn't really necessary for Seinfeld because it has no plot), season four might be a good place to start.
Rating: - Seinfeld at its creative peak
Seinfeld - Season 4 saw the sitcom grow from cult hit to national phenomenon. While a time switch to Thursday nights at 9:30 pm following the excellent sitcom, Cheers, certainly helped bring the show to a new audience, it was the writing and the rapport of the characters that had the masses coming back every week. Many fans, including Jerry Seinfeld himself, call this the show's best season and it's hard to argue this since every episode was so strong. The characters also developed to fruition as George became the ultimate neurotic while Kramer's popularity led to wild ovations upon his entrances. And like Season 3, many of the off the wall storylines came from the writers' experiences.
Disc 1 primarily centers around the "Jerry" series that George and Jerry were creating based on their lives that ironically mirrored the ones they played on TV. The entire disc is very funny with the "The Pitch/The Ticket", which features another hilarious scene involving Newman and Kramer, this time in a courtroom, being a classic. "The Watch" and "The Wallet", which feature visits from both Helen and Morty Seinfeld as well as Uncle Leo, are also very good. Like Season 3, Disc 2 is flawless. "The Bubble Boy", "The Virgin", "The Cheever Letters", and "The Contest" are all classic episodes. In fact, "The Contest", arguably the finest Seinfeld episode, broke down walls with its subject matter (which you all know unless you live in a cave), and thus expanded the boundaries of television during the politically correct `90s. Disc 3 is also stellar as "The Pick", "The Visa", "The Shoes", and "The Outing", which gave us the catchphrase `Not that there's anything wrong with that', are all classics. Disc 4 is top notch with the best episodes being "The Implant", which spawned another catchphrase, `They're real and they're spectacular', "The Junior Mint", "The Old Man", and the two-part season finale, "The Pilot", that shows the Jerry show finally seeing the light of day, one of the rare times the sitcom showed the continuity that is common in television. And like the other volumes, the special features section which contains inside looks, bloopers, deleted scenes, commentaries, and Notes About Nothing, is top notch. All told, Season 4 is Seinfeld at its creative peak and this would lead to the show's wild popularity for the rest of its run. Highly recommended.
Rating: - Why can't there be more tv like this?!!!
The Bubble Boy! How brilliant! Forget making him sympathetic, but an angry, bitter bubble boy - sort of like some amazon reviewers. So clever, so funny! And The Contest! Seinfeld execs had a lot of guts to air this one but it was AN INSTANT CLASSIC! And the ending: Marla the virgin ends up with JFK. "Oh, John, that was wonderful." HILARIOUS! And of course Seinfeld taking the ulimate step of spoofing itself with The NBC pitch! So much fun! So funny! Buy this one right away!
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