The iconic American sitcom about nothing might be returning in some way in the future.
When Jerry Seinfeld was performing a stand-up comedy show at the Wang Theatre in Boston on Saturday, he hinted at the possibility of a “Seinfeld” reunion.
“Well, I have a little secret for you about the ending, but I can’t really tell it because it’s a secret,” the comedian said, per The Hollywood Reporter. “Here’s what I can tell you, but you can’t tell anybody: Something is going to happen that has to do with that ending. It hasn’t happened yet.”
“And just what you are thinking about, (‘Seinfeld’ co-creator Larry David) and I have also been thinking about. So you’ll see,” he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
A reunion hasn’t been confirmed at this point. But it isn’t the first time Seinfeld has hinted at a revival of the show. When he went on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2018, he mentioned that it was possible the show could be revived, but didn’t say much more, Variety reported.
It’s been 25 years since the finale of “Seinfeld” premiered. The show won 10 Primetime Emmys and is considered one of the top-rated television shows of all time, per IMDb.
Spanning 172 episodes from 1989 to 1998, the finale brought in an audience of 76.3 million people when it aired. When it premiered, New Yorkers stopped in the middle of Times Square to watch it.
While the finale and the show brought in a massive audience, the sitcom’s finale left some viewers unsettled.
“I know that people hated it,” co-creator David told Bill Simmons. “They were disappointed. A lot of people were disappointed. I think people just didn’t like the fact that they wound up in jail, you know?”
If your memory is a little rusty on how the show ended, here’s the basics of it. Jerry, George, Kramer and Elaine take the NBC private jet to go to Paris after Jerry gets a deal for his pilot. They have to make an emergency landing in Latham, Massachusetts, where they make fun of an overweight man being carjacked. They are arrested and sentenced to a year in prison, where the finale ends with Jerry performing stand-up in the prison cafeteria.
“Many fans, whose expectations had run wild in the build-up to the finale, sneered — and critics pounced,” Entertainment Weekly reported.
Love it or hate it, the “Seinfeld” finale still made its mark as the one of most-watched finales of all time. If there’s a revival, who knows? Maybe it could, too.