How to Become a Seinfeld Expert

"Seinfeld" is one of the most successful sitcoms of all time and is a mainstay on syndicated television. With its immense popularity and frequency of airtime, many casual "Seinfeld" fans may want to know more about the program so that they can understand it better.

Instructions

1. Learn about Jerry Seinfeld. The star of the show played by comedian Jerry Seinfeld himself. Seinfeld's character draws on his own personal experience as an up-and-coming comedian in New York City during the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. The character Seinfeld lives on the Upper West side in a one-bedroom apartment at 181 W. 81st St. and his friends are constantly stopping by. One of the main traits of Seinfeld is that he is sarcastic and always has a witty comeback no matter what the situation. He is also a career bachelor and generally has a different girlfriend every episode.

2. George Constanza is the best friend of Jerry played by actor Jason Alexander. Costanza is best described as a paranoid, balding, dim-witted middle-aged man that lives with his parents. Costanza struggles meeting women. When he does meet women he struggles keeping them as terrible things seems to always happen (think shrinkage in the pool or having to desperately use the restroom while love making). Costanza works as assistant to the traveling manager for the New York Yankees.

3. Cosmo Kramer is Jerry's bizarre neighbor played by Michael Richards. Kramer is arguably the most memorable "Seinfeld" character as his physical humor and funny mannerisms are fan favorites. Kramer doesn't work but seems to always get by. He lives next door to Jerry and does not have a refrigerator so he is constantly "borrowing" his neighbor's food. Kramer has had a variety of strange things happen to him such as spilling scalding hot coffee down his pants in a movie theatre, being selected to model Calvin Klein underwear and getting lost at the corner of 1st and 1st in New York City, a place that he refers to as the "nexus of the universe."

4. Elaine Benes is the on-again off-again girlfriend of Jerry played by actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In early episodes Jerry and Elaine are a couple but break up only to get back together and break up again later on. Benes' character is highlighted by her troubles with men and with dancing. Asked to describe her dancing, Costanza calls it "more of a dry heave set to music."