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The New York Post reported today that the television show Seinfeld has made 2.7 BILLION DOLLARS since the show WENT OFF THE AIR. Um, that is bonkers. Here is the breakdown:
“Seinfeld” might be the show about nothing, but it’s also made an incredible $2.7 billion — with a “b” — since it went off the air 12 years ago, according to Time Warner, which owns the series.
The numbers indicate that reruns on regular TV have grossed $2.3 billion since 1998.
Revenues from cable were about $380 million, execs reported.
“Seinfeld” made 180 episodes during its nine-year run — which means that each half-hour episode has earned more than $14 million so far.
That does not include what the show — or its stars — made while the show was on NBC in its original run.
These guys are huge Seinfeld fans:
This show makes us forget our desperate need for medicine.
Look, I’m not a businessman. I can barely even manage having my own ATM Card. Nor am I a former Nobel Prize-winning economist like fictional president Jebediah Bartletts. I know that the world is a complicated place and that the global economy is an intricate system that balances precariously at the precipice of an enormous crossroads. The financial success of Seinfeld reruns is a teardrop in the ocean of the global money pool. That being said, considering how many millions of people live without potable drinking water, or access to education or medicine, who live in shanty towns built out of garbage in the dessicated borderlands of a foreign country that does not want them as they desperately attempt to flee some kind of genocidal war, it just feels kind of fucked up.
Says the guy who spends half of his day sitting in pajamas trying to think up jokes about Nicolas Cage’s tattered wigs and has been refreshing an Apple iPhone liveblog all afternoon.
BUT STILL!
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Gabe, you’re KILLING INDEPENDENT GEORGE!
Use of the term “Independent George” is a trademark infringement with fines upto and including $1500 payable to Jerry Seinfeld.
LOL at the Wu-Tang tag
No one LOL’s at the Wu-Tang – be it a tag or anything else – and lives to tell about it.
Have fun chillin with ODB.
Wu Tang Clan tags ain’t nothin to lol at
winner
It was an LOL with all due respect, I swear!
Wu-Tang Venn Diagram:
I never thought I would have the opportunity to use this. I should never doubt the power of VGum comments.
Looks like someone is JEALOUS
bloggers. who needs ‘em? Not to mention the blacks and the jews.
you are a rabid anti-bloggite
I am not an anti-bloggite!
Maybe in 8 years That 70′s Show will have made $2 billion and Topher Grace can finally buy that hoverisland he’s had his eyes on for awhile
It does remain popular in syndication.
and then he can afford to have his butt suxxed
Meme Worlds Colliding!
Just imagine how the ‘Marriage Ref’ will make when it’s off air! (Which is to say, can we cancel it and find out? Please????)
Christ! Relax, Gabe! Those live-blogs refresh themselves now.
this is almost TOO perfect.
I award you so many internets for this.
Looks like Gabe still hasn’t recovered from the his MTV Movie Awards trauma.
This lack of potable drinking water is making me thirsty.
first i laughed, then i felt bad, but then i laughed some more.
TBS – Printing Money.
So a successful television show is responsible for world hunger? I bet the actors on Seinfeld spent less time a year doing that show than any given blogger spends reading the internet, it just so happened that Seinfeld was extremely funny in a time and medium that allowed them to be extremely successful. I hear your frustration about how seemingly trivial things generate so much capital, but it’s unfair to cast blame on an honest, entertaining sitcom when there are warlords and dictators and genocidal regimes running rampant throughout the third world.
I’m going to start using the phrase “reading the internet” now. Like all the time. Is that okay?
ummm….yes?
We will also accept “reading my internet”
Yada yada yada. You’re just mad that Gabe didn’t mention the bisque.
This. ^ —– ^
Gabe’s one sentence self-aware takedown at the end doesn’t cut it. It’s one employee of a big ass multimedia conglomerate complaining about another simply because they’re more famous/profitable. A self-righteous diatribe about the ethics of a product of media consumption making money seems pretty iffy on a blog that appears on the same company roll call as Kim AND Khloe Kardashian’s websites, OK! Magazine, Britney Spears.com etc. etc..
and I’m not making a commentary on the commodification of blogs- we all got bills to pay, everybody wants to make money/be “successful” and that’s great.. but just given the outlet and the tone of Gabe’s message, it’s just really irking me. It’s just pointing a finger and having four Microsoft Kin ads pointing back at you.
Agreed. I see nothing to this argument except that we’re supposed to be upset because a show has made a lot of money and elsewhere people have none. There are tons of corporations that have even more money and don’t spend it eradicating poverty. Would this even be a topic worth bringing up if most of us weren’t in agreement that Jerry Seinfeld is awful (because he likes money)?
Yikes. Everybody wore their serious panties today, i guess.
Don’t worry Gabe, you’re still the Master of Your Domain!
Oh, come on, Jerry needs to put a few yachts on the table,
Like anybody. That many yachts does seem excessive though,
Perhaps he will send a yacht or two to africa,
“Kids, finish your yachts right NOW, kids in africa don’t have as much yachts as we do,
clean your plate right now, every last bit of that yacht.”
-Jerry Seinfelds mom
kids finish their yachts in africa the darndest things
that is many many moneys.
The initial haranguing of Jerry’s sacred Cash Cow has turned into a pretty lucrative catch for Seinfeld royalty checks with all these show-based joke comments.
The global economy balances on the precipice of a crossroads? Well, that IS an intricate system!
Think of all the mutton he could buy for those kids!!
Gabe=Newman
Helloooooooooooo……Monsters.
See, the problem is that sitcoms about third world starvation and politically corrupt hovel cities are just not that funny. I remember watching “That’s my dictator” back in ’92, and it was mostly depressing, except for the sass talking Asian secretary of the treasurer. He had this hilarious catch phrase; “I didn’t sign that check!”.
But in the end, Seinfeld was much funnier.
And also, “Whatcha talkin bout Politburo member Willis?!”
Fake. 2.7 billion anything would never fit inside two flour bags.
It would if it were just two checks for $1.35billion apiece.
I bet Larry David is making faux pas in all kinds of expensive restaurants right now
As always, gross inequities of wealth remain popular in syndication.
Let’s be clear here- the show that many consider the greatest sitcom ever is terrible for making money, but Justin Bieber is cool?
never seen an episode…
“never seen an episode…” – Helen Thomas
In the West Wing universe, President Bartlett woulda plugged up the oil spill with the cast of Seinfeld.
And there would be new episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm daily.
Nothing’s finer than clean drinking water in your diner.
(everyone knows about this, right?)
Say what you will about Microsoft, at least Bill Gates is using his money to try to stamp out malaria and bring people water, rather than building the world’s biggest yacht.
That reminds me of this fun little jpeg I saw the other day:
Pretty much.
Now I feel like shit. Thanks.
These guys know what you’re talking about:
“Can we eat the Internet?”
Hilarious!
Yikes…