Japs Still at It! 1171

It's so successful because many millions find it funny. You don't have to please everybody in the world to have a successful TV show.

I'm not sure what you mean, but I'll buttume you're asking if the characters behave at times in ways identifiably Jewish. I have my own views on the topic, but here's an article that says it far better than covers a lot more ground than just Seinfeld. As for "Jewish situations," you can't get much more Jewish than a bris, which occurs in one of the episodes. As for Elaine's and George's denials that they are Jewish, I consider that a cop-out. The actors are both Jewish, and they play the characters as Jewish. (Kramer might as well be from Mars.)

My wife is from the Bronx, and almost her entire family is from somewhere in New York. I recognize them in much of what occurs in Seinfeld. Whether this is because they're Jewish or just because they're from New York is sometimes hard to sort out, but plenty of the plot lines in the show wouldn't work as well if the characters didn't act Jewish. As but one example, no non-Jewish New Yorker would obsess over a marble rye.

Don't believe everything you see on TV.