Jerry Seinfeld Says 'Seinfeld' Was 'The Opposite' of A Show About Nothing, Talks Favorite Episodes

Jerry Seinfeld has revealed a few more details about how the iconic sitcom "Seinfeld" struggled during its early years, describing how the cast felt like "a weird little orphan show."

The comedian opened up to fans through a recent Reddit AMA and didn't hold back, giving characteristically funny and honest answers, Yahoo! TV reported.

He named his two favorite episodes of the show, which ran for nearly a decade on NBC and won three Golden Globes.

"One was the 'The Rye,' because we got to shoot that at Paramount Studios in LA which was the first time that we thought 'wow this is almost like a real TV show,'" Seinfeld wrote.

As popular as "Seinfeld" was in its heyday and continues to be even in syndication, the show struggled in its early season, Seinfeld said.

"We hadn't felt like a real TV show, the early years of the TV show were not successful," he said, then went on to describe shooting the "Rye" episode.

"We had this idea of a Marble Rye and we had to shoot it in an outdoor set, and this was a very expensive thing to do, it's like a movie place there at Paramount in LA," Seinfeld wrote. "Their standing set for New York looks exactly like it, and we thought 'this is where the ADULT shows are, the REAL shows like Murphy Brown.' We felt like we were a weird little orphan show. So that was a big deal for us."

A second episode he named as a favorite was the season eight episode "The Pothole."

The 59-year-old actor, writer and producer also cleared up a "Seinfeld" myth: The show isn't really about nothing.

According to Seinfeld, he and co-creator Larry David wanted to show how a comedian got material.

"The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that," he said.

Seinfeld and David are teaming up again for an unnamed new project that promises to be exciting.

"We wrote this script for this thing that you will eventually see but I can't reveal what it is at this time," Seinfeld told Reddit users. "All I can do is tell you is that it's big, huge, gigantic."