Seinfeld DVD Review - a must buy

I received a month ago the DVDs that contained the seasons 1 to 6 of “Seinfeld”. I had ordered them from Amazon a little bit too late (not that I’d wanted that), but “Seinfeld” was still broadcasted by a local television, and I didn’t considered that a priority. But, that was a really big mistake. I had knew that these DVDs would contain many ‘delicious’ add-ons, but my expecting have been overrun. I did ‘waste’ an entire week browsing the inside-looks, all the bloopers, the exclusive stand-ups and other very fascinating stories.
I’m also a big fan of Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm), so I have been very glad to find out that Larry contributed at the main part of the phenomenal success of the series. Larry confessed that he had a few moments when he did not want to be involved anymore, because of the increasing number of episodes that NBC was demanding.
I could say that I understand him. His last work, Curb Your Enthusiasm, is generally an improvised and genial show. It’s so “Larry David”…

To come back to the “Seinfeld” DVDs, they are perfectly composed and it’s obvious that all the ones that were involved in the show did what they could best so everything be more than all right. I was expecting to some more superficial inside-looks. I was expecting to fewer inside-looks, however. But that was not what I found in my DVDs, I was happy! The audio comments of every episode represent a great amount of work. At the seasons 5 and 6, I remember (though not very well) I bought Gift Box DVD (without thinking too much at what represented the gift itself – I was thinking of a DVD with special features).
Yet, it wasn’t so! I got “The Puffy Shirt”, the well-know pirate shirt which is exposed also at Smithsonian and a block notes with the original scripts of  the two episodes “The Pilot”. It was a wonderful surprise.
I need also to mention Larry Charles, who is, in my opinion, the third important man behind the show. He is also a good friend of Larry’s. Many of his ideas became turning points in the important moments of “Seinfeld”.

The “Seinfeld” DVDs – seasons 5 to 6 – need to be seen by a fan of the show! They are about €130.

And now randomly let’s see what one could find out from the inside looks:

• “The Sniffing Accountant” had really been Jerry accountant, and he had left with $80.000 to spend it on drugs.
• “The Contest” really existed, as Kenny Kramer was telling (he’s the one which inspired the producers for creating the character Kosmo Kramer). It seems that then Larry David won.
• Joe Devola is a real character, with whom Julia Louis-Dreyfus met after the end up of the sitcom. He seemed to really impress her in some way…
• Newman was some neighbor of Kenny Kramer’s and Larry David’s.
• “The Bubble Boy” was inspired by some news read by David in the newspapers. The reactions of the ones affected by this disease were not so agreeable.
• “The Jacket” is almost similar with an experience of Larry David when he was dating the daughter of the writer Richard Yates.

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