‘Seinfeld‘ wrapped things up back in 1998, but that doesn’t mean its vice grip on cultural relevance has weakened any less.
In fact, for a show in which half the storylines could’ve been solved with the addition of mobile phones, we still go absolutely batshit for the thing.
In news that’s likely to make you / your ‘Seinfeld’-lovin’ pal (your dad?) chuckle quietly to yourself, former ‘Seinfeld’ writer-producers David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer wrenched open the vault of storylines that never quite made it out of the NBC writer’s room.
Speaking to EW, they casually revealed that at certain times over the nine neurotic seasons, the Soup Nazi was going to turn out to be an actual Nazi, Frank Costanza was going to require medicinal marijuana for his cataracts, and Kramer was going to launch a business flipping skeletons, buffing up regular ol’ morgue-quality skeletons and selling them to teaching hospitals.
But – and this is subjective, of course – the best storyline that never quite happened is one where the gang gets a change of scenery, but nothing actually changes.
“There was one story that we never got to for any particular reason, but I always loved it,” said Mandel. “Had there been another season, I certainly would have tried to write this, because it was near and dear to my heart. The idea was that Jerry and the gang go on a vacation somewhere — say, Mexico — and they would check into their hotel rooms, and Jerry would end up with a hotel room right across from Kramer’s hotel room, so the hotel-room dynamic would have been the same as the apartments. The entire episode would have taken place in Mexico but everything would have been kind of the same—there would have been a Mexican diner that they sat in. I just thought the idea of taking the building blocks of Seinfeld — the apartments across the hall and the coffee shop — and transporting that to Mexico would be really fun. When Jerry decided to end the show, and I realised there weren’t going to be enough episodes, I was like, ‘Oh God, I wish there was one more season.’”
Have a read of all five lost storylines here.
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