Episode 5: The Hot Tub

Episode #115; 7:5


Our Summary

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.



Our Commentary

Beautiful OCB opens up this beauty of an ep that is well deserved of its Top 10 status. Everything in this episode is stimply hilarious, from Jean Paul to those crazy Texans to LD's brilliantly hilarious Steinbrenner ending. This episode is just hilarious. Having watched this episode about 1000 times, I only now, during the 1001st time, during this 3rd Siyum, realize that none of the characters have boyfriends or girlfriends to contend with. The entire episode revolves around different situations that all link up, as many eps do, but without any love interests. Beautiful stuff with Jerry pissing off Elaine about her being bad with time, Kramer being super relaxed from the hot tub, soak of da year, why separate knob, the crazy Texans with their sons of b*tches and bastards, Elaine's voiceover while walking with the Himilayan Walking Shoes, not that hot, Jean Paul taking Kramer's burning hot tea, Kramer's mental alarm and him hitting the snooze, Steinbrenner talking to George, hilarious as ever, and finally everything being interconnected, with the hot tub(s), the Texans, Jean Paul, Jerry, Elaine, Kramer, and the race. Overall, well deserved to be in the Top 10 episodes. BTW, this is the first episode we watched since we got back from our 2 week trip, on our TV, instead of on the laptop. Adam - Hilarious episode. It does not get much better than this one. Everything links together at the end perfectly and Steinbrenner is hilarious. Jean Paul, Jean Paul should win an Emmy just for his performance in this episode. Well done to all, well done.


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

115."The Hot Tub" (October 19, 1995)

SUMMARY Kramer gets a hot tub. Elaine has writer's block. A runner participating in the New York City Marathon is staying with Elaine. George acts annoyed so that he looks busy at work.

DIRECTOR Andy Ackerman

TELEPLAY Gregg Kavet and Andy Robin

GUEST CAST Jeremiah Birkett (Jean-Paul); Leon Russom (Clayton); Ernie Lively (Zeke); Charles Cyphers (Gardner); Kate Mulligan (Sheri); Susan Isaacs (Woman); Thom Barry (Manager); Jeff Miller (Event Guard)

RECURRING CAST Richard Herd (Wilhelm)

Stats


2nd Siyum

Kramer's Friends
Lomez

Things We Know About Lomez
Owned a Hot Tub and sold it to Kramer

Peterman Catalog Clothes
Norwegian Ice Fishing Vest
Himilayan Walking Shoe

First Times
Hot Tub
Lomez
Peterman Office
House of Peterman


3rd Siyum

Full Script