For three and a half years now, the popular Seinfeld2000 Twitter account has been asking a simple if not quite grammatical question: “Imagen Seinfeld was never canceled and still NBC comedy program today?” Apart from that quasi-reunion on Curb Your Enthusiasm, however, the famed show about nothing has yet to return to the airwaves with new episodes, though it remains in constant reruns. When series star Jerry Seinfeld recently participated in a Reddit AMA to promote the new season of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, it seemed like a perfect time to ask the man himself what a 2016 version of his show would be like and whether his character would, in fact, get an iPad. As Esquire’s Matt Miller reports, however, that’s not how it went down. Seinfeld2000 tried mightily to take part in the AMA, and his question (in part, “What do u think seinfeld would be like today?”) was the one most frequently upvoted by other Reddit users, but no answer came from Seinfeld.
That’s not to say that the AMA was without its revelations, however. Seinfeld did say that he gave “a solid six hours” of consideration to the prospect of Bee Movie 2. The comedian seems aware that the first Bee Movie is the source of a lot of internet ardor or at least morbid fascination. But the follow-up ain’t happening. “If you have any idea what animation is,” Seinfeld said, “you’d never do it.”