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I think my favorite aspect of the typical Seinfeld episode is the interconnected web of events that ultimately builds the episode, which is simply more pleasing to watch than in most sitcoms.
Take 'The Pothole' as an example.
Kramer decides to adopt a highway after running over an abandoned sewing machine, and brings the sewing machine back to the apartment to demonstrate his point.
Elaine has to pretend to be living in the janitor's closet of an apartment complex because the Chinese restaurant she likes to order from won't deliver to her side of the street.
Kramer decides to create a 'luxury lane' on his particular stretch of highway by using paint to collapse two lanes into one, providing lots of extra room on either side of the lane.
Elaine gets spotted by the superintendent of the building she's hiding in, and mistakes her for the Janitor. She orders Elaine to haul a bunch of trash from the basement to the dump, and Elaine just goes along with it. Elaine borrows Jerry's car to take the dump. On her way to the dump, she passes through Kramer's 'luxury lane,' and swerves a little bit because she's loving all the extra room; the sewing machine falls out of the pile of junk that was in the Jerry's trunk.
It turns out that Kramer's idea wound up creating a horrible back up on the freeway the next morning, so he goes back at night with paint thinner in order to fix it. He spills the paint thinner all over the freeway.
Newman comes driving in his mail truck, hits the sewing machine, which ignites the paint thinner, which engulfs his truck.
...and, just like all other Seinfeld episodes, this sequence of events relies upon another sequence events in order for them to happen in the first place.
That's why I love Seinfeld.
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