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Seinfeld, the greatest TV comedy of all time, is famously known as a show about nothing. Still successful in syndication almost 30 years since going off the air, the plot focuses on the lives of four single New Yorkers navigating their way through various dating, career, and cultural oddities. The episodes never involved some great reveal, action, or cliffhanger, but simply the quirks of the characters and the people they encounter in the big city.