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Soaked in her beer. but the guys behind her ended up with egg on their faces for missing the ball. she is fine by the way. the beer was a total loss. >> looked like it almost hit her in the face. when it comes down. can you imagine walking out of the stadium soaked in beer. we are glad shes okay, but watch the frenzy for the ball as well after -- ooh. >> there it goes. >> she doesnt end up with the ball. if you watch the tape. a little bit further. she is swarmed by kids more interested in the b...

>> you are a french canadian living the american dream in nashville, tennessee. >> yeah. you put that in my head. the american here i am. >> you said you learned a lot watching american television. what are the shows you watched and thought i get that. this may prove you are really a warped guy depending what you watched. hopefully not honey boo-boo. >> no. i watched "full house," "family matters" all of the sitcoms with family values. i was practically raised by american television. the reason ...

Seinfeld. >> wouldnt it be great if you could ask a woman what shes thinking. >> what a world that would be. >> reporter: first called "the seinfeld chronicles" the title later shortened to just "seinfeld." >> the show is about nothing. >> its not about nothing. >> its about nothing. >> of course it wasnt about nothing but it was about the kinds of things that standup comedians talked a lot about but sitcoms generally didnt. issues of how one eats snack foods. >> did you just double dip that chi...

Unfortunately we ran out of cars. >> but the reservation keeps the car here. thats were have you the reservation. >> i know why we have reservation. >> i dont think you do. if you did, i would have a car. >> i have to tell you, that happened to me once and i was reminded of this episode. i dont think i handled it quite as artfully as jerry did. >> another reason why the show lasted so long is that it has these every day situations and finds great humor in the every day situations that connect wi...

>> well, its not about nonothing. >> it was about the kinds of things that stand-up comedians talked about a lot, but that sitcoms generally didnt. issues of, how one eats snack foods. >> did he just double dip that chip? >> issues of shrinkage. >> im really sorry. [ laughter ] >> i was in the pool! i was in a pool! >> reporter: master of your domain, perhaps the most memorable episode "seinfeld" ever did. >> im out. >> well, that was fast. >> it changed television in that it gave us a whole new...

Yada, yada, but heres the story. >> reporter: july 5th, 1989. nbc debuts a new sitcom built around stand-up comedian jerry seinfeld. >> wouldnt it be great if you could ask a woman what shes thinking? >> reporter: first called "the seinfeld chronicles," the title later shortened to just "seinfeld." >> the show is about nothing. >> well, its not about nothing. >> no, its about nothing. >> of course, it wasnt about nothing. but it was about the kinds of things that stand-up comedians talked about ...

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...

Why has itt aged so well compard to other sitcoms. >> 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 ...

Suskern. >> hillary weve known for close to three decades now and so i think theres just really difficult to try to generate excitement, new excitement over anything she has to say because weve been listening to her for 30 years. >> do you think its reflective of the fact that the country wants a distraction from politics and international crises like whats unfolding in iraq? is that one of the reasons why the world cup is resonating so much this time around? >> well, i think when youre talking ...

And being themselves on what we call so-called reality tv, because a lot of that is very much scripted and not scripted but they create the situations to be able to create drama. "leave it to beaver" it all from real life. im not saying all that happened to just one kid but the kernels of each story is something that really happened to kids. >> what do you watch today? >> i hate to tell you, but i watch you guys all the time. for the most part i watch the financial networks answer my wife will t...