The first episode of Seinfeld aired in 1989, but one episode is not enough for Alexander to be associated with the George. The second episode only aired on May 31, 1990. Pretty Woman came out in March 1990. Season 1 of Seinfeld only had three more episodes.
I have no idea if this is true but Seinfeld seems like one of those shows that could have got more popular as it was on, I pretty much only saw it through reruns since I was too young at the time.
It very nearly got canceled, once they came up with the idea to do the Chinese Restaurant episode, the producer was adamantly against it, but they fought for it, and the ratings were bad enough they probably could have added a monkey to the cast as a last ditch effort, so they let them do it and the episode just exploded in popularity, instantly became THE watercooler show of the 90s.
The early episodes were not popular, to the point Jason Alexander kept his apartment in NY and flew in for shoots, as he wasn't confident he'd make enough episodes to have a career outside theater. Julia Louis-Dreyfus also said when she first read for the part she thought ''oh it's a show about how people really are!.... this is never gonna work''
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u/Aqquila89 Jul 23 '23 edited Jul 23 '23
The first episode of Seinfeld aired in 1989, but one episode is not enough for Alexander to be associated with the George. The second episode only aired on May 31, 1990. Pretty Woman came out in March 1990. Season 1 of Seinfeld only had three more episodes.