It’s been twelve years since Jerry Seinfeld’s self-titled situation comedy about nothing went off the air after a nine-year run with NBC.

From 1989 to 1998, Seinfeld was one of the most popular weekly shows on television, and in the twelve years since it’s gone off the air, it’s only continued to grow in popularity. Appealing to a new generation of viewers on a variety of channels through daily hours of repeats, reports say the Seinfeld phenomenon has earned $2.7 billion since it went off the air.

That is not including figures grossed during the nine years it was on the air, only the twelve years since it’s been in rerun heaven.

$2.7 billion. I would whistle to make my pointc, but I haven’t quite figured out how to convey that in writing yet.

When adding up the numbers, the New York Post figured that each 30-minute episode has grossed about an average of $14 million, and Forbes estimated that Jerry Seinfeld earns about $65-80 million a year just from reruns alone.

Not everyone who starred in the epic situation comedy is raking in the millions, though. Seinfeld’s co-stars, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jason Alexander see none of the syndication earnings, which might explain why Jason Alexander is the new Jenny Craig spokesman.

Some of the most memorable party conversations in my lifetime have come from sharing Seinfeld episode favorites, and now my teenage daughter and her friends are discovering the series and enjoying it just like we did. It’s a beautiful, Seinfeldian world, and I’m glad to be a part of it.