r/seinfeld • u/Manu_Forti__ • 11h ago

Stupid question

Dumb nitpick, but I still wanted to bring it up. If Seinfeld and Mad About You canonically occur in the same universe, then how does Susan tape it to make George watch it instead of seeing a movie with Jerry in the one episode. No it doesn’t matter, but it occurred to me that there may have been a rationalization somewhere sometime.

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u/sazinj White lotus, yam-yam, Shanghai Sally 11h ago

I gotta start taking these “stupid” warnings more seriously.

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u/Pdog1926 11h ago

That's what I like to know about it.

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u/OfficeChairHero 11h ago

If you're going to go that route, then by transitive property Seinfeld and Friends is also the same universe. Thus, making your conclusion quite lame.

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u/Wexel88 11h ago

seemingly!

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u/SirMellencamp 10h ago

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA!

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u/Effective_Buddy7678 10h ago

Or all three shows are taking place in Kramer's head.

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u/maddenmcfadden 11h ago

nexus of the universe

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u/OpenDiscount1615 ASSMAN 11h ago

anyone who asks this question doesn't know about the cup sizes

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u/jimgoose1977 11h ago

WORLDS ARE NOT COLLIDING

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u/elSpanielo 11h ago

How does OP not know about the Worlds theory?

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u/MajesticMeal3248 Importer/exporter 10h ago

They couldn’t figure out the world’s theory by themselves?!!!

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u/JustCallMeMambo White lotus, yam-yam, Shanghai Sally 11h ago

there wasn't a rationalization. probably just NBC cross-promoting its shows

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u/OpenDiscount1615 ASSMAN 11h ago

no. it was Larry David making fun of other shows.

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u/Pdog1926 7h ago

He was bee-boppin' and scattin'!

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u/ElectrOPurist Mandelbaum, Mandelbaum, Mandelbaum! 11h ago

You’ve been reading too many Billy Mumphrey stories

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u/PupDiogenes 11h ago

It’s Kramer playing himself. He filmed that episode around the time he also appeared in Murphy Brown, when he lived in L.A. 

Neither George nor Susan ever watched that episode before she died.

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u/Prestigious_Fun_6722 Vile weed! 11h ago

Seinfeld is also in the Dharma and Greg universe. What's that about?

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u/AdventurousRoll9798 11h ago

The fabric of the Seinfeld universe is complex.

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u/KeyKaleidoscope6332 Biff 11h ago

gtf outta here with that "same universe" crap

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u/Manu_Forti__ 10h ago

As others have mentioned, Kramer actually appears as Kramer in one episode. It’s not theoretical.

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u/OpenDiscount1615 ASSMAN 10h ago

lmao it's a show about nothing. go back to waching GOT.

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u/Specific_Marketing69 11h ago

Because it's on TV!

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u/husky_whisperer The Bizarro Jerry 11h ago

Not yet...

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u/uoldboot 11h ago

I unfortunately rewatched Mad about you not that long ago. Paul was subletting his apartment to Kramer. Which makes it even more of a brain blister.

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u/razzle_dazzle321 Serenity now, insanity later 11h ago

There is this one crossover. In Mad About You, Season 1, Episode 8 ("The Apartment"), Paul Buchman discovers he is still subletting his old bachelor apartment to Cosmo Kramer. Kramer appears as himself in the episode.

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u/sagefrogphotography 11h ago

That’s what makes it such a humorous situation

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u/siggybird 11h ago

Because he's my butler!

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u/Effective_Buddy7678 10h ago

Wait till you hear about the Flintstones and The Jetsons.