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The Story Of Festivus | Seinfeld

Seinfeld
Comedy
YouTube
Cited on HN 4 times, 2021–2025, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN mostly references it for the origin of Festivus or as a seasonal joke.

An official Seinfeld clip explaining the origin of Festivus, the holiday from the show. It looks back at why the Festivus episode came about.

1 citations · 3 jokes · Comedy

4 Hacker News comments

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@Izkata Jun 2025 Cites it
on HN thread Juneteenth in Photos
Origin of Festivus: [this video] The writer of this episode based it on something from his family that his father did: [link]
Origin of Festivus from the Seinfeld episode.
@acomjean Dec 2021 Makes a joke
on HN thread Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
“A festivus for the rest of us” I got to get my aluminum pile from the crawl space for next year. [this video] Looking at this again in context of this thread no it’s commentary becomes clearer.
@DonHopkins Dec 2025 Makes a joke
on HN thread Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
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Calling criticism "violent unsanctioned speech" is a tired, adolescent MAGA-adjacent move: provoke with loaded caricature, then reframe accountability as persecution. You exhibit the same performative grievance-driven identity pattern across your other comments: sweeping "regime and cronies" rhetoric, insinuations without evidence ("what did Obama get in return?"), mocking humanitarian concern as manipulation, and then retreating to grievance when challenged. That’s not satire; it’s MAGA-adjacent culture-war edgelording. If you quote racism without clearly rejecting it, you’re responsible for how it lands; if you didn’t want your comment read as endorsing racist tropes, you shouldn’t have put them on the page without explicit rejection. Accountability isn’t censorship, and criticism isn’t violence. This isn’t uncharitable or violent; it’s grievance rhetoric filling the gap when your argument doesn’t land. Happy Festivus, Georgie! [this video]
@DonHopkins Dec 2025 Makes a joke
on HN thread Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
He's simply asking you to unsarcastically state what your point actually is, instead of hiding behind ironic edgelording. You don't need to ask him to explain how he interpreted you, you're the only one who knows what you really mean. It's time for the Festivus Feats of Strength. Ball's in your court, Georgie! [this video]

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