You are spot-on, it was a hurricane theme across their Saturday night comedy block (I watched a lot of those with my grandparents.) Those crossover/theme nights were very en vogue in the 90's (NBC's "Three Funerals and a Wedding" night that gave us the NewsRadio episode "Rat Funeral" as their snarky protest; the…

I am pretty sure the day after The Contest aired my mom laid down, in no uncertain terms, that Seinfeld was an off-limits show to 8-year-old me.

Sir, I am the fourth clerk you've asked that to today. And that is the third time you've asked me. It's very funny, but I'm going to have to ask you to actually buy the book, or leave.

Seinfeld was the one show that didn't have to work in a city-wide power outage as part of their "Blackout Thursday" event in '94, a luxury not afforded to established hit Mad About You, freshman show Madman of the People and little-loved turd Friends. They had the clout to tell the network to stuff their gimmicks in…

That's actually an interesting read on it and, were it true, would definitely elevate the story to something grander.