I don't get him or you.

Seinfeld2000 was hilarious at the beginning when it was more overtly mocking Modern Seinfeld and the desperation behind their tweets. Now I find it has sort of become what the account was initially mocking and relies too much on dumb topical jokes/photoshops.

I still prefer it to Modern Seinfeld though, which is awful. I hate how it mines our nostalgia for Seinfeld for laughs and rarely does anything other than add some random tech references or horrendous topical jokes. It almost makes me wish Seinfeld had never been made.

But it's still the character who's doing all these dumb topical jokes that he thinks would make meaningful Seinfeld scenes. Sure there's a lot of misses but that's with any comedy. It hits hard often enough. The Bee Movie stuff used to drag it down for me but I've accepted that he's this dude who is obsessed with anything related to Jery and that Bee Movie is quite meaningful for him. And "what if seinfeld was marvel" is a masterpiece:



He also comes up with dark gems sometimes like this recent one:

i simply have no idea what's going on in that baltimore jones post. it's like i'm reading a foreign language.

Seinfeld2000 often does a great job mocking how hacky Modern Seinfeld's stuff is. That Sony post is probably not the best one to use as an example though.

I just learned of this twitter yesterday and found it entertaining, but I could see how it might get old fast. But I'll always treasure Seinfeld the show no matter what. Literally the best tv comedy to ever air.

If you take the tweets for what they're supposed to be they're hilarious. The entire point is to bring topical and tech references into the picture and imagine how a Seinfeld episode might revolve around them, so criticizing them for that makes very little sense.

Not all of them are hits and not all of them are particularly creative but I could actually envision some new Seinfeld episodes featuring some of these plots. One upping Baltimore Jones by calling it awful? That just makes you look dumb and pretentious.

Yeah, I think everyone gets the point of Modern Seinfeld. It's an awful premise. It's inherently derivative and it's executed as lazily as possible. This is basically a thread praising the world's worst cover band.

You don't care for it? Great. A lot of people find it hilarious. It's interesting how it was unanimously praised in this thread up until a few jackasses decided to flip the script and call it the worst thing ever. And lazy? It's a twitter account, not a screenplay.

You people are what's wrong with the internet.

wtf at liking Seinfeld and not modern Seinfeld Twitter account

It's golden

Yeah. How could anyone like Seinfeld and not like someone repeating infinitely less funny versions of his jokes. Anyway at least now I have a better idea what kind of people keep making those Setzer-Friedberg spoof movies profitable.

You're that guy. We get it. Move along now.

The guy who isn't an easily amused idiot? Guilty as charged.

I mean, my bigger problem is I don't think most of the plots proposed by the Twitter account are actually funny. I think the account and people who like it don't really get what actually made Seinfeld great. I loved the show because of the characters and because it was relatively risky comedy, which is the exact opposite of these cookie-cutter tweets where the joke is about Jerry not being able to send text messages or something.

I guess I also just don't see the value in imagining Seinfeld today. Seinfeld was great and it's still great. We don't need some random guys from Buzzfeed to "update" the show for us.

FWIW, Larry David agrees. http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2...odern-seinfeld

Easily amused idiot? Perhaps not. Smug, arrogant douchebag? Most definitely.

A lot of the plots in the actual show wouldn't sound all that funny if you had to describe them in less than 140 characters. The humor comes from imagining the characters in those situations and how it might play out. While some are definitely lazy and could have an endless amount of modern references in it's place instead with the same effect (the Subway tweet with Jackie comes to mind), there are a bunch that actually took some thought and creativity to make work.

Lecturing people on what made Seinfeld great really isn't a good look, and I don't even think it's 'riskyness' is what made it great at all. If that were the case it would have lost something over the years because by today's standards there's nothing risky about it, yet it hasn't aged a bit. Also, some of the best episodes had plots or subplots that were extremely tame even for the standards of TV at the time. What made Seinfeld great was how any situation could be hilarious given the right setup. FFS the show is heavily influenced by Jerry's standup and there is nothing controversial or edgy about his material at all.

I don't care whether you like it or not, but coming into the thread to tell everybody how terrible it is because of this supposed 'superior understanding' of Seinfeld is just completely AIDS infested posting. That more than anything is what I take issue with. Comedy is extremely subjective and different things appeal to different people. Respect that.

As for LD agreeing with you, well not really. The interviewer took one of the lamer ModernSeinfeld tweets that even I don't find funny and asked him what he thought about it. Nice attempt at appealing to authority though.

aislephive clearly owning thread.
the pretension of some of the ppl judging a twitter parody account is astounding.

there's a decent level of skill in those modern seinfeld tweets and they are pretty funny. the fake louie eps is initially a decent concept but was just pure noun replacement, which is no doubt why the guy did about 20 and quit.

For those of you a bit slow on the uptake, I'll post a more concrete example of why @SeinfeldToday is objectively awful and @Seinfeld2000 is sublime.

On August 27th, your beloved Modern Seinfeld (it's really cute btw that the real author names are now listed) posted the following:

So sure, a decent idea behind it. His choice of words is extremely odd though as he used the actual un-bleeped f-word. What's that about? That doesn't fit with a 1990's sitcom at all, even if it were still on NBC today. In general the language of this tweet is quite poorly constructed, not least of all because the phrase as the kids say it now is "Netflix and chill". The thing that really brings this tweet down though is that on June 11th, 2.5 months before this, the phenomenal @Seinfeld2000 posted this:

Then followed up with this a bit later:



So Modern Seinfeld officially stole the joke, and not only did they steal it but they did a significantly worse job of it.

Modern Seinfeld may wind up being the downfall of Western Civilization.

Listen. If you're a big enough fan of Seinfeld that you care about this moronic Modern Seinfeld thing, at least subscribe to @Seinfeld2000. Let the tweets come and let yourself slowly get acclimated to the waters, and at some point it's going to click. You'll never look back

So you cherrypicked one example out of hundreds of tweets? And the Seinfeld 2000 take on it wasn't even that funny either? Case closed guys. Lock it up.

ModernSeinfelds was better there imo.

This thread confuses me, people are intellectually critiquing a joke twitter account. What's the world coming to

Thanks to OP though, the ModernSeinfeld tweets are awesome.

Huh? I can post every single one for the last year and none of them will be funny or insightful. It's possible they were funny at one time, but either due to change in ownership (who are, in addition to being awful, now very self-promoting which hurts the joke) or to the fact that most intelligent people get tired of it after a couple of months, they no longer are.

The reason why ModernSeinfeld objectively sucks is because they are joke-stealing scum.

From a humor analysis standpoint their version is awful for dropping a completely out-of-place f-bomb and not using the correct phrasing of "Netflix and chill".

Is it a better use of time to intellectually critique Shakespeare or Breaking Bad or Arrested Development? It's a new form of humor and there's plenty of brilliance to talk about.

Archie Comics knows what's up btw:

Seinfeld Current Day ‏@Seinfeld2000 Aug 27

TAYLOR SWIFT: id like to bring out a special guest, Michael Richards!!

Krame come out

crowd go INSANE

he grab mic

start yelling N word

Don't think I can embed it because it's not a YouTube video, but check out what @Seinfeld2000 did with Kanye's speech:

http://nerdist.com/kanye-wests-vmas-...seinfeld-bass/

https://instagram.com/seinfeld2000/

gold