Welcome to the Project!

This project begins with one unassailable assumption: Seinfeld is the greatest television show of all-time. This is undoubtedly true. I was a mere lad of 8 years old when the pilot, under the working title of The Seinfeld Chronicles, premiered in 1989. I was a 17 year old high school junior while watching the finale, joining the conspiratorial discussions about the meaning of the final scene of the show. In between, over 180 original episodes of the show aired, and I didn't see most of them during the original run. I'm pretty sure that the reason was because my parents wouldn't allow me to watch it.

After the show's run ended on NBC in May 1998, countless hours of my life have been spent watching, thinking about, discussing, and (of course) quoting the greatest television show of all time. That shouldn't come across as being as lame as it ultimately does; most of my best friends enjoy the show as much as I do, so it's something over which we are able to bond. This is why the show is the best; after being off the air for 11 years, it still seems as fresh and hysterical to me as it did the first time seeing each episode. For some people, the show has been tarnished by events occurring after the show's end (Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Michael Richards' racist rant being the two most prominent). This fortunately hasn't been true for me.

The goal of this blog is to combine two passions of mine: the greatest television show of all time, and lists. I think most Seinfeld aficionados have thought through their favorite episodes of the show before; it's a favorite pastime of mine. However, it's really difficult to come up with a list of top ten episodes just off the top of one's head. Therefore, I am going to come up with a systematic ranking of every episode. There is a very specific set of criteria which I am going to use; in fact, I would call it a rubric. There will be categories, and points, and descriptions of how the episode can achieve the highest score in each category. The scores will be tallied and kept, and a rank order of all episodes will be achieved. I have to give credit to my friend Keith for this; he had started to do this a couple of years ago, and I loved the idea. We were going to do it simultaneously but it hasn't happened yet; maybe this will be the impetus for him to join me. I have tweaked Keith's system a bit. The system will be unveiled in the next post (I am still finalizing it).

Until then..."that's it for me, you've been great!"