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"  As if the state of live-action TV comedy wasn&amp;#039;t sad enough (and it took some bizarre lobbying to fend off utter despair last week), even HBO seems to be stooping to the what&amp;#039;s-old-is-new-again ploy (though it has a great new show in Eastbound &amp;amp;amp; Down). Yes, it&amp;#039;s blessed news that the stars of Seinfeld will reunite for a multi-episode stint on Curb Your Enthusiasm later this year. But as Larry David ushers Jerry and the gang back into the twenty-first century, this newfangled buzz begs a twenty-first century question: What&amp;#039;s the deal with Seinfeld episodes on the Internet? They&amp;#039;ve ceased to exist, legally anyway, and I find it more frustrating than the Bubble Boy having complete jurisdiction over his family&amp;#039;s remote.  &amp;quot;But they&amp;#039;re on the TBS Web site,&amp;quot; you say. Yeah, if you want to choose from the whopping four last episodes it broadcast in syndication. &amp;quot;But we&amp;#039;ve got a cool Facebook page and a souped-up Google Maps mod,&amp;quot; argue the marketers behind &amp;quot;Seinfeld: The Next Generation,&amp;quot; a campaign that captures about as much hip, viral appeal as you can imagine from a college bus tour trying to stop kids from watching Jon Stewart on Hulu and force them back to their local WB affiliate at eleven o&amp;#039;clock on a Friday night. The fact that you can&amp;#039;t download any episode of the greatest show in television history whenever you want is a more curious riddle for the digital age than the whole Beatles-on-iTunes flap. It&amp;#039;s comedic myopia. South Park has set a model for embracing the Web. The Simpsons just jumped on board. And can the Seinfeld folks not comprehend that Family Guy will outpace it as the most syndicated TV show in history not because of those infuriatingly obscure references but because Seth MacFarlane actually, you know, embraces sites like Hulu? As Jerry himself joked, &amp;quot;anytime I see a movie or a TV show where there are people from the future or another planet, they&amp;#039;re all wearing the same outfit.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s called the Internet. A suggestion, then, cloaked in an endorsement: When the new Curb plotline unfolds, use the buzz to help launch &amp;quot;A Site About Nothing,&amp;quot; wherein users can search for 22 minutes of any Seinfeld episode they like and watch it right there and then \u2014 not just that throwaway from season two that TBS likes and insists you watch at five after the hour. Sign a streaming deal with Netflix if that&amp;#039;s how to max revenue. Smack on longer pre-roll ads if necessary. Then, at long last, Seinfeld will be the master of our collective domain. RELATED LINKS: PROFILE: Inside the Mind of Seinfeld and Borat Guru Larry Charles PLUS: These Are the Five Most Popular Music Videos on MTV.com? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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