Jerry gets tips from Kramer and George about a girl he met that's coming to New York.
To fully understand the numbering system, one must realize that although this is the pilot
episode and therefore does not really start season 1, but the second episode created starts
season 1, nevertheless we call this episode 1:1 (season 1, episode 1.)
Jerry and Elaine get into a tiff over being a spectacle. Eventually decide that they'll talk about
other people. Jerry and George create the character of Art Vandelay in order for Jerry to go out with Vanessa.
To fully understand the numbering system, one must realize that this is the second
episode created, but it actually starts season 1. Nevertheless we call this
episode 2, or 1:2. (season 1, episode 2) This is how the system will work for all eps.
Jerry goes to do a comedy bit and due to Kramer's stupidity leaves the door open. This leads to Jerry taking a new apartment, but due to a choose gone awry, Jerry feels guilty about taking it instead of George, who also wants said apartment. In the end, a waitress in Monk's gets it, obviously.
Georgy boy becomes Warren Buffett, Jerry pulls out too quickly, and Elaine loses to a bunch of cats, which is not as sad as losing to a perfume.
Season One - Overall Commentary
Overall, this season was the worst, but that's to be expected as it is the first. Everyone is finding themselves, some slower than others (while I stare at Michael Richards). However, there were many funny lines, plots, etc. and the comedy bits were dead on. Jerry's place, everyone's way of life, Monk's, and other details slowly rise to the surface. After thinking about it, the evolution occurred quickly in the first season, especially considering the fact that there were only five eps.
The focus here is on Jerry. Jerry kills his distant relative Manya, who makes it rain during her funeral so Jerry won't miss the softball game, but still screws him over by making him have the worst game in his life which is described by Elaine and George. George, Elaine, and Kramer are pretty unimportant.
Jerry buys a pink lining jacket, which he is forced to wear inside out in order to protect the suede, but big ol' Alton Benes stops him from making such a mockery. Meanwhile, Kramer is unimportant and George and Elaine are along for Jerry's ride.
Once again, Kramer and Elaine are meaningless. The ep is all about George and Jerry. George leaves messages on his gal's answering machine and must switch the tape with Jerry, even though she thinks its a riot. Meanwhile, Jerry and his gal are having some problems over a commercial about dockers pants. Typical.
Once again, Kramer is meaningless. The ep is all about Jerry and George outdoing each other in idiocy. Jerry tries to get Elaine an apartment above him, while George tries a wedding band to get chicks.
Once again, Kramer is meaningless, but steps in to save the day at the end. The ep is all about a statue that George broke as a kid, whose copy was subsequently found at Jerry's, which was subsequently stolen by Ray, Rava's boyfriend, who cleaned out Jerry's place, pun intended and stolen from the ep, no pun intended there, and Elaine and Rava call it quits.
The K-Man becomes important finally and helps Jerry get back at Agaudo, the laundry man. Meanwhile Elaine helps Georgey boy out to get back at his boss via a mickey.
George needs tonsils removed by doctor who likes Elaine but won't get any from her, while J and K take George to NNTHR for some good holistic medicine. Also, Jerry needs a joke he wrote down deciphered throughout the ep.
Jerry and Elaine try to have sex but retain their friendship, but due to relationship killaz, it doesn't work. Instead, they seem to be dating again at the end, yet next ep, they're simply friends once more. George and Kramer are pretty unimportant.
Jerry tries to get illegal cable from some crazy Russians, Kramer sets the whole thing up, meanwhile Elaine has a baby shower at Yerry's place, George pick him up in order to blast the girl who be bopped and scatted all over him, but instead he cowers before her, while another woman does what George was supposed to do, but does it to Jerry.
You shouldn't have to be told what this episode entails, but JG and E are all in a Chinese restaurant throughout the whole episode. Kramer is nowhere to be found. George has some phone problems, Elaine is hungry, and Jerry sees someone he doesn't know, but who knows his uncle, he finds out.
George gets a busboy fired, but ends up really saving his life. Elaine can't get rid of her Seattle boyfriend, but does an Elaine as Tiffany to make up for it.
Season Two - Overall Commentary
Overall, Season 2 was a ton better than Season 1. This season included a Top 50 episode (2:6 The Statue) in my Top 50, and was a half season long, as opposed to the first season which was a quarter long. The characters started to get into their individual and collective grooves. We had some fun, but we look forward to Season 3 and the future seasons, as they get much much better than these past eps. See you soon.
Kramer sees Joe D in Dinky Donuts, George, Elaine, and Jerry get notes for free massages, but it all backfires, getting Jerry's dentist friend in trouble. Also, George thinks that it may have moved.
Kramer is dating Siobhan, ends up seeing Elaine naked. Meanwhile, Jerry and George have to get Jerry's tax records back from George's gal, whom he just called pretentious, amongst other things.
Kramer and George aren't in this episode. Elaine and Jerry head down to Florida where Elaine's gets back problems, Jerry's eyes get ruined, and there's a problem with a simple man named Jack Klompus and his pen.
Elaine pretty unimportant, but her boss doesn't like her. Jerry has to return a book to the NYC Public Library that he took out in 1971. Jerry had given it to George, who lost it due to his gym teacher turned bum.
Jerry tries to help Babu out at his restaurant. Elaine helps George on his IQ test. Ends up getting caught by George's gal. Kramer tries to keep his mom's ex-boyfriend's "Lady's Man" jacket.
Kramer continues his quest for the jacket. George tries a new baldness cure from China. Elaine, the mysterioso, leaves a message on Jerry's tape recorder, causing George to fall in love with Elaine, and then Kramer and Jerry do the same, when they also find out it was her.
Jerry's penis and brain play chess to see whether he should continue to date a red head. George dates a girl who ends up getting a nose job due to Kramer's brashness, which gets botched, and then perfected. Elaine helps Kramer get the jacket from this string of episodes.
Jerry and Elaine go to a party with Georgy boy out on Long Island. George ends up taking the car going home with a coworker and then the K-Man picks them up. The party host, The Commish, calls up a prostitute.
LD steals Jerry's car. Kramer is in a Woody Allen movie. Elaine tries to dump her really old boyfriend with bushy eyebrows, but he has a stroke before she can do so. Because of George's bad parking jobs, everything in the ep goes haywire.
A cashmere sweater with a tiny red dot on it is passed around from George to Elaine for thanking her for a job at Pendant, back to George after she finds out, to a cleaning lady at Pendant who has sex with Georgy Porgy, who gives it back to George b/c of the red dot, who gives it to Elaine's ex-boyfriend, who's drunk, whilst J, G, and E are hiding under his desk. Kramer pretty much unimportant.
Jerry meets a naked Pumbaa whom he goes with to Coney Island and possibly a Mets game. George gets the old Leisure Suit Larry done to him. Kramer wins big bucks, big bucks, no whammies, no whammies from the OTB, yeah you know me. Elaine curses a lot b/c the train stops before a lesbo wedding.
George gets hand on his gal, a piano playing laugh analyzer, with a preemptive breakup. Elaine laughs during her piano recital due to Jerry placing a Tweety Bird pez dispenser on her lap. Kramer joins the Polar Bear Club and thinks of the idea for a cologne that smells like the beach.
Jerry dates a coma victim's girlfriend. Elaine needs to fast before getting an x ray. George is warned by a psychic not to go on a vacation, so Kramer goes and has a great time.
Jerry ends up dating Keith Hernandez, who supposedly spit on Kramer and Newman, and then ends up breaking up with Jerry on a date for Elaine. Meanwhile, George tries to get an extension on his unemployment benefits by working at Vandelay Industries, located in Jerry's apartment and run by Jerry.
Everyone breaks up with Keith, except Kramer and Newman who hook up with him. Elaine b/c he smokes, Jerry b/c he advances their relationship too far too soon. Kramer and Jerry finally see the baby.
Jerry and George take a neo-Nazi's limo, posing as him and his friend. They get Elaine and Kramer into the mix, ruining everything, especially when the real neo-Nazi calls said limo.
Jerry dates a hit-and-run gal, but then regrets it when the victim is Becky Gelke, oooh. George has an affair with Elaine's friend b/c she was all riled up b/c of Elaine's affair with a matador. Kramer gets the jitters when he hears Mary Hart.
Kramer gets painted and bought. Jerry is dating said painter, a posessive plagiarist, from whom George buys some art. Elaine refuses in 2 different incidents to take off her Orioles cap while sitting in the owner's box at Yankee Stadium.
Jerry takes his spare set from Kramer b/c he's abused the privilege. George gets Kramer's keys, gives his keys to Jerry, but doesn't give Elaine's keys to Jerry, which should have happened. They end up breaking into Elaine's apartment, trying to get Jerry's keys so he can get back in his house, but instead discover that Elaine is trying to write an episode of Murphy Brown. Kramer, meanwhile has flown the coop to California, where he gets a part in Murphy Brown.
To say this season was the best season would be a lie, as there were many weak or just decent eps. However, to say it was the worst would also be a lie, and an insult to Season 1 and Season 2, as there were many good, great, and hilarious eps as showcased on our respective Top 50s. See you in Season 4.
Elaine is in Europe with Doc Reston, or in reality pregnant with Brad Hall's baby. The police think Kramer is a serial killer, George annoys Roger Dorn and George Wendt, who then make fun of him on Leno minus Leno. We have to wait till Part 2 in order to see what happens to Kramer and if Jerry and George meet up with him.
Well, it turns out that Clint Howard was the serial killer, not Kramer, and Jerry and George do meet up with Kramer. He comes home as if nothing has happened and the exchange of keys completes revolution of the relationship. We assume Elaine is still in Europe/pregnant.
Jerry and George come up with the idea for a show about nothing and try to pitch it to NBC. George goes out with Susan, whom Kramer vomits on. Crazy Joe Davola kicks Kramer in the head for an unvite to his party, and is only given a concussion because of Newman's helmet, whom Kramer traded for a broken radar detector. We still assume that Elaine is in Europe/pregnant.
Jerry throws out a watch his parents gave him instead of going to Jimmy Sherman, which is picked up by Uncle Leo which will screw Jerry over in the next episode(s). Newman tries to get out of the speeding ticket caused by Kramer's broken radar detector from last episode, but Kramer is a bad witness b/c he has side effects from Crazy Joe D kicking him in the head last episode. This was Elaine's last episode with Doc Reston in Europe/pregnant.
Elaine is back baby! I'm sure JJ isn't happy about that, but I am. Anyway, Doc Reston keeps up a relationship with her due to his svenjolliness. Morty claims that his wallet was stolen at a doctor's office, when in fact it was stuck in Jerry's sofa. George tries to bargain on how much money he and Jerry would get for the pilot, but loses it all together, at least until next episode. Jerry is troubled due to his parents asking where their watch gift is. Kramer is pretty unimportant except for screwing Jerry over by opening his big mouth.
George manages to get the pilot back on, but for less money. Elaine enlists the help of Kramer to pretend to be dating Elaine so that Doc Reston will "cease and desist". Elaine starts dating Crazy Joe Davola and Jerry tries to buy the watch back from Uncle Leo and meets Elmer Fudd.
Kramer and Elmer Fudd are the only ones who get to the cabin and the K-Man succeeds in burning it down, where JGE and Susan were the ones who were supposed to be there, but didn't. Jerry and Elaine are supposed to meet George and Susan at the Bubble Boy's house first, but Jerry and Elaine lose George due to his crazy driving, and end up getting stuck in a diner. George and Susan get to the BB's house, but George ends up fighting with him over The Moops v. The Moors in Trivial Pursuit.
Susan's father was bendover buddies with John Cheever. Kramer trades his infamous jacket for some Cuban cigars from the Cuban Embassy in order to play golf at the Westchester Country Club. Jerry and George get to work on the pilot and George and Susan tell her father that the cabin burned down. Elaine sets up Jerry with her secretary, with some dirty talking involved between Jerry and said secretary.
Crazy Joe and the opera are the focus of this episode. Elaine dumps Crazy Joe who threatens Jerry with the kibosh. Everyone, and I mean everyone, goes to the opera, except George, who sells his ticket to Harry Fong.
Elaine upsets Jerry's virgin girlfriend, causing Elaine to get sued by Ping. Meanwhile, George gets Susan fired because he kissed her in the meeting. The honchos at NBC love the butler idea, so Jerry and George go with it. Kramer watches a lot of TV, in other words, pretty unimportant.
In this classic episode, George is caught by his mom (who appears for the first time) pleasuring himself which causes her to fall and go to the hospital. This fuels the momentum for the contest between the gang to see who can go the longest without shaking hands with Ben Franklin, polishing the pewter, Alfalfa or Spanky, Buddy Whackit, Spanktravision, jerkin the gerkin, etc. Elaine loses b/c of John John, who ends up with the virgin. Kramer loses because of the girl who walks around naked across the street, whom he ends up sleeping with. Jerry loses because he lost the virgin who was appalled at the contest and so enjoys the naked woman across the street. George wins, or so we think, until the very last episode, when we are told that George cheated.
Jerry sits in first class next to a model and lives up the good life, while Elaine sits in coach and gets screwed every which way, including by LD who switched her food with his kosher order. George gets roughed up by a convict and Kramer tries to get back $ from Grossbard, who also is a shrimpstealer.
Elaine's nipple is showing in a Xmas card pic taken by Kramer. Jerry's model girlfriend thinks she saw him picking his nose, when it was in fact a scratch. George gets back with Susan, but then wants out, so he uses the pick. Kramer becomes a model for CK.
The gang tries to see a movie, but due to Jerry missing a pair of sets, meeting up with Buckles, George not asking properly which line is the ticket holders/buyers lines, Kramer's love of Papaya King hot dogs, George not being able to get past the ticket usher and his and LD's obsession with Rochelle, Rochelle, as well as other mitigating circumstances, no one gets to see the movie, except the K-Man, who sat in Elaine's seat and got mustard on her jacket.
George's gal turns out to be Ping's cousin, and handling his case against Elaine. Everything seems OK, until George's paranoia of him needing to be funnier than Jerry, makes her want Jerry, and ultimately alienating her from their whole group, thereby putting the case back on. Meanwhile, Kramer punched out Mickey Mantle, Babu is getting deported because of Jerry and Elaine, but really he should die a slow death.
This episode could also be called 4:16 The Cleavage, as it plays a big part in this ep. George and Jerry must get Russell to look at Elaine's cleavage in order for them to get the pilot back on track because George was caught looking at Chuck Sheen's wife's cleavage. Meanwhile, this can all be done if Elaine gives her shoes to Jerry's ex-gal, who is now Kramer's gal, who happens to work with the big fella.
An NYU reporter thinks J and G are gay, Elaine and Kramer are pretty unimportant. They both give Jerry a 2 line phone, but Kramer gives it first. Everything bad happens so that the NYU reporter thinks Jerry is gay. George tries to get rid of his gal in various ways, none of which work.
George is the boyfriend, but tries to get the airplane tix discounted, but b/c of his double dipping ways, he can't get it. Kramer thinks that Salman Rushdie goes to their health club. Meanwhile, Jerry sends in Elaine to find out if his gal's breasts are fake.
Jerry can't remember his gal's name, which rhymes with a female body part. George buys paintings from Elaine's ex, who lost weight for Elaine, and to who's surgery Kramer and Jerry watch, where a junior mint falls into said ex.
A parking valet leaves a horrible odor in Jerry's car, which affects Jerry and Elaine by making them smelly, like Tiffany. Kramer makes Susan's lesbian girlfriend his girlfriend, causing George to utter a prophecy that would be found within the Deparment of Mysteries. (That probably belonged in the commentary, but I don't see it there.)
JGEK try to buy a gift for The Drake and park in a handicapped spot, causing a Mariah Carey look alike to break her wheelchair, and Kramer and George buy a new one because Kramer loves her, but she dumps his ass anyway. Meanwhile The Drake and Drakette split up, and the big screen TV JGEK got them goes to charity. George must be his dad's butler in order to pay for the damage to the car that was caused by an angry mob, and ends up picking up the TV and getting the money for it back.
The Pilot is finally gonna be filmed. George thinks he might have cancer. Elaine thinks that the owner of Monk's is only hiring big breasted women. Kramer tries out for the part of Kramer, but has to crap, but ends up getting constipated. Meanwhile, Russell is going crazy b/c Elaine doesn't want him.
Rehearsals of the pilot begin. Russell goes off the deep end, literally, with LD. Morty's wallet is found in Jerry's couch, Elaine was wrong about Monk's, it was his daughters that were working there. Crazy Joe tries to kill Jerry, and characters from the past season comment on The Pilot. It ends up getting cancelled by the new head honcho at NBC, who has become the new head b/c of what happened to Russell, which was Elaine's fault.
Season Four - Overall Commentary
Now as to the meaning and significance of this episode within Season 4. The entire season, from the first episode, has been leading to this season finale of 4:24 The Pilot Part 2. Every episode, from ones with Susan, the exec from NBC, to the ones actually having to do with The Pilot, to all of the characters in eps that had nothing to do with The Pilot, but who returned to pay their respects to Season 4, by commenting on The Pilot, is simply brilliant. In classic and excellent LD fashion, we get links up the wazoo/wing wang. As mentioned in previous commentaries, we have the overarching theme of The Pilot throughout Season 4, Susan throughout Seinfeld itself, as well as Season 4, the jacket, in this episode specifically, the wallet, and everything else that LD threw in to this beautiful season.
This season was one of the greats, better than the last 3. 8 out of 24 episodes, compared to 0 out of 5 episodes in Season 1, 1 out of 12 in Season 2, and 8 out of 23 episodes in Season 3, made the Top 50. This is a testament to its greatness. LD, LC, JS, JA, JLD, MR, WK, PB, KP, SM, BB, PC, and HS all did excellent jobs writing and acting in these hilarious episodes of Seinfeld. Props all around to all who injected a bit of joy and comedy into the bloodstream of Season 4. That said, let us enter Season 5 together in joy and harmony, b/c although Season 4 did have 8 out of 24 episodes making the Top 50, Season 5 has 13 out of 22, that's more than half the season for those who can't count. See you there friend of friends.
Adam - A great episode, a perfect ending to a great season. All of the holes were filled in. Return of many great 4th Season characters. It brought back some great memories. Overall, great episode, great season. 5 out of 24, compared to 0 out of 5 episodes in Season 1, 0 out of 12 in Season 2, and 6 out of 23 episodes in Season3, made the Top 50.
The mango is a fruit which enables men, like George and Jerry, to stop them from being impotent. Meanwhile, Jerry is pissed off that Elaine never had an orgasm with him, Kramer is banned from the fruit store, so he sends Jerry in to get some, who is also banned.
George moves in with his folks, becomes one of the greatest hand models ever, and ends that career choice because of Kramer's low-talking girlfriend, who supposedly got Jerry to agree to wear her puffy pirate shirt on the Today show, and was pissed off he made fun of it, that she threw George, who also made fun of it, into an iron, which was left on by Kramer, who was trying to iron said shirt.
George thinks that his glasses were stolen, when he really left them atop his locker. While shopping for new glasses, Elaine gets bitten by a dog, George squints and thinks he sees Cousin Jeffrey making out with Jerry's girlfriend, and gets ladies glasses from Duane, Kramer's friend whom he got off of sugar. Also, Kramer got Jerry an air conditioner, which falls on the dog that bit Elaine.
Jerry, Kramer, and Newman think that their accountant is on drugs, when in fact he is allergic to mohair. They try to catch him in the act, to no avail, but end up losing all of their money b/c he went bankrupt. Meanwhile, George tries to get a job with Frank's friend Sid Farkas, as a bra salesman, but doesn't get the job b/c he tries to feel the boss's material. Jake Jarmel breaks up with Elaine b/c of her obsession with exclamation marks.
Elaine and Jerry are godparents to some kid, who's going to get a bris, which Kramer thinks is barbaric, which ends up getting him the position once held by Marlon Brando and then Al Pacino. George's car, which is flattened by a suicide, is then taken by a man who looks like a pig, which Kramer thought was a pigman. Meanwhile, during the bris, Jerry flinches and the Rabbi shook, and he sliced Jerry's finger.
Jerry dates a deaf line judge at the US Open, whom he lets George use in order to find out the reason his gal broke up with him. Kramer becomes a ball-man, Elaine doesn't want to talk to her driver, so she pretends that she is deaf, which backfires against her on account of Mr. Tom Hanks.
George meets an old enemy/buddy from his youth, Lloyd Braun, who ends up going out with Elaine, who gets fat, along with Jerry, because of the fat in the nonfat yogurt, which is partly owned by Kramer and Maryedith, Joel, and Matthew, technically, who curses because he heard Jerry curse, whom he wants to be like. Meanwhile, Kramer's antics to influ - ence the results makes Giuliani check the fat contents in the nonfat yogurt, which ends up getting the store closed. Elaine ruins Dinkins' mayoral chances by suggesting the city wear nametags, to Lloyd Braun, who is the mayor's asst.
George might have a job, he is not sure, Jerry tries to get a haircut from his barber's nephew, whereby the uncle enlists Newman's help in order to catch them in the act. Jerry's final haircut is a disaster which makes him look like a little boy, so he can't do Elaine's bachelor auction, and must use the K-Man instead.
Jerry's gal is a masseuse from Legally Blonde, who won't give him a massage, but gives one to Kramer, right across the hall!, and who hates George, which makes George love her, and he neglects and rejects Karen, the rizzoto girl. Elaine is dating Joel Rifkin and Kramer goes to the Giants game with them.
After going bowling, Jerry puts a coaster on the Costanzas' coffee table, which causes a stain, so they must bring it to a place to get it fixed, where George meets a gal he has sex with on his parents bed, who find out and go nuts and ground him. Because of this incident the entire ep is extracted. Elaine has to take the subway, when Jerry was going to drive her, so he feels bad and gets her the Cigar Store Indian as a gift to say sorry. She wants something to read on the subway, so she takes Frank'sTV Guide, which, unbeknownst to her, is his collectible. She meets a TV nut who becomes so obsessed with her that in a later ep he creates a mannequinn based on her likeness. Meanwhile, Jerry gives the Indian to Elaine in front of Winona, a girl he's trying to impress, who, unbeknownst to him is part Native-American. Kramer ends up taking it from Elaine and sells it to Mr. Lippman, who ends up negotiating off screen with Kramer to publish his coffee table book about coffee tables.
George converts to Latvian Orthodox, by cheating on the test, for his gal, who ends up moving to Latvia, so it was all for naught. Kramer has the kevorka, the lurer of the animal, which bewitches a nun from George's new church. Jerry's gal, who's living in Newman's apartment somehow, is thought to have, by Jerry, some sort of fungus, which is then thought of by Elaine's foot doctor boyfriend.
Jerry's gal can't "spare a square" for Elaine, but neither of them know who the other one is until later on in the ep. Meanwhile, George loves Elaine's mimbo boyfriend, whom he's negligent for damages in letting him fall while rock climbing, damaging his face, which damages his relationship with Elaine. Kramer determines that Jerry's gal is a phone sex operator, and ends up getting screwed by Elaine when she finds out it was she in the bathroom.
A hair, a lesser babka, black and white cookie, throwing up record all happen to Elaine and Jerry at the Shnitzers look-a-like bakery, while George and Kramer must buy wine, gum, Penthouse, and a bunch of bottles of alcohol, which causes George to give his super warm coat to the owner, while Saddam Hussein double parks, blocking them in.
Jerry tells a college buddy that George is a marine biologist. She goes out with him on the beach and he must save a beached whale who became beached because Kramer hit one really good shot of a golfball out into the ocean. Jerry fakes Elaine out by telling her that the orignal title of War and Peace was War, What is it Good For?, and she brings that up to the Russian writer that Pendant is hosting. He throws Elaine's organizer out the window, which was given to her by Kramer, and it hits Carol Kane on the head. She tracks Jerry down, trying to recover money, to no avail, and it is thrown out the window again, this type of an apartment, not a limo, and hits her on the head again.
Jerry's gal doesn't want to taste the apple pie at Monk's one time with Jerry, and he goes nuts b/c of it. Meanwhile, her father Poppie, doesn't wash his hands, which makes Jerry do the same thing she did. George tries to buy a suit that will go on sale, and must guard it in order to make sure no one buys it until then. He screws over another guy, who makes everyone at George's new job who are going to hire them sick, trying to get George, albeit unsuccessfully. Kramer has an itch that the new cashier scratches, but uses Elaine's mannequinn look-a-like in order to get rid of her, which Elaine stole from the store George bought the suit.
Kramer convinces Mickey to get "lifts" to keep his job as a stand in, which Kramer is also doing. The secret ends up getting out and Mickey is ruined. George dates his gal for spite while Jerry kills a sick friend by laughing him to death. Another friend who is also trying to cheer the guy up takes "it" out while on a date with Elaine.
Jerry gets a fake marriage to Courtney Cox so she can get a discount at the cleaners. George is caught peeing by a guy that Elaine is interested in, who tries to get George in trouble, but when she finds out that he's interested in another girl, she gets him in trouble. Kramer, stupidly, gets a tan from a tanning booth in order to impress his gal's parents, who, like the gal, is black.
Jerry can't hook up with Rachel b/c his parents are staying with him until they go to Paris, which Jerry is paying for. Elaine's guy is a close talker who loves the Seinfelds. George becomes a big brother and then tries to get out of it. We find out that the Seinfelds hate the Costanzas and don't go out with them. Kramer and Morty go into business together in order to sell Morty's "The Beltless Trench Coat"s to Rudy, who also buys George's father's "moth ridden crap".
Newman catches Jerry and Rachel making out at Schindler's List, and tells on Jerry to both of their parents. The Seinfelds miss their flight b/c of Jack Clompus' idiocy of shipping the coats, and continue to not eat with the Costanzas, who have Kramer over instead. Frank finds out that George sold his clothes because of this encounter with the K-Man and Rudy refuses to buy the coats b/c of the moths. Aaron goes psycho with the Seinfelds.
Kramer is dating a hilarious co-worker, Toby, of Elaine, who heckles Jerry, who heckles her, causing her to get her pinky toe severed, where Kramer saves the toe after a hilarious sequence of events. Meanwhile Toby gets the job Elaine wanted and George acts cowardly twice, in a fire and at supposed gun point.
The gang go out to the Hamptons in order "to see the baby". JEK see George's gal, Jane, topless. George wants to see Jerry's gal, Rachel, naked as restitution, but she ends up seeing George, who's 3rd arm was experiencing shrinkage at that moment from being in the pool. Rachel tells Jane about George's shortcoming who then goes home b/c of it. Rachel tries to eat unkosher, but Kramer stops her, even though she ends up doing so b/c of George's revenge, who ends up getting to see her naked. Everyone thinks that the baby they come out to see is very ugly except the doctor, who calls him, Elaine, and the meal breathtaking.
George and Elaine switch places in life, with George getting a job with the NY Yankees, a new apartment, and a gal, all by doing the opposite of what he would normally do, and Elaine losing her job b/c of a failed merger to save Pendant Publishing, which was caused by Mr. Lippman not having his hanky on him. This was Elaine's fault, as she was eating the jujyfruit, so she couldn't tell him that he left the hanky there. Jujyfruit also caused Elaine to lose Jake Jarmel for the second time and she is kicked out of her apartment because the board has a list of demands. Jerry is Even Steven when it comes to everything and Kramer visits Regis and Kathy Lee, which was a disaster, to promote his coffee table book on coffee tables.
Season Five - Overall Commentary
Overall, this season was nice, can I buy you? We had some great and memorable eps in this beauty of a beat of a season. We had some memorable characters in their first ever eps, such as Poppie, as well as some great and classic scenes such as those found within 5:14 The Marine Biologist, 5:20 The Fire with Tobey Maguire, hey that rhymes, 5:12 The Stall, 5:8 The Barber, and 5:5 The Bris. Just hilarious stuff, that's all. Anyway, we had some laughs. We had some tears. OK, maybe not tears, but we had some laughs. Overall, the season was definitely hilarious. What more can I say?
This season was one of the greats, better than the last 4. 13 episodes made the Top 50 during the 2nd Siyum, then in the 3rd Siyum, one episode was erased, but one was added, thereby making the number static at 13 out of 22 episodes, compared to 0 out of 5 episodes in Season 1, 1 out of 12 in Season 2, 8 out of 23 episodes in Season 3, and 8 out of 24 episodes in Season 4, made the Top 50. This is a testament to its greatness. LD, LC, JS, JA, JLD, MR, WK, PB, KP, SM, BB, PC, and HS all did excellent jobs writing and acting in these hilarious episodes of Seinfeld. Also, we say farewell to TC for his directing skills. He got so much better over the years, but when you have AA waiting in the wings, you've got to say farewell. Props all around to all who injected a bit of joy and comedy into the bloodstream of Season 5. That said, let us enter Season 6 together in joy and harmony, b/c although Season 5 did have 13 out of 22 episodes making the Top 50, Season 6 has 9 out of 21, that's less than half the season for those who can't count. Oh, whoops. Well I guess it's not as good as Season 5, but who knows, maybe we'll see some 3rd Siyum Additions. In any event, see you there friend of friends.
Adam - This season was one of the greats. Fourth to only the 7th, 8th and 9th season, not in order. Yeh had George moving in with his parents, and in the end moving out. A double Jake Jarmel, which in my book, means great season. So many things happened in this season, for it not to be a good season, you had pretty boy Tony, umm, the tryouts are four hours, pops, sea was angry that day my friends, and of course my name is George, I'm unemployed and I live with my parents. Need I say more? Need I say more? 12 out of 22, compared to 0 out of 5 episodes in Season 1, 0 out of 12 in Season 2, 6 out of 23 in Season3, and 5 out of 24 episodes in Season 4 made the Top 50.
George decides that the Yankees should where cotton instead of polyester, which initially is a good idea, but later turns out to be a bust. Jerry meets Miss Rhode Island at a Yankees game and asks her out, but she needs a chaperone to accompany them, so Jerry brings Kramer along, which is a big mistake. Kramer becomes her coach, ruining Jerry's date with her. Jerry and George go to Atlantic City where Jerry is doing a set, while Kramer is there with Miss Rhode Island, trying to win Miss America. Jerry throws some water over their balcony to quiet birds that are making noise, which kills the birds, which were Miss RI's talent, so she must sing, and loses horribly. Elaine gets rejected in an interview at Doubleday, but ends up getting hired by Mr. Pitt, who is reminded of Jackie O' when he sees Elaine. Elaine can't come to Atlantic City b/c she must get him socks.
Elaine simply asks for a big salad, which leads to disaster for George. He pays for it, his gal gives it to Elaine, and accepts the thank you. This gets George pissed off, causing his girlfriend to end up breaking up with him. Meanwhile, Jerry is going out with a gal who Newman once dumped, Elaine must get a mechanical pencil for Mr. Pitt, and must go out with the stationer she originally asked for it, b/c she got it from somewhere else, and he did so much work to get it, and Kramer got into an argument over the rules of golf with Steve Gendason, who ends up killing his dry cleaner. This makes Kramer feel responsible and leads to the end of the episode, where a parody of OJ is done flawlessly.
Jerry agrees to do a telethon on PBS for his possible gal, who gives him a thank you card. He throws it out, and she finds out. So, Jerry has to ask George to get a Yankee to come on the show. Kramer gets to be a person who answers the phone at the telethon. Meanwhile, Elaine sees that Mr. Pitt eats a candy bar with a fork and knife. This leads to the whole world doing so, by way of George, who did so to impress Mr. Morgan, to get Danny Tartabull on the telethon, in order to class up the organization. George also thinks that the waitress, Julia's half sister, Lauren Bowles, is giving him the finger, as well as a guy with a cast, to both George and Danny Tartabull, which makes them end up missing the telethon. Also, meanwhile, Elaine's friend Noreen is dating a high-talker that sounds like Noreen, which causes mayhem regarding their relationship, Jerry, Nana, (who wanders around the city looking at banks) and eventually, Uncle Leo.
Elaine's friend Noreen is now dating a long talker. Elaine hangs up on him each time, which causes him to break up with Noreen b/c he thought she was having an affair. We learn of her destructive influence on Noreen lo these many years, so Kramer takes charge of her life. This enables him to impregnate her, which he's happy about b/c his sperm count was low b/c he wore briefs. He couldn't get used to the boxers, so he wears nothing now. Meanwhile, Jerry is dating a Jewish girl from Long Island, who likes faking everyone out, making them think that she is Chinese, including Estelle, who was going to get a divorce from Frank, but was stopped from doing so b/c of her words of Confuscious. When they meet, and she sees that she's not Chinese, she puts the divorce back on. LD appears as Frank's lawyer, who happens to save Noreen's life at the end of the ep from jumping off a bridge.
Jerry gets a new couch for his apartment. Elaine dates the guy who delivers it to his apartment, but Jerry ruins that relationship telling Elaine to ask him if he's pro/anti abortion, b/c she's super pro-abortion or pro-choice, so much so, that she causes a ruckus at Poppie's, where Jerry must still pay for the duck, and where Poppie pees on his new couch. George is part of a book club with his gal, but can't read it, so he tries to watch the movie. It's out of the movie store, so he goes to the person who has it, namely a father and daughter. George acts super rude, and ends up spilling grape juice on their couch. He gives them Jerry's couch. Kramer tries to make a "make your own pizza" place with Poppie, but it fails b/c of a terriffic parody of the abortion issue.
George gets 3 strikes for going out with his gal, getting caught eating out of the garbage, washing a car window, like a bum, even though there was no squeegee, and finally with his shirt off, like I always do, when taking a crap, caused by the 3-D picture. Mr. Pitt is also mesmerized by a 3-D picture, that Kramer bought and left at Mr. Pitt's, and becomes so obsessed that Elaine goes to a merger meeting and turns him into Hitler. Jerry has sex with a gymnast b/c Kramer told him that sex is unbelievable with gymnasts, while where she comes from, sex with comedians are the best. Oh yeah, and Kramer ends up passing his kidney stone, killing Jerry's gal's circus friend.
Kenny Bania shows his hilarious face for the first time in this ep and he gives Jerry a suit in a trade, b/c of Kramer, for a dinner. This turns into a fiasco of course, with discussions on what a dinner consists of. George dates a waitress at Monk's, who dumps George b/c of his manure bit. Kramer dates a waitress at Reggie's, who's pissed off at Kramer b/c he doesn't have any food in his fridge, b/c he's only eating fresh food, b/c of his kidney stone. Elaine is dating an English bounder, who is a bastard, and ends up getting roughed up by Kenny, trying to get his suit back.
George buys a convertible on the premise that it was owned by Jon Voight, the actor, when in fact it was owned by John Voight, the periodontist, a friend of Whatley's. Whatley, meanwhile is having a Thanksgiving party, but Jerry is not sure if he is invited, even though GEK were, and Tim asked Jerry for their contact info. He possibly crashes the party, both to go there, and to check about his teeth, which hurt. He knocks a statue over, poking a hole in Woody Woodpecker, which in the Thanksgiving Day Parade ends up deflating, to the dismay of Mr. Pitt, who was one of the guys holding the strings under the float, who was placed there by Elaine, who knew that the song on the radio was Next Stop Pottersville. After all of that, I'll tell you why the name of the episode is what it is: Kramer tries to save a Mom and Pop Store by giving them all of Jerry's sneakers, but ends up putting them out of business with his bloody nose. This causes Jerry to wear boots with George, slipping and falling after George kicks him out of the car, causing his teeth to hurt, causing him to crash the party, etc.
George tries being serious about his job and tries to get a non-pretty secretary, so he won't be tempted to have an affair with her. This of course backfires, and he has sex with the secretary, and screams out that he's going to give her a raise, which is given to her by Steinbrenner, so that she earns more than he does. Jerry catches his dry cleaner wearing his jacket to a movie. Kramer meanwhile meets Uma Thurman at the theater and writes her phone number down on Jerry's clothing ticket for his mom's fur coat. Jerry demands that the cleaner give the fur coat back, but his wife has it, so he tells Jerry that he needs the ticket. So, Jerry has to find Kramer b/c he has the ticket. Meanwhile, Kramer, Elaine, and Bania have gone to Barney's. Elaine is there to try on another dress, b/c the store has skinny mirrors. Kramer came to buy hand lotion and puts some in his pocket. Bania ends up buying the suit that Kramer is wearing. Jerry finds Kramer, but needs to get the ticket from Bania, who wants to sell the suit back to Kramer b/c the lotion splattered in the suit, causing Uma's number to be illegible, not before Bania copied it down for himself. So, in order to get the ticket, Jerry must go take Bania out to 2 dinners.
Elaine's boyfriend is a communist who infects George and Kramer with the ideology. George takes the "no care about looks" approach and tries to get a date in the personals for commies. His secretary tells on him, which causes Steinbrenner to send down to a Cuba version of Steinbrenner. Kramer gets hooked on the whole thing, but doesn't understand everything about it, including that it's a sensitive topic, when he brings it up to children as a store Santa Clause with Mickey, where they both get fired. Meanwhile, Elaine is blacklisted from Hop Sing, a Chinese restaurant, and ends up naming names, namely Ned Isakov, her boyfriend, who's father stayed there when he was blacklisted. Finally, the name of the ep is The Race because Jerry is dating a gal named Lois, which he obviously loves, and her boss is a childhood friend of Jerry's and George. At the time, they had raced, and Jerry got a huge headstart, but no one noticed except George. Jerry was known as the fastest kid in school. Duncan, her boss, always demanded a rematch, but Jerry refused each time b/c he liked being known as the fastest kid. No matter how hard Jerry tries, Duncan refuses to let it go, and ends up finally getting to race Jerry, who wins again b/c of a false headstart a la Kramer.
George thinks that his hot girlfriend is throwing up after meals, so he asks Kramer's mom, Babs, who works as a matron, to see if she's throwing up or just freshening. While talking with her, George finds out that Kramer's first name is Cosmo. Elaine lends Mr. Pitt's tennis racket in order to get the job at Doubleday to the woman she tried to get the job with in the beginning of the season. She injures herself and because of her sadness about her injury and her crazy gay assistant, Elaine can't get Pitt's racket back. Kramer acknowledges his first name and becomes a new man because of it. He tries making up with his mom, but she ends up sleeping with Newman, never to be seen on Seinfeld again. Jerry meanwhile is dating a non-laugher, which he hates, b/c he's a comedian, but her roommate has a great laugh. He and George try to think of a way to do "The Switch" in order for Jerry to date the roommate. George thinks he figured it out in that Jerry should ask his non-laughing girlfriend for a threesome with the roommate. Of course it backfires b/c they gals agree to it, but Jerry can't be an orgy guy.
Kramer and Newman are in the midst of an intense game of Risk, which ends in disaster because of the Ukraine being weak. George is dating a gal with a male roommate, Scott, who has great furniture. He convinces her to have the roommate leave, when he realizes he made a huge mistake because "he was handling half the workload" and that all of the furniture was his. In order to break up with her, he tries to use his threesome trick from last episode (6:11 The Switch), but again it backfires because they want to do it with George. Jerry can't go to the super bowl b/c The Drake's wedding is on Super Bowl Sunday. So he gives the tickets to Tim Whatley. Meanwhile Elaine gave him a label maker baby as a gift, but he gives it to Jerry (a regift), then tries to go upstairs with Elaine, who doesn't realize he means sex, and then agrees to go with him to Super Bowl Sunday, where he thinks a romp will occur. Jerry notifies Elaine of Whatley's intentions, she tells him we ain't sleeping together, he takes back the ticket and gives it to Jerry (a degift to Elaine), and then Elaine catches him that he did this, but then they make out and Jerry goes with Newman to the Super Bowl, who also got all of Scott's stuff b/c the labels fell off of his boxes.
Elaine tries to get a job with Mr. Lippman, who is trying to publish Jake Jarmel's book. Jake doesn't want anyone to have his Malaysian glasses, but Elaine finds a pair and wears it just to stick it to the man and ends up giving it to Lippman. Kramer repeatedly ruins a cop's chances of catching his "white whale", a scofflaw, who has so many tickets, that he scoffs at The Law. It turns out that this scoffer is Newman. Kramer gets an eyepatch cuz he thinks it looks cool and helps Newman clear his record by going to court. He is ordered to put his car in a parking lot, which, afford it he will, b/c it was Gary Fogel's spot that was given to George. Gary Fogel is a friend of Jerry's and George, who told people, except George, that he had cancer. George gave him a guilt trip and he gave him the parking space, parking space, parking space. George told him that he still owes him a secret, so he told him that he never really had cancer. Jerry obviously gets it out of George b/c he never wins at poker, but George tells Jerry he can't tell on him, even though he paid for his toupee. George sees how Gary is brimming with confidence b/c of the hair and decides to get a piece as well. Jerry comes along with him, and that's where Gary tells him the bad news about the parking space and George lets Jerry let him have it.
Elaine acts as a beard, not a clue why it is called a beard, but a beard nevertheless. She ends up falling for the gay guy, and converts him temporarily, but in the end, due to her deficient knowledge and expertise with the equipment, even as whorish as she is, she can't beat people who have the equipment 24x7. Jerry lies to a cop gal about watching Melrose Place, while Kramer gives food to a homeless guy, but doesn't get the tupperware back from him, and ends up going into police lineups for $50 a pop. The reason they went to the police station is so that Kramer's police sketch artist friend could sketch a girl that Kramer is setting George up with, now that he has hair. George gets dumped by the gal, who's bald herself. Jerry asks George for help on beating the lie detector test, but Jerry can't do it and snaps, and goes off about the show. The whole gang ends up watching the show together at the end.
Elaine's friend, Wendy, kisses Jerry hello each time they meet. Jerry decides that he's done with that whole program, but it becomes harder b/c Kramer puts up pictures of everyone in the building and so he gets constant kisses hello. Jerry puts a stop to this also, and does so nicely, which obviously backfires on him to the nth degree. Kramer meanwhile goes out with Wendy, because he likes her hairdo, when the only reason Elaine introduced them was so that Kramer could tell her that her hairdo was horrible and then she'd be able to date. George misses his appt., and he got charged, so when Wendy and Elaine go skiing, he charges Wendy. After skiing, Wendy made Elaine walk home with her skies, nearly hitting NB, causing her to get injured and then goes to Wendy for treatment, who wants to charge her. The truth about her hairdo comes out, agreed upon by Carol Leifer, and then she changes it offscreen, which causes Kramer to dump her.
Frank is staying with George b/c of Frank's and Estelle's separation. While changing his shirt, George and Kramer see that he has boobs. Kramer thinks up the idea of The Bro/Manzier, while George goes nuts thinking that he, one day soon, will also have boobs. Kramer also pretends to mug George in front of some German tourists to set up a good movie spoof. Jerry meanwhile is getting into head games with Mr. Pitt's doorman. He leaves for some time and leaves Jerry in charge. He leaves his post and then the couch in the lobby gets stolen. He replaces it with the couch with the urine stain that he gave to George, forcing Frank to move back in with Estelle. Frank and Krame try to sell the bra to Sid Farkas, but b/c he asks Frank's permission to date Estelle, Frank cancels the transaction. Estelle tells Frank that she has a date with him, and Frank refuses to return home. He ends up sleeping in George's bed with George, offering him some kasha.
The men play b-ball with Jimmy, who only refers to himself in the 3rd person, leading Elaine to thinking she's going out with someone else, but in actuality, Jimmy. George is fascinated by Jimmy, especially his jumping prowess, which is due to the shoes that Jimmy wears as well as sells. So, George goes into business with him to sell the shoes, but Kramer ruins everything. He went to see Tim Whatley, DDS, and he gave him a lot of novocaine, which causes him to drool and spill his water all over the floor, causing Jimmy to slip and fall, thereby ruining George's and Jimmy's business. Meanwhile, Kramer, who's drooling and has the weird shoes on, and is also Kramer, is thought to be mentally challenged by one Arnold Deensfrei, who invites him to be at the head table with him and The Velvet Fog, Mr. Mel Torme. Elaine is also going to this benefit, with Jimmy as her date, and by that time, the novocaine has worn off and Kramer is not disabled anymore, which would be a problem. So Jimmy ends up punching Kramer for putting him out of commission, literally, and so Kramer ends up looking, sounding, and acting disabled again. Meanwhile, George starts imitating Jimmy by referring to himself in 3rd person, especially when he's angry or under pressure. Wilhelm suspects him of stealing from the Yankees b/c he sweats each time he confronts him or talks about it. Also meanwhile, Jerry has also gone to Whatley, who now has Penthouse magazines, doesn't allow kids, and swaps nurses with another dentist. To top it all off, Jerry thinks that he was violated b/c when he came to consciousness, he saw them getting dressed and his shirt was untucked.
Jerry's folks are coming up to NY, but his apt. has fleas, so Jerry asks Elaine if they can use the room she was getting for free at The Plaza Hotel, that she got for interviewing with a company. She agrees and they (Morty, Helen, Uncle Leo, and Nana) trash the place to the nth degree. Jerry and George doubledate and Jerry eats discarded foodstuffs unknowingly from his gal, and when George tells him, he spits it out in disgust, getting him in trouble, where he ultimately gets dumped for not using her toothbrush. George's gal is taking a drawing class with Elaine and finds out that she likes George b/c looks aren't important to her, which George finds horribly offending and is pissed off. After quizzing her to see how far this goes, he falls in love with her, b/c he gets to wear sweatpants and can drape himself and velvet and still have sex with this woman. That relationship ends when she sucks on the pit of the Macanaw peach that he just finished eating. Meanwhile, Kramer and Newman, every year, get Macanaw peaches, which are only good for a certain period of time each year. Jerry's apt. is being fumigated b/c of the fleas, but Kramer didn't realize this and lost his sense of taste b/c he was in there for an hour and a half, reading the manuscript that Elaine was supposed to read. Newman eats all of the peaches, including the last one, when Kramer finally gets his sense of taste back, right in front of his face, so he launches a dog, which originally gave Newman the fleas, who gave it to Jerry's apt. Elaine finds out she needs to read that script after Kramer reads it and can't find it in the fumigated apt., so she must rely on Kramer's summary of it, which was suprisingly good and would have gotten her the job, had it not been for the trashing of the room.
Elaine is dating David Puddy, who shows up for the first time, who's Jerry's mechanic. He uses Jerry's sexual "move" on Elaine, and tells Jerry, who tells Puddy to stop, or if he needs to do it, to do it out of town, so Puddy tells him to take his car out of town the next time it needs work, which is right after he leaves. He has Elaine find out what Puddy would charge to fix the car and finds out that the new place he's using is screwing him, so he brings the car to Puddy, saves money, and allows Puddy to use the move. George tries to do Jerry's move, but can't remember the order of the steps, so he writes it down and gets caught and dumped. Kramer gets someone else's vanity plates that read Assman, and drives home Estelle from her eyejob and stops short and puts out his hand. This was Frank's move, so he goes to yell at Kramer. Meanwhile, Kramer has been making pasta versions of his pals, starting with Fusilli Jerry, which Frank falls down on and must go to the proctologist, who also it turns out, was the one that got Kramer's plates.
Jerry's agent ruins everything for Jerry, Elaine tries to quit her job working for Mr. Pitt, but then gets signed into his will, so she stays. She ends up getting fired b/c his lawyer thinks that she was trying to murder him with Jerry, who gave Pitt the wrong drugs, b/c he thought Jerry worked there. Kramer gambles with Earl Hafler on which planes will depart first, and ends up going on a losing streak, so he has to show some money before going again. He calls up Newman, who brings the mailbag of Son of Sam, as collateral, and Newman becomes Kramer's lucky charm, and Kramer wins big. However, because of Jerry's agent, Jerry gets kicked off the plane, b/c she chewed out the pilot, for merely being in the audience, causing Jerry to freak out b/c she said that the pilot was in the audience. This causes the plane to be delayed, as Elaine tells Kramer and Earl, causing Earl to rip up the check and to be wary when doing future deals with the K-Man. Meanwhile, one of George's bosses, Morgan, thinks that George is a racist b/c he said that he looked like Sugar Ray Leonard, so he tries to show Morgan that he has black friends, meaning he isn't a racist, but as Jerry points out, he doesn't have any white friends either outside of JEK.
George decides to tell his gal that he loves her, but she answers "Let's get something to eat". Kramer gets into a fight with Barry the monkey, has to say sorry, and finds out that George's gal can't hear out of one ear, so George tries again, and she totally shuts him down with "I heard you the first time". Meanwhile, Jerry gets free tickets to the Devils v. Rangers playoff game, but doesn't give the day after thank you, so he and Kramer must sit with crazy Puddy with paint on their bodies to spell out D-E-V-I-L-S! Puddy paints his face, to which Elaine objects, so he paints his body, as just explained.
Jerry is dating the understudy for Bette Midler in her new play on Broadway, Rochelle, Rochelle: The Musical. Jerry and George end up being on a team that plays against Bette Midler's team. George gets into a whole thing with Bette while playing ball, and ends up sliding into home plate, crushing her in the process. She goes to the hospital, knocking her out of the show, putting in Jerry's gal as the performer. The whole world turns against Jerry, George, and the gal. Kramer meanwhile takes over as Bette's personal assistant. Elaine is being made fun of at her nail shop, so she has Frank, who speaks Korean, to come in and be a spy. They're caught and she is kicked out, while Frank meets an old flame from Korea. He puts the move on her, they break up, and Elaine tries to reconcile with the Korean women by giving them tickets to Rochelle, Rochelle, but they get angry b/c the understudy is in, and not Bette Midler. Elaine also gets a job with J. Peterman, who shows up for the first time to close out the Sixth Season.
This season was one of the greats. Not as good as Season 5, at least in terms of Top 50 eps, but better than the first 3 seasons. 9 episodes made the Top 50 during the 2nd Siyum, then in the 3rd Siyum, nothing was changed, thereby making the number static at 9 out of 24 episodes, compared to 0 out of 5 episodes in Season 1, 1 out of 12 in Season 2, 8 out of 23 episodes in Season 3, 8 out of 24 episodes in Season 4, and 14 out of 22 episodes in Season 5 made the Top 50. This is a testament to its greatness. LD, LC, JS, JA, JLD, MR, WK, PB, KP, SM, BB, PC, and HS all did excellent jobs writing and acting, while AA did a great job directing, in these hilarious episodes of Seinfeld. Props all around to all who injected a bit of joy and comedy into the bloodstream of Season 6. That said, let us enter Season 7 together in joy and harmony, b/c although Season 6 did have 9 out of 24 episodes making the Top 50, Season 7 has 10 out of 24, that's more than half the season for those who can't count. So, it's better than Season 6, which was already one of the most hilarious seasons. In any event, see you there friend of friends.
Adam - Season 6 on the whole was somewhat of a disappoitnment. You have one episode for me that would be on my Top 10, 6:24 The Understudy. But comparing Season 6 to Season 5 is like comparing apples to oranges. Greatness to goodness. After Season 5, you felt that the best has yet to come and that it would either duplicate its 12 Top 50 episodes or even surpass it. But not only did it not duplicate it, it lose 4 episodes to make it only 8. That alone shows how this season was kind of a disappointment. Nevertheless, it is still much better than the first 3 seasons, but it does not beat the other seasons. They did a great job ending said season on an extremely high note with 6:24 The Understudy. Now let's take that into the new season and welcome Season 7 with open arms. 8 out of 24, compared to 0 out of 5 episodes in Season 1, 0 out of 12 in Season 2, 6 out of 23 in Season3, and 5 out of 24 in Season 4, and 12 out of 22 episodes in Season 5 made the Top 50.
Jerry and George decide to become men, which makes George ask Susan to marry him and Jerry tries to make it work with his girlfriend, trying to ignore the stupid problems he has with her. Kramer brings Jerry back to reality, or at least, Seinfeld reality, so George is left in the cold with Susan. Meanwhile, Elaine can't go to sleep b/c of a dog that is barking loudly, so she hires Kramer to hire Newman, and the three of them dognap the dog. They end up getting caught b/c of Kramer's tie and Newman's enormous frame.
After failing miserably, George manages to get Susan to agree to postponing the wedding. Elaine is super jealous of George and can only confide her jealousy to the gossip-monger
Rabbi in her building, who ends up telling Jerry and via his TV show, Elaine and Susan. Kramer tries to bring in a cafe latte into a movie theater and Jerry rats him out b/c of a dispute over ratting out between Kramer and Jerry. This leads to Kramer being able to sue the coffee company with an as yet unknown attorney by his side.
Kramer hires Jackie Chiles as his attorney, who tries to win him big bucks big bucks, no whammies, no whammies, but because of the Maestro, who gave Kramer some Chinese balm, the evidence of his coffee burn became nonexistent. This did not matter anyway, b/c the execs at Javaworld decided they didn't need to see it. All of this didn't matter in the end, b/c Kramer stupidly doesn't hear the word "and" after the first part of their settlement deal of free coffee at all our branches. I'd like to know how Jackie will get a third of that. Does he get free coffee in a third of their stores or does he get a third of a cup of coffee each time? Anyway, Elaine is dating the Maestro, who insists on being called Maestro, even though his name is Bob Cobb, a favorite name of LD's, and they vacation at his Tuscany villa. Jerry follows him there with Kramer at his side by getting a place from a cousin of Poppie's. Finally, George feels bad for Susan's uncle's store's security guard b/c he has to stand the whole day. He gets him a rocking chair, but ends up falling asleep in it, letting a crook rob the store blind.
Jerry becomes a health nut which ruins the lives of everyone in the episode. First he squirts the pulp into George's eye, causing him to wink at everyone at every inopportune moment, including but not limited to, letting Kramer sell a birthday card signed by the entire New York Yankees organization, making Mr. Wilhelm think that Morgan is coming to work late and slacking off, and causing Morgan's wife to think that he is having an affair. Jerry must hide the mutton that Holly, Elaine's cousin, cooks b/c of his health nut ways, and so he hides it in napkins in his coat, which Elaine takes and which then causes her to get hunted by dogs, and so she must run to her boyfriend, the wakeup guy used by Morgan, and sleep head to toe with him, causing him to sleep late and not wake up his clients, including said Morgan, getting him fired, and having George take his job. Finally, Kramer makes Paul O'Neill do some crazy baseball stuff in order to get back the birthday card that he mistakenly sold.
Because George acts annoyed at work, he is assigned to show some Texans around for interleague purposes. They curse like crazy, which causes George to start speaking like that to, specificially in front of Jean Paul, a marathon runner, who is staying with Elaine. Jerry is worried about Elaine's problem with time, and so he has him eventually stay with him. Kramer meanwhile falls asleep in his hot tub, so he gets a new pump, which overloads the electricity in the apartment, almost causing Jean Paul to miss the race. All of these circumstances help Elaine overcome her catalog writer's block.
Everyone loves the soup made by the Soup Nazi, an eccentric owner of a soup place. However, due to his insane requirements in order to buy soup, he causes a lot of trouble for the gang. While this is going on, Elaine buys an armoire, which Kramer is supposed to watch, but gets stolen by a couple of street toughs. George and Elaine hate that Jerry and his girlfriend show their affection in public, but only George does something about it. He confronts Jerry and they have a battle over it. Meanwhile, the Soup Nazi gives Kramer his armoire to give to Elaine, albeit unknowingly for Elaine. When Elaine tries to thank the Soup Nazi, he basically kills her, so she gets angry and has a chance at revenge and uses it, by finding his secret recipes in the armoire and using them against him by letting his secret recipes out to the public.
George refuses to tell anyone, including Susan, his ATM code. Elaine screws over Jerry and George by leaving them with Peterman and goes out on a date with Fred Yerkes/Stoller who stands her up, and she is only attracted to him b/c he never remembers her. Meanwhile, b/c Elaine screws them over, and George can't think of an excuse like Jerry can, George must stay with Peterman. Peterman's mom is dying so he and George must go to her. Kramer buys a police scanner and decides that he must help the fire department with better routes around the city. Finally, Jerry is going to do some ads with Leapin' Larry, but his foot falls asleep each time. The whole episode is linked together then when the last time Jerry is there, he causes the place to burn down, the fire truck doesn't get there in time b/c Kramer is driving it, and then the whole block gets burned up, including the funeral home of Peterman's mother, and a nearby ATM, with a man trapped inside. It is at this point that George must tell his secret code so that man won't die, which he had told to Peterman's mom, and because of all of this, Peterman thinks that George killed his mother with his secret code as his weapon of choice.
Kramer changes his phone number to 555-FILK, so everyone calls him, thinking that it's Moviefone. George's worlds collide b/c Susan and Elaine become friends, thereby making the George that is with Susan meet the George that is friends with the gang. This reaches a climax when George comes to Monk's and the gang now consists of Susan instead of George. He then tries to catch Jerry, Susan, and Elaine at the movie theater, but b/c of Kramer's Moviefone shtick, he doesn't know it's playing at two theaters. Finally, Jerry doesn't want to be friends with a pool guy, who wants to be friends with him, and the pool guy then starts harrassing Jerry, and then Newman jumps on him in the pool, and neither of them will give him CPR.
Kramer walks for AIDS and Jerry steals a girl's number from his list, who is so good that Jerry can't imagine that she even has sex. However, at the end of the episode, he finds that she has a huge load of The Sponge, the birth control product used by her, Susan, and Elaine. Elaine, super sexaholic, goes all over NYC to get them, and must become more selective in her sexual escapades due to her limited supply. George is almost cut out of the loop b/c he tells secrets to Susan, albeit, not at first. Kramer ends up getting beaten up by the street toughs for not wearing a ribbon, even though he was walking for AIDS.
Lloyd Braun returns, albeit as a different actor, and is recovering from a mental breakdown with Kramer's help. Kramer meanwhile is supervising the restoration of an old movie theater. George gets involved in a bunch of crazy situations, where his childhood friend each time sees him and thinks that he's crazy b/c her father, Pop, is crazy, who broke George's car. The most important situation is that of a dispute between him and Ruthie Cohen over correct change, which is solved by LD. Elaine doesn't want to lead Lloyd on, so she lies and says that Jerry wears glasses, which makes Kramer force Jerry to wear glasses while Lloyd is around, and he ends up buying a ton of gum and doesn't see Elaine's cleavage.
Elaine's boyfriend doesn't like to go downtown, but after Jerry tells Clyde, his backup, that they are hot and heavy, Elaine freaks unneccessarily. When he does go downtown he messes up during his saxaphone audition b/c he didn't do a good job, which ruined his confidence during the gig. The big day has come where the Costanzas and the Rosses meet. Frank takes back the marble rye from Schnitzer's b/c they forgot to serve it, but he thinks they did it on purpose. So, George must figure out how to replace the rye bread. He does so with Jerry and Kramer's help. Jerry is supposed to buy the rye, but the last one is bought by Mrs. Choate, from whom Jerry tries to buy it, but she refuses, so he mugs her for it. Kramer meanwhile bought a ton of food from the Price Club, including a lot of Beef-A-Reeno, which he feeds to Rusty, a horse that he is using to make some extra cash, which he borrowed from a friend. Kramer's job to help George was to take the Rosses around in the horse-drawn carriage, but b/c the horse was so gassy from the Beef-A-Reeno, the Rosses must return early, enabling them to catch George in the act of getting the rye, where the only explanation he can offer is "Schnitzer's".
Everyone at Yankee Stadium thinks that George is working more hours than anyone else b/c he locked his keys in his car in the parking lot. He goes up with Susan to the rebuilt cabin, but remembers that Jerry must take the flyers off of the car so he won't get caught. Jerry and Kramer decide to take the car for a wash b/c it's filthy and end up getting into a car crash b/c of Sue Ellen Mishky, who was wearing a bra as a top b/c of Elaine, who bought it for her as a vindictive gift, and so Sue Ellen wore it as a top to get back at her. The crash causes personal injury to Kramer, specifically his golf swing. Jackie Chiles is hired, it goes to trial, everything going well, but then Kramer asks Stan the Caddy what he should do, even though he has no legal experience, causing an OJ Simpson spoof.
Elaine buys a little girl's bike, but b/c Jerry was hitting on a girl, she hurt her neck when trying to get the bike down. This girl always wears the same dress, which causes Jerry much angst. Elaine meanwhile gives a promise to give away the girls' bike, made without any consideration in my view, of course I don't really know Contracts that well, to anyone who would fix her neck, which Kramer takes up, and succeeds in doing, but they both must go to Newman to decide who should get the bike. In the end, b/c Kramer started a mooching inventory, and needs to pay Jerry back, he sells the bike to Newman. Finally, George wants to name his and Susan's child, Seven, after Mickey Mantle, however, Susan told the name to her cousin, and they want to name their kid Seven, so George is angry about it to say the least.
This two part episode begins with Jerry buying his father a Cadillac, Kramer evading the cable guy who has come to remove channels he isn't paying for, George trying to get Elaine to set him up with Marisa Tomei, and Morty being accused of embezzling condo funds.
Morty's impeachment goes on as planned, and the only tenant on the board who can save him is Mabel Choate, from whom Jerry stole a marble rye in 7:11 The Rye, and so he is impeached and they move. George meets with Marisa Tomei, and uses Elaine for a lie, but Elaine messes up the lie, and so Susan punches George, after Marisa had punched George b/c he said he was engaged. Finally, the cable guy apologizes to Kramer and they hug and makeup.
Jerry's parents are staying in Uncle Leo's place, and he is staying with his girlfriend with whom he is having regular sex, but this greatly decreases the buffer zone between Jerry and his folks. Meanwhile, George's parents decide to move to Florida, enabling George to bask in the buffer zone, and b/c of that, the Seinfelds won't move back to Florida. So, Jerry convinces Uncle Leo to dump his girlfriend so he can move back into that bachelor pad, thereby kicking his parents out back to Florida, but since they refuse to be there with the Costanzas, they move into Jerry's place, so Jerry must convince Uncle Leo to take his gal back, so they won't stay with Jerry anymore. Meanwhile, Elaine is supposed to go to Africa with Peterman, but keeps testing positive for opium. Finally, Jerry's building is getting low-flow shower heads, so Newman finds a black market guy, and they get more powerful showerheads.
First, I don't know why Kathleen Tracy's summary below says that Jerry loses Kathy Griffin's package, but that's a subject for another story. Anyway, one of Susan's dolls, which she likes to sleep with, looks identical to Estelle. Jerry gets screwed over twice by Kathy Griffin, first, when he broke the sauce that he needed for his material on a television appearance b/c of her stupid housewarming gift, when she works for FedEx, and then when he wants to get her back, but still get the sauce, she ends up getting him the wrong sauce. Meanwhile, we find out that Elaine and the Maestro broke up in Tuscany and in order to get back in good spirits with him, she repairs the damage done, by getting a signed autograph of the third tenor, his favorite. While in Tuscany, Elaine met Frank's alleged relative, and finally, Frank turned George's room into a billiards room, which is apparently "The Place to Be", and they all take off their pants in order not to ruin the crease, which Jerry does as well, and which the third tenor makes dirty.
George sets Jerry up with Susan's best friend. They all go to the show that she works at, The Flying Sandos Brothers, and Jerry gets involved in the act, when they throw his jacket into the audience. Really though, it is not his jacket, but a jacket he had to borrow from The Friar's Club, b/c he didn't fit their dress code. This obviously ruins his chances of becoming a member of the club. Elaine thinks that her new coworker is faking being deaf so he doesn't have to do a lot of work, and Elaine ends up having to do it instead. George is ecstatic that the wedding must be postponed to June, and Kramer is sleeping only 20 minutes every 3 hours, which ends up getting him throw into the river.
Jerry buys a blazer from the Andover Shop, where the salesman asks out Elaine right in front of Jerry. He works her for the discount on a Nicole Miller outfit and she ends up making a wig out of his ponytail. A friend of Susan's, who is the wig master for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, is staying with George and Susan. Meanwhile, Kramer and George park their cars at Jiffy Park, where the cars are being used by hookers to turn tricks. Finally, Kramer is allowed to wear the dreamcoat, with Elaine's walking stick that she wrote about, and a hat that blows off in the wind, turning him into a pimp, getting him thrown in the slammer.
While eating a calzone from Pisano's at work, Steinbrenner requests that George get him one after tasting it, and from that day on, wants to have lunch with George, both of them eating calzones from Pisano's. This arrangement enables George to become Steinbrenner's second in command. Everything is going great, but when George puts a tip in the tip jar at the pizza place, the guy doesn't see him put one in, so the second time that it happens, he tries to take the tip out of the jar and it looks like he's stealing, so he obviously can't go back there. So, he has Newman, who drives by there on his postal route, buy the calzones, for a steep price. Unfortunately for George, Newman doesn't go to work when it rains, and so he sends Kramer to buy the calzones. Kramer, meanwhile, has been putting his clothing in the dryer and wearing it right away, and so, when he is soaked from the rain, he has them put his clothes in the pizza oven, which become ruined, and he tries to pay in coins b/c he's been using the dryer, but they refuse and throw him out minus the calzones, ruining George's sweet setup. Elaine is sort of dating Todd Gak, who keeps getting dates with her through a series of dating loopholes, but then steals Jerry's gal, who gets away with anything and everything.
Newman figures out a way to make a profit off of the bottle deposit scheme that Kramer has always wanted to do, but couldn't crunch the numbers, by using a mail truck. Their plan goes awry b/c Jerry's mechanic stole his car, with JFK's golf clubs, that Elaine bought for Peterman, as well as to spite the braless wonder, Sue Ellen Mishke. Finally, George is told to do a major assignment that he asks for Jerry's help in figuring out what he has to do exactly.
Even though he didn't do the project, Wilhelm congratulates him on the great job he did. It turns out that Wilhelm is a bit nutty and did it himself. George is thrown into the crazy house b/c of it. Kramer and Newman must stop their bottle deposit scheme in order to get JFK's clubs back for Elaine and also get Jerry's car back. They throw out the bottles and the mail, and then when that isn't enough, as they are still sluggish like a wet sponge, Kramer kicks Newman out of the mail truck in order to catch up to Jerry's stolen car. Tony throws JFK's clubs at him, breaking the mail truck, and Kramer picks up the broken clubs, but alas, Jerry's car gets away. Elaine avoids getting fired b/c Peterman thinks that JFK had quite a temper. Finally, Newman runs away with Kramer away from the farmhouse b/c he trie to get busy with the farmer's daughter, after being warned not to.
George makes a joke about how Beth Luckner could have done better marriage-wise. This causes Beth and David to break up temporarily, while Elaine and Jerry try to steal each of them for themselves. Meanwhile, George regrets what happened and tries to fix the situation to Elaine and Jerry's horror. David zings it back to George with the same dis/joke and that gets Susan thinking, which George hopes is thinking of breaking up, but in reality is thinking about what type of food should be served at the wedding. Kramer is helping Mickey in a play, but causes all sorts of trouble b/c he tried on an old pair of jeans that are so tight that he can't get them off.
George tries to think of ways of getting out of the wedding, while Jerry contemplates being single with Kramer when they're much older, and ends up falling hard for Jeannie Steinman, who is really a femme-Jerry. After a while he begins to dislike her b/c he hates himself. Finally, Susan ends up dying while licking the cheap envelopes that George bought for their wedding invitations.
Season Seven - Overall Commentary
Overall, this season was nice, can I buy you? We had some great and memorable eps in this beauty of a beaut of a season. We had some memorable characters in their first ever eps, such as The Maestro, the Soup Nazi, and the gay guys (street toughs), as well as some great and classic scenes such as those found within 7:1 The Engagement - Top 10, 7:2 The Postponement - Top 10, 7:5 The Hot Tub - Top 10,
7:6 The Soup Nazi - Top 5, 7:12 The Caddy - Top 25, 7:14 The Cadillac Part 1 - Top 25, 7:14 The Friar's Club - Top 25, and 7:19 The Wig Master - Top 10. Just look at all of those amazing episodes. This season was unbelievably hilarious, and LD did an excellent job with the entire season, from beginning to finish, with all of the arcs, references, etc. Just hilarious stuff, that's all. Anyway, we had some laughs. We had some