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>> george, im hungry. >> hang on, ma. hang on. >> once you do 30 minutes on masturbation, you can pretty much get away with anything. >> i guess youll be going back to that hospital. >> my mother, jerry. >> but are you still master of your domain? >> i am king of the county. >> the week after that aired, people were talking about that in the workplace the entire week. they still are talking about it. 52 seconds and two of the greatest words in sitcom history. >> im out. >> one of the shorthand d...

Tgif was on abc on friday. and it was their block of family-oriented comedies. >> i cant take it. i need the cake. >> michelle. michelle. >> it was not sophisticated television. but these were shows that people adored. >> cbs. >> cbs was in a really bad spot. they had just fallen apart over the early part of the 90s and they had gone through a couple different network executives. but then suddenly, they had this hit with an unknown comic. this was the era of "seinfeld." no hugging, no learning. ...

They said were committing to four episodes. >> yes, yeah, right. four episodes. >> normally its 13 or eight or something. >> yes, at least. >> we really didnt think they had too much confidence in the show. >> we didnt think it would work, but we thought they had to go through their process and they would learn and ultimately they knew better than we did. >> my mother caught me. >> caught you? doing what? >> you know. i was alone. >> the turning point for "seinfeld" from like nice show that all ...

Generation x, the 20 somethings, boomerangers, whatever the 46 million young souls are called are turning out to be hard sell. >> in the 90s, what we realized is advertisers would pay premiums for college educated young adults 18 to 49. we started reinventing nbc and trying to speak to that audience. >> where is someone? im starving. >> this is him right here. >> is there a table ready? >> the chinese restaurant was one of the very, very early episodes of "seinfeld." and truly nothing happened i...

New trend about gender reveals. it is amazing, right? >> some people thought we planned it. i was so mortified. thank you, jessica, for being such a great sport. some people thought kennedy was pregnant. kennedy is not pregnant that we know. >> bill: the transcript is fun year than a seinfeld episode. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. dueling headlines this hour give americans passage home. also president biden looks to shift to a new topic and fast. im harris faulkner. republicans expr...

Undemocratic and republicans are able to run the board on voting rights, thats game over, guys. thats it. thats the ball game. it frustrates me. you ask me how i think -- i think part of the thing and i will shut up in a second, but i think it was always going to be hard without that kind of focus and that kind of determination. if you think about now what is happening, you had lamire on last hour talking about the complexities biden is now facing on the domestic policy front and it will be hard...

Successful series. its sure as hell not the way to end a successful series, unless its "seinfeld." there were letters, calls, bills, i didnt know where to start. i submitted an application and within two days had $30,000 in my account. we built this house behind us with a sofi personal loan for $100,000 our most important sofi loan was actually to pay for this guy here. through my experience with sofi, its lifted kind of that shame of debt. and its lifted the debt, which has also helped immensel...

>> one of the top all-time sitcoms, "seinfeld." yeah. >> are we finished? >> done. >> at the core of every sitcom, you do have a family. whether it is a blood family or a found family. you know, in the case of "friends" or "seinfeld." >> as new generations emerge from baby boomers to gen x to millennials to gen z, we see those changes reflected in the "friends" sitcom. >> you look back at the rise of the "friends" sitcom. it happens as we sit the 70s at a moment at which divorce rates in the cou...

>> im out. >> what? >> yeah, im out. im out of the contest. >> ugly, naked guy is having thanksgiving dinner with ugly, naked gal. >> "friends" or "seinfeld"? you want me to choose? >> i cant answer that. so subjective. >> challenge accepted. >> contest? a contest? >> "seinfeld" will win, i think. >> "seinfeld" was smart. >> "seinfeld" is a brilliant half-hour of television. >> i loved "seinfeld." >> you come to expect their dickishness. >> you want to play rough? we can play rough. >> i love "f...

Going, turn over to channel 4. you got to see what theyre doing. and thats where, i think, the ultimate success of this show was born. >> its over. >> youre out? >> oh, my god, the queen is dead. >> in the 90s, the world is literally changing overnight. and here are these four people grounded in their adolescence. >> you mean shrinkage? >> yes. >> theyre not trying to be good people. >> and everybody recognized some part of themselves in them and went, i -- i think i love these guys. >> george i...