The Seinfeld Chronicles The Seinfeld Chronicles "The Seinfeld Chronicles" (also known as "Good News, Bad News" or "Pilot") is the pilot episode of the American sitcom "Seinfeld", which first aired on NBC on July 5, 1989. The first of the 180 "Seinfeld" episodes, the pilot was written by show creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, and directed by Art Wolff. The episode revolves around a fictionalized version of Seinfeld, who is unsure about the romantic intentions of a woman he met, and frets about the meaning of her signals with his friend George (Jason Alexander) and neighbor Kessler (Michael Richards, whose character would
The Apartment (Seinfeld) Schilling and Flaherty graded the episode with a B+. However, "The Kitchener-Waterloo Record" critic Bonnie Malleck gave the episode a particular negative review, comparing "Seinfeld" to "It's Garry Shandling's Show", she stated "Seinfeld isn't neurotic enough to be as funny as <nowiki>[</nowiki>Garry Shandling<nowiki>]</nowiki>. So, instead of being nervously funny, he's just nervously dull". The Apartment (Seinfeld) "The Apartment" is the fifth episode of the second season of the NBC sitcom "Seinfeld" and the show's tenth episode overall. In the episode, protagonist Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld) gets his ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) an apartment above his, but regrets this after