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.
Our Commentary
Beautiful OCB opens up this beauty of a beaut of an ep. Hilarious stuff with Elaine and Paula acting like kids in class, Jerry's parents, Uncle Leo, and Nana staying at and trashing the Plaza, like a bunch of kids, and Jerry confronting Newman about the fleas is stimply hilarious, especially when Newman suggests that Jerry lives in squalor or keeps his house in a state of disrepair and when Newman is scratching himself like crazy. The entire thing of Kramer, Elaine, and Billy Mumphrey, is one of the funniest, and quite quotable, lines of dialogue throughout Seinfeld. Hilarious stuff with Kramer being in Jerry's fumigated apt. for an hour and a half, Elaine trying to find the manuscript while holding her breath, Jerry holding his coat over his mouth and nose, so as not to breath in the toxic fumes, Kramer thinking that Jerry put the sign up so his parents wouldn't walk in on him with a girl, but goes in anyway, and Jerry asking Elaine to get him a drink while she's trying to hold her breath long enough to look for the manuscript. Also hilarious is Uncle Leo ordering an Asian prostitute, at least one of the old fogeys, probably Uncle Leo, ordering adult films, linking George's wearing velvet in this ep to the last ep of Mr. Mel Torme, The Velvet Fog, a nice Norman Brenner with voice and interaction, and Kramer unleashing Buford (somehow he knows his name), on Newman for taking the last Macanaw peach. Overall, deserved of Top 50 honors. Adam - Very funny episode. Top 50 material. Not Top 10, but still a very good and nice, nice and good episode.
EPISODE GUIDE from Jerry Seinfeld: The Entire Domain by Kathleen Tracy
106."The Doodle" (April 6, 1995)
SVMMARY Jerry has fleas, so his visiting parents stay in a fancy hotel suite that was provided for Elaine by the
company she is interviewing with. Jerry is disgusted when he finds out he was eating pecans that had just been in
his girlfriend's mouth. George finds a doodle that his girlfriend drew of him. Jerry figures out that Newman gave
him the fleas.
DIRECTOR Andy Ackerman
TELEPLAY Alec Berg and Jeff Schaffer
GUEST CAST Norman Brenner (Passerby); Wayne C. Dvorak (Teacher); Christa Miller (Paula); Guy Siner
(Mandel); Coby Turner (Judy); Billye Ree Wallace (Nana); Dana Wheeler-Nicholson (Shelly); Ellis E. Williams
(Karl)
RECURRING CAST Wayne Knight (Newman); Len Lesser (Uncle Leo); Barney Martin (Morty Seinfeld); Liz
Sheridan (Helen Seinfeld)
