Many sitcoms have had their time under the spotlight, to disappear from cultural conscience because they have aged badly or mixed in the peloton. “Seinfeld”, the revolutionary comedy NBC on a group of friends who bring problems to the one on their orbit, is not one of these programs. Presented as a sitcom on how an actor gets his equipmentLarry David and Jerry Seinfeld broke the television mold with episodes that fired countless possible jokes from this simple but fruitful idea. It was far from being a show on “nothing”.

“Seinfeld” stands out among the richness of sitcoms of the 90s because he was not afraid to take risks and to experiment, that stories concern tolerance for masturbation or double dive to a chip during a funeral reception. However, some of the funniest moments of “Seinfeld” were each time the show was just going to break and everything that made writers laugh. In the “Seinfeld” world, viewers have grown up to learn that great jokes could come from familiarity in a daily setting or something bizarre that is hidden in the brain of an actor.

As is the case with other venerated sitcoms as “parks and recreation” and the American restart of “The Office”, ” NBC sitcoms were generally necessary to find their foot and build a feeling of identity after their first season. But one of the funniest gags in the series occurred in the episode of season 2 “The Baby Shower”. It was one of the first examples of the show introducing individual plots for Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), George (Jason Alexander), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Kramer (Michael Richards), to make them coaloguate at the end.

The episode sees Elaine organizing a baby shower which takes place in the apartment of Jerry and George worrying about a chocolate sauce sweater from a bad date, while the funniest intrigue implies that Kramer sells Jerry on an illegal cable connection. Jerry reluctantly accepts Russian friends Slobish from Kramer who install more than 56 cable channels on his television. In the following scene, however, something strange happens: Jerry obtains a quick visit to the FBI concerning the connection. The scene is played relatively straight without laughing, followed by the namesake of the show which is hilarious shot in his apartment. As an actor, Seinfeld had trouble going through the sequence, not because of the content itself, but because of the way Richards delivered his line.

Just after the FBI agents blown away Jerry with the exaggerated fervor with a crowd, Kramer runs towards his neighbor, the crash in his arms and shouts: “What did you do to my little cable?” In a stupid DVD stupid for the first two seasons, you will see this moment receiving a certain number of sockets because Jerry simply cannot hold his laugh while being shaken by Richards as he says.

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It must be difficult to work in comedy because you are surrounded by wall jokes, but cannot laugh directly from them and ruin a good grip. Sometimes the act of being a professional breaks down and you just can’t suffocate this laughter. On Jerry’s credit, it’s a very funny moment that follows a really unexpected scene.

Making that the FBI questions Jerry on the cable looks like what it would be riveted with comic potential, but the fact that they do not even hesitate to “kill” the main character without a second thought is a shock, even if it is only a dream sequence. “Seinfeld” is not exactly the kind of spectacle that lends itself to the constant danger of the characters, as much as the people around them.

The episode offers a perceptive overview of a period when cable flight was this great taboo, because it was only a few months earlier the same year when “the Simpsons” approached the subject with “Homer and Lisa against the eighth command”. I also think it’s funny that “breast” follows “The Deal”, the episode in which Jerry and Elaine decide to go out with By not only rushing this route, but showing that the main character was violently full of lead on national television.

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