Comment by sorenjan

> Seinfeld was actually filmed on 16:9 and then cropped to 4:3 for broadcasts in the 90s. So the 16:9 Seinfeld is showing you more, not less.

According to this tweet they cropped out the pothole from the episode The Pothole.

https://twitter.com/Thatoneguy64/status/1443961536079450117