Why Seinfeld's Apartment Couldn't Exist In Real Life - Theory Explained

 A popular addict proposition reveals that Jerry Seinfeld's apartment can not live in real life, which is largely due to the hallway and kitchen designs. 

 

 Jerry’s apartment in Seinfeld seems to be a structural anomaly, as a popular proposition reveals that the iconic sitcom position could n’t live in real life. While New York City- set sitcoms have long been blamed for the unrealistic nature of the characters ’ apartments, these arguments are generally in terms of how they could actually be swung, similar as Monica and Rachel’s musketeers apartment. still, the problem with Seinfeld’s apartment is n’t inescapably that Jerry could n’t go it( though Kramer is a fully different story), but that it does n’t make sense in terms of its structural layout. 

 

 Alongside the fictional Monk’s Cafe, 129 West 81st Street, Apartment 5A has come one of the most iconic locales in sitcom history because the maturity of Seinfeld took place in Jerry’s apartment. While the tricks of Jerry’s apartment layout have further generally been conversed about in respects to his decorations with the hanging bike and revolving cereal boxes, it’s been noted over the times that his home is architecturally incorrect. Seinfeld generally only shows Jerry’s living room and kitchen, but during the rare moments that a scene takes the characters through the hallway, the layout of the apartment contradicts itself. 

 

 maybe understanding that Seinfeld’s popular proposition holds some water, a set reconstruction made by Hulu indeed added a many walls and angles to the hallway in order to make the layout feel more realistic. still, this does n’t change that what's actually seen in Seinfeld’s nine seasons tells another story about the structure’s armature. Then’s a breakdown of the inconsistencies in the structure of Jerry’s apartment and the addict proposition that says Seinfeld’s position could n’t live in reality. 

 

 How Jerry’s Apartment Is Laid Out In Seinfeld 

 Seinfeld’s series primarily takes place in the open living room, dining room, and kitchen area of Jerry’s apartment. The stage- up funnyman Jerry Seinfeld’s kitchen is laid against the wall to the hallway, with the apartment’s door on an angle to the left wing of the fridge’s wall. The slant wall of the door is also cut with another straight wall that leads back to Jerry’s restroom, with his visually dammed bedroom located directly to the left wing of the restroom. While Jerry’s door is seen at an angle from inside of his apartment, it’s always shown in a straight line with the hallway from the surface, where it directly parallels Kramer’s door on the other side of the hall. 

 

 Jerry’s Apartment Ca n’t live Architecturally – Seinfeld Theory Explained 

 According to Reddit stoner PixelMagic, who accompanied the proposition with a model of the set, the biggest structural problem for Jerry’s apartment is the shape of the structure’s hallway. When Seinfeld’s classic occurrences take place in the hall, it’s a straight line all the way down around the border of his apartment until it ends at his frontal door. still, the innards of Jerry’s apartment would suggest there is an angle in the hallway once passing the surface of his kitchen to reach his frontal door. As similar, there’s absolutely no way that the hall could live without any angles in the hallway between Jerry and Kramer’s apartments. 

 

 The layout of Jerry’s kitchen also reveals that the wall for his refrigerator would extend too far into the hallway for anyone to walk past it, meaning Jerry and Kramer’s only exit from the structure would be their fire escapes. Not to mention that Jerry’s bedroom physically makes no sense, as the bedroom would be extending outside of the structure far beyond the end of the hallway by Kramer's Manhattan apartment as well as on the other side of the structure by Jerry’s living room windows. Indeed worse is the area of Jerry’s apartment on the other side of his cookstove and roaster that's infrequently ever seen, as it directly contradicts certain Seinfeld hallway layouts that would suggest a vertical hall is running right through it. 

 

 The issues with Seinfeld’s hallway designs also render the physical placement of Jerry’s neighbor Gabriel’s apartment insolvable. When Jerry discovers that Gabriel lives on the same bottom as him, they both enter their apartments from the same hallway path to reveal that Gabriel lives right coming door to Kramer. still, Seinfeld’s apartment proposition reveals that Jerry’s kitchen would have made it insolvable for any other units to pierce the end of the hall let alone see Jerry and Kramer’s frontal doors. It seems that no matter how Jerry’s 129 West 81st Street apartment is looked at or accounted , its actuality as an architectural layout is always tone- antithetical. Thankfully, Seinfeld did n’t show too important of Cosmo Kramer’s apartment arrangements, else, the reality of their structure would inescapably be depraved indeed further. 

 

 Considering how popular the proposition about Jerry’s apartment came, it’s not surprising that the fact- checking website Snopes did some probing of their own. The exploration by the fact- checkers concluded that Jerry’s apartment truly is physically insolvable in the real world, but they mention that once it's accepted that an followership is also sitting along the missing wall, a magical hallway should not be too important of a stretch. In a world where Cosmo Kramer is suitable to live right across the hall with absolutely no verified source of income for the vast maturity of the series, Seinfeld’s outrageous macrocosm may be suitable to regard for a reality- defying apartment layout. 

 

 Does Jerry’s in9solvable Apartment Ruin Seinfeld’s Literalism? 

 While the physical impossibility of Jerry’s apartment makes Seinfeld’s hallway scenes less realistic, it does n’t inescapably make the show any less credible. also, Seinfeld’s apartment layout went through multitudinous changes throughout the sitcom’s nine seasons, with the issue probably being due to different hallway sets or on- position difficulties. In earlier hallway shots from Seinfeld season 2, the hallway is long and seems to reveal that Jerry’s kitchen would be far too wide to actually live. On the other hand, the hallway scenes from Seinfeld season 9 reveal a vertical hall that would run along the missing wall where the innards is mugged from. still, this still does n’t break the literalism of Jerry’s apartment, as the banishing kitchen and angled doorway still have no explanation within Seinfeld’s macrocosm. The only real strike is that no structure will ever be suitable to directly replicate Jerry’s apartment, the hall, and Kramer’s unit without revealing the truly unrealistic nature of Seinfeld's iconic position.