Seinfeld fans and philosophy

Seinfeld fans and philosophy students alike should read Salon's Jan 7th Masterpiece critique. Author Bill Wyman takes a look at the underlying philosophy of the "show about nothing". The fourth page of the article is probably the most enlightening (especially if you're still brooding over the infamous last episode). Here's a clip in which the author explains the existentialist premise of the show:

Could they have said, that is, We'd like to do a situation comedy about man's inhumanity to man? The petty desires, the arrant cruelties? The lack of perspective, the meaningless hostility? The lack of commitment, of sympathy; the confusion, the hostility, the isolation; the impossibility of love; the futility of even attempting to break out of the molds we'd stuffed ourselves into?