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"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.
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.
The final holiday episode of Seinfeld, Season 9, Episode 10, “The Strike,” is where the story of Festivus is told. Where to watch the Festivus episode of Seinfeld: You can stream all nine ...
O'Keefe incorporated it into the show when he wrote "The Strike" episode. Festivus is “a peculiar celebration unique to our peculiar family,” O’Keefe told TODAY in 2016.
Happy Festivus! The Seinfeld holiday episode that took the commercialism out of Christmas. 'The Strike' aired on December 18, 1997 on NBC.
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]
What's the significance of Dec. 23? A Festivus for the rest of us, of course! You might know Festivus, the quirky secular holiday, from its feature in the 1997 "Seinfeld" episode, "The Strike."
Dan O'Keefe, who worked with Schaffer on Seinfeld, credits Schaffer with introducing the concept of the Festivus pole as the only decoration for Festivus, the December 23 holiday. Festivus was popularized in the 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Strike". The aluminum pole was not part of the original O'Keefe family celebration, which centered on ...