Seinfeld was the #1 TV show this week in 1997 (I bring that up because today's "Laura's #1 Track Throwback at 7:05am was from 1997...Toni Braxton's "Unbreak My Heart")....

For some reason, someone on Reddit pointed out that TBS is speeding up Seinfeld repeats by 7.5%...to sneak in a couple more minutes of commercials.

TBS hasn't commented,b ut there's definitely more ad-time now because the standard length for sitcoms is shorter than it was 20 years ago.

(In fact, FXX cuts older episodes of The Simpsons down to 22 minutes)

Rather than cut stuff out of the episodes, apparently they just speed up the episodes to make up the difference.

Here's the poster's "proof"...

 

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