The eighth season of Seinfeld, an American comedy television series began airing on September 19, 1996, and concluded on May 15, 1997, on NBC.

It is the first season where Seinfeld himself took creative control of the show after co-creator Larry David left.

[1] As a result, the show began to remove itself from the 'show about nothing' format it had begun life as, and took a far more absurdist, surreal stylistic turn.

Seinfeld was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment and aired on NBC in the United States.

[4] Due to Julia Louis-Dreyfus' off-screen pregnancy, her character had to spend the latter half of this season hiding her belly behind furniture and laundry baskets.