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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9529695">Which is fair. If you don't find it great, you don't find it great. Humor is very subjective. I think what bothers me is people are often willfully misreading the show and completely ignoring the context of the show as well when they write these articles (American TV was just different before Seinfeld and you wouldn't have shows like Friends, Always Sunny in Philidelphia, etc without it). Before that we were watching stuff like Family Ties and Full House. And it had been a long time since we had a show where characters were a bit despicable (apparently they were very influenced by the Abbot and Costello Show which is very apparent if you go back and watch that). To your point some of it is certainly cultural. I think it relies heavily on humor that is oriented around north eastern US culture, and a lot the jokes are about the subtleties of social interaction in American society. When I watched it with my wife some of the very American specific things didn't land as well with her (and some things landed only after I clarified the meaning). I also noticed she had a much more negative reaction to George but a positive reaction to Kramer and Elaine (which was interesting because George was such a popular character in the 90s)</blockquote>