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S01E01: The Seinfeld Chronicles

Jerry and George spend an entire evening decoding whether a woman's visit constitutes a date. She's engaged.

Feb 18·1 min read·21 words

S01E02: The Stake Out

Rather than ask Elaine for a woman's phone number, Jerry stakes out her office building with George, who debuts the alias Art Vandelay. Elaine retaliates by staking out a financier of her own.

Feb 18·1 min read·37 words

S01E03: The Robbery

Kramer leaves Jerry's door open to borrow a spatula and forgets to come back, resulting in a robbery. The ensuing apartment hunt paralyzes Jerry, George, and Elaine until a waitress overhears and take…

Feb 18·1 min read·39 words

S01E04: Male Unbonding

Jerry attempts to break up with a childhood friend the way you'd break up with a girlfriend, complete with "it's not you, it's me." George, meanwhile, gets dumped for telling his girlfriend he likes h…

Feb 18·1 min read·38 words

S01E05: The Stock Tip

George invests five thousand dollars on an insider stock tip from a man named Wilkinson, who is promptly hospitalized. Jerry's weekend getaway with Vanessa collapses when they run out of things to say…

Feb 18·1 min read·40 words

S02E01: The Ex-Girlfriend

Jerry starts dating George's ex-girlfriend Marlene and discovers she has the same psychosexual hold on him that trapped George. George, meanwhile, wages war over a seventy-five dollar chiropractor bil…

Feb 18·1 min read·36 words

S02E02: The Pony Remark

Jerry offends his elderly cousin Manya at her anniversary dinner by declaring that anyone who grew up with a pony is suspect. She dies the next day, and her funeral falls on his championship softball …

Feb 18·1 min read·40 words

S02E03: The Jacket

Jerry buys an expensive suede jacket to impress Elaine's intimidating ex-military father, who forces them to walk five blocks in the snow. George cannot stop singing "Master of the House."

Feb 18·1 min read·33 words

S02E04: The Phone Message

George leaves a series of escalating messages on a woman's answering machine, culminating in a full tirade that requires an emergency tape swap. Jerry breaks up with a woman who likes a Dockers commer…

Feb 18·1 min read·38 words

S02E05: The Apartment

Jerry gets Elaine an apartment in his building for four hundred dollars a month and immediately regrets it. George borrows a wedding ring to attract women at a marathon brunch, then can't get it off.

Feb 18·1 min read·38 words

S02E06: The Statue

A cleaning job yields Jerry's spotless apartment and a missing statue — the same one George broke as a child, scarring him for life. Kramer impersonates a police detective to retrieve it.

Feb 18·1 min read·35 words

S02E07: The Revenge

George quits his job in a tirade, tries to return on Monday as if nothing happened, and when that fails, plots to slip his boss a Mickey. Jerry loses fifteen hundred dollars in his laundry and Kramer …

Feb 18·1 min read·46 words

S02E08: The Heart Attack

George is rushed to the hospital convinced he's having a heart attack, which turns out to be anxiety from a PBS documentary. Rather than pay for a tonsillectomy, he visits Kramer's holistic healer — w…

Feb 18·1 min read·44 words

S02E09: The Deal

Jerry and Elaine establish rules for sleeping together without relationship drama — no next-day calls, no sleepovers, no goodnight kisses. Kramer upstages Jerry's birthday gift of a hundred and eighty…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S02E10: The Baby Shower

Elaine hosts a baby shower at Jerry's apartment for the woman who ruined George's favorite shirt with chocolate syrup and never apologized. George rehearses an explosive confrontation speech and deliv…

Feb 18·1 min read·36 words

S02E11: The Chinese Restaurant

Jerry, George, and Elaine wait for a table at a Chinese restaurant. The maitre d' seats everyone but them, George's girlfriend calls back as "Cartwright," and they leave just before their table is rea…

Feb 18·1 min read·38 words

S02E12: The Busboy

George accidentally gets a busboy fired by reporting a burning menu, then loses the man's cat and breaks his lamp during an apology visit. Elaine spends a week faking her period to survive a housegues…

Feb 18·1 min read·41 words

S03E01: The Note

Jerry gets free massages through a fraudulent dentist's note, which leads to an insurance fraud conviction for the dentist. George, assigned a male masseur, spends the episode questioning his own sexu…

Feb 18·1 min read·34 words

S03E02: The Truth

George tells his girlfriend the truth about why he's breaking up with her, and she checks herself into a depression clinic — along with Jerry's tax records. Kramer dates Elaine's roommate and turns th…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S03E03: The Pen

Jerry accepts a neighbor's astronaut pen in his parents' Florida retirement community, triggering a gossip wildfire that ends in a fistfight at the condo president's honor ceremony. Elaine sleeps on a…

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S03E04: The Dog

A stranger on a plane guilt-trips Jerry into dog-sitting, and the dog proves hostile enough to cancel all of Jerry's plans for days. George and Elaine, forced to socialize without Jerry, discover they…

Feb 18·1 min read·40 words

S03E05: The Library

A library cop named Bookman hunts Jerry down over a twenty-year-old overdue copy of Tropic of Cancer. George discovers his high school gym teacher — the one who gave him wedgies — is now homeless and …

Feb 18·1 min read·44 words

S03E06: The Parking Garage

The group is stranded in a mall parking garage searching for Kramer's car while Elaine's goldfish suffocate, George misses his parents' anniversary, and Jerry gets caught urinating behind a pillar. Th…

Feb 18·1 min read·43 words

S03E07: The Café

George recruits Elaine to take an IQ test for him through a restaurant window, reprising his high school cheating technique. Jerry's well-meaning advice to a struggling Pakistani restaurateur to serve…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S03E08: The Tape

An anonymous woman leaves a sexual proposition on Jerry's tape recorder after a comedy set, and the discovery that it was Elaine leaves all three men fighting over the tape. George orders a Chinese ba…

Feb 18·1 min read·50 words

S03E09: The Nose Job

George can't stop fixating on his girlfriend's nose despite knowing she's out of his league, and Kramer suggests surgery to her face. Jerry dates a woman so beautiful his brain and penis play chess fo…

Feb 18·1 min read·43 words

S03E10: The Stranded

George ditches Jerry and Elaine at a Long Island party to sleep with a coworker, and Kramer gets lost picking them up, stranding them until two in the morning. Jerry's polite invitation to the host ba…

Feb 18·1 min read·52 words

S03E11: The Alternate Side

George takes over the neighborhood's alternate-side parking job and causes a gridlock that delays an ambulance, derails a Woody Allen shoot, and totals Jerry's rental car. Kramer lands one line in the…

Feb 18·1 min read·51 words

S03E12: The Red Dot

George buys Elaine a cashmere sweater with a barely visible red dot at a steep discount, and every single person who touches it spots the defect. Jerry accidentally hands his drink to Elaine's recover…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S03E14: The Pez Dispenser

Jerry places a Tweety Bird Pez dispenser on Elaine's knee during George's girlfriend's piano recital, and her uncontrollable laughter ruins the performance and the relationship. Kramer invents a beach…

Feb 18·1 min read·39 words

S03E15: The Suicide

Jerry dates his neighbor's girlfriend after the neighbor attempts suicide, and Newman immediately spots them together. George consults a psychic about his Cayman Islands vacation but she goes into lab…

Feb 18·1 min read·37 words

S03E16: The Fix-Up

Jerry and Elaine set up George with Elaine's equally desperate friend Cynthia, then agree to share all inside information and immediately start lying to each other. Kramer distributes free condoms tha…

Feb 18·1 min read·39 words

S03E17: The Boyfriend (1)

Jerry meets Keith Hernandez in a locker room and develops what amounts to a man-crush, agonizing over when to call and what to wear. George fabricates a job at Vandelay Industries as a latex salesman …

Feb 18·1 min read·44 words

S03E18: The Boyfriend (2)

George's Vandelay Industries scheme collapses when Kramer answers the phone honestly, and George faceplants out of the bathroom with his pants down. Elaine dumps Keith Hernandez because he smokes.

Feb 18·1 min read·33 words

S03E19: The Limo

George impersonates a no-show passenger to steal a free limo ride with Knicks tickets, only to discover he's assumed the identity of a neo-Nazi leader on his way to give a speech. The group is held at…

Feb 18·1 min read·48 words

S03E20: The Good Samaritan

Jerry witnesses a hit-and-run and plans to confront the driver until he discovers she's attractive, then dates her instead. George sleeps with a married woman because her husband never says "God bless…

Feb 18·1 min read·40 words

S03E21: The Letter

Jerry's artist girlfriend sends him a passionate love letter that turns out to be word-for-word from the Neil Simon film Chapter Two. Elaine fakes a family emergency to skip her boss's event and gets …

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S03E22: The Parking Space

George and Kramer's friend Mike both claim the same parking space — George backing in, Mike pulling forward — and the standoff lasts into the night with the entire neighborhood taking sides. Even two …

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S03E23: The Keys

Jerry takes back his spare keys from Kramer after one too many unannounced intrusions, and the broken "covenant of the keys" sends Kramer to Los Angeles to pursue acting. He ends up on Murphy Brown.

Feb 18·1 min read·38 words

S04E01: The Trip (1)

Jerry brings George to Los Angeles for a Tonight Show appearance, and they discover Kramer has been identified as a serial killer called the Smog Strangler. George overdoes free hotel amenities while …

Feb 18·1 min read·41 words

S04E02: The Trip (2)

Kramer returns to New York without fanfare, trades keys with Jerry, and resumes his old life as if nothing happened. The real Smog Strangler turns out to be the carjacker Jerry and George let escape f…

Feb 18·1 min read·43 words

S04E03: The Pitch

NBC invites Jerry to pitch a TV show, and George talks him into a "show about nothing" — then walks out of the meeting defending his artistic integrity. Crazy Joe Davola kicks Kramer in the head and t…

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S04E04: The Ticket

Kramer shows signs of brain damage after Davola's kick — shaving only one side of his face and randomly saying "Yo-Yo Ma." George is disappointed that NBC's pilot offer doesn't pay what Ted Danson mak…

Feb 18·1 min read·38 words

S04E05: The Wallet

George turns down the NBC pilot as a bluff to negotiate more money, and the network rescinds the offer entirely. Uncle Leo fishes Jerry's discarded watch out of the trash and wears it to dinner with J…

Feb 18·1 min read·41 words

S04E06: The Watch

George barges into the NBC president's apartment to beg for the pilot back, and undercuts his own price just to make the man stop talking to him. Elaine unknowingly starts dating Crazy Joe Davola.

Feb 18·1 min read·37 words

S04E07: The Bubble Boy

George and Susan visit a boy in a bubble for Jerry and get into a physical fight over whether the Trivial Pursuit answer is "Moors" or "Moops." Kramer burns down Susan's father's cabin with one of his…

Feb 18·1 min read·44 words

S04E08: The Cheever Letters

George breaks the news to Susan's father that the Cuban cigars he gave George burned down the family cabin. Letters from John Cheever found in the ruins reveal Susan's father had a gay love affair wit…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S04E09: The Opera

Crazy Joe Davola threatens to "put the kibosh" on Jerry, then shows up to the opera dressed as a Pagliacci clown to stalk both Jerry and Elaine. Kramer accidentally sells Davola a ticket and seats him…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S04E10: The Virgin

Jerry and George have one day to write their NBC pilot and have no ideas. Jerry dates a virgin while Elaine takes it upon herself to educate the woman about sex, starting with men leaving right after.

Feb 18·1 min read·40 words

S04E11: The Contest

George's mother catches him masturbating and throws out her back, prompting a bet over who can hold out the longest. Kramer is out within minutes. Elaine folds after John F. Kennedy Jr. joins her aero…

Feb 18·1 min read·39 words

S04E12: The Airport

Jerry rides first class while Elaine suffers in coach on the same flight — complimentary champagne and a model for him, a kosher meal and a stench-filled bathroom for her. George taunts a handcuffed c…

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S04E13: The Pick

Elaine's Christmas card accidentally exposes her nipple to everyone she knows, and Jerry's model girlfriend dumps him for picking his nose at a traffic light. Calvin Klein scouts Kramer as an underwea…

Feb 18·1 min read·36 words

S04E14: The Movie

The group spends an entire evening trying and failing to see the same movie at the same theater at the same time. Everyone ends up watching a different film, and George can't break a twenty.

Feb 18·1 min read·38 words

S04E15: The Visa

Jerry pretends to be miserably depressed so George's girlfriend won't find him funnier than George, and it works so well she falls for Jerry instead. Babu Bhatt gets deported because Elaine sat on his…

Feb 18·1 min read·39 words

S04E16: The Shoes

George gets caught staring at the NBC president's teenage daughter's cleavage and the pilot is canceled again. Elaine sneezes on Dalrymple's pasta and has to seduce him in a low-cut dress to save the …

Feb 18·1 min read·38 words

S04E17: The Outing

A journalism student overhears Elaine pranking Jerry and George by telling them to come out of the closet, and publishes a story outing them as a couple. The phrase "not that there's anything wrong wi…

Feb 18·1 min read·43 words

S04E18: The Old Man

Jerry, George, and Elaine volunteer to visit the elderly and manage to ruin all three assignments in a single afternoon. Kramer and Newman start a side hustle hauling obsolete vinyl records that ends …

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S04E19: The Implant

Jerry sends Elaine to investigate whether his girlfriend Sidra has breast implants, and Elaine trips in the sauna and grabs them — they're real and "spectacular." George double-dips a chip at a funera…

Feb 18·1 min read·41 words

S04E20: The Junior Mint

Kramer drops a Junior Mint into a patient's open body cavity during surgery, and the doctors can't figure out why he's dying. Jerry can't remember his girlfriend's name and only knows it rhymes with a…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S04E21: The Smelly Car

A restaurant valet leaves body odor in Jerry's car so powerful that it infects everything it touches and survives professional cleaning. Susan has become a lesbian since dating George, which he takes …

Feb 18·1 min read·39 words

S04E22: The Handicap Spot

George parks his father's car in a handicap spot at the mall, and a mob destroys it after a wheelchair-using woman is injured taking the ramp. The Drake's engagement party gift — a big-screen TV — is …

Feb 18·1 min read·49 words

S04E23: The Pilot (1)

Jerry and George's NBC pilot finally goes to production, but George develops a mysterious white spot on his lip that he's convinced is cancer. Crazy Joe Davola crashes the taping screaming "Sic semper…

Feb 18·1 min read·38 words

S04E24: The Pilot (2)

The Jerry pilot airs and the group watches it together, finally finding it funny. NBC's replacement president cancels the show without hesitation, and Russell Dalrymple drowns at sea on a Greenpeace m…

Feb 18·1 min read·39 words

S05E01: The Mango

Elaine admits she faked every orgasm she ever had with Jerry, sending him into a spiral that ends with them agreeing to sleep together one more time to save their friendship. George's erection problem…

Feb 18·1 min read·44 words

S05E02: The Puffy Shirt

Jerry unknowingly agrees to wear a ridiculous puffy pirate shirt on The Today Show after nodding along with Kramer's inaudible low-talking girlfriend. George gets scouted as a hand model, then burns b…

Feb 18·1 min read·41 words

S05E03: The Glasses

George thinks he sees Jerry's girlfriend making out with Jerry's cousin Jeffrey, but he's wearing prescription swim goggles because someone stole his glasses at the gym. Kramer installs Jerry's air co…

Feb 18·1 min read·47 words

S05E04: The Sniffing Accountant

Jerry, Kramer, and Newman suspect their accountant is snorting cocaine with their money after he keeps sniffing during conversation. Elaine dumps her boyfriend because he didn't use an exclamation poi…

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S05E05: The Bris

Jerry and Elaine are roped into being godparents and organizing a bris, where the mohel is so high-strung he accidentally circumcises Jerry's finger. Kramer is convinced the hospital is creating pig-m…

Feb 18·1 min read·40 words

S05E06: The Lip Reader

Jerry dates a deaf lineswoman from the US Open and enlists her lip-reading skills to spy on George's ex-girlfriend at a party. Kramer makes the ball boy squad as the only adult contender, then leaps i…

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S05E07: The Non-Fat Yogurt

Everyone gets hooked on a non-fat frozen yogurt shop that turns out to be full of fat, and the ensuing scandal accidentally helps Rudy Giuliani win the mayoral election. George fakes a physical spasm …

Feb 18·1 min read·50 words

S05E08: The Barber

George can't tell if he was hired or not after the interviewer got interrupted mid-sentence, so he just shows up and starts working. Jerry cheats on his barber of twelve years with the younger barber …

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S05E09: The Masseuse

Jerry's masseuse girlfriend refuses to give him a massage no matter how much he begs, but gladly works on Kramer. Elaine's boyfriend shares a name with serial killer Joel Rifkin, and the stadium PA an…

Feb 18·1 min read·47 words

S05E10: The Cigar Store Indian

Jerry buys Elaine a cigar store Indian as an apology gift, then performs a tribal chant in front of her Native American friend. Kramer pitches a coffee table book about coffee tables and somehow gets …

Feb 18·1 min read·46 words

S05E11: The Conversion

George converts to Latvian Orthodoxy to keep dating his girlfriend, only to have her move to Latvia for a year. The priests tell Kramer he possesses "the kavorka" — a quality that makes him irresistib…

Feb 18·1 min read·53 words

S05E12: The Stall

Jerry's girlfriend refuses to spare Elaine a single square of toilet paper in a neighboring bathroom stall, launching a war of attrition. George becomes a groupie for Elaine's handsome but airheaded b…

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S05E13: The Dinner Party

The group splits up to buy wine and cake for a dinner party and everything goes wrong — they lose the last chocolate babka, George's Gore-Tex coat knocks over a wine display, and Jerry throws up from …

Feb 18·1 min read·62 words

S05E14: The Marine Biologist

Jerry tells a woman George is a marine biologist, forcing George to maintain the lie until he has to save a beached whale in front of a crowd. He reaches into the blowhole and pulls out a Titleist gol…

Feb 18·1 min read·50 words

S05E15: The Pie

Jerry watches his girlfriend's father Poppie knead pizza dough without washing his hands after using the bathroom, and refuses to eat when the pizza arrives. George guards a suit for days waiting for …

Feb 18·1 min read·50 words

S05E16: The Stand-In

Jerry's comedy act is so funny that a hospitalized friend literally dies laughing. Kramer talks his little-person friend Mickey into wearing lifts on the set of All My Children, sparking a heightening…

Feb 18·1 min read·39 words

S05E17: The Wife

Jerry and his girlfriend pretend to be married for a dry cleaning discount, then get a pretend divorce when she finds another woman's laundry in his hamper. Kramer falls asleep on a tanning bed and sh…

Feb 18·1 min read·51 words

S05E18: The Raincoats (1)

Jerry counts down the days until his parents leave for Paris so he can see his girlfriend, but Elaine's boyfriend Aaron — a "close talker" — keeps whisking them away on outings. George sells his fathe…

Feb 18·1 min read·53 words

S05E19: The Raincoats (2)

Newman catches Jerry and Rachel making out during Schindler's List and tattles to both sets of parents. Morty cancels the Paris trip to chase down his scattered raincoats, and the Seinfelds come home …

Feb 18·1 min read·48 words

S05E20: The Fire

George discovers a small grease fire at a children's birthday party, starts a panic, and tramples the kids, his girlfriend, her elderly mother, and the clown to escape alone. Kramer gets a coworker's …

Feb 18·1 min read·51 words

S05E21: The Hamptons

George's girlfriend walks in on him changing after a swim and laughs at his cold-water shrinkage, then tells everyone. Kramer steals lobsters from a commercial trap and gets sentenced to trash pickup …

Feb 18·1 min read·36 words

S05E22: The Opposite

George decides that every instinct he has is wrong and starts doing the opposite of everything, which gets him a girlfriend, a job with the Yankees, and his own apartment. Elaine's life collapses in t…

Feb 18·1 min read·50 words

S06E01: The Chaperone

Jerry dumps hotel ice water on his date's trained doves the night before Miss America, not knowing they're her talent act. George convinces the Yankees to switch from polyester to cotton uniforms, whi…

Feb 18·1 min read·40 words

S06E02: The Big Salad

George pays for Elaine's big salad but his girlfriend hands it to her and takes the credit, and he can't let it go. Kramer plays golf with a former baseball star who then murders his dry cleaner, and …

Feb 18·1 min read·54 words

S06E03: The Pledge Drive

Jerry cashes his grandmother's birthday checks and overdraws her bank account, sending her wandering the city looking for a branch that closed years ago. Mr. Pitt eats a Snickers bar with a knife and …

Feb 18·1 min read·43 words

S06E04: The Chinese Woman

George's phone line gets crossed with a woman named Donna Chang, who turns out to be a white woman exploiting her misleading last name for Confucian credibility. Frank Costanza's mysterious caped comp…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S06E05: The Couch

Poppie sits on Jerry's new couch and has an accident, ruining it on the first day. George needs to read Breakfast at Tiffany's for his girlfriend's book club but tracks down a stranger's VHS copy and …

Feb 18·1 min read·46 words

S06E06: The Gymnast

Jerry dates a Romanian Olympic gymnast expecting acrobatic sex, but she considers her flexibility "only useful in gymnastics." George gets caught eating an eclair out of his girlfriend's mother's tras…

Feb 18·1 min read·41 words

S06E07: The Soup

Kenny Bania gives Jerry an Armani suit with false charity, then holds him hostage for a dinner that never quite counts as a meal because soup isn't dinner. George asks out a waitress at Monk's and get…

Feb 18·1 min read·44 words

S06E08: The Mom & Pop Store

George buys a car he's told belonged to Jon Voight, but the owner's manual says "John Voight" — and Voight himself bites Kramer when confronted. Jerry knocks a trophy out a window that pops the Woody …

Feb 18·1 min read·48 words

S06E09: The Secretary

George hires a plain secretary so he won't be tempted, sleeps with her immediately, and promises her a raise during sex that ends up making her salary higher than his. Kramer writes Uma Thurman's phon…

Feb 18·1 min read·47 words

S06E10: The Race

Jerry won a high school race only because of an accidental head start, and has protected his legend by refusing to race again for twenty years. Duncan Meyer demands a rematch, and Kramer's car backfir…

Feb 18·1 min read·43 words

S06E11: The Switch

Jerry proposes a menage a trois to switch from his girlfriend to her roommate, expecting to get dumped — but both women say yes. Kramer's first name is finally revealed as "Cosmo" when his estranged m…

Feb 18·1 min read·41 words

S06E12: The Label Maker

Jerry gives his Super Bowl tickets to Tim Whatley, who re-gifts Elaine's label maker back to Jerry. Kramer and Newman play a Risk game so intense they carry the board onto the subway, where a Ukrainia…

Feb 18·1 min read·43 words

S06E13: The Scofflaw

George's friend Gary faked having cancer, got a toupee from the sympathy, and used it to pick up women — so Jerry rips the toupee off his head. Newman is revealed as the city's most prolific parking s…

Feb 18·1 min read·46 words

S06E14: The Highlights of 100, Part 1

A clip show celebrating the series' 100th episode. Jerry introduces highlights and memorable moments from the first five seasons.

Feb 18·1 min read·26 words

S06E15: The Highlights of 100, Part 2

The second half of the 100th-episode clip show, continuing the highlights reel from the series' most memorable moments.

Feb 18·1 min read·25 words

S06E16: The Beard

Elaine tries to convert her gay boyfriend to heterosexuality and fails. Jerry cracks under polygraph questioning about Melrose Place, revealing strong opinions on controversial plot developments.

Feb 18·1 min read·29 words

S06E17: The Kiss Hello

Kramer puts everyone's photo in the building lobby so neighbors can greet each other by name, and Jerry gets ostracized for refusing to kiss hello. Uncle Leo puts Nana in a nursing home to stop her fr…

Feb 18·1 min read·48 words

S06E18: The Doorman

A hostile doorman guilts Jerry into covering his post, then a couch gets stolen from the lobby on Jerry's watch. Kramer invents a male bra — "the Bro" or "the Mansiere," depending on whom you ask — af…

Feb 18·1 min read·47 words

S06E19: The Jimmy

Jimmy always refers to himself in the third person, which confuses everyone into thinking he's talking about someone else. Kramer gets mistaken for a mentally handicapped adult and honored at a charit…

Feb 18·1 min read·41 words

S06E20: The Doodle

George's girlfriend draws an ugly caricature of him, then insists looks don't matter to her — which he takes as confirmation that she thinks he's ugly. Jerry's apartment gets infested with fleas trace…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S06E21: The Fusilli Jerry

Elaine discovers her new boyfriend David Puddy is using Jerry's signature sex move, stolen from when Puddy was Jerry's mechanic. Frank Costanza falls rear-first onto a fusilli pasta sculpture of Jerry…

Feb 18·1 min read·35 words

S06E22: The Diplomat's Club

Jerry accidentally approves a dangerous drug combination for Mr. Pitt after being mistaken for a pharmacist, getting Elaine cut from his will and fired. Kramer makes gambling bets on flight arrival ti…

Feb 18·1 min read·48 words

S06E23: The Face Painter

David Puddy paints his face for the Devils playoff game and a priest thinks he's seen the actual devil. George tells his girlfriend he loves her, but she can't hear out of her left ear.

Feb 18·1 min read·39 words

S06E24: The Understudy

The season finale wraps up the Bette Midler saga as Gennice takes the stage in Rochelle Rochelle but breaks down over her boot laces. Elaine starts her new job at J. Peterman's catalog.

Feb 18·1 min read·36 words

S07E01: The Engagement

George and Jerry make a pact to change their lives, so George proposes to his ex-girlfriend Susan Ross while Jerry breaks up with someone for eating peas one at a time. Kramer, Newman, and Elaine dogn…

Feb 18·1 min read·59 words

S07E02: The Postponement

George tries to postpone his wedding, breaks down crying instead, and Susan — touched by his honesty — agrees to push it to spring. Elaine confides her jealousy to a neighborhood rabbi who broadcasts …

Feb 18·1 min read·51 words

S07E03: The Maestro

George gets a security guard a rocking chair at Susan's uncle's store and the guard sleeps through a robbery. Kramer settles his coffee burn lawsuit for unlimited free coffee, cutting off Jackie Chile…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S07E04: The Wink

A grapefruit squirts George in the eye, causing an involuntary wink that Mr. Wilhelm reads as insinuation, setting off a chain that gets a coworker fired and George promoted. Jerry hides mutton in Hol…

Feb 18·1 min read·50 words

S07E05: The Hot Tub

Jerry obsesses over getting marathon runner Jean-Paul to the race on time after he overslept and missed the Olympics, but Kramer's new hot tub heat pump causes a power outage that kills every alarm cl…

Feb 18·1 min read·57 words

S07E06: The Soup Nazi

The Soup Nazi runs his soup stand with authoritarian precision — one wrong move and you're banned. Elaine gets exiled for a year, but finds his recipes hidden in an armoire Kramer got from him, and th…

Feb 18·1 min read·54 words

S07E07: The Secret Code

George reveals his ATM code — "Bosco" — to J. Peterman's dying mother, who seizes on the word as her last utterance, leaving Peterman bewildered and eventually accusing George of murder in the catalog…

Feb 18·1 min read·52 words

S07E08: The Pool Guy

George's "worlds are colliding" when Elaine and Jerry start hanging out with Susan, threatening to kill Independent George. Kramer's phone number is one digit off from Moviefone, so he starts imperson…

Feb 18·1 min read·44 words

S07E09: The Sponge

Elaine hoards 60 contraceptive sponges after they're taken off the market and subjects her boyfriend to a rigorous examination to determine if he's "sponge-worthy." Kramer refuses to wear an AIDS ribb…

Feb 18·1 min read·44 words

S07E10: The Gum

Everyone tiptoes around Lloyd Braun after his nervous breakdown, forcing Jerry to wear blinding glasses to maintain a lie and accidentally hand Lloyd a $100 bill. George's car catches fire thanks to P…

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S07E11: The Rye

Frank Costanza takes back his marble rye after the Rosses don't serve it at dinner, so George orchestrates a scheme to sneak a replacement loaf into their apartment using Kramer as a hansom cab driver…

Feb 18·1 min read·57 words

S07E12: The Caddy

George locks his keys in his car at Yankee Stadium and accidentally convinces everyone he's working around the clock, leading Steinbrenner to declare him dead when he can't be found on vacation. Krame…

Feb 18·1 min read·56 words

S07E13: The Seven

George wants to name his future child Seven after Mickey Mantle, but Susan's pregnant cousin steals the name. Newman adjudicates a King Solomon-style dispute between Elaine and Kramer over a vintage b…

Feb 18·1 min read·35 words

S07E14: The Cadillac (1)

Jerry buys his parents a Cadillac, which triggers impeachment proceedings against his father Morty at the condo board when Jack Klompus accuses him of embezzlement. George learns that Marisa Tomei is …

Feb 18·1 min read·48 words

S07E15: The Cadillac (2)

The impeachment vote hinges on Mabel Choate, the same woman Jerry stole a marble rye from — who ultimately remembers, flips her vote, and forces Morty out. George gets punched twice: once by Marisa To…

Feb 18·1 min read·49 words

S07E16: The Shower Head

Low-flow showerheads drive Jerry, Kramer, and Newman to the black market for Yugoslavian replacements, while Elaine tests positive for opium because of the poppy seeds in her muffins. Jerry's parents …

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S07E17: The Doll

Jerry carries a massive wedding gift on a plane for Susan's roommate Sally Weaver, only to find it contains a tiny welcome mat that Sally — a FedEx executive — could have just shipped. Frank Costanza …

Feb 18·1 min read·57 words

S07E18: The Friars Club

Jerry accidentally takes a Friars Club jacket and Kramer gets it dirty, launching a saga involving magicians, a lost jacket, and a ruined double date. Kramer tries polyphasic sleep, passes out on his …

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S07E19: The Wig Master

A ponytailed sales clerk named Craig flirts with Elaine to string her along with a fake discount on a Nicole Miller dress, and Kramer gets arrested dressed as a pimp. George discovers prostitutes are …

Feb 18·1 min read·46 words

S07E20: The Calzone

Steinbrenner gets hooked on George's calzones and George becomes his right-hand man, until Paisano's bans him for appearing to steal from the tip jar. Kramer starts wearing only dryer-warm clothes and…

Feb 18·1 min read·41 words

S07E21: The Bottle Deposit (1)

Elaine overbids on JFK's golf clubs at Sotheby's after a bidding war with Sue Ellen Mischke, and the clubs end up in Jerry's car — which gets stolen by his mechanic Tony. Newman and Kramer load a mail…

Feb 18·1 min read·51 words

S07E22: The Bottle Deposit (2)

Kramer dumps bottles, mailbags, and Newman himself out of the truck to chase Jerry's stolen car across Ohio, while Tony hurls JFK's golf clubs at him. Newman makes himself at home at a farmhouse and h…

Feb 18·1 min read·48 words

S07E23: The Wait Out

George's offhand joke breaks up a married couple, and Jerry and Elaine immediately position themselves to date the newly single halves. Kramer's impossibly tight jeans leave him unable to sit, which t…

Feb 18·1 min read·43 words

S07E24: The Invitations

The season finale kills off Susan Ross — she dies from licking the toxic adhesive on the cheap wedding invitations George picked out. Jerry proposes to a woman who is his exact clone, immediately regr…

Feb 18·1 min read·48 words

S08E01: The Foundation

Susan's parents create a foundation in her memory and trap George on the board, robbing him of the bachelorhood he just regained. Peterman flees to Myanmar and leaves Elaine in charge, where her first…

Feb 18·1 min read·43 words

S08E02: The Soul Mate

George hides a tape recorder at a foundation board meeting and gets back a recording of horrified screams and a loud thud, which the board blames on a dropped chair. Kramer falls in love with Jerry's …

Feb 18·1 min read·47 words

S08E03: The Bizarro Jerry

Elaine discovers a Bizarro world of kind, considerate friends who are the exact opposite of Jerry, George, and Kramer — complete with a reverse apartment and a Bizarro Superman statue. Jerry dates a w…

Feb 18·1 min read·47 words

S08E04: The Little Kicks

Elaine's horrifying dance at a company party destroys her employees' respect, but her warning to Anna to stay away from George makes him irresistible as a "bad boy." Jerry gets drafted into bootleggin…

Feb 18·1 min read·40 words

S08E05: The Package

Elaine's medical chart labels her "difficult" and no doctor in the city will see her, while Newman grills Jerry on suspicion of mail fraud in a Basic Instinct parody. George poses for seductive photos…

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S08E06: The Fatigues

Elaine can't fire a gruff mailroom employee in fatigues, so she promotes him twice instead, causing all her writers to quit in protest. Frank Costanza is haunted by memories of food-poisoning his army…

Feb 18·1 min read·39 words

S08E07: The Checks

Twelve-cent royalty checks from a Japanese TV show pile up, Elaine's boyfriend treats "Desperado" like a sacred personal anthem, and Kramer takes Japanese tourists on a spending spree with money he th…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S08E08: The Chicken Roaster

Kenny Rogers Roasters opens across from Jerry's building with a giant neon chicken that bathes Kramer's apartment in red light, forcing an apartment swap — and Kramer gets addicted to the chicken whil…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S08E09: The Abstinence

Sexual abstinence turns George into a genius while having the opposite effect on Elaine, who can barely form sentences. George uses his superbrain to prep a school assembly, then loses it all to a Por…

Feb 18·1 min read·39 words

S08E10: The Andrea Doria

George loses an apartment to an Andrea Doria survivor and argues to the tenant board that his life has been worse — only to have the apartment swiped by Elaine's date, a serial bad-breaker-upper. Kram…

Feb 18·1 min read·50 words

S08E11: The Little Jerry

Kramer buys a rooster named Little Jerry Seinfeld and enters it in a cock fight to get a bodega owner to take down Jerry's bounced check. George dates a prison inmate because she can't "pop in" unexpe…

Feb 18·1 min read·41 words

S08E12: The Money

Jerry's parents sell their Cadillac to give him money after he bounced a check, so Jerry flies to Florida and buys it back from Jack Klompus for $14,000 — who then drives it into a swamp. George learn…

Feb 18·1 min read·53 words

S08E13: The Comeback

George flies to Akron to deliver the perfect comeback to a coworker who insulted his shrimp-eating — "the Jerk Store called" — and gets immediately topped. Elaine falls for a mysterious video store cl…

Feb 18·1 min read·43 words

S08E14: The Van Buren Boys

Kramer accidentally flashes a street gang's sign — eight fingers for Martin Van Buren, the eighth president — and George gives a Susan Ross Foundation scholarship to an underachiever who wants to be a…

Feb 18·1 min read·44 words

S08E15: The Susie

A coworker calls Elaine "Susie," and instead of correcting her, Elaine ends up maintaining a fictional second identity that gets her own assignments, a memorial service, and eventually a foundation. G…

Feb 18·1 min read·46 words

S08E16: The Pothole

Jerry knocks his girlfriend's toothbrush into the toilet and she uses it before he can tell her, launching a germaphobic spiral that ends with him throwing away everything he owns. Kramer adopts a mil…

Feb 18·1 min read·49 words

S08E17: The English Patient

Elaine hates The English Patient so vocally that it alienates everyone in her life, gets her nearly fired, and ends with Peterman sending her to live in a cave in Tunisia. George becomes obsessed with…

Feb 18·1 min read·46 words

S08E18: The Nap

George builds a secret bed inside his desk at Yankee Stadium so he can nap at work, but Steinbrenner sits in his office waiting for him and won't leave — so Jerry calls in a bomb threat. Kramer starts…

Feb 18·1 min read·47 words

S08E19: The Yada Yada

George's girlfriend uses "yada yada yada" to skip over important parts of stories, including what she did with her ex-boyfriend last night. Tim Whatley converts to Judaism and starts making Jewish jok…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S08E20: The Millennium

The Mets secretly recruit George, but he needs to get fired from the Yankees first — every attempt to sabotage himself backfires into praise, until he drags a World Series trophy through the parking l…

Feb 18·1 min read·44 words

S08E21: The Muffin Tops

George wears a tourist's abandoned clothes, gets mistaken for a visitor from Arkansas, and rides the lie into a date — until Steinbrenner calls Tyler Chicken's CEO and offers to trade George for free …

Feb 18·1 min read·51 words

S08E22: The Summer of George

George gets a three-month severance from the Yankees and never leaves his apartment or changes out of his pajamas, atrophying his legs so badly that he slips on an invitation and ends up in the hospit…

Feb 18·1 min read·47 words

S09E01: The Butter Shave

George fakes a disability at his new job after his cane from the Summer of George convinces Play Now he's handicapped — they give him his own bathroom and eventually a mobility scooter. Kramer shaves …

Feb 18·1 min read·56 words

S09E02: The Voice

Play Now can't fire George because of his contract, so they move him to a derelict office, spike his food, and barricade his door — he keeps showing up every day. Jerry chooses doing a talking-stomach…

Feb 18·1 min read·44 words

S09E03: The Serenity Now

Frank Costanza screams "Serenity now!" as a rage-management technique and hires George and Lloyd Braun as competing computer telemarketers — George buys dozens of computers himself to win, stores them…

Feb 18·1 min read·54 words

S09E04: The Blood

George integrates a pastrami sandwich into his sex life and ends up eating, watching TV, and having sex simultaneously until his girlfriend dumps him. Kramer stores his own blood at home to avoid bank…

Feb 18·1 min read·53 words

S09E05: The Junk Mail

Kramer wages war on junk mail by bricking up his mailbox and is abducted by the Postmaster General, who forces him to accept delivery. George's parents cut him loose, so he sexually propositions his c…

Feb 18·1 min read·46 words

S09E06: The Merv Griffin Show

Kramer finds the set of The Merv Griffin Show in a dumpster, rebuilds it in his apartment, and hosts a full talk show with Newman as sidekick. Jerry drugs his girlfriend with nighttime cold medicine s…

Feb 18·1 min read·54 words

S09E07: The Slicer

George spots himself in the background of a beach photo on his new boss Kruger's wall — from a 1989 trip where George screamed at Kruger's kids and threw their boombox in the ocean. Kramer buys a meat…

Feb 18·1 min read·47 words

S09E08: The Betrayal

Told entirely in reverse chronology, the gang flies to India for Sue Ellen Mischke's wedding, which collapses when George loudly repeats that Elaine slept with the groom. Kramer spends the episode try…

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S09E10: The Strike

Frank Costanza invented Festivus as an alternative to Christmas — aluminum pole, airing of grievances, feats of strength. George distributes donation cards for "The Human Fund," a charity that doesn't…

Feb 18·1 min read·43 words

S09E11: The Dealership

Jerry tries to buy a car through Puddy's insider deal, but Elaine and Puddy's breakup mid-negotiation turns his discount into full markup. George spends the entire episode at war with a mechanic over …

Feb 18·1 min read·44 words

S09E12: The Reverse Peephole

Kramer and Newman reverse their peepholes to spot ambushes inside their apartments, and the resulting chain of events ends with the super attacking Joe Mayo with a sock full of pennies. George's walle…

Feb 18·1 min read·59 words

S09E13: The Cartoon

Sally Weaver turns Jerry's private criticism of her acting into a sold-out one-woman show called "Jerry Seinfeld, the Devil," using every cease-and-desist as fresh material. George dates a woman who l…

Feb 18·1 min read·47 words

S09E14: The Strongbox

George tries to cheat on his girlfriend to force a breakup, but both women agree to a polyamorous arrangement. Kramer hides his strongbox key in a neighbor's parrot food dish, the parrot chokes on it …

Feb 18·1 min read·45 words

S09E15: The Wizard

George tells Susan's parents he's buying a house in the Hamptons to dodge a foundation event, and when they find out he's lying, neither side will break first — he drives them all the way to the tip o…

Feb 18·1 min read·61 words

S09E16: The Burning

Elaine discovers Puddy's car radio is set to all Christian rock stations, and when he confirms he's religious but doesn't care that she's going to Hell, she drags him to a priest — who informs them th…

Feb 18·1 min read·57 words

S09E17: The Bookstore

Jerry catches Uncle Leo shoplifting at Brentano's and rats him out to security, only to discover Leo has a prior conviction and now faces jail. George takes a book into the bookstore bathroom, gets fl…

Feb 18·1 min read·48 words

S09E18: The Frogger

George discovers his legendary Frogger high score still exists in the machine at their closing pizza parlor and buys the cabinet — but he has to keep it plugged in during the move or lose everything. …

Feb 18·1 min read·51 words

S09E19: The Maid

Jerry sleeps with his maid, she stops cleaning but keeps taking the money, and he realizes the arrangement could be considered prostitution. George tries to get the workplace nickname "T-Bone" but end…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

S09E20: The Puerto Rican Day

The gang gets stuck in Puerto Rican Day Parade traffic and splits up — George goes to a movie to repeat his one funny comment, Elaine gets lost under the bleachers, and Kramer accidentally sets a Puer…

Feb 18·1 min read·61 words

S09E21: The Chronicle, Part 1

Clip show. Jerry breaks the fourth wall to walk through nine years of memories while Kramer and George yell at him to hurry up so they don't miss the movie previews.

Feb 18·1 min read·36 words

S09E22: The Chronicle, Part 2

Clip show, Part 2. The retrospective continues with more highlights, bloopers, and behind-the-scenes footage from nine seasons.

Feb 18·1 min read·22 words

S09E23: The Finale (1)

NBC gives Jerry and George their pilot, they celebrate with a private jet to Paris, the plane makes an emergency landing in a small Massachusetts town — and they watch a man get carjacked while cracki…

Feb 18·1 min read·51 words

S09E24: The Finale (2)

The trial becomes a parade of every person the gang wronged over nine seasons — the Soup Nazi, Babu Bhatt, the Bubble Boy, Sidra, Mr. Bookman, the Rosses — and the jury convicts them. They go to priso…

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words