Seinfeld remains one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, but its success was because it wasn’t like every other sitcom. Half-hour family comedies had long been a trope, even before Seinfeld came to be, with the usual plot of a family getting into a small fight, hijinks ensuing, then at the end of thirty minutes, everyone getting back together for a big hug as the studio audience cheers. That’s a comfortable formula, but it’s not at all what Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld wanted for their show. Theirs was going to have no lessons learned, no growing, and certainly no hugging.