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While watching the old “It’s Garry Shandling Show”, I feel like Larry David Jew-jacked a few things from there for Seinfield. Most notably that aside from the eponymous show title, the character of George Costanza seems influenced by Shandling’s Pete Schumaker. Both are diminutive, bespectacled and chubby goofballs—although the Costanza character is much funnier. My father actually went to high school with the actor (Michael Tucci) who played Schumaker.