Episode 22: The Bottle Deposit Part 2

Episode #132; 7:22


Our Summary

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.



Our Commentary

As a preface, like I said in the end of the last ep: Now, we have the original ep, when it was on NBC, so we have both parts 1 and 2 as a single episode, so I only know that it ends here from the script. This also means that I only know the ep begins outside of the car shop with Jerry and Elaine finding out that they're gonna send a detective to Jerry's place tomorrow. Using the script, I see that they did the standard "Last Week on Seinfeld". Very nice, and now to the ep. This ep was better than the first, with many funny parts, but overall, doesn't make the Top 50. Great stuff with the detective asking the same type of questions that Tony would ask, Wilhelm writing George's project, and thinking that George did it b/c Wilhelm is off his rocker, the whole thing with the car being a person at the pier, with grease=blood, the rookie cop can't take the mutilation done to the car/person and needs to vomit, etc., all done nicely. Kramer whips out his cell phone, the only one in the gang who apparently has one, finding Jerry's car, Kramer throwing the bottles of soda onto the parkway, as well as the mailbags, great Steinbrenner by LD, Kramer enticing Newman with a pie stand, then kicking him out, then saying to Jerry, "We've lost the fat man, and we're running lean." Then we get super hot farm daughter, the blind guy from the city who swapped glasses with George regained his sight and moved to a farm with his daughter, Tony throwing the clubs at Kramer, link back to mutton, an oft quoted line of "I'm a big, strong, cider guy", pulling on the teat a little, Deena appearing with Pop out of nowhere, the farmer trying to shoot Newman and Kramer, and she saying that she loves Newman, even though she calls him Norman. We end the ep with another back link to Ethel Kennedy with a hilarious line by Peterman: "A woman whose triumph in the face of tragedy is exceeded only by her proclivity to procreate.", and Peterman thinking that JFK simply had a bad temper, thereby letting Elaine keep her job. Overall, a good ep, just not Top 50 material. Adam - Better than the first, but still not quite good enough. Kramer's line about dropping the fat man and running lean is priceless, unfortunately that was one of the only things that was.


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

132. "The Bottle Deposit (Part II)" (May 2, 1996)

SUMMARY Wilhelm is delighted with the job George did on the project; however, George still has no idea what he did or how he did it. Kramer spots Jerry's stolen car in Ohio, so he and Newman tail it. The mechanic throws the clubs and bag at Kramer's truck and gets away. Steinbrenner calls George into his office about the project report and has him committed.

DIRECTOR Andy Ackerman

TELEPLAY Gregg Kavet and Andy Robin

GUEST CAST Brad Garrett (Tony); Mary Jo Keenen (Deena); Rance Howard (Farmer); Nicholas Mele (Detective); Karen Lynn Scott (Farmer's Daughter); Sandy Ward (Pop); Dan O'Connor (Young Cop); Bonnie McNeil (Woman)

RECURRING CAST Richard Herd (Wilhelm); Wayne Knight (Newman); John O'Hurley (Peterman)

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