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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2026 2:37 pm
“The Chinese Restaurant” is considered a seminal Seinfeld episode now, but NBC tried to pull the plug when Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David first pitched it. In its lackluster first season, Seinfeld had just about scraped by in the ratings and earned a season 2 renewal, but the show was on pretty thin ice going into its second year.
Source: https://screenrant.com/seinfeld-chinese ... sterpiece/