What if Seinfeld was Serial?
Podcast juggernaut Serial is making its amiable way through the Internet hype machine, past the initial honeymoon and the first mandatory backlash, through the detailed meta-analysis, and now comfortably drifting down the river of mash-ups and memeification. It was, perhaps, inevitable then, that the next step in the show’s life cycle would be intrepid Internet audio engineers combining their favorite investigative podcast with their favorite TV shows. And so now we have the descriptively titled “What If Seinfeld Was Serial?” from Seinfeld2000’s SoundCloud channel. (Seinfeld2000 has been playing the “what if” game with Seinfeld for some time on Twitter.) With dialogue centering on the mysterious disappearance of George Costanza from the offices of the New York Yankees (taken from seventh season episode “The Caddy”), the piece apes Sarah Koenig and company’s rhythms while non-chronological snippets of phone calls lay out what has gone before.