After nine years of Thursday night entertainment, TV's Seinfeld has come to an end with the broadcasting of the sitcom's last episode. Jerry Seinfeld, a 1972 graduate of Massapequa High School, discussed his last yadda-yadda-yadda for fans across the country.

At Massapequa High School, Seinfeld fans were saddened at the end of the Seinfeld era. "They better have reruns," warned MHS student Christine Davis, as she sat in The Bagel Shop on Merrick Road with her friends.

Davis said she enjoyed watching the satire "because Seinfeld talks about New York, and he's from Massapequa."

But student Frank Viola explained what the attraction was about. "Some things that happen you notice in your life," said Viola, "and he just made them funny."

But it wasn't just Seinfeld that made the show entertaining, said the bagel shop group, it was the cast. Three out of the four eating their lunch agreed that Kenny Kramer, Seinfeld's buddy from across the hall, was their favorite character.

And about all the hype, taking the cover of Rolling Stone , numerous collectors guides and exploding Nielsen ratings, student Regina Tabone commented, "it's appropriate because it's a big show and people really like it."

Over at Giovanni's Pizza, the feelings were almost identical.

Sitting around the restaurant's Italian decor, MHS 10th-graders Eileen Shannon, Kady Zone and Megan Porter echoed the fans at the bagel shop.

"It's all about nothing, but it's so funny," said Shannon.

Porter added, "It's not fake like some shows."

And the course of action for the last episode, Shannon and company agreed, was for the last episode to be a "Seinfeld P.J. Party."

But over at Subway, some said that it was about time the show came to an end. "It's getting old," said Joe Chaffe, "they're running out of topics."

Julie Weiss added, "The re-runs are better then the new ones."

Born on April 29, 1954, Jerry Seinfeld grew up in Massapequa. He was a "wise-guy type" he told The New York Times in 1991. As a teenager attending Massapequa High School his hair was fashionably long and he considered himself to be a "wise-guy type."

As a high school student, Seinfeld worked part-time as a stock-room employee for Genovese Drugs in Massapequa. Leonard Genovese recalls the days when Seinfeld called it quits. "One weekend there was a massive rain storm that flooded our Massapequa store. We put him to work cleaning out the soggy glop created by a torrent of water. He not only bailed out of the basement, but out of retail."

After graduating from Massapequa High in 1972, Seinfeld attended Queens College, where he earned a degree in communications. For years he struggled in his career as a stand-up comedian, working for $50 a performance in New York City.

Seinfeld made few appearances on TV shows until the spring of 1988 when the idea for the Seinfeld TV show was dreamed up. On July 5, 1989 NBC aired a pilot entitled The Seinfeld Chronicles. The show received barely no media coverage. In May of the following year, the show was reworked and titled Seinfeld. From there TV history was made.