On how the endings converged: "I’d like to say it worked organically or it worked from going backwards, but it worked and didn’t work in all of those ways. It

On how the endings converged: "I’d like to say it worked organically or it worked from going backwards, but it worked and didn’t work in all of those ways. It never really happened the same way twice. A couple of times, I would think that I had it down pat, like in the episode with Teri Hatcher, “The Implant.” I had stories, but I also started off with four or five really great scenes. They had nothing to do with each other, but I knew they would make great scenes, so I started finding a way of mating them together. That episode came out great, so I thought that that was the way I would always do it. It never worked that way again. The process of that was pretty much a struggle every time." https://www.vulture.com/2014/07/classic-seinfeld-episodes-writer-peter-mehlman-yada-yada-shrinkage-double-dipping.html https://www.vulture.com/2014/07/classic-seinfeld-episodes-wr... On reading The Contest: "David: As soon as the read-through started, the laughs were huge. Big, satisfying laughs. I would glance at [the executives’] faces and they seemed to be enjoying it. You could sense it was a very special show. Then we all walked back to our office afterwards and I think one or two NBC executives were there and they had nothing. They just said, “Very funny.” And I was shocked. Littlefield: They read it and it was hilarious. And Rick, as an executive for NBC, knew, “Uh-oh, shit’s going to hit the fan.” The broadcast standards executive who was there, was like, “What the fuck?” And Rick was like, “I didn’t know!” https://www.vulture.com/2017/10/seinfeld-the-contest-oral-history-larry-david.html https://www.vulture.com/2017/10/seinfeld-the-contest-oral-hi...