Seinfeld: Season 9 [DVD]

Possibly the weakest season

Came quick and good quality.

Completing my set

If you like this, watch the comedy Psyche.

After nine hilarious seasons, Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards say goodbye in "Seinfeld: The Complete Ninth Season". "Seinfeld" follows the funny misadventures of stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his close group of eccentric friends going through everyday life in New York City. In the final season, Jerry becomes annoyed when his rival Kenny Bania receives much success as a "time slot hit". George tries to preserve his decades-old high score on a Frogger machine. Elaine gets a big surprise when she is invited to a 13-year-old boy's bar mitzvah. Kramer finds the old studio set from "The Merv Griffin Show" and turns his entire life into a talk show. "Seinfeld" is the award-winning comedy series that became one of the most watched sitcoms on television. The ninth and final season has some very funny moments and clever subplots. The season includes such notable episodes like "The Slicer", "The Betrayal", "The Merv Griffin Show" and "The Dealership". The final episode features numerous cameo appearances, scored sky-high ratings but was heavily criticized by audiences and critics as being mediocre and unfulfilling.Come celebrate the holidays around the Festivus pole and check out "Seinfeld: The Complete Ninth Season". All 24 hilarious episodes of the ninth and final season are presented in their original full screen format. The 4-disc DVD box set contains a clean and nicely detailed picture quality. Its 2.0 Dolby Digital audio is clear and well balanced. One of the most appealing features in the box set is the 20-minute "The Last Lap" featurette that focuses on the final days of the series. Other DVD extras include never-before-seen outtakes, deleted scenes, behind-the scenes interviews with the cast members and creators in the development of the series, production notes and audio commentaries with the cast members and production crew. Overall, "Seinfeld: The Complete Ninth Season" receives an "A-".

Season 9 would be the last Seinfeld season and it ended very strong both in the ratings and creatively. The previous season was still funny but you did notice a dropoff from the previous 5 seasons. However, Season 9 regained a lot of their mojo and a few episodes that you could call among their best such as "The Voice", "The Merv Griffin Show", "The Strike (also known as the Festivus episode)", and "The Frogger". The last feature among the episodes on Disc 1 called "The Last Lap" in which the cast and staff address the end of the show is very insightful. George's neurotic behavior hits new lows on "The Apology" and "The Dealership" while Kramer is at his most hysterical on the aforementioned "The Merv Griffin Show". Other strong episodes include "The Wizard", "The Cartoon", and "The Slicer". The series finale appropriately titled "The Finale" received a lot of criticism but in hindsight was actually decent even if it didn't live up to its mammoth expectations. The special features are top notch as usual and the roundtable with the cast and Larry David on Disc 4 is very good. All told, Seinfeld went out on a high note and Season 9 has a lot to offer.

I'm a Seinfeld addict.It is a long wish come true. I remember the days, when I was searchingfor the ENTIRE series in VCD later DVD form. I found some vendor in UK,but it was outrageously expensive.I resorted to taping the entire series in VHS tapes. I had 12 of them!Once the series started to come on DVD's - it was just unbelievable andeven letting go those almost dead tapes were hard :)Have bought the entire series ( thro' Amazon ), this is surely myprecious collection.The final DVD has one segment in the extras which I like the most -Jerry, Larry David, Elane, George and Kramer talk about the series.The words from Jerry that 'one of the reason I think as why this was sosuccessful was it was so close to reality that every body could relateto'. He is absolutely correct on that point.This was/still is so close and relatable to our daily life that we cansee and feel the humour in it, as we go thro' those moments - roaming ina parking lot, waiting during a dr. appointment, being hungry and waitingin a chinese restaurant, getting marketing calls etc. etc. etc.Hats off to Jerry, Larry and the un-imaginable dialogue-writers, who madethis series so rich and unique.

This is a fantastic conclusion to an epic series. While season 8 was somewhat disappointing, almost every episode in season 9 hits the mark. And there are some real classics here as well, reminding us that right until the very end, Seinfeld was changing the American vernacular. "The Merv Griffin Show", "The Dealership", "The Cartoon", and "The Bookstore" are as good as any episodes in the entire nine years. And "The Strike"—which gave us Festivus—is simply a classic. In my opinion, the final episode is unjustly maligned. It is a perfectly good conclusion to the series. But the penultimate episode—"The Puerto Rican Day"—is terrible, one of the worst in the entire nine-year run. While not necessarily as offensive as many made it out to be, the episode was simply not the least bit funny.Anyway, that notwithstanding, Season 9 is a lot of fun and well-worth watching over and over again.

The final series of Seinfeld; the comedy is broader, more surreal, more obviously (with Kramer and Newman to the fore) a bigger budget for outside locations and physical comedy, and by any standards delivers laughs aplenty.George becomes [even] more obnoxious, Elaine becomes [even] more desperate and Jerry becomes [even more] Jerry. Nothing much is resolved, though we see some backstory - an ingenious, though not particularly original episode, "The Betrayal" is told backwards, with the final scene being Jerry moving into his apartment 12 years previously. But hey ho, we say goodbye to them and the wonderful supporting cast, and as the finale shows, nobody ever learns any lessons, and is out and proud about it. Favourite episodes are the outlandishly bizarre "The Merv Griffin Show", uniquely mostly set in Kramer's apartment, and "The Burning", with Elaine having problems with religion, and George's new tactic, to leave meetings after the first joke (the only one that ever works) - showcases the brilliant writing.So one to watch when you're in the mood for "extreme" Seinfeld, and wonder at how perfect this 9 series comedy show really was.

The pressure was on for this last season to make it special. Everyone was watching, and the staff was constantly expected to up the ante. For the most part, it was business as usual, with more classic episodes such as "The Serenity Now" and "The Strike," which introduced Festivus to the world. There were some format-breaking shows, including "The Betrayal," which channeled Harold Pinter and told the story completely in reverse, and "The Merv Griffin Show," where Jerry's apartment was never even shown. Also, more episodes taking advantage of enclosed spaces/environments, like the car-centric "The Dealership." Jerry goes to buy a car, George gets his candy bar stolen, and Kramer takes an extended test drive.In a way, there were two finales to the season. The first is the penultimate episode. "The Puerto Rican Day" was the last to be written by the writing staff before Larry David's return to put the fork in Seinfeld. Sadly, this very funny episode has been out of circulation due to some controversy surrounding Kramer accidentally setting fire to a Puerto Rican flag. It's too bad, because it's another hysterical trek through an impossible situation. Cut off from their homes by the Puerto Rican Day parade, the gang takes advantage of their confinement in different ways. Elaine tries to escape, George gets chased by a jerk with a laser pointer, Kramer dives into the festivities, and Jerry gets locked into a battle of wills with another driver (Mario Joyner)."The Puerto Rican Day" is followed by the double-length "The Chronicles," a clip show that ran before the extended send-off, "The Finale." Written by Larry David, "The Finale" is the unfairly maligned bow on top of the Seinfeld package. How to finish a nine-year series is a near-impossible challenge, especially when the show was so popular and there was no over-arching story line that could signal the way for the exit. It's very nearly a no-win situation. Expectations are too high, and you can't please everyone.Conceptually, Larry David found a winning premise. In the wake of Princess Diana's tragic death and the paparazzi who didn't lend a hand to help, the French government passed a "Good Samaritan law." In essence, if you saw someone in trouble and did nothing to aid them, you could be held responsible by law. Hearing this, David knew there was no way his fictional avatars would ever survive if such a law would be enacted in America, and so he contrived for them to run afoul of just such legislation in a small Massachusetts town. On trial for videotaping an obese man being carjacked and cracking jokes at his expense, a parade of characters from the nine years of the sitcom stroll into court to testify that there has been an ongoing pattern of indifference and abuse perpetrated by "the New York Four."This trial idea allows the show to revisit some of its top moments, providing a way to sum up the nine seasons it was on the air. It also creates a way to send the characters on their way that is not only big, but different than everything they had done before. A regular episode would not have suited anyone, and with the "no hugging, no learning" policy, there was no chance of a feel-good farewell. In fact, what makes this last show funny is how staunchly they hold to that policy. The failure of Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer to even recognize the gravity of their situation or their own meanness is what really makes "The Finale" funny. Would we have really wanted them to cave in and become normal members of society at the end? Would we have accepted a wedding, or even career success? It seems to me it was either prison or death.EPISODES: * The Butter Shave * The Voice (audio commentary by writers Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, and David Mandel) * The Serenity Now (writer Steve Koren) * The Blood * The Junk Mail * The Merv Griffin Show (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, director Andy Ackerman, and writer Bruce Eric Kaplan) * The Slicer (writers Greg Kavet, Andy Robin, and Darin Henry) * The Betrayal/The Betrayal played in "proper" order (writers David Mandel and Peter Mehlman) * The Apology * The Strike (Jerry Seinfeld, Andy Ackerman, and writer Dan O'Keefe) * The Dealership (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, Patrick Warburton, and director Andy Ackerman) * The Reverse Peephole > (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, Patrick Warburton, and writer/producer Spike Fereston) * The Cartoon * The Strongbox * The Wizard * The Burning (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, Patrick Warburton, and director Andy Ackerman) * The Bookstore * The Frogger * The Maid (Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, and David Mandel) * The Puerto Rican Day (Steve Koren and David Mandel) * The Chronicle (Parts 1 & 2) (with second introduction for the syndicated part 2) * The Finale (Parts 1 & 2)

This set marks the last in the wonderful Seinfeld TV series. While lacking a little compared to the earlier Larry David inspired scripts, these episodes are a fitting final tribute to one of the truly great American comedy shows.A stellar ensemble cast who are really missed after all this time. I now have the complete set and they will stand repeated viewings without much of the inevitable dating that happens to some comedy shows.Jerry did the right thing in refusing to let the show run on and on. Get out on a high note and always leave 'em wanting more !!

Alright i wanted to review Seinfeld 1-9 but i didn't want to review the complete box set as i bought all the seasons individually and duely watched them all within two months...twice. This show is fantastic, and thus i have given this a five star review which applies to the show as a whole, this season and every individual season. It is clear when watching this show just how much it has influenced the sitcom genre since, the characters are loveable despite being incredably selfish people, and the reason we like them is due to writing and re writing of the scripts by Larry David and Jery Seinfeld (if you love the show read the scripts they're spectacular. Its a journey that you will not regret, i guarentee it!

My only gripe with this is the extras could have been more and better and I would have liked a commentary on the finale. Even when Seinfeld was below par it was eaons better than most sitcoms of the time, even now watching it again many years later it stands the test of time. Season 8 and 9 the post Larry David years are markedly more zany, for anyone who hasn't watched Seinfeld before I would recommend season 4 and 5 as the best.