With everyone going nuts over
Seinfeld now streaming on Hulu, Time points out that it's natural successor
has been around for 10 years now:
Regardless of the hardware discrepancy, the two shows share an uncommon
lack of reliance on premise. Of course there’s always a premise of some
sort in each episode, but for both shows, it’s really just an excuse to
have the main characters interact with one another and the boundless
collection of weirdos that have a habit of wandering in and out of their
lives. And despite a 294 combined episodes for the two series, nothing
ever really changed in either one. Other sitcoms have marriages and
children and at least some small semblance of growth, but Seinfeld and Sunny
instead turned those tropes on their heads, creating long build-ups to
nothing. Sure, George got engaged, but Susan was dead before they could
tie the knot because she licked too many toxic envelopes. Sweet Dee
(Olson Olson) spent an entire season pregnant but the baby disappeared,
never too be heard from again, as soon as Olson had the child that
compelled the on-screen pregnancy in the first place. Both shows
relished an opportunity to paint themselves into an inescapable corner
and then wriggle their way out of it in the most absurd way possible.
Also, both shows had a singular character who stands in the pantheon of great sitcom characters, both of whom you can't wait to come onscreen every episode.
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