Kids who grew up seeing 'Seinfeld' on TV may not have been interested much. It did seem kind of dull to most '90s babies. But being that Jerry Seinfeld and the show's executive producer Larry David are both huge stars today, the show clearly did something right.
The sitcom ran from 1989 to 1998, and it was surprisingly successful, despite plenty of millennials protesting when their parents switched it on. And there's no denying that Jerry himself can be pretty hilarious.
Jerry did have a significant hand in developing the material on the show, and he seemed to know what he was doing. The show really helped shape the culture of its day. At times, it could even be a bit edgy. Well, for the '90s anyway.
And yet, stars of the show like Julia Louis-Dreyfus haven't even seen all of the episodes, perhaps by choice. But there was at least one episode that will never see the light of day, Jerry once confessed.
Why? Because the cast and crew realized that it just missed the mark.
To learn more, fans had to dive into their favorite haunt: celebrity AMAs on Reddit. The truth is, there's always a lot to learn from celebrities themselves. And what better way to get the low-down on whether any episode of 'Seinfeld' was ever scrapped because it "pushed the limits too far"?
One Redditor/fan asked just that, and Jerry gave an unabashedly honest answer. Which is interesting, considering that journalists often find it hard to interview Jerry in the first place. He's not exactly an open book, even if he does base a lot of his comedy on his own life.
Anyway, Jerry admitted that there was an episode where his character bought a firearm. But the crew started working on the episode, got halfway through it, and realized "this doesn't work," said Seinfeld.
In fact, Jerry said they did the read-through but called it quits after. He did say that some other things happened before that point, but the bottom line was, "trying to make that funny ended up being no fun."
It's an intriguing storyline for a sitcom that focuses on subtle hilarity, but that would've been quite a daring episode for its era. At the same time, it's a delicate topic that is probably better handled in ways other than comedic.
That said, Redditors pointed out that it seems like a lot of scrapped ideas from other shows worked their way into modern sitcoms. For example, fans found similarities between 'Always Sunny in Philadelphia' storylines and the ones tossed into the 'Seinfeld' trash.
It seems that modern TV is a bit more open-minded about such topics and storylines, even if it doesn't necessarily handle them well.
