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Why is it that certain episodes are repeated over and over and others you never seem to see. Some shows I've seen 3 or 4 times.

I want "The Big Salad" . Has it something to do with the OJ slow-speed chase featured in it?

On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:56:15 GMT, [email] (susan anthony) wrote:

No one seems to know, as this question comes up every so often, but there never seems to be a satisfactory answer.

Another is "Why do they broadcast the episodes out of order?". I certainly wish they would; it would give us a better feel for how the series progressed through the years.

Hmm? Why isn't the answer satisfactory?

The standard response is that syndicated shows are programmed according the ratings achieved when the episode was first aired. In the case of Seinfeld, the show's popularity (and ratings) increased throughout its run. That's why we see the later shows much more often than the earlier shows--they had higher ratings.

On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 17:38:54 GMT, "John Twernbold" wrote:

Actually this is the first time I've read this explanation--it makes at least some sense, though I think it'd be better to run the series in order. But I would guess the above method gets the highest ratings, and only hardcore fans would care about the details. I'd also like to see reruns without cuts, but I don't see that happening.

Maybe Turner will run'em in order.

Actually, I think it has to do with number of times they can run an episode. For example, Seinfeld started running in syndication probably during its 5th year ( so it had 4 years available in syndication say 100 episodes) So they run those 100 episodes say 3 times, which lasts a little more than a year, so then the syndicate gets the next 25 or so episodes, and add those to the mix, and take out (or reduce the play) of earlier shows and so on, becuase, they can only run the shows a certain number of times. So after production is ceased, the newer ones are shown more frequently, since it hasn't had as many syndication runs.

Hope this makes sense.

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