Original Plot

[Elaine Benes]

I just read somewhere that the original plot for the finale was to have all four getting killed in a plane crash and the second half of the show is characters callously talking about the gang at their funeral. Is this true? Has anybody else heard this?

[Dutabi84]

I haven't heard that one, but I read in TV Guide around the time of the Finale, one of their ideas was they go to Vegas, and Jerry and Elaine get married.

[Maestro]

The finale was pretty hyped when it aired, it was big time. I would imagine there were many stories flying around at the time, but I couldn't tell you if they were mis-information tactics, real possibilities or the normal pop show finale rumors that usually eminate from such an [TV] event.

The Finale had a huge viewership, I think it was the highest watched sitcom ep ever, but don't quote me (maybe M*A*S*H???).

[Maestro]

Jam(?) TV article:

Thursday, April 16, 1998
Seinfeld scoop wars
Magazines try to cash in on TV's best-kept secret
By GARRY MARR -- Ottawa Sun

>>>How TV's most popular show will end has become somewhat of a cottage industry.

With rumors running rampant as to how Seinfeld will sign off May 14, magazines have jumped on the finalemania band wagon with their own take on how the show about nothing will sign off.

One new magazine billing itself as Seinfeld is offering "the scoop of the century" inside its covers.

According to the magazine, the series will end with Jerry finally getting the opportunity to host his own television show.

Jerry moves out to L.A. for the show and takes George and Elaine with him.

But a more authoritative voice, Newsweek, says the L.A. rumor is an elaborate Internet hoax.

Seinfeld magazine claims Jerry buys a mansion and Elaine ends up falling for "the rich real estate broker" who eventually asks her out.

George hooks up with a newspaper editor who offers him a job as television critic after hearing he worked for the New York Yankees.

"George is shown watching television in his bathrobe, then comfortably in his underwear, and, finally, reduced to the bare essentials, watching completely naked," claims the magazine.

All the while, Kramer is back in New York refusing to the leave the Big Apple until finally succumbing to the temptation of a television executive's offer to host his own show.

Seinfeld addicts will remember Kramer once appeared as a secretary on the comedy Murphy Brown, a cameo Seinfeld magazine claims will be the springboard the exec will use to lure him to TV.

And let's not forget about Jerry's arch-nemesis Newman. "As the final credits roll, a distant mail truck is shown slowly coming towards Jerry's new house," Seinfeld magazine maintains.

But Newsweek says the L.A. storyline is all wrong. "Newsweek gained exclusive backstage access to the final episode's maximum security set," boasts the magazine in this week's issue.

"We can confirm ... classic characters are back. Infamous story lines are referenced."

Newsweek also says there is no chance Jerry and Elain will tie the knot but fails to deliver on what will actually happen.

Vanity Fair also teases on its cover about having info on

the final episode but there is nothing in the article to say how the show will end.

Not surprising, given the mother of Seinfeld co-creator Larry David doesn't even know how it will end

"She's afraid I'm going to kill the characters," says David, who returned to produce and write the much-awaited final episode. "Every time I talk to her on the phone, she says, 'Don't kill them.'"

-- With files from AP<<<

[Maestro]

From a St. Petersberg Times article

>>>According to The Star tabloid newspaper, Seinfeld wants everyone on the show to die of food poisoning. The tabloid TV show Hard Copy consulted psychics, who predicted a wedding or a possible invite from doctors for Kramer to clone himself (imagine the spin-off possibilities!).

And published input from readers in papers ranging from the Los Angeles Times to the New York Times brought these ideas: Quirky mailman Newman might go postal, Elaine could be captured by white slavers while researching the J. Peterman catalog abroad or Jerry might transition into a sequel called The Seinfelds, an Upper West Side version of The Waltons in which Jerry raises a family.<<<

[Maestro]

Alyssa Boehm article

By Alyssa Boehm
Tribune Staff Writer
May 14, 1998

>>>When a copy of the final script allegedly was being circulated on the Web, the New York Daily News printed a story outlining "details of the finale." Other news agencies across the country jumped on it -- only to discover later that the script was a hoax. Or was the hoax a hoax?

Skepticism of everything, everyone and every bit of news circulating on the Web is as rampant as the gossip in newsgroups -- small online bulletin boards that serve as discussion areas for specific topics.

The rumors in one newsgroup -- alt.tv.seinfeld -- are so outrageous and entertaining that after reading a few, one might wonder if the finale could ever live up to all the speculation. "Newman and Elaine get married-- but it turns out that it is only a dream for Newman," one post read. Many of the posts offer speculation about marriage: Elaine and Newman, Elaine and Puddy, Jerry and Elaine -- even Kramer and Jerry.

"Kramer and Jerry come to terms with their true feelings for each other and hastily marry," one person called Jet B Me posted in the newsgroup. "The 'man-marriage' they hammer out is a platonic heterosexual arrangement centered around sports-appreciation and the sacred institution of the 'shared refrigerator.'<<<

[Maestro]

From About.com urban legends

>>>Will Jerry and Elaine get married, or will the latter finally "come out" as a lesbian? Will George get his "dream job" as a TV critic? Will Kramer go bicoastal?

Any or all of the above may happen in the final episode of Seinfeld, if we can trust information currently circulating on the Internet. <<<

[Maestro]

Looks like going to LA was a popular one

From E Online News:

>>>Heard the one about the last episode of Seinfeld? The one where the gang ditches neurotic New York for sunny Los Angeles, fabulous lives and untold riches?<<<

[Maestro]

From South Coast Today:

>>>Fans to be 'pleasantly shocked'
'Seinfeld' co-creator won't say more about series finale<<<

[Maestro]

There's a few to chew on

[Ant-Lox]

Shouldn't they have been out of jail by now?

[Maestro]

Sure... that's why they were able to finally get to work on the DVD

but I heard 'Lainey went lezbo after her time inside.... her girl crew would do everything.

[Elaine Benes]

Thanks for all of that Maestro. I guess it was just a rampant rumor.