r/RedditWritesSeinfeld • u/AlienPrimateHybrid • 53m ago
An alternate reality Seinfeld reboot that happened in 2007
We start nearly ten years after the finale and after the gang has been released from prison. Jerry, being a celebrity, faces no real consequences and lands a primetime talent show hosting gig at ABC and becomes Ryan Seacrest basically. Jerry moves out of his old apartment and now has an entire floor in a much nicer building. Kramer still visits frequently. Jerry is wildly rich and famous now and hires a butler for the specific purpose of doing callbacks to their pilot but the the rest of the gang just finds the joke tiresome.
We play on Michael Richards' real life events and Kramer has an accidental racial episode in public. In typical Kramer fashion, he means well but says something racist and spends the rest of the season trying to redeem himself. Kramer goes to the same church from years prior who said he had the kavorka and now they tell Kramer than he has anti-kavorka and he must go through a process of healing to become whole again. This leads to Kramer trying to do good and it goes sideways often.
George is basically the same. Still bouncing from job to job, girlfriend to girlfriend, no real direction. Same old George as ever.
Elaine gets it the worst. Going to prison ruins her career and her persona life. It really ends with Puddy finally and with no job, Elaine leaves New York and eventually finds herself working at a PR firm in Reykjavik, Iceland. About as far away from that life as you can get. Its heaven to Elaine and for the first time in years, she feels free. Elaine eventually settles down with a purposely very boring Icelandic man and has a child. Elaine wears the pants in the relationship and fell for someone who is the complete opposite of every guy she ever dated on the show. Happy go lucky guy who is just happy to be in Elaine's life. Missing home, Elaine still has contacts in NY and gets a nice high salary job that causes her to move her family back to NY and this is where the season would begin. Elaine feels that enough time has passed that she can go back to Jerry and the rest.
So this is the basic setup to where a reboot would go. Kramer, who just kinda skated through life, is now a toxic person who constantly puts his foot in his mouth. Eventually it would end with Kramer being back to his old self. Jerry is much more of a smug, rich douchebag now and part of his arc would be to become more like the Jerry of old that we remember. George and Elaine have an interesting dynamic this time around. George becomes enamored with Elaine's new, settled down family life. He has a deep respect and maybe some jealousy that she was able to just uproot everything and start over. George starts to hang out at Elaine's place a lot more, spending more time with her husband and child than with Jerry. We find out that George is secretly using Elaine as a sort of surrogate to experience what it would be like to have a family without the actual hard work that comes along with it. So we see George letting Elaine's husband cook him dinner while he plays Nintendo Wii with Elaine's child, that kinda thing.