Seinfeld is long gone, but some of the traditions started by the show still live on. Every year, during the year end holiday season, many people celebrate Festivus, “the holiday for the rest of us”.

Festivus Seinfeld

If you don’t celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, this is the holiday for you. Actually, even if you do celebrate any of those, this is the holiday for you, too. You need to have a Festivus pole, follow several traditional practices including the “Feats of Strength” and the “Airing of Grievances”, and believe in the occurances of explainable events being labeled “Festivus miracles”

Here’s the famous scene from Seinfeld where we learnt about Festivus for the first time:

To find out even more about Festivus, buy Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us (the book).

festivus book

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