Holidays are a stressful time, making them the perfect setting for episodes of sitcom. That involves not only the Many episodes based on Christmas, Thanksgiving and other traditional holidays, but also smaller, more creative. And there is no other "Made" festival, celebrated by the gang of the NBC Seinfeld classic. In the canon of Seinfeld, Festivus is held on December 23 and was created by the father of George (Jerry Alexander) Father Frank (Jerryi Stiller) as a way to combat the stress of commercialized religious winter holidays.

In the episode of the 9 "Strike" season, Frank introduces others to the tradition, which includes an unpublished festival, special broadcasting, dinner and even wrestling. It is a really fun episode and some fans have even started practicing festival on their own. However, it turns out that this fictional holiday has actually started with something from writers Seinfeld and his family has been celebrating for decades.

The origin of festivus is sincerely quite fantastic, with many of the great traditions of Seinfeld coming directly from the childhood of writer Dan O'Keef. While the festival gender is a completely television invention, the rest of the show's traditions is quite accurate for what the O'Keef family has been doing in real life since the 1960s.

According to the 2004 interview with Newoux TimesAuthor Daniel O'Keef (Dan O'Keef's father) created festivus in 1966 before his children were born, as a fun way to celebrate the anniversary of dating with his wife. (The name has no real meaning, and he said he only did it on the spot.) After the couple had children and O'Keef began to work on a book of sociology called "stolen lightning", which examines how people use religion and cults to Handle the world, he turned festivus into something more around their home in Ohio. Every holiday has changed a little and has never been tied directly to Christmas, floating around the calendar. Although there was never an unprocessed holiday, the traditional broadcast of complaints and feats of force was always part of the holidays.

Elder O'Keef will move the holiday around the year, and the children would know it was time for wrestling competitions and broadcasting when they returned home to a clock in a bag nailed to the Wallid. When the O'Keef boys got older enough, they finally refused to participate in festivus, so their father wore a recording device and made them broadcast their complaints anyway ... which sincerely sounds like something his fictional colleague, Wonderably funny Frank Kostanzacan do. In fact, Frank's ability to go against the grain and still be kind of loved one is a big part of what makes the work of the "strike".

In an interview for 2017 with The newspaper newsThe younger O'Keef has revealed that his middle brother, also a television writer, told Seinfeld's producers about a festival at a party and they thought it was too funny not to run with:

"My brother Gladmut opens his language for a party where Seinfeld's producers were interested in. They tell Jerryiers (Seinfeld). Jerryi thinks it's funny. I say I don't think it's funny, I actually think , it's just a kind of frightening.

While starting a holiday, saying they are disappointed with your kids can be really terrible in real life, Seinfeld worked absolutely because everyone is a bit of Curmudgeon anyway. The Late, great jerryers styler is perfect as Frank, channeling the energy of Pope O'Keef while broadcasting his complaints and shows his strength by wrestling his son Georgeist on the floor. The Seinfeld Festival is a rejection of commercialism and religious obligation and gives people a little release around the stress of the holidays. Honestly, what should not be wanted for it?