‘Seinfeld’ Season One Premiered 22 Years Ago Today
via Gothamist:
The plot of “The Stake Out” was based on a real life incident of Larry David, as he discusses in the clip below. The episode also features the formation of George Costanza’s greatest pseudonym/fake personality, architect Art Vandelay:
Nine years later, NBC was offering Seinfeld over $100 million to do a season 10 of the show, but he decided to bow out: Seinfeld told Littlefield, “‘I don’t have a life, I’m not married, I don’t have kids.’ We gave it everything we had, he was tempted, but in the end it was a quality of life decision.” There was a disastrous finale, and three years ago, a second pseudo-finale during Curb Your Enthusiasm season 7:
