Jerry Seinfeld was so impressed by the piece that he gave Mehlman a writing assignment, out of which came the series' first freelance episode, "The Apartment."
I was ready to argue that my episodes showed signs of a sensibility: A bunch dealt with radically changing one's appearance; a clump with contraception; a batch had people trying to be someone else; almost all had friends drastically at cross-purposes.
[4]A writer for The Morning Call said, "Everyone talks about the damage done when Jerry's cocreator and former executive producer Larry David left the series in 1996.
But Seinfeld may have suffered the death blow when writer and coexecutive producer Peter Mehlman, who helped steer the show after David left, departed for Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks at the end of last season."
She pointed to important elements that Mehlman created for the series, such as: In 1999, Mehlman created, produced and co-wrote the sitcom It's Like, You Know..., which was primarily a bitter satire of life in Los Angeles and the Hollywood notables and idle rich who live there, as seen through the eyes of Manhattan writer, Garment (played by Chris Eigeman).
[6] Despite being nominated for "New Program of the Year" at the Television Critics Association Awards in 1999, the show was canceled by ABC after 26 episodes, mostly to clear more time slots for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
"[7] He then wrote a TV pilot called The White Album, which he described as "a dark, comic, serialized murder mystery",[4] but he failed to find a network which would produce it.
[3] In June 2007 he claimed that, unlike Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, the George W. Bush administration didn't even mean well to its constituency.