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"seinfeld." >> it ended its run in 1998. theres been no official reunion unless you count this one. >> hey! >> filmed for "curb your enthusiasm." ce developed by "seinfelds" co-creator, larry david. >> yada, yada, yada. >> whats that? >> excuse me. >> "seinfelds" characters live on, just as they were in syndication, impacting the culture. >> not just influences comedy writers, it kind of influenced everything, its like peoples dialogue, peoples references. >> were not gay! not that theres anythi...

>> this is how it ends. >> "seinfeld" ended its run in 1998. theres been no official reunion, unless you count this one. >> hey. >> reporter: filmed for "curb your enthusiasm," the series developed by "seinfelds" co-creator, larry david. >> yada yada yada. >> whats that? >> excuse me? >> reporter: "seinfelds" characters live on, just as they were in syndication. still impacting tv and the culture. >> not just influences comedy writers, it kind of influenced everything. its like peoples dialogue,...

References to johnson and john nunu. it doesnt feel sold with "seinfeld." >> there may be a few things that dont have a reference episode, like cramer is the aol movie phone guy. just tell me the name of the movie you want to see. but aside from that, yeah, it is universal. so much of the humor comes out of social discomfort. it ultimately comes back to selfish self-centered behavior, and how hilarious it is to watch if were not involved. >> thats the thing i want to ask you about, i mean, i kno...

Today. liberty mutual insurance -- responsibility. whats your policy? >> hello, newman. >> hello, jerry. >> hello, yadda, yadda, yadda. >> no soup for you. >> not that theres anything wrong with that. >> you could be a big star. >> the festiveus for the rest of us. >> are you master of your domain. >> queen of the castle. lord of the manor, im out. >> its been 25 years since "seinfeld" hit the hair, she show about nothing turned out to

The computer, act as if youre on reality television. everything you do on the computer is safab saveable. clearly this man did not realize that or hes just -- its just unbelievable that those are types of searches hes doing and this was the end result. >> we have to leave it there. thank you both. good to see you. house speaker john boehner threatening to sue the president for bypassing congress. is it going to help democrats and their fund-raising off it? well have expert analysis from karl r...

The political sacrifices. >> would it have passed in 64 without lbj? >> no, no, no. the congressman from -- that johnson had in seat, he would tell me all these sexist story. but one was very interesting. he said when the president called him and said, jake, you have to vote for it. he said, mr. president, i could lose my seat. he said, you know what he told me? i said, no. he said, jake, i gave you that seat and i can take it away. he had extraordinary power. he used the fbi. he used everything...

Matt zuler writes, quote, seinfeld was never content nearly to amuse. loathing the idea that audiences might get too comfortable with it. david admonished the writing staff that there is no hugging, no learning in the script. and there wasnt ever. seinfeld went out of its way to provoke, baffle and offend. often blasted adds show-offy, cold, even hateful. when georges fiance died from licking envelopes, he got over it with coldness. matt zuler joins me along with john hourly, you know him as ela...

>> it has that comfort food type of idea. it replicates its audience every few years. disney every seven years has a brand new audience to watch all of their entire library. in the same way that every four years, a brand new group of kids get shuffled off to college an they all sit around and watch the same shows together for the first time that theyre all together, i have a feeling that thats part of the ratings success of "seinfeld", the fact it keeps going and going and going. from what i und...

All of the characters, they -- and the four of them would have sold each other out. in any particular episode, they all -- everybody threw each other under the bus all the time. but it was recoverable. >> they would say it to their faces a lot? >> yeah, it was a little like the character that jumps off the cliff in the cartoons, always crashes and he doesnt die somehow. theres a little bit of the recoverability of the injured souls on seinfeld, i guess. >> is that what made it work in part, ther...

Got more support than a lot of folks in washington today. >> yeah, he does. i tweeted out yesterday, he should go on running for president. >> stay cool. luke russert said stay cool. up next, we have a segment that isnt about nothing. the 25th anniversary of "seinfeld." [ brian ] in a race, its about getting to the finish line. in life, its how you get there that matters most.