Television in a World Without Seinfeld

Let's imagine that Seinfeld doesn't survive it's first full season in 1990 and is cancelled by NBC. How different is the television landscape of the 90s and 00s without the influence of Seinfeld? Would we eventually get a show that makes existential, postmodern humor broadly popular in America?
 
The show's impact on the Zeitgeist of the Nineties is overblown. It started before the Fall of the Wall, and its only direct imitator was "The George Carlin Show."

That said, in terms of form rather than substance, it was pretty influential on studio accountants and executive boards. Probably the biggest consequence aside from the careers of the cast, is that we continue to see opening credits in Western Hemisphere TV Shows.
 
It really was a brilliant show, truly a show about nothing but there has been nothing like it since so I am not sure other aspects of TV are all that affected other than there is no VEEP, no New Adventures of Old Christine, and probably no Curb Your Enthusiasm. It would be interesting to see where the main actors and minor actors show up without Seinfeld.
 
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