Honestly the brains behind the most of the comedy in Seinfeld is Larry David, who either wrote about his own personal experiences getting into absurd situations he finds himself in, as an extremely wealthy and privileged guy that I'm 99% certain is an undiagnosed autistic - hence the constant social faux pas, or he's exaggerating those experiences and writing about what he would do in hypothetical situations and the fallout from his inevitable gaffes.

If you've ever watched Curb Your Enthusiasm, starring David himself, it's like a more mature version of Seinfeld except that he's a combination of the Seinfeld and George characters.

I would say that Julia Louis-Dreyfus was probably ahead of her time as an actress on that show in a lot of ways. I grew up with Sienfield in some capacity or another, never really got it as a show until I watched it stoned and then it was kind of funny but I was stoned. The fact that none of the characters are meant to be likeable, I can see where it could be seen as being a parody show or maybe a meta-sitcom, so to speak, since it was "a show about nothing".

W-what? The Seinfeld bits weren't parodies?

It's humour for the ultra privileged, where a dude pressing the lift button twice or having to make random small talk is the worst thing imaginable.

This is just a shot in the dark, but I'm getting Woody Allen "OMG it's hard to be rich and creepy in NY" vibes from the show.