What is the title of the two-part Seinfeld series finale episode?

The two-part Seinfeld series finale is titled “The Finale.” It occupies the 23rd and 24th episode positions of season nine and was broadcast by NBC on May 14, 1998.

Written by co-creator Larry David and directed by Andy Ackerman, the story brings Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer together after their private plane makes an emergency landing in Massachusetts. The four friends are prosecuted under a local duty-to-rescue law after watching a robbery without intervening, turning the characters’ long history of selfish behavior into the basis for a courtroom comedy.

The original broadcast ran approximately 75 minutes. In the episode, the trial brings back numerous supporting characters who testify about the quartet’s past misconduct. This structure made the finale a retrospective as well as a concluding plot, allowing the series to revisit people and incidents from earlier seasons.

The finale was preceded by “The Chronicle,” a retrospective clip show, which is sometimes confused with the finale itself. “The Finale” is the canonical title of the scripted concluding episode; “The Chronicle” is the separate look-back program that aired beforehand. The finale attracted about 76 million viewers but received notably mixed critical and audience reactions.