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.
Our Commentary
Every once in a while we have an episode that comes along and shows us how truly magnificently brilliant and hilarious the television show entitled Seinfeld, really is. This is one of those episodes. Everything about this episode is hilarious. They should have retitled it 5:10 The Hilarious. It's Hi-lar-I-ous. Even Newman would say it's Hilarious. A hilarious OCB and CCB enclose this hilarious episode, making it a hilarious sandwich on hilarious bread, with a side of hilarious, and a large cup of hilarious to wash it down, with no ice, so we can get more hilarious for our money. Everything about this episode screams hilarious. We have Frank and Estelle at their best with the condom, George at his best with his smoothness with the Carrie Jerome sound-a-like, the gyros at Queensborough Plaza and Kramer's and Jerry's arms getting stuck and the gyros get taken, the TV/TV Guide/Elaine obsessed guy, Kramer's coffee table book about coffee tables, Lippman, Wydoncha & Nailme Juggs, everything with Jerry, from his saving himself from saying anti-Indian things, to Israel fly off the handle, to American Joe, to heya-hoah-heya-hoah, Kramer's Indian wa-wa-wa-wa, kasha/potpourri, lock on the liquor cabinet, prune juice, Kramer's 220, Frank's collection of TV Guide, Al Roker, and everything in between, including the massive linking. Overall, a great, hilarious, stupendous, brilliant, and every other positive adjective I'm too lazy to look up. Awesome. Adam - Beautiful episode. Well deserved to be on the Top 50. Gotta go to Tamar. Oooh. Tamar is waiting. Can't let Tamar wait. Oooh.
EPISODE GUIDE from Jerry Seinfeld: The Entire Domain by Kathleen Tracy
74."The Cigar Store Indian" (December 9, 1993)
SUMMARY Elaine takes one of Mr. Costanza's prized TV Guide magazines. Jerry offends a Native American
friend of Elaine's, whom he is interested in dating, when he gives Elaine a cigar store Indian. Kramer gets an idea
for a coffee-table book about coffee tables. George gets grounded when his parents return from vacation and find an
unused condom in their bed and the missing TV Guide.
DIRECTOR Tom Cherones
TELEPLAY Tom Gammill and Max Pross
GUEST CAST Carissa Channing (Sylvia); Veralyn Jones (Renee); Sam Lloyd (Ricky); Benjamin Lum (Mailman);
Ralph Manza (Gepetto); Irvin Mos-ley Jr. (Spike); Kimberly Norris (Winona); Lisa Pescia (Joanne); Al Roker
(Himself)
RECURRING CAST Richard Fancy (Lippman); Estelle Harris (Estelle Costanza); Jerry Stiller (Frank Costanza)
Stats
2nd Siyum
Crazy Kramer Ideas
Coffee table book about coffee tables
