Which came first? The Chicken or the Egg?

Does life imitate Seinfeld or does Seinfeld imitate life? The main characters, Jerry, George, Cramer and Elaine have their own language. The language, euphemisms and manner of insider speaking can be called signs. One could see culture as a system of signs. Jacques Derrida and Ferdinand de Saussure were structuralists who focused on signs. For example, Saussure said that the signifier, cat, visually brings an image to our heads. This image signifies the mental idea of the signifier. My idea of a cat is connected to the image I have in my head. Now the word cat or the pronunciation of cat might mean something else depending on the country or culture you are in. Therefore the relationship between the signifier and signified is arbitrary, because a context is needed. Context changes between different people and cultures. Saussure says there is an arbitrary relationship between signs based on context, but he also says that there is a moment of PRESENCE where CAT means CAT. On the other hand, Derrida says there is no moment of PRESENCE. He says signs are always unstable and in play.

Now I will raise the question, "Does Seinfeld use a language that we all globally understand or does it depend on the culture and society we present Seinfeld too?"

I believe that in the United States, Seinfeld, has a moment of presence like Saussure states, but it might not be the same when you change the context of whom it is being presented to. Someone in France or India will not understand the inside joke unless that person is semi aquatinted with the language Seinfeld uses.

Also, does Seinfeld imitate real life? I don't believe this question is important. Of course the writer of Seinfeld was influenced by the culture and people around him, therefore he might have created Seinfeld based on his aesthetic talent, but he created it out of the society he was a part of. Seinfeld is both an entity of its own as well as a compilation of cultural and societal influences.