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May 11, 2020 · Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza presiding at a Festivus meal during the final season of “Seinfeld.” The truth was definitely served. NBC. By Nancy Coleman. May 11, 2020. The legacies of...
Dec 23, 2023 · Stiller's Frank Costanza explained and celebrated Festivus, which he created as a reaction to the commercialization of Christmas, in "The Strike," a "Seinfeld" episode that aired Dec. 18,...
- What Is Festivus, The Holiday ‘For The Rest of Us’?
- Inside The True Origins of Festivus
- How The Holiday ‘For The Rest of Us’ Went from TV to Real Life
The world first learned of Festivus during the Dec. 18, 1997 episode of Seinfeld, “The Strike,” the 10th episode of the show’s ninth and final season. It was then that Frank Costanza, portrayed by Jerry Stiller, explained the holiday to the show’s characters — and to the world at large. “Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son,” Frank...
Festivus seems too ridiculous to be real. But for Seinfeldwriter Dan O’Keefe, it was just a part of growing up. “It is a fake holiday my dad made up in the ’60s to celebrate the anniversary of his first date with my mother,” O’Keefe told Yahoo! Newsin 2015. “It was something that we celebrated as a family in a very peculiar way through the ’70s, an...
After the SeinfeldFestivus episode aired, something peculiar happened. People wanted to celebrate Festivus for themselves. They bought poles, tackled each other to the ground, and gleefully shouted their grievances. Before long, celebrations spread from coast to coast. A New York Times article about the holiday which ran in 2004, seven years after ...
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Dec 23, 2021 · In the 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Strike," Frank Costanza (Jerry Stiller) explains the tradition of Festivus, which he's invented as an alternative to Christmas, calling it "a Festivus for the rest of us." It's a strange, off-putting celebration that's perfect for the volatile Frank to unleash on his neurotic son George (Jason Alexander).
Dec 24, 2020 · In 1997, an episode of Seinfeld introduced the world to a then-fictional non-denominational holiday known as Festivus. This year, fans are using the holiday as an opportunity to pay tribute to...
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Dec 24, 2021 · And so Festivus came to pass, a secular, anti-commercial alternative to Christmas invented by the irascible Frank Costanza ( Jerry Stiller) in a season nine episode of NBC’s all-conquering...
Stiller at a book reading for Festivus in New York City in 2005. Stiller wrote the foreword to the 2005 book Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us (ISBN 0-446-69674-9) by Allen Salkin. The book discussed Festivus, the fictional holiday promulgated by Stiller's Seinfeld character Frank Costanza.
