While many shows and movies set in the city (including "Seinfeld") are actually shot on a film lot called "New York Street" in southern California, thousands more are actually shot here.
Though the ban was lifted in 1993, negative characterizations continued to dominate his press coverage, and he was even featured in flamboyant caricature on the hit television show Seinfeld.
In 1988 Seinfeld was offered a sitcom pilot by NBC, and he and David created Seinfeld.
Seinfeld was inventive, Friends was a global phenomenon, Will and Grace went out of its way to bust taboos, and even Everybody Loves Raymond was bearable once you understood that every single character would be happier if any of the other characters died.
"There's plenty of stuff out there in TV and movies about 'pig people'," she said, suggesting Routh could have got the idea from episodes of the Twilight Zone, Seinfeld or the Discovery Channel show Boss Hog.
Louis-Dreyfus is the most nominated comedic actress in the lead and supporting categories, having won awards for Seinfeld and The New Adventures of Old Christine.
In the bit on Sunday night, Palin piped up during a Q&A with Jerry Seinfeld to ask, "Just curious, Jerry, how much do you think [SNL producer] Lorne Michaels would pay me if I were to run in 2016 with Donald Trump as my running mate?" "I don't think there's a number too big," Seinfeld replied.
And there was a bare brick wall, making the whole thing seem like a catastrophically ill thought-out Seinfeld tribute night.
And, sadly, we're going to have rule to out of consideration the proctologist in Seinfeld, whose personalised car licence plate ASSMAN gets him unexpected cheers from gay male pedestrians.
Affectionately mocking Tumblrs have even appeared devoted to Avery's defence lawyer, Dean Strang, and his "Seinfeld-era fashion blandness".
So ingrained are they in the culture that Jerry Seinfeld devoted an entire episode of his television comedy series to a doorman, and in "Sex and the City" the sassy redhead, Miranda, was dumped by her boyfriend via the doorman.
