Lazy Writing (Multiple Useless Mysteries)

'Weirdness for the sake of weirdness'

Life IS pretty weird and people are so random tho...often we never get an answer and it eats at us...
I STILL wonder about oddball moves people made in front of me many years ago!
I get what you mean but c'mon...people can be really weird
I thought this was part of the charm of the show...seemed realistic to me

These episodes are about Jerry's character, not mysteries.

You’ve missed the point of Seinfeld’s comedy. It was essentially “what’s the deal with...” (insert something weird that makes no sense.)

So “what’s the deal with people who wear the same clothes all the time”... and we relate that to someone we know.

“What’s the deal with eating one pea at a time?”
“What’s the deal with having to see the baby?”

These are observations and by pointing them out we are not trying to solve them, it’s just funny to speak about the unspoken or the unquestioned.

Completely disagree, out of the overwhelming mediocrity of today, you call this lazy writing? No thank you.

I want the answer too, why didn't she eat the pie? My curiosity kills me everytime I think about that

"The show introduces us to interesting things and quirks, puzzles that we'd like to get a satisfactory answer to - and then never answers them. It never even tries. It just leaves it out completely. That's taking the easy way out. You don't have to come up with anything, except a 'mystery', and that way, you can entertain your audience, and then the show is over. You don't have to know anything, you don't have to try to come up with a clever explanation or create an intelligent solution to the mystery - you just leave it "open" or to the viewer's "imagination", and pat yourself on the back.

That's not how good writing works. It's frustrating, almost to the point of being maddening, and ANYONE CAN DO IT."

Sorry but this I totally disagree with you. Tarantino and Kubrick both did it and not only once and therefore had millions of people wondering what exactly did they mean. This gives a reflection, and allow the imagination to work its wonder.

I agree that sometimes, it does feel lame. But this is not because the technic is flawed. It's because the director and the writer(s) didn't execute it well.

When done properly it gives us some of the greatest mysteries in movie history. Also, it's not like if these details are always paramount to the story. Their usually sub-plot elements that simply adds a little something to wonder about. For instance, the content of the case in Pulp Fiction: we don't know what's in the case, ignoring it doesn't change anything relevant to the story and by the end we are free to speculate anything we want.

tl;dr

It was all good writing, and those shows were funny. Every episode doesn't need to be explained and tied up with a ribbon at the end.