While some people will prefer some Seinfeld episodes to others, there are always a few that are considered the biggest hits. Fans love The Chinese Restaurant episode and it was hilarious when George pretended to be a marine biologist. Fans can find something funny in most of the episodes, whether it's a smaller plotline involving Kramer and Newman getting up to something silly, or Elaine dealing with another work issue or dating crisis.
Even though Jerry Seinfeld has done a lot of other things in his career, including his popular series Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, fans and critics always going to ask him about Seinfeld. And everyone wants to know which episodes of his famous sitcom are his favorites. Keep reading to find out the Seinfeld episodes that Jerry Seinfeld thinks are the best.
Jerry Seinfeld Enjoys "The Pothole"
Fans always want to hear what Jerry Seinfeld has to say, whether Jerry is commenting on Friends or, of course, sharing secrets about his own popular sitcom.
Jerry Seinfeld did a Reddit "AMA" and talked about the episodes of Seinfeld that he loves.
According to Digital Spy, Jerry said of this episode, "It was really fun to shoot, and it was fun to set Newman on fire.
"And he screamed, 'Oh, the humanity,' like from the Hindenburg disaster. It's one of my favorites."
"The Pothole" is the sixteenth episode of season 8 and it features a few hilarious storylines that fans will recall. At the beginning, Jerry freaks out when he's in the bathroom and the toothbrush belonging to his girlfriend ends up in the toilet. Kramer also decides that he wants to adopt some highway.
But the most memorable plotline is, of course, George losing his keys in a pothole. While that would definitely be a massive problem already, things get worse because the pothole is no longer, well, a hole.
According to Indiewire.com, because the Netflix episodes of Seinfeld have been remastered in the 16:9 ratio, fans can't see the pothole anymore.
"The Rye" Is Also A Great Episode According To Jerry Seinfeld
In the same Reddit post, Jerry Seinfeld also sang the praises of "The Rye," which is another popular episode that has such a large fanbase.
Jerry said that it was great filming the episode at Paramount Studios. He said that the feeling was "wow this is almost like a real TV show." He shared that the first few seasons of Seinfeld "were not successful." The cast and crew filmed all night long.
Jerry continued, "We had this idea of a Marble Rye and we had to shoot it in an outdoor set, and this was a very expensive thing to do, it's like a movie place there at Paramount in LA. Their standing set for New York looks exactly like it, and we thought ' this is where the ADULT shows are, the REAL shows like Murphy Brown.' We felt like we were a weird little orphan show. So that was a big deal for us."
"The Rye" is the eleventh episode of season 2 and definitely one of the most famous. When Susan and George get together with both sets of parents, Frank thinks that a marble rye would be a nice present. But when Susan's parents don't offer it to anyone, Frank wants it again.
Fans remember the hilarious trouble that George and Jerry get into when George has one of his brilliant (but maybe not so brilliant) ideas. George wants to buy another marble rye so Susan's parents think that it never went anywhere. Jerry ends up stealing a rye bread from an older woman.
What Does The Rest Of The Cast And Crew Think?
Larry David loves "The Contest", according to The Hollywood Reporter. When the Seinfeld cast gathered for a fundraiser for the Democratic party in Texas before the 2020 election, Jason Alexander shared that "The Marine Biologist" is the episode that he likes the most.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus said that she loves "Soup Nazi," the season 7 episode when the friends love getting soup from a man named Yev Kassem who is strict about how people should act as they order.
When Jason Alexander appeared on the podcast Inside of You With Michael Rosenbaum, he said that he loved when George reached into his pocket and grabbed Kramer's golf ball. The actor said, “There was a solid minute or more of laughter. That’s a lot of laughing, where you can’t go on, you can’t do the next line, because the audience is laughing that hard? That was huge.”
According to Gothamist, Jerry Seinfeld was interviewed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen and said that he doesn't like the season 3 episode "The Alternate Side." Jerry talked about the main storyline of Elaine dating a man in his 60s who then had a heart attack.
Jerry said, "It was an older guy and we were feeding him on the couch... and I felt very uncomfortable with that episode... It was weird, he was in a wheelchair. It was uncomfortable."
