something that you said that kind of reminded me of this. So this is a quote also from the introduction, actually, I think both the quotes that I pulled from the introduction. You write, for much of the decade, Seinfeld was the most popular, most transformative live action show on television. It altered the language and shifted the comedic sensibilities and almost every random episode was witnessed by more people than the 2019 finale of Game of Thrones. Yet, if you missed an episode of Seinfeld, you simply missed it. You had to wait until it was reared the following summer when you could try to manually record it on VHS videotape. If you missed it again, the only option was to go to a public archive in Los Angeles or Manhattan and request a special viewing on 8mm videotape. But of course, this limitation was not something people worried about because caring that much about any TV show was not a normal thing to do. And even if you did, you would pretend you didn't because this was the (36/57)
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