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Festivus is a holiday first coined in Season 9, Episode 10 of Seinfeld.Invented by George Costanza’s father, Frank. Festivus is an alternative to Christmas, where families can air their ...
Festivus (/ ˈ f ɛ s t ɪ v ə s /) is a secular holiday celebrated on December 23 as an alternative to the perceived pressures and commercialism of the Christmas season.Originally created by author Daniel O'Keefe, Festivus entered popular culture after it was made the focus of the 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Strike", [1] [2] which O'Keefe's son, Dan O'Keefe, co-wrote.
A "Seinfeld"-themed holiday that Jason Alexander's George Costanza can attest is "all too real" comes every Dec. 23, when fans of the iconic sitcom remember the classic 1997 episode "The Strike."
How to watch Seinfeld and the Festivus episode. Seinfeld is currently streaming on Netflix after a long stint with Hulu. The Festivus holiday is featured in "The Strike", season nine, episode 10.
"The Strike" is the 166th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the tenth episode of the ninth and final season. [1] It aired on December 18, 1997. [2] This episode features and popularized the holiday of Festivus.
As a television writer, O'Keefe was responsible for popularizing the holiday Festivus on the 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Strike". [4] Festivus had been invented in the 1960s by O'Keefe's father, editor and author Daniel O'Keefe (1928–2012). In 2005, Dan O'Keefe published a book about the holiday and its history, titled The Real Festivus. [5]
Only some of the Festivus traditions in the "Seinfeld" episode are true, according to Dan O'Keefe and his 2005 book, “The Real Festivus.” "It was entirely more peculiar than on the show," O ...
Only some of the Festivus traditions in the "Seinfeld" episode are true, according to Dan O'Keefe and his 2005 book, “The Real Festivus.” "It was entirely more peculiar than on the show," O ...