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Before there was Friends, there was Seinfeld.

I think the major difference between the two is that Seinfeld still holds up a quality TV if you watch it today, whereas Friends…

You don’t care about what I think about Friends, so let’s leave that alone.

A YouTuber called Jon Lott actually uploaded these bloopers in September last year, but they flew largely under the radar until now.

Here’s how he came to obtain them:

I found this DVD of Seinfeld bloopers at a flea market. It had a clearly homemade DVD cover, and an unmarked DVD inside. The video quality is pretty lousy, but most of these bloopers didn’t make into the official Seinfeld DVD blooper reels.

This video was ripped from a DVD produced in 2000, and consists of unseen bloopers and outtakes from many seasons of Seinfeld. I suspect this DVD was a bootleg copy of a Seinfeld blooper disc distributed to the cast & crew soon after the series ended.

80 minutes of watching your favourite characters bungle their lines? Sure, a whole bunch of free time has just opened up:

Hardcore fans may know a few of these factoids, but here are some interesting tidbits about the show via NewsAU:

Jason Alexander wasn’t the first choice to play George Costanza.

David Letterman’s former musical sidekick, Paul Shaffer, revealed in his autobiography that Jerry Seinfeld originally offered him the role before the show debuted in 1989…

There were 180 episodes in total but Seinfeld has two favourites in particular.

“One was the The Rye, because we got to shoot that at Paramount Studios in LA which was the first time that we thought, ‘wow this is almost like a real TV show’,” Seinfeld said during a Reddit AMA.

“We hadn’t felt like a real TV show, the early years of the TV show were not successful … We felt like we were a weird little orphan show. So that was a big deal for us”…

The only line that Jerry Seinfeld likes to quote from the show is: “If you’re one of us, you’ll take a bite”.

“It’s a very obscure line,” Seinfeld said on Reddit, “but George was working at some company where they all had lunch together, and he wasn’t trying the apple pie, and the boss finally says, ‘If you’re one of us, you’ll take a bite.’

“A lot of times kids won’t want to try certain foods, and so I’ll use that line.”

And now you know.

I hope you enjoy wiling away 80 minutes of your day in relative peace.

[source:newsau]