No wonder Seinfeld is one of the most successful sitcoms of all time. He debuted in 1989, when many American audiences began to get tired of Sitkom's old-fashioned tropes, which have dominated the media since the 1950s. Too much shows were for suburban home experience, urban experience with one life, or blue-collar workspace, and jokes began to become stale in all three. However, in the late 1980s, the hit trio -emissions began to actively crush old ways, presenting shows for cynical, bitter characters who rarely learned "the story of the story". The first was "married ... with children" in 1987 " Homemade slit for losers who hated each other. There were also "Simpsons", a deep sarcastic series about the cruel ugliness of the domestic struggle. And then they were Seinfeld of Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David. "Show for Nothing", where the shallow characters were not allowed to learn lessons or give hugs.

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"Seinfeld" was running for gangbasters 180 episodes during nine seasons, debuting on July 5, 1989 and wrapping himself on 14.05.1998. As the "Simpsons", Seinfeld contributed to the dominant views of the 1990s, indicating that boring and repressive conservative morals in the 1980s were given a particular degree and forces.

But let's start calculating. The 180 episode count includes each of the three one -hour specialists in the show as two separate episodes. In recurrence, one -hour episodes were bifurcated and emitted into two parts, so they tend to be considered two episodes. If, however, you had to sit down and watch every episode of Seinfeld on one seating, not taking sleeping pauses, how long would it take you? After all, marathons are fun.

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Let's draw our calculators and make math.

Seinfeld was a 30-minute NBC program, but it doesn't suit ad breaks. According to Study of 2024 on the web site GB timesIn the 1990s, he observed an intrusion into commercial breaks. The average advertising break passed about two minutes in the 1960s and 1970, which is about 6 to eight minutes per hour. One hour TV in the 1960s was actually about 52 minutes new shots.

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In the 1990s, commercial breaks are balloons, making singular ads for up to three minutes and an advertisement time In Toto Reaching 10 to 12 minutes per hour. A piece of 30-minute broadcast, and Seinfeld's episodes only had 22 to 24 minutes of raw materials per episode. Because of the clarity, let's say that Seinfeld lasted an average of 23 minutes after the episode throughout its deadline.

23 minutes 180 episodes equals 4,140 minutes, or exactly 69 hours. It is 2,875 days. This belongs to the class documentary special documentary "Chronicle" broadcast before the last episode of the show. If someone watched the original 75-minute cut of The final of the show (disappointing)However, another 15 minutes should be added to the table. Then, the total would be 69 hours and 15 minutes.

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So if you started watching Seinfeld at 8am on Monday morning, not sleeping, you'll end up at 5:15 pm next Thursday. It may be wiser to divide your Seinfeld Marathon into a much more digestible 6-hour pieces. That way, you can watch from 8am to 2nd in the afternoon, and still do things at night. In a 360 minute shift, you will be able to watch 15 and a half episodes. You polish the whole series in 12 days.