Except for the novelty-- whet do you smarmy lads think of it ?😱
"In every dimension , there's another YOU!"
And then George did the opposite in The Opposite.
KISS, Alice Cooper, and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fan
EZ top ten episode for me, maybe top three. Gold just for Elaine being hammered, "You can stuff your sorries in a sack!" and "Jugdish".
Poets are made by fools like me, but only God can make STD.
A bit mementoish, a bit repetitive, and a bit weird story (going to a wedding in India? It's as un-Seinfeld as it gets!).. a bit gimmicky and if you watch the episode in normal order, it seems very mundane, and not very funny.
The only reason it somewhat works, is the reversed-time-gimmick, and revealing the story bit by bit, by first creating many mysteries, and then revealing them one by one.
I do like the big lollipop, though, but I think it's just to show the audience the obviousness of the gimmick, so people can catch on quicker.
Memento did it better, because at least there's an excuse - to give the audience the same problem as the protagonist has, to create more sympathy for the murderous psycho.
So, the Seinfeld-episode is nothing special - but it is Seinfeld, so it is of course funny and entertaining, but not in my top 40 episodes.
I DVR Seinfeld and I always watch that episode "Backwards" which is forwards chronologically.
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