Seinfeld was a huge hit while on air-earning the comedian $267 million in 1998 alone-and then raked in billions after that year’s finale, first through record-breaking syndication deals, and now as a streaming juggernaut. Three decades later, Jerry Seinfeld has gotten more chances to turn down money than his character could have ever dreamed of. At that point, Seinfeld himself was making a comfortable $40,000 per episode as the lead of his two-year-old sitcom, which had recently cracked the Top 50 in Nielsen ratings. “People don’t turn down money-it’s what separates us from the animals,” Jerry Seinfeld proclaimed as his character on a 1991 episode of Seinfeld.
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