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>> but then suddenly they had this hit with an unknown comic. this was the year of seinfeld, no hugging, no learning, and this was a show being made as if it was produced in the era of the dick van dyke show. >> i love you. >> there was hugging. there was learning. >> i love you, son. >> all right, all right. >> if you worked for me, your job was to go home, get in a fight with your wife and come back in and tell me about it. >> dont sleep on the couch. i just cleaned down there. >> in fact, the...

Million young souls are called are turning out to be kind of a hard sell. >> in the 90s, what we realized is advertisers would pay premiums for college educated young adults 18 to 49. and 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 in the episode. they were waiting for a table. >> ...

So we didnt really think that 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 of the cool people kind of know about but thats it to massive hit was an episode called "the contest" where they tried to abstain from ...

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 descriptions of "seinfeld" is no hugs, no lessons. lets push it a little furt...

It was their block of family-oriented comedies. >> i cant take it. i need the cake. >> it was not sophisticated television. but these were shows that people adored. [ laughing and snorting ] >> cbs. >> cbs was in a really bad spot. they had just fallen apart over the early part of the 90s and had gone through a couple different network executives. >> but then suddenly they had this hit with an unknown comic. this was the year of seinfeld, no hugging, no learning, and this was a show being made a...

Than we did. >> my mother caught me. >> caught you? doing what? >> you know. i was alone. >> the turning point for "seinfe "seinfeld" from nice show that all of the cool people know about but thats it to massive hit was the episode called "the contest" where they try to abstain from self-pleasure for as long as possible. >> 6:30, time for your bath. >> george, im hungry. >> hang on, ma. hang on. >> once you do 30 minutes on masturbation, you could pretty much get away with anything. >> i guess y...

Trying to speak to that audience. >> where is someone? im starving. >> right here. >> is there a table ready? >> the chinese restaurant was one of the very, very early episodes of "seinfeld." truly nothing happened in the episode. they were waiting for a table. >> i feel like walking over there and taking food off of somebodys plate. >> we said to larry david, hey, nothing happens. larry was offended. he was like, wildly owe feffeno >> nbc believed in the show. they said, were committing to four...

Your domain? >> i am king of the county. >> the week after that aired, people were talking about that this the workplace the entire week. >> they still are talking about it. 52 seconds. two of the greatest words in sitcom history. >> im out. >> one of the shorthand descriptions of "seinfeld" is no hugs, no lessons. lets push it a little further than its ever been pushed before. i think the big breakthrough was the characters were not nice people. >> someone help. >> shut up you old pig. >> they ...

>> we certainly associate nbc of the 90s of having extremely successful sitcoms but they werent the only network that found their way to having some success. tgif was on abc on friday, and it was their block of family-oriented comedies. >> i cant take it. i need the cake. >> it was not sophisticated television. but these were shows that people adored. [ laughing and snorting ] >> cbs. >> cbs was in a really bad spot. they had just fallen apart over the early part of the 90s and had gone through ...

>> its the top of our wedding cake. >> noiits not a scrapbook. its a freezer. >> we certainly associate nbc of the 90s having successful sitcoms. but they werent the only ones. tgif was on nbc on friday and it was their block of family oriented comedies. >> i cant take it. i need that cake. >> it was not sophisticated television. but these were shows that people adored. [ laughing ] >> cbs. >> cbs was in a really bad spot. they had just fallen apart over the early part of the 90s and had gone th...