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Seinfeld - Seasons 1 & 2 |
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Staring:
Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander, David Labiosa
Director:
Tom Cherones
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $34.95
Our Price: $15.00
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Description
Seinfeld has never looked this good! All 18 episodes from the first two seasons have been remastered in high definition for the best possible picture and sound quality. Including 2 versions of the pilot episode and approximately 13 hours of exclusive special features from the creative talents behind the show, this DVD is a must own!
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Nothing? Seinfeld is a show about everything! It's about the appeal of the posse and coma etiquette. It's about importing and exporting. It's about sneaking a peek, and seeing the baby. It's about this, that, and the other. TV Guide ranked Seinfeld the best TV series of all time. It has become the master of its syndication domain. Its most devoted fans can quote each episode chapter and verse; their absorption of each scene's minutiae anything but a trivial pursuit. With such fervent devotion to the show, and demand for its DVD release, series creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David could have easily just OK'd a bare-bones set containing nothing but the episodes. Not that there would have been anything wrong with that, but instead, the creative team came together to create extensive and encyclopedic features that make this four-disc set buy-worthy. The candid and revealing audio commentaries and interviews, deleted scenes and original episode promos, and optional "Notes About Nothing" pop-ups are as irresistible as a Drake's coffee cake. It's always fun and instructive to return to the humble beginnings of a series that became a pop culture benchmark. Here are Kramer's first not-so-grand entrance, Jerry's first contemptuous "Hello, Newman," and Elaine's first "Get Out!" shove. But what is most revelatory about these episodes from the first two seasons is what Jason Alexander, during his commentary for the episode "The Revenge," calls a "sweet quality" that somehow redeems these characters' more base instincts. Consider the scene in which Jerry gives a freshly unemployed George some career guidance, or Jerry and Elaine's palpably affectionate banter throughout. The "Inside Look" episode intros offer fascinating insights into this singular show that subverted sitcom convention with such now-classic episodes as "The Chinese Restaurant," in which Jerry, George, and Elaine wait in vain for a table. We learn, for example, why movie tough guy Lawrence Tierney, who guest starred in "The Jacket," never reprised his role as Elaine's father. All of this, of course, is yadda yadda yadda to Seinfeld fans, whose patience for the show's DVD debut has been amply rewarded. As Elaine screams in the third-season episode, "The Subway," "It's not nothing, it's something!" --Donald Liebenson
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Classic comedy!, 2010-01-06
There's nothing dated about this classic sitcom, which defined the late '80s and early '90s TV comedy as Jerry and his buddies traipsed through New York life and its various little adventures.
As the creators promised, Seinfeld is indeed largely "a show about nothing." That said, it's often the little daily annoyances, ups and downs that make for the most entertaining stories in our own lives, and it certainly held true for Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer.
Particularly memorable episodes include Season 2's "The Chinese Restaurant," where the gang manages to create all kinds of problems and distractions doing nothing other than waiting for a table at a restaurant; and "The Phone Message," where George accidentally leaves a furious message on his girlfriend's answering machine and then convinces Jerry they must get into the apartment to retrieve it.
While this box set is a short one, episode-wise (largely because Season 1 had only five) it makes up with a myriad of extras, including deleted scenes, bloopers and commentaries.
Even decades later, the humor of this smart show holds up, perhaps even stronger than ever.
Seinfeld Seasons One and Two, 2010-07-17
I am a newcomer to Seinfeld. I knew the basic concept of the show but never watched episodes. Not only is the show impressive, so is this DVD set. Seinfeld really is "the show about nothing", if you're looking for sophisticated humor this isn't it. If that's your type of thing, you should definitely watch Frasier. Even though this DVD set includes season one and season two, there are only eighteen episodes. But the DVD makes up for that with very informative extras which I'll discuss later in my review. I love how the simplest problem could become bigger and bigger as the episode goes on. It's just so entertaining and the cast do an excellent job in my opinion. One of my favorite episodes was from season one entitled "the Baby Shower." But it's hard to describe my favorite part because there are three subplots for Jerry, Elaine and George. And that's another thing, many times the whole episode feels like a subplot but each subplot is combined together brilliantly which makes for fantastic viewing.
The bonus features are some of the best I've seen for a show on DVD, there are just so many. But fortunately it doesn't get confusing finding the one you want. When you select what episode you want to watch on the episode menu, another menu pops up which also lets you select the bonus feature you want to watch that's made for that episode. But if you just want to watch all the extras at once, there is an extras menu which has them all listed there as well. Speaking of extras, here are what the usual extras are for this set. There are audio commentaries with the cast, writers, and creator Larry David, also included with each episode are production notes which will pop up every once in a while, there informative but they can get distracting after a while. There also is a five minute segment featured for most of the episodes called the "Inside Look", which just briefly discusses the episodes plot, and filming it, these are very interesting. The rest are bloopers, promos, some old, hard to find Jerry Seinfeld stand-up footage and an hour long documentary on how Seinfeld was created. In all, just a ton of fantastic interesting bonus features that I'm sure you'll enjoy.
Each disc is placed in a separate slim case and the discs episode descriptions and extras are featured on the back. Down below I'll list season one and two's episode descriptions. Just saying, on the DVD the episodes are listed by production number, I'm listing them by their original airdate. "The Stranded" (Included on this set) was first aired in season three.
The Seinfeld Chronicles (Pilot) - Airdate: 7/5/1989 - Jerry is excited that a woman he met on the road is coming to visit him in New York. However, he has a tough time discerning whether her intentions are romantic or platonic.
The Stakeout - 5/31/1990 - When Jerry goes to a birthday party with Elaine, he meets a woman he'd like to ask out, but doesn't get the chance to. When she leaves before he gets a chance to find out her name, he and George stakeout her office building.
The Robbery - Airdate: 6/7/1990 - When Jerry's apartment gets robbed, he decides to move out. George shows him a great apartment, which he plans to take... that is, until George expresses his own desire for the apartment.
Male Unbonding - Airdate: 6/14/1990 - Jerry ponders a few courses of action when he sees that he no longer has anything in common with a clingy and obnoxious childhood friend.
The Stock Tip - Airdate: 6/21/1990 - Jerry and George invest based on an insider stock tip, but then lose touch with their inside source. A nervous Jerry lets the declining stock ruin his weekend away with Vanessa, while George decides he's all in.
The Ex-Girlfriend - Airdate: 1/23/1991 - Jerry begins to date George's ex - girlfriend before he discovers how clingy she is.
The Pony Remark - Airdate: 1/30/1991 - Jerry worries that he may have killed an old relative, after he offends her with an off-the-cuff comment about hating kids who had ponies growing up.
The Jacket - Airdate: 2/6/1991 - Jerry splurges on an expensive new suede jacket, but the colorful inner lining leaves something to be desired. When Elaine does Kramer a favor, Jerry and George get stuck alone with Elaine's intimidating, curmudgeonly father.
The Phone Message - Airdate: 2/13/1991 - George regrets not going upstairs for "coffee" after a date, and proceeds to leave his girlfriend a series of increasingly embarrassing phone messages.
The Apartment - 4/4/1991 - Jerry helps Elaine get the apartment above his, but later regrets doing so. George's experiment of wearing a wedding band to attract women goes horribly awry.
The Statue - Airdate: 4/11/1991 - Jerry finds a statue in a box of his grandfather's old things that George wants to replace a similar one he broke as a child. When Jerry hires the boyfriend of an author Elaine is working with, to clean his apartment, the cleaning job is spectacular, but the statue goes missing.
The Revenge - Airdate: 4/18/1991 - George quits his job in a huff, but comes to regret the decision, and is later humiliated by his boss. Jerry believes that the man at the Laundromat has stolen a large sum of money from his laundry bag. Employing Elaine's and Kramer's help, respectively, they each plan revenge.
The Heart Attack - Airdate: 4/25/1991 - George thinks he's had a heart attack. The doctor tells him otherwise, but he might want to get his tonsils and adenoids removed. George not wanting to deal with the cost and the procedure decides to take Kramer's advice of going to see a naturalist, which only makes the situation worse.
The Deal - Airdate: 5/2/1991 - Jerry and Elaine establish a new set of ground rules so they can remain friends but still sleep with each other often.
The Baby Shower - Airdate: 5/16/1991 - When Jerry goes out of town, Elaine uses his apartment for the baby shower of a woman George once dated. However, the party goes awry when Kramer shows up to install illegal cable, Jerry's trip is cancelled, and George intends to confront the mother-to-be for mistreating him on their date years earlier.
The Chinese Restaurant - Airdate: 5/23/1991 - Jerry, Elaine, and George endure a series of misadventures while waiting to get a table at a Chinese restaurant.
The Busboy - Airdate: 6/26/1991 - George continuously yet inadvertently meddles in the life of a busboy. Elaine has a man come to visit her for a week and she soon finds is far too long for her liking.
The Stranded - Airdate: 11/27/1991 - Jerry & Elaine go to a party with George, while there they send signals to each other to get out of bad party conversations. Afterward, George abandons them there, when he leaves with a co-worker he has a chance with.
This is a terrific show with a great beginning if you ask me, and I definitely recommend this show to anyone who wants to laugh.
 Fun to watch the show develop, 2009-12-31
Starting with the pilot episode and going through season 2, you get a good glimpse of how the show started off without any direction as far as the characters go and watch Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer develop their nuances that made them so funny. For me, at least, this made the set both funny and interesting.
Perfect gift, 2010-08-23
We LOVE Seinfeld and bought this and gave it away as a gift. It's a perfect birthday or gift idea, we love it. It is the gift that gives lots of laughs.
dont trust seller, 2010-03-04
I dont know whos idea of good shape is a defective product. First of all the box had more then a few scratches,it's falling apart. And second of all 2 of the disc are super scratched. I used to be a manager at a used video store so let me give you some advice, when a scratch goes in a complete circle that is considered a defective disc, there is nothing you can do to repair those. My biggest mistake is I didn't start watching the box set until yesterday so its probably to late to return.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404957466
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404957464
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Discs: 4
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2004-11-23
Running Time: 437
Studio: Sony Pictures |
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