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And where did you get that info?

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Didn't millennials watch it growing up? Someone's not getting their generational terms right
- Hell, I was even old enough when it was airing to think it was overrated then.
  
  Seinfeld is one of the best sitcoms of all time.
  
  See, that's the real issue. I don't have a problem with acknowledging it's high concept, ocassionally funny and mostly easy watching.
  But everybody insisting it's endless comedic, best-sitcom-ever brilliance is overrating it. It's overrated.
  
  It's not overrated. It set the standard. It's easy to call it overrated when you live in world influenced by it. It's like calling the Model T overrated as a car. There's even a TVTrope for this concept. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny
  
  Exactly. Seinfeld isn't funny now because all the shows after it copied it. When Seinfeld came out, it was revolutionary. No one was doing that humor. They invented it. Now, everyone and their mother has copied them, so it's played out. And since all these newer sitcoms had time and previous examples to improve on, they do it better, so Seinfeld looks lame by comparison. However, when I as a millennial was watching Seinfeld when it was being originally aired, I thought it was great.
  
  Oh, hell, no. It's not like Seinfeld invented sitcoms, or even modern sitcoms. It's not the Model T, it's the Ford Escort. Maybe.
  And I'm not saying it's unfunny, I'm saying it's a solid 90s sitcom that for some reason people are out here saying is the Model T of sitcoms. I feel like the level of hyperbole puts the burden of proof elsewhere.
  And it's also not a case of it now being standard, because I assure you I've had this opinion since it was airing. I very much was of the batch of people who flip-flopped on Family Guy, but I was in the "Seinfeld was mid" camp before anybody ever called anything "mid".
  
  Agree to disagree then
  
  Been agreeing to disagree on this one for like 35 years, I'm good with that.
  
  Underrated comment
  
  An extremely 90s take.
  Real heads will know the genre peaked with Cheers.
  
  Ok, maybe I just don't like sitcoms.
  
  I didn't necessarily mind it, but Jerry's awful standup shoved in there on the other hand...
  
  Yeah that is funny. It's like Dee doing her standup except Seinfeld is more subdued and not gagging.
- Generational labels tend to divide by arbitrary boundaries more than actually give you insightful information about something exclusive to the group.
  
  Sounds like someone’s born on a cusp. Or right in the middle.
- lol, yes
- To boomers and idiots, millennials just means “younger than me”
  
  Same goes for younger generations. Everyone old is a boomer.
- The years for Millennials go up to 94-96, Seinfeld finished in 98. I doubt many that young would have seen it. I was born in 86 and I barely watched Seinfeld re-runs.
  
  Seinfeld was hugely syndicated. I was born in the 90s and watched tons of reruns of it. I think they played it after or before the Simpsons which my family always watched.
  
  Yeah same I watched reruns of Seinfeld every weeknight growing up from '98-05 at least if not later
  
  I was born in 84 and have seen every episode multiple times. Except the clip shows, because once you figure out that's what's happening you know better next time around and skip them.
  
  I was born in 92 and have probably seen almost every episode. Idk if it's generational or if it's just person to person.
  
  Of course it's a person to person thing.
  
  The years for Millennials go up to 94-96
  ?? What do you think millennials were doing after 1996? Did they just phase out of existence?
  I was born in 86 and I barely watched Seinfeld re-runs.
  People had Seinfeld on in my college dorm during the mid-00s. It was one of the most syndicated shows of its era. If you remember 9/11, you remember Seinfeld.
  
  I commented on someone who seemed to think that millennials wasn't the correct generation because millennials must have grown up watching Seinfeld. Many did, but many didn't. I know many people around my age that didn't watch it so it's fairly safe to assume that people who were 2-4 years old when the show ended might not have seen it, even re-runs. Remembering it and watching it enough to have an opinion on it are two different things.
- It's not like every millennial watched it growing up. It's not inconceivable that there are millennials who are seeing it now for only the first time and find it offensive.
  
  I mean, it was genuinely hard to avoid for a while there.
  Gen Z, maybe.
  
  My partner is a millennial and she had never seen Seinfeld until we first watched it together a few years ago. It's not that inconceivable to imagine not everyone grew up watching the same things as you.
  
  No, it's definitely fine and possible. A thriving industry of Youtube reaction channels hinges on that plausibility. It's just the concept of the OP's headline implying it's a generational thing when it definitely isn't.

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