GANON1025 posted...
As an aside, I'm surprised at how many episodes/plots that I perceived as classic episodes (as in, episodes I knew about before sitting and watching the show all the way through) come from the last two seasons.
So this is actually a hot topic in the Seinfeld community....well, as hot as they can get. When Larry was out, some Seinfeld plots started getting a bit more exotic and surreal, and thus stand out a lot in people's memories. It's not like we didn't have plots like that before, but there was a level of exaggeration in some characters and character traits that weren't as present before.
Some people don't like this shift, some people prefer it. Me, personally.....it's Seinfeld, it's basically always the best thing you could be watching. But it's hard to deny that the season 8 and 9 episodes were more casually memorable on an episode to episode basis, while the season prior had some of the real heavy hitters and better ongoing threads.