Episode 2: The Postponement

Episode #112; 7:2


Our Summary

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.



Our Commentary

Good afternoon. Good afternoon. In less than 22 minutes, episodes from here will join others from the Top 10 and you will be launching the largest leap in Topness in the history of Seinfeld. "Seinfeld." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is July 29th, and you will once again be determining how great an episode of Seinfeld is...Not obvious ones like 9:3 The Serenity Now or 7:6 The Soup Nazi...but 7:2 The Postponement. We are fighting for its rightful place amongst the Top 10. To exist. And should we win the day, the 29th of July will no longer be known as Tiffany's birthday, but as the day 7:2 The Postponement declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!" We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our entrance into the Top 10 Day!

And now to the ep. Everything in this ep is stimply hilarious. From the Rabbi to Rabbi Glickman/Kirschbaum, Volition=Momentum, to K-Man starting the trends. Hilarious stuff with the guy asking his gal while she's crying if she's eating her fries, Kramer and Jerry still talking about Kramer sending Jerry to jail, she cried, you craved, and super continuations, like LD's Season 4 archs, with Kramer's cafe Latte -----> Jackie Chiles, Susan and the marriage, and the stalls. Great stuff with Elaine's super jealousy of George, yet hugs him, and he sticks it to her, Jerry feeding Kramer about 2nd chances, and Elaine's bad ass moment. Beautiful stuff with Jerry's Jackie Mason imitation, classic LD with George not having a good turn (of his neck), Jerry totally ignoring George and saying that he should shoot for March, Kramer drinking Cafe Latte since the 5th grade, link back to Plan 9 From Outer Space in 2:11 The Chinese Restaurant, George with his talking to Jerry, while motioning that he was talking to Jerry to Susan when coming home, missed out on the makeup sex/sodomy, link forward to conjugal visit sex, Well Rabbi, Well, the Usher guessing that it is a Cafe Latte in Kramer's shirt, and Jerry ratting him out, Coffee Boy, and the super Reform Rabbi who wants to set up the shiksa Elaine with his Jewish nephew. Everything is hilarious. Overall, an excellent episode, well deserved of the Top 10, not a clue about how it didn't make the Top 50 last Siyum. Adam - Hilarious episode. I'm ashamed to even say that this wasn't even on my Top 50, let alone my Top 10. For this is one of the greatest episodes in all of Seinfeld lore. Basically that's all I can tell you. Beautiful episode.


EPISODE GUIDE from Jerry Seinfeld: The Entire Domain by Kathleen Tracy

112."The Postponement" (September 28, 1995)

SUMMARY George gets Susan to postpone the wedding date. Elaine is jealous of George's being engaged and confides in a rabbi, who proceeds to tell everyone. Kramer and Jerry try to see Plan 9 From Outer Space. Kramer sneaks a cafe latte into the theater and spills it all over himself, burning himself. His lawyer says he has a case.

OF SPECIAL NOTE Bruce Mahler worked with Larry David on Fridays, where he also played a rabbi.

DIRECTOR Andy Ackerman

TELEPLAY Larry David

GUEST CAST Bruce Mahler (Rabbi Glickman); Kelly Perine (Usher); John Rubano (Man); Evie Peck (Woman)

RECURRING CAST Heidi Swedberg (Susan)

Stats


2nd Siyum

Errors
The credits read Rabbi Glickman, while Elaine calls him Rabbi Kirschbaum

First Times
Rabbi Glickman/Kirschbaum


3rd Siyum

Full Script