The Chronicle

When you watch season 9 you fully understand that Jerry Seinfeld's heart just wasn't into the show anymore. After Larry David left Seinfeld had to try to run the show on his own and season 8 reflects his uncertainty with a lot of hit and misses where he's trying to find his voice, Seinfeld has commented how he wasn't sure he could even do the show without Larry, when you get to season 9 you can tell it just ran its course with him and he wasn't interested anymore. This clip show episode is evidence of that, rather than write two episodes for the season they mailed it in with a clip show, something that would never happen today because fans would go insane.

My goodness, people get so testy. If a compilation episode comes along, don't watch it. It's not as if you were Malcolm MacDowell with your eyes propped open, force to watch. Just skip it. My wife and I just finished watching the entire series from beginning to end over a period of about a year. I don't know when I've had such fun. Obviously, not everything on this look back was of sublime quality, but it brought back memories of some of my favorites. The four principle characters were so much fun to watch (along with Newman), and while they were often rude and sexist and outrageous, it was always done with style. I am amazed at the anger people direct toward forms of entertainment which is always an option to watch.

This episode gets a ton of hate now a days because people have YouTube, Netflix, and various other ways to watch clips and rewatch episodes. But go back to 1998 this episode offered a convenient way to relive the other episodes and look back on the show because people didn't have many options outside of waiting for them to roll back around in a 7:00 time slot. So for that reason it makes no sense to review bomb this episode. Just skip it and move on.

Regarding the episode itself there is nothing wrong with it nor does it really push or grow the show in anyway. I think maybe this one would have sat better with people as well if the finale wasn't so controversial.

Imagine its 1998 and you havent seen many of these episodes more than once and its been years. Im not sure thats how it worked back then but its a nice thought. Now i have to add more characters. I think its good that there are the clip shows for the aforementioned reasons. Its nice that we can skip them though nowadays if we dont want to watch. I dont even know if they syndicate these episodes anymore though. Also there is new content at the very beginning so please dont pretend its all old stuff. Phew less than 100 characters left. Right now peterman is yelling at kramer thinking he has been giving elaine drugs. Okay thank you for reading.

What a waste of 45 minutes.

Nobody likes seeing clip show episodes, they are always boring and just annoys the viewer.

And who the hell makes it a double episode just before the finale. Surely Jerry and Larry had it in them to make 2 proper episodes? Talk about walking it in.

Such a shame this episode was every made and just embarrassing that it took up the space of 2 episodes just before the finale.