“Seinfeld” is widely recognized as one of the largest sitcoms of all time Due to its ingenuity to get out of its television constraints. Whether it is an episode that takes place in a single place like “The Chinese restaurant” or television taboos with a masturbation competition (which never even says the word), the NBC comedy continued to innovate. All this makes sense when you remember that the show was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, both actors throwing all these crazy ideas to see what sticks. “Seinfeld” has certainly had its missteps along the wayBut for the most part, its plots and gags began to settle in the Zeitgeist of Pop culture. It took time, however, for the spectacle to really become the phenomenon of water cooler for which it remembers.

Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), George (Jason Alexander), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Kramer (Michael Richards) quickly became the kind of chaotic, but memorable television characters who did not respect the fellows of life lessons or moral landing. It was really unpredictable what type of predication they were going to get started afterwards. As “breast” had reached his fourth season, he had gone to the races, with some considering it the best season of the program overall.

In addition to having infamous episodes like “The Bubble Boy”, season 4 was really supported on multi-episodes arches, the most famous being Jerry and George trying to sell their comedy pilot in NBC. But, like Clockwork, they would come up against a kind of roadblock in the process, which would cause its other delay. The end of season 3 culminated with a cliffhanger with Kramer who rises and left New York to go and live in Los Angeles. “Seinfeld” would feel naked without kramer among the whole, so it was not so much a question of if they would bring it back, and more a question of how. The premiere of season 4 “The Trip” was a hilarious two parts who saw Jerry and George head towards Los Angeles and inadvertently wrapped in Kramer to be mistaken with a local serial killer called “Smog Strangler”.

Most programs with 22 episode stretching often make their debut in the fall around September in order to adapt to all these air states of the following year, but “The Trip” was one step ahead of everyone due to a global event that viewers were already stuck.

It might surprise you to learn that NBC was not just The “Seinfeld” house (shocking, I know), but it was also the central center to broadcast the Olympic Games. From July 29 to August 9, the 1992 Games took place in Barcelona, ​​Spain, with all eyes on the famous network to broadcast the three-week athletics section in the United States. In a DVD fectionThe writer “Seinfeld” Larry Charles explains how NBC saw the notes bend down as the ideal opportunity to obtain more eyeballs on “Seinfeld” by increasing the first of season 4 A month earlier:

“”[NBC executive] Warren Littlefield wanted to enjoy the Olympic Games as a kind of platform for the show, and Larry [David] was just not really in a mood to do that. And he said, “If you want to do it, go for it and do it”. So, once again, it gave me the opportunity to be ambitious and to explore and experiment, and the idea of ​​an episode in three parts which would actually be completed with the opening of the following season really interested me. “”

“The Trip” would end up being two parts, but it was a successful gambit, however, collecting 16.3 million viewers in the process. What is most interesting in this strategy, however, is that “part 1” broadcast on August 12, 1992, three days after the end of the summer Olympic Games. You think you would like to broadcast your new hot property just after the day for the day to enjoy viewers. Loving special episodes or future pilots is a tactic that networks use all the time with events like the Academy Awards, Grammys and the Super Bowl. We all remember the “animal practice”, right? But in this case, everything was already over.

If anything, it has at least given “Seinfeld” an advantage over everyone, in particular with “part 2” broadcast the following week on August 19. Season 4 would continue from this point more than a month later on September 16.

Each episode of “Seinfeld” is currently broadcast on Netflix.