Given that "Seinfeld" has lived on far beyond its nine-season run thanks to reruns and streaming, the show has never been out of the public consciousness, even though it ended in 1998. "When you're part of something that's in perpetual syndication ... I hazard to say, I won't ever do anything that's out there as much as 'Seinfeld' has been and seems to always be," said Patrick Warburton. "It's something that seems to be ever-present. It's a good thing. I actually did nine regular-season episodes — 10 including the final episode."

While Warburton is conscious of "trying to do different things and reinvent" himself as an actor, he admitted that "it is tricky when you do nine episodes of a sitcom and are in danger of being typecast." 

That's the double-edged sword of being so closely identified with a single character in an iconic TV series. "I find that in a creative industry, oftentimes they seem to lack creativity in regards to casting," Warburton said. "They put you in a box." That's why, he added, he's leapt at "opportunities to do something very different, like 'The Dish,' or 'The Woman Chaser,' or 'The Civilization of Maxwell Bright,' even 'A Series of Unfortunate Events,' [playing] Lemony Snicket."