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Article: Guilty Pleasures: `Seinfeld' Goes Up the River; THE SHOW
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- The Washington Post
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- May 15, 1998
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"Seinfeld" signed off in shaggy triumph last night, after nine
years on NBC, by locking its four main characters up in a
Massachusetts jail. According to the suitably outrageous story line
of the hit sitcom's last episode, the characters were at last held
accountable for what a prosecutor called their "selfishness,
self-absorption, immaturity and greed."
Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer were sentenced to a year
in jail. They had broken the recently passed "Good Samaritan Law" in
Latham when they stood by as a fat man was robbed and carjacked in
front of them, laughing and making jokes instead of springing to his
aid.
This was not just a series finale, but a day of atonement.
Was ...