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I'm a huge SEINFELD buff and seen 95% of the episodes....multiple times! It's easy because this show ALWAYS plays somewhere in Norwegian media. It's been going in reruns ever since it first aired in the early 90's and onwards. Early mornings, afternoons, late evenings etc.

Maybe it wasn't as massively popular down on the continent as it was up here?

CURB is good, but it's basically a distilled version of SEINFELD (with more Larry David and less Jerry Seinfeld).

That's interesting because to me it seems the other way round. I guess it's because I watched them in the "wrong order" but Seinfeld seems like the sanitised-for-network-tv version of Curb.

I'm familiar with it being popular and it was very popular here in the UK, personally it was on at a wrong time on a wrong night for me which is why I never watched it.

I *have* seen Seinfeld, and thoroughly dislike it.
Unfunny, plotless goings-on with the most annoyingly hysterical and neurotic (in the most painfully unfunny way) New York freaks you have ever seen. Most of the dialogue involve shouting, facial and body twitches that wouldn't be amiss if the entire cast was being subjected to shock therapy, and the most unnatural, uncomfortable intonation and inflection this side of Scooby Doo's Shaggy.

I greatly prefer the acerbic Curb Your Enthusiasm, in which the main character is actually supposed to be unlikable.

The ONLY funny episode of Seinfeld I have ever seen is the one in which one of the hapless group unwittingly starts a style trend by eating a Mars bar with knife and fork.
That's it.
The rest is terrible. Terrible.

Love it. Brilliant
Almost as enjoyable as finding the entire cast of Friends tracking canine faeces on your carpet.

Glad to see at least one other SEINFELD fan here. I'm flabbergasted by the rest of the crowd here. Maybe it's one of those relatively few cases where Scandinavian and US comedy sentiments mesh particularly well?

There's a lot of US comedy I do like. Of the mainstream sitcoms, I thought Frasier was outstanding.

Never seen that.

Of current ones, I think both The Middle and Modern Family are surprisingly witty.

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You can't have watched much ITV.

The Middle went downhill after season one which is by far the funniest. Touchwood Modern Family is still going strong.

Will and Grace took me a while to get into, but once I got used to it I liked it too.

It's a brilliant show that was cut off prematurely (like 99% of my favourite shows).

Indeed.