What's your favorite Seinfeld episode?

The outing. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Anything with Newman

The Bet.

The Mohel!

Soup Nazi...Basic

The Jimmy. It's a B-story, but Mel Torme is in town to host a banquet for mentally challenged adults, and he mistakes Kramer for being mentally challenged (due to Kramer's wearing new white running shoes and talking while under the effects of novocaine from the dentist.) Kramer gets honored at the banquet.

Sponge worthy.

I call it, Bizarro World, I don't remember the actual title. It's the episode when Elaine becomes friends with a group of men who resemble Jerry, Kramer and George, but are the complete opposite personality-wise.

the one that ended that horrible crapfest

The Doll episode was hilarious. Mostly because I love the nutty Costanzas.

The ASS MAN!

The "I had a pony!" one.

Donna Chang! Funniest one ever.

The Fire

The Rye. So absurd!

But there are so many great, ridiculous plots and subplots, it's hard to pick just one episode. In high school, though, I saw The Rye when it first aired and was talking about it the next day in school, still laughing about it.

Soup nazi is easily the best, anything elaine centric was always better.

R6, I just quoted this the other day when I said "I hold grudges!" Well, I paraphrased it. The Mel Torme story line was hysterical.

R15, yeah the Marble Rye was definitely one of the best. I think that is also the one where Elaine's bf won't do oral.

The Muffin Tops w/ Rebecca De Mornay

Too many to mention. Love the one with The Virgin.

Definitely The Bet. I remember viewing it in real time, calling my best friend on the phone, "are you watching this????" I knew it would be iconic, right up there with "Chuckles the Clown" and " Vitametavegemine".

Love the one where Susan becomes a lesbian and Kramer steals her girlfriend.

All the genius of Larry David, let us not forget.

Curb is almost as good.

Seinfield four!

Queen of the castle

The India one where everything was in reverse.

Wasn't there a Seinfeld episode where it's revealed that Susan's father has a gay lover? George accidentally burns down her parents' vacation house, a box of old love letters is found and Susan's mother, (played by the brilliant Grace Zabriskie), is secretly thrilled? (is that right?)

Love the one(s) with Marisa Tomei too.

Love the one with the Armani suit. George stops eating at the diner to avoid the woman who disssed him by lying about having a boyfriend. I could feel George's pain.

Yes, R27. The Cheever Letters.

George has to find a black friend (to prove to his coworker that he's not a racist) and ends up having dinner with Jerry's exterminator.

Any episode with Tim Whatley, the dentist.

The one where Kramer becomes a dog. Same ep where Elaine dates a bad breaker upper.

"The Dinner Party." Jerry and Elaine try to buy babka for a dinner party; George and Kramer try to buy wine to bring to the same party.

There really are too many. One that I liked not mentioned here is the Keith Hernandez episode. I also liked the one when the manicurists were talking shit in Korean about Elaine and she bought in Frank as a spy. Anything with the Rabbi was also hysterical.

R35, OMG the Keith Hernandez one is def. one of the best!

R35, yes, loved the one where Elaine confided to the Rabbi about how jealous she was of George's getting engaged. It just totally rang true.

The Yada Yada Yada one. Any ep with Mickey.

Mulva.

The one where Kramer takes karate lessons.

Any ep with Jack Klompus in Florida.

Debra Messing was great in the ep where she gets a divorce and Jerry hits on her. And Elaine hits on her ex.

I have fond memories of the one where George had to go to the Unemployment Office to meet with the woman to ask for an extension as his payments were about to stop. It didn't look like she was going to authorize an extension as she saw right quick George was a fraud. Fast forward to George wooing the woman by commenting on a picture of her homely daughter she had in her office. She was apparently desperate to find her daughter a mate so she persuaded George to go out with her daughter and she approved his extension. You got a look at the gal when George was dropping her off at her home after the date. I knew I recognized that actress's voice years later as the unseen actress (Carol Ann Susi) who played Howard's mom Debbie Wolowitz. She died in 2014.

Shrinkage!

"Mrs. Seinfeld, I am begging you, put the air conditioning on."

The Shoes with Gail Cunningham

R45 that was STELLA!! Anything with Jerry's or George's parents were great too. The Show about nothing was good where Elaine was trying to seduce the NBC exec. "Do you have a ketchup secret??"

That said, the show really declined after Larry David left and Jerry started writing more. It was very forced. Like most shows it had about 4 really good seasons.

Another vote for the bizarro world ep.

Also anything with Mr. Pitt in it.

I loved the earlier episodes (season 3) when they were actually telling comedic story arcs surrounding writing the NBC pilot/the crazed clown.

The later episodes, especially after LD left, always felt disjointed and forced.

The Rage-a-holics episode with James Spader. This is also the episode where Elaine's coworker basically calls Elaine a slut ("you seem to sleep with a lot of different men") and Elaine finds out Puddy is a germaphobe.

Almost 20 years since the series ended and I still love this show.

"It moved."

The Bro, or Manssiere

Kramer's modelling career. His buttocks are sublime!

When sexy Peterman went crazy. "It's the yam-yam, Elaine."

This sequence from "The Busboy," where Elaine is trying to get rid of the boyfriend staying in her apartment. She is supposed to drive them to the airport, and they wake up late. JLD does a manic bit of trying to get him packed and out, including a moment when she's sort of running in place.

The pen that writes upside down, same episode as Elaine begging for air conditioning and Uncle Leo and his wife, Stella, plus "So where's the pen," as said by Ann Morgan Guilbert (Millie from the Dick Van Dyke Show):

The one where Jerry buys a Cadillac for his parents and Morty ends up getting kicked off the condo board. It had the Nixon ending, just perfect.

Also "The sea was angry that day, my friend"

The low talker / puffy shirt.

The barking dog.

Another vote for Donna Chang in "The Chinese Woman." That whole episode is so hilarious and silly. "I'm not going to take advice from some girl from Long Island!"

Another top favorite is "The Chicken Roaster" where Elaine takes over the catalogue after Peterman loses his mind. Elaine tries to explain away her personal purchases to the CFO, Mr. Ipswich, but needs to travel to Burma for Peterman to personally approve her purchase of the rat hat.

When the gang winds-up staying with Jerry's parents in Boca, it has everything...

Elaine on the floor begging the parents to turn on the A/C, but they're afraid of the thermostat!

The "NASA Pen" , early bird specials, the Cadillac, the crippling bar in the fold-out couch, and of course the crazy characters of the retirement complex.

No one living is funnier than Larry David.

"Only two types of people where sunglasses indoors, the blind, and ASSHOLES!"

R58, and Stella!!

"The Library"

Philip Baker Hall as Bookman, the library cop.

"Can't Stand Ya"

The Atomic Wedgie

Pee-pees and wee-wees in The Cat in the Hat and The Five Chinese Brothers

More favorite Elaine moments: "You sold us a hair with a cake around it." "I don't like this thing. And here's what I'm doing with it." And her crazy internal monologue when the subway stops and the power goes off.

The show would have never worked without JLD.

Opposite George

"I think he converted to Judaism just for the jokes."

No soap for you.

Sponge worthy

The Chinese Restaurant

The parking garage when they can't remember where the car is.

Also Puddy on the airplane, where he just sits and stares straight ahead and drives Elaine crazy.

The Hamptons.

Ugly baby. Shrinkage. George plants lobster in his gfs eggs. Kramer does time for stealing the lobster, by picking up garbage on the highway.

No love for Cedric and Bob, the hostile homosexual couple? They were like the original Dataloungers. I loved how, despite being queeny as all get out, they were considered tough and feared by everyone else.

The episode where Jerry dated the woman(Tracy Nelson) who looked like him.

Bubble Boy and the Moops!

George becomes a hand model and flirts with the Sheryl Lee lookalike.

There was the "close talker" episode as well as the "low talker" one.

R69 I love you!

R43, my favorite scene from that episode. I've used the clip a number of times on message boards when someone comes in with a ridiculous argument and just makes a fool of themselves.

I love that "Vandaley Industries" and George wanting to be an architect was a running gag on the show.

"He took... (huh huh) it out."

The nipple. This episode also had the excellent subplot of Kramer becoming a Calvin Klein model: "His buttocks are sublime!" And the debate about nose-picking and "nostril penetration."

It's a more obscure one, but I always loved the ep where Jerry, Kramer and Newman become convinced that Jerry's accountant is a cokehead. The scene where Kramer goes undercover is the best!

R43, yes that episode where George dates the daughter is hysterical. And that is only the B plot line of the famous Keith Hernandez episode!

The employment officer .... I love the way she plays with her hair in sort of embarrassed way when George first notices the photo on her desk and remarks that her daughter is pretty.

R68, I was once in the pre op area, waiting for surgery, duh!!!, and the tv was on. It was the "Shrinkage" ep of Seinfeld.

How can I say this...I knew everything would be okay with my surgery if the famous Shrinkage episode of Seinfeld was on the tv?

It was vastly comforting.

R62, I know JLD added just the right bit of class and paranoia to the show.

And if you had just seen her on SNL when she was on that show, you would think she was not so talented!

R48, loved Mr. Pitt!

My favorites - Elaine unable to find a pair of socks that meets with his approval.

and - Mr. Pitt starts a craze of eating a Milky Bar with a knife and fork.

R78, good one. For some reason that reminded me of another great Kramer episode: the skinny jeans (and this was before they were back in style).

Which in turn reminded me of the puffy shirt (and the low-talker).

Jerrry becomes Kramer.

The one where Kramer is riding around in Newman's Post Office truck with him.

And the one with George and Susan's parents in the Central Park horse-drawn carriage.

Are they the same episode?

Frank Costanza: "Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!"

The Central Park horse drawn carriage one is the Marble Rye one, R86. It is also the one where Elaine's sax playing boyfriend doesn't like to go down on her.

The Kenny Rogers Roasters episode, with the rat hat.

Loved the ones that show George Steinbrenner talking from behind.

I still call "Tysons Chicken" "Tyler Chicken".

R87, the Festivus episode is a classic.

And Tracy Letts plays one of the OTB guys who wants to date Elaine!

The Calzone episode.

The "Easy Bake Oven" episode where they drug Jerry's girlfriend with spiked wine and then proceed to play with all her vintage toys even making little cakes in the Easy Bake Oven.

R89, that's where the clip from R85 is from.

I had the exact same irrational hysterical laughter response as Elaine when I first saw this. This episode also has probably the best exchange from the series: "But I have hand!" "You're gonna need it."

People called me "Elaine" for a couple of days after I saw "The English Patient." I found it so boring, I slept through half of it.

I think the Easy Bake oven episode is also the one where Kramer sets up the talk show set in his apartment and when people visit they become 'guests' on the show. It starts off classy but then goes all Jerry Springer when the girl finds out Jerry drugged her and confronts him 'on air', while Newman chortles and says 'You go girl!'. Love that one. In fact reading this, they all have their magical moments. Another vote too for the Bad Breaker Upperer, which is also the Andrea Doria one. So much in one episode.

I love the episode where George starts acting touch to impress a female employee who works for Elaine.

The Laugh out loud climax has the famous 'you want a piece of me" from Frank Costanza.

R96, yes I forgot about the Andrea Doria!!

I always thought that Seinfeld had more credibility as a show about sex (and dating) and life in NYC than "Sex and the City" did!!

I know people don't like the show after Larry D left. But I remember laughing out loud at some of those episodes when they were first on.

For example, there was one where George pretends to be disabled that was hysterical.

The Visa. George is dating a woman who finds him funny. He get a complex when he introduces her to Jerry because of course Jerry will seem even funnier. So to assuage George, Jerry pretends to be the depressed morose type leading, of course, to this (and, of course, it backfires when she falls for Jerry because he's so deep):

Any of the ones with Mickey, the little person. When Kramer and Mickey are fighting over their dates at the restaurant, too funny. Also when Mickey gets caught heightening. "I was standing in for Punky Brewster when all of youse was nothing!"

R102, I love that one where Mickey and Kramer can't decide which girl is with which guy. And that ep is the famous Yada Yada/converting to Judaism just for the jokes episode!!

I love when Kramer says, in the restaurant, 'My aunt has been ill of late." Just to distinguish him from Mickey.

The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat one is good too.

Jerry is unable to return his jacket "just for spite."

The Library episode where Philip Baker Hall delivers this monologue: "Yeah '71, that was my first year on the job. Bad year for libraries. Bad year for America. Hippies burning library cards, Abby Hoffman telling everybody to steal books. I don't judge a man by the length of his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library, fella."

Frank Costanza at the Festivus dinner table, which includes George's current boss, Mr. Krueger.

Frank, barking at Mr. Krueger: Krueger, my son tells me your company stinks!!! Krueger, you couldn't smooth a silk sheet with a hot babe..........I've lost my train of thought.

George Costanza, "I have a bad feeling that whenever a lesbian looks at me they think “That’s why I’m not a heterosexual.""

The Kathy Griffin episodes were not my favorites.....but interesting that her stand up act is exactly how she depicts it in Seinfeld.

Kramer has to fire Raquel Welch.

George is caught eating an eclair out of the trash.

Elaine dates a guy named Joel Rifkin, a notorious serial killer.

The scene where the two of them are arguing over what new name Joel should select is crazy funny.

R107, I love George's line "I drive women to lesbianism and he (Kramer) brings them back."

I also love the episode where Kramer's appeal to the opposite sex is explained; he has "Kavorka" which is "the lure of the animal." That is the episode where a Latvian Orthodox nun falls for him.

The Jacket episode where Jerry buys an expensive suede jacket and has dinner with Elaine's father, Alton (Lawrence Tierney), a war veteran and writer. Alton makes Jerry and George very uncomfortable. Elaine is delayed and Jerry and George are stuck with Alton waiting for her at the hotel. George keeps singing a line from Les Mis and Alton barks at him, "Pipe down, Choir boy!"

The Germaphobe one is a classic. James Spader in the ice cream shop is a hoot.

Elaine being called Suzy at work.

Then they have a funeral for "Suzy" and Mr. Peterman claims he once slept with Suzy.

Elaine is caught on the security cam eating Mr. Peterman's piece of cake from the wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson.

"He has a polyp on his duodenum. It's benign, but still a bastard!"

Elaine and George find they have nothing to talk about when they are alone, sans Jerry. Except make fun of Jerry.

That was one from the early seasons.

The one with the chewing gum from Chinatown that tastes kind of "Lo Meiny."

The one where Elaine discovers that Puddy's car radio is set to nothing but Christian stations.

Elaine: Is it a problem for you that I'm not religious?

Puddy: No.

Elaine: Why not?

David Puddy: I'm not the one going to hell.

R119, so many great Puddy and Elaine moments.

"We are broken up for the rest of the day!!"

"I am spending the night, and then we are going to cuddle!"

Jerry buys a car.

George has problems with the candy machine. Kramer takes a test drive with the salesman and makes them run out of gas.

"Do you have my card?"

"I'll be back, we'll make out."

Puddy helps Kramer install a garbage disposal in Kramer's shower.

"It's a typo.'

That is also the famous Germaphobe episode.

Kramer's black market shower head.

Kramer drives a fire engine, George kills Peterman's mother, and Elaine dates a guy because she is intrigued that he can't remember her.

There is one 'beginning" to an episode that actually has nothing to do with the episode itself.

Might be the one with returning the book that had been in the bathroom.

Anyhow, they show Kramer alone in Jerry's apt for a few hours in the evening and how he:; cooks food, rearranges all the furniture, has a sophisticated soiree, etc. All in a few hours! Hysterical!

Shrinkage.

"The Little Kicks"

Elaine dances terribly at her office party, and her co-workers scorn her. She thinks they are scorning her because she brought George along to the party. She tells her co-workers to stay away from George, and this makes one of her co-workers, a very attractive blonde, think that she's warning them about George because he's a "bad boy." The blonde (played by Rebecca McFarland) had previously rejected George, but now that she thinks he's a bad boy, she is aroused by him.

Eventually Elaine is made to realize by Jerry and Kramer that the dancing is what made people lose respect for her. She explains to the blonde that George is actually a good guy, and this makes the blonde lose all desire for George.

Kramer gets a "job."

SERENITY NOW!

Mulva?...

(I've wasted a whole work day watching Seinfeld clips.)

Bubble Boy, total asshole.

Teri Hatcher and her boobs.

Also love that the Mulva ep has Junior Mints!

George being fired from his volunteer job because of his Debbie downer attitude . George rubbing his head in oil on the Senegalese aide.

Elaine thinks she's dating a black, and he thinks she's Hispanic...

[R109] that was also the episode where Elaine gets in to a fight with the women she works with who doesn't move her arms because Elaine was making fun of her, and then she ultimatly gets into a Psychical fight with Raquel Welch

Uncle Leo's magic marker eyebrows.

Speed dial war on Jerry's girlfriend's phone!

I adore the way the Adonis Uncle Leo says, "Helllooo! "

"The Opera", featuring my favorite auxiliary Seinfeld character, the one and only Crazy Joe Divola. So much good in that ep!

Sally Weaver.

He's got a hair on his tongue, and Jerry put it there!

The whole multi-episode arc with Joe Davola the killer clown, and Elaine's manipulative psychiatrist boyfriend, is sublimely strange and funny. Larry David at his weirdest.

"Hello, Bobo. Yes, Bobo."

When George goes to get a massage, and he's all freaked out because it's a male massage therapist. Hilarious examination of homophobia.

R144, that shrink guy was amazing!

You can do it, and you will do it!

Elaine, do you remember your dream, where you had a sexual encounter with a Chinese woman?

Elaine, have you been urinating a lot again?

R147. He was a handsome son of a gun, that actor.

Also love how suave he was when Kramer offered him one of his Cuban cigars!

R147 Stephen McHattie, who I thought I read was in mother!

Elaine went on vacay with him in one ep. I was thinking they went to Tuscany, but she went with "The Maestro", another great auxiliary character.

I should say the Maestro, aka Bob Cobb

I like The Old Man episode. The old man's bitterness is almost on par with an elder DLer. Also love the goiter that is like a second head in the same episode.

The ep where Elaine, George and Kramer kidnap the annoying barking dog which is keeping Elaine up all night. The dog with the loud bark ends up being a tiny little thing, think it was Yorkie? They proceed to drive the dog way out into the suburbs, then, of course, the dogs makes it's way back to the city, notifier having a bit of Kramer's ripped shirt in it's mouth.

Most of Kramer's shirts looked like they were from Reminiscence.

What was the episode when Newman's postal truck goes on fire? Was that the one where Newman and Kramer were accumulating empty cans for something?

Whatever they were doing, Newman in that truck was hilarious!

R152, I think that's The Pothole, the one where Kramer adopts a highway and changes his section from a 4 lane to a 2 lane.

I loved the one when Kramer found the old Merv Griffin Show set and started having his own show in the apartment. But they are mostly all funny (and clever) IMO. Loved Larry David as the voice of George Steinbrenner.

Loved Larry David as Frank Costanza's mysteriously black caped divorce attorney!

Not an episode, but the running gag with Rochelle, Rochelle was great. First it's a movie they go to see, then it's a Video George rents and loses, and finally it's been turned into Broadway Musical with Bette Midler.

That was weird. I meant to write Rochelle, Rochelle, no idea how it turned into [...] [...]

My favorite running joke is how everyone disparages "Jerry's" observational comedy and his stand up career.

R158, and says that he needs some new material.

I love the one with Roy Braun, where he just gets out of the mental hospital, and Kramer tries desperately to make him think that he's not crazy.

Elaine becomes a slut, Jerry wears glasses, and George's childhood friend keeps insisting that he belongs in a sanitarium. I think that's the one where George accuses the cashier of stealing his 20 dollar bill.

That one always cracks me up.

R157 It was because a certain Las Vegas maid uses R O H E L L E as a last name and that name is banned. Usually after a mod reads the post and sees that it is not malicious, they restore the post and take away the brackets.

The episode where Elaine was bitten by a dog!

She she's a doctor for her being bitten by a dog; the doctor is elderly, apparently 'hard of hearing.' While in the doctor's examining room, and while the doctor is assessing her injury, she tells the doctor she needs a 'shot' to address said dog bite.

The doctor immediately yells at her, "WOOF-WOOF! NOT 'BANG-BANG'!"

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It's Lloyd Braun.

I don't have a square to spare.

The car with B.O.

Dreyfus' fresh acting kept the series afloat for the last 3 series... Elaine became a looser woman during the progression of the series, but Julia's acting sure did not! The male lead actors (except for George) became lazy during the latter seasons, especially Jerry whose self-aware approach was getting tiresome.

"Rebecca De Mornay" gives it to the gang.....

The pen (air conditioning) has long been a favorite of mine. JLD is hilarious and Jerry's parents are perfect in their OCD retirement.

Lloyd Braun, serenity now, Jerry and those huge glasses and the case of gum.

George and his toupee, with Jon Lovitz.

*You're rejecting a woman because she's bald!?!!;?" Love it when Elaine pulls the toupee off his head and throws it out the window.

The Opera episode with crazy Joe Davolla, Kramer scalping tickets in the alley, the confrontation with Davolla "you still scared of clowns?"

And one of my favorite lines from that episode (and the entire series). "I like to encourage intruders".

[quote]She she's a doctor for her being bitten by a dog; the doctor is elderly, apparently 'hard of hearing.' While in the doctor's examining room, and while the doctor is assessing her injury, she tells the doctor she needs a 'shot' to address said dog bite. The doctor immediately yells at her, "WOOF-WOOF! NOT 'BANG-BANG'!"

No, the doctor wasn't old, he was a foreigner, he didn't appear to have a great command of English, the doctor looked Mid-Eastern.

Jon Favreau as Eric the angry kids party 🤡 clown.

"You're stuck on some clown from the 60's man"

George pushing old ladies and kids out of the way to escape a small apartment fire.

Man hands was fucking hilarious.. Cracks the lobster with bare hands and also grabs an eyelash I believe....

Rebecca De Mornay at Bretano's! Fantastic!

"You get your toilet book out of here and I won't jump over the counter and punch you in the brain!" I LOVE it!

Whoops, I meant Rebecca De Mornay was at the thrift shop where George was trying to donate the Brentano's art book!

RIP Brentano's, I loved that bookstore.

The spot on the cashmere sweater.....

Megan Mullally guest starred on the episode where George wanted to get his airfare costs discounted because of her relatives death. What a cheap bastard!

You double dipped that chip!

This thread made me smile. I almost wanted to run out and buy the collection for a moment. Til I remembered Michael Richardson in a comedy club. And the stories online about Seinfeld being a total dink. He ripped the shit out of someone that accidently nicked one of his cars in real life didn't he.

I'm not supporting his lifestyle. I was in Vegas when he first got big, and saw a sign up on the wall about an appearance of his. The tickets were near $500 each.

The only one I have respect for is Julia Louis Dreyfus. She inherited a billion dollars+ and has never been in the media acting like a dink like Seinfeld has.

The Suzie.

OMG, there is a show early on where Elaine's neurotic but attractive friend Cynthia dates George. Cynthia is played by Maggie Wheeler, who is great in the role.

Well, the same Maggie Wheeler played the highly annoying Janice in FRIENDS. Janice was so irritating...I might have thought that this Maggie W. must be untalented....

Which made me think that SEINFELD must be a much better show than FRIENDS.

They are real and there're spectacular

I cook naked... I clean naked... I drive naked...

[quote] The male lead actors (except for George) became lazy during the latter seasons, especially Jerry whose self-aware approach was getting tiresome

I think that's why Jerry decided to end the series.

The show could easily have continued for more seasons, but he knew it was getting stale, and I think that he was self-aware enough to know when to end it. That was totally the right decision.

Can't remember the episode, but the storyline that has Kramer driving a bus. Jerry "You kept making the stops?" Kramer "Well people kept ringing the bell!"

Haha R185 that was the one with Toby the maniac who kept saying, "that's so great! really, really great!!!"

Toby was the one who heckled Jerry during his act, and so to get revenge, he heckled her at work. Then she ran out of the office and something cut off her pinky toe.

That episode with George and the fire was the same episode as the pinky toe.

Also the same episode with Eric the Clown.

The sea was angry that day.....

The episode where Elaine made fun of how a psycho co-worker walked. The co-worker was played brilliantly by Molly Shannon.

You may think you're an idiot. But with all due respect, *I* am the bigger idiot.

I love that naked episode when Jerry's girlfriend du jour was naked in his apartment fixing a bike, then opening a pickle jar, then coughing. The dialogue was hilarious:

George, (at Monk's with Jerry): "So she coughed."

Jerry: "Coughing... naked... It's a turn-off, man."

George: "Everything goes with naked."

Jerry: "When you cough, there are thousands of unseen muscles that suddenly spring into action. It's like watching that fat guy catch a cannonball in his stomach in slow motion."

Wasn't she is cleaning lady first? A naked cleaning lady.

I'm the 212 people who had sex with these horrible people during the course of the series.

R193, Kramer's number seems low!

Mr Bookman, library detective.

"Bad year for libraries, bad year for America...Well let me tell you something funny boy.."

Jerry trying so hard not to laugh. Bookman cheers me up when shit is bad.

"Maybe that's how you get your kicks, you and your good time buddies!"

Also the one where Elaine is The Queen of Confrontation, when Elaine SCREAMS at the dog, When Elaine tells Jerry, "Every time I think you're the most shallow man on earth, you manage to drain a little more out of the pool."

What about the long running "get out" thing Elaine does as she shoves Jerry?!?!

Here are the people from SNL who have been guest stars on the show over the years:

Molly Shannon - the Elaine coworker who doesn't know who to swing her arms when she walks Jon Lovitz - I can't remember Ana Gasteyer - one unfunny line in the Soup Nazi episode! Rob Schneider - the guy that Elaine thinks is faking deafness Siiobhan Fallon - a Kramer girlfriend

Love the scene where Elaine calls in and correctly IDs the name of the swing band song playing on the radio, thus winning Mr. Pitt a close up visit with the Woody Woodpecker float in the Macy's parade. "Next Stop Pottersville! Next Stop Pottersville!" he shouts, running back and forth excitedly.

And the ep where Elaine and Mr. Pitt first meet. He sees Elaine with dark glasses on and thinks she has grace, like Jackie O.

Jon Lovitz never had cancer. Well, see ya!

R198, I love that episode too - when Mr Pitt first meets Elaine.

Love the subplot where she can't find him socks that meet his approval.

Love how she tells Jerry on the phone, "I can't go."

Love her interview, when she says "I have no chance of getting this job" and then she shakes hands politely with her interviewer!

"the heat..... my God the heat!"

R157! Get out!

Mr. Peterman telling Elaine that she has osteoporosis. Totally ridiculous that he would get her medical info over the phone, totally ridic. because it is diagnosed by a bone scan not a blood test, but still funny as all hell!

Jerry, George, and Elaine all watching 'Melrose Place' together. I think that is also the ep where Elaine convinces her gay friend to sleep with her!

I'm sure it's been mentioned but the one with Dan Cortese as Elaine's boyfriend who George has a "non sexual crush" on. I appreciated Cortese for essentially laughing at his real-life "mimbo" image by portraying that character.

There's a very small scene in an episode where George buys new glasses and, unknown to him, they're Gloria Vanderbilt ladies glasses. He's back at Jerry's apartment eating pretzels and Kramer casually asks him "may I have one of those, Madam" George asks him why he said that, and Kramer explains that George is wearing ladies glasses and George freaks out. That line reading is what kills me - "may I have one of those, Madam?"

OMG, R144, yes! That psychiatrist boyfriend was sublime - creepy, yet funny. "You can, and you will." That is a really strange arch.

R198, I love that too, with the book editor explaining to Elaine that you can't have a little grace. "And you can't acquire grace."

There are a surprising number of episode from the last two seasons here. I think they kinda suck.

The best episode is The Pie. There are so many classic things in that one.

"I guess now we know who the psycho is" "We certainly do"

A guy sees Elaine and realizes she looks exactly like a maniquin in a store down the street.

George finds a suit he wants, and the female store clerk is rude to Elaine.

"Did you just roll your eyes at him about me? If anyone should be rolling their eyes here it is ME at HIM about YOU!"

George tries to hide the suit, and the sales clerk tells someone else about a "secret sale"

"For a secret sale you're doing an awful lotta yappin' about it!"

Jerry witnesses Poppie come out of the stall in the rest room, and not wash his hands in his restaurant.

"Poppie is a little sloppy"

George buys the suit and it has a "wooosh"

And that's a partial list. So much great stuff.

Peterman is awesome but I agree that Justin Pitt is Elaine's best boss.

My favorite was the secret Seinfeld episode that was part of the finale for Curb Your Enthusiasm several years back, which I hear is being resurrected for a new season. The show acknowledged the network finale sucked and they decided to shoot another one. It also showed the cast doing a script read through prior. It was amazing seeing Jason Alexander go into character mode when it was his turn to read. This is a must see for any Seinfeld fan, even if your not into the CYE series.

What about that wonderful scene on the subway in "The Cigar Store Indian," when (I think) Elaine is reading TV Guide on the subway, and the strange man - a Datalounger? - tells her, "See, on this particular Tuesday you could've watched six hours of Lucy. There's I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy!"

The "Seinfeld" Curb Your Enthusiasm episode is fucking genius. For many reasons, but especially Jason Alexander playing the self-righteous ass version of himself with his book, Acting Without Acting.

And George's iToilet app, which was a perfect callback to a really funny conversation between him and Jerry in an early episode.

And the callback:

Having said that, Acting Without Acting.

(R214) Speaking of Jason Alexander playing the "self righteous version of himself" and I don't want to hijack this thread with Curb Your Enthusiasm discussion, but I need to say, I also loved the "Producers" story line which was the prior season finale which featured Ben Stiller and David Schwimmer as Larry David's reluctant co stars. Many stars who did cameos on the show played complete a hole versions of themselves, but those two did an outstanding job of it. It was absolutely hilarious seeing them unsuccessfully try to hide their disdain for Larry David as well as their bewilderment that he was cast to play the Nathan Lane role to their Mathew Broderick role on Broadway.

The Little Jerry where they train Kramer's pet rooster to cockfight

'It's 3am and I'm at a cickfight... what an I clinging to?'

R215, that was great. My favorite Larry nemesis is Susie, but a close second is Marty Funkhauser.

Back to Seinfeld, an early episode where George gets pissed at his boss and quits his job. He immediately regrets it. Jerry convinces him to just show up to work Monday morning like nothing happened. Apparently Larry David did something similar at SNL.

And then a later episode where Kramer is mistaken for an employee at a company, shows up every day like it's a real job, and is then fired for being totally incompetent. That's where the clip from R129 is from.

Someone used a clip from that episode where George regrets quitting his job to illustrate the fallout from Brexit.

The Puffy Shirt

"......but it's all.....puffed up!"

Master of your domain. Kramer lasted just 5 minutes and comes storming in, slapping down the money. Perfect comedic timing and hilarious. In the same vein, the episode where George is a genius as long as he's unable to score, while Elaine is dumb as fuck without it.

Sergio Mendez has a cult following...

He can't even go to the bathroom in South America!

I loved the episode where George accidentally burns down fiance Susan's family country cabin, however they somehow salvage a box love letters detailing an affair between Susan's father and novelist John Cheever. Susan reads one aloud before her father enters the room and snatches the box. He describes Cheever as "the most wonderful person" he has ever known, and says that he "loved him deeply—in a way that you wouldn't understand!"

George does not burn down the cabin, Kramer does..with a cigar.

Elaine had a urine test,not a blood test when peterman said she had osteoporosis.. The urine was from George's mom I believe. Some of you old queens are remembering incorrectly...

"Some of you old queens are remembering incorrectly... "

Pot, kettle, etc.

Elaine got the urine sample from Jerry's mother.

R224,, okay fine.

But Osteoporosis is not diagnosed through a urine sample!

ELDER ASPIE ALERT

(R223) No it isn't not remembering. It's referred to as misremembering. Didn't that innocent Brian Williams misremember teach us anything? He simply misremembered. End of story, put to bed, lights out, total v-i-n-d-i-c-a-t-i-o-n (mike drop, what the heck) Nothing to say? Yeah, I thought so.

Dr Van Nostrand

[quote]This thread made me smile. I almost wanted to run out and buy the collection for a moment. Til I remembered Michael Richardson in a comedy club. And the stories online about Seinfeld being a total dink. He ripped the shit out of someone that accidently nicked one of his cars in real life didn't he.

And don't forget that VILE douchebag Steve Bannon made millions being an early investor in the series, he still probably rakes in money from the reruns. The series makes billions in reruns.

"Exactly how much Bannon has earned from his stake in the show is not readily available, but consider this: the Financial Times reported in 2013 that “Seinfeld” had earned $3.1 billion in reruns. Even at one percent, that would mean Bannon & Co. would have made over $31 million since the show went off the air."

I've seen episodes 2, 3, and 4 of the new season of Curb. They are hysterical. They didn't miss a beat. And we sure need it.

[quote] The parking garage when they can't remember where the car is.

That was the first episode I ever saw, and I immediately loved it.

The garage episode was also the first episode I saw. It was so unfunny and uninteresting it was years before I watched again. But later I had to spend a summer in Pittsburgh and with nothing to do, one late afternoon I tuned in the "Elaine's spare a square" episode and I was totally hooked.

I still think the garage story is terrible though.

As for the bit about Steve Bannon being an investor in Seinfeld: He may well be the most reprehensible man on earth, but the more I read about him and listen to him(since his exit from the WH) the smarter I realize he is.

Like I said, this is NOT meant to be complimentary, I am just giving an opinion.

Bannon is brilliant. And dangerous. Trump was able to enact a harsher version of his travel ban by using a page right from Bannon's playbook. Distract them, get them fighting with each other, and do the thing you want while they're looking the other way. Bannon basically laid out his strategy, Democrats and all who oppose Trump would be wise to heed.

R234 Bannon exhibits many traits of a psychopath. He would not be rich and powerful without above average intelligence, which he clearly possesses. But he is also a psychopath!

I liked the episode where Kramer starts a touristy horse-drawn carriage business, offering rides/tours around the city. He has no idea what you're supposed to feed horses so he feeds them canned Beef-A-Roni. The bad diet causes the horses to fart all over the passengers. Good times.

Bannon wrote the episode that never get some played in syndication where Kramer burns the Puerto Rican flag at the pride parade

R236 — Actually, it was called Beef-A-Reeno (sp?), but you're right, the episode was hysterical.

That's the same episode as the marble rye

Haha R239, "Gimme the marble rye, you old bag!!!"

And that old lady lives in Del Boca Vista in Florida. She later remembers that Jerry mugged her for the marble rye, and she casts her vote to IMPEACH Jerry's dad as President of the condo association.

He then leaves the condo in disgrace, like Nixon.

That whole storyline was just too fuckin funny.

Her memory is triggered at the impeachment hearing.

In response to her vote against impeachment, Jack Klompas says:

'I can't believe you got that OLD BAG!'

Bannon did not get a writing credit on that episode, R237.

You know that crazy bannon: he likes to work in the shadows

The Marv Griffin Show had two of the best moments: George walking in and having that blank look on his face because he doesn't understand why everyone is sitting around the set of the MGS and when Jim Fowler asks "Where are the cameras?" during his "segment."

I had pony! My brother had pony. My sister had pony.

R239, it's also the "hot and heavy" episode when Elaine's boyfriend won't go down on her (and when he finally does, his sax playing sucks).

R236, the horse specifically farts on Susan's parents, spoiling George's anniversary gift and making them come back home sooner than expected. Which also ruins George's attempt at sneaking the rye into their apartment. One of many awesome moments when Susan's parents are disgusted by something George has said or done.

Are any of you DL Seinfeld fans black? The only black comic who really loved the show(and was willing to cop to that) is Chris Rock.

I can understand why it would not be nearly as popular with AAs. After all, it really is a show about "white people problems." But if nothing else, if I were black, I think I would enjoy laughing at the WPPs.

This show is so overrated. I watched a couple of episodes recently and just grated my nerves.

Speaking of AA's and Seinfeld:

The episode where Kramer is dating a black woman. He's supposed to meet up with her at her parent's place, but before he goes, he decides to hit the tanning salon and overdoes it.

Father to daughter: You told me you was bringing home a white boy. I don't see no white boy. I see a damn fool!

That's the one with courtenay Cox pretending to be Mrs Seinfeld for a dry cleaning discount.

Kramer fell asleep in the tanning booth because he couldn't sleep sans his quilt being held up at the cleaners

Seinfeld had some awesome black characters.

My two favorites were Rebecca DeMornay and Jackie Chiles.

One of my favorites was when Kramer sued Sue Ellen Mischke the "bra-less wonder" for distracting him while driving and making him get into an accident.

Kramer almost won the case but at the last minute, Kramer's caddie told Jackie to have Sue Ellen Mischke try on the bra... and it didn't fit! Because she put it on over her leotard.

"If it doesn't fit, you must acquit!" hahaha

The braless wonder!

The one with the neighbor in the coma is an early classic.

Amazing dialogue in that one...

^^ you CAN just loot the coma victim!

My all time lol scene from any episode is the one where Elaine goes undercover to retrieve kramer's lucky jacket from the portly super of his mom's ex bf.

That super has to be a datalounger!

This is the only time I was ever turned on in a Seinfeld episode.

It was when George and Jerry were supposedly a gay couple, and George gets "aroused" watching a male nurse give a patient a rubdown.

That was hot!

Wrong video at R256. This is the correct one from "The Outing."

Another good one was the "kiss hello."

Kramer takes a picture of everyone in the building and puts it on the wall with their name, so they can get to know each other.

The ladies all start to kiss jerry hello (which he hates), and he finally has enough and tells them to stop. Then they turn on him! Haha

I go out for a quart of milk and I come home to find my son treating his body like an amusement park!

There is a "beginning" of one ep where Mrs. Costanza is playing Mah Jong.

Nice realistic touch!

[quote]OMG the Keith Hernandez one is def. one of the best!

[quote]I call it, Bizarro World, I don't remember the actual title. It's the episode when Elaine becomes friends with a group of men who resemble Jerry, Kramer and George, but are the complete opposite personality-wise.

It's difficult to pick just one favorite episode, there were plenty of those. There are, of course, also plenty memorable and/or hilarious scenes.

The scene with "Batman Kramer" is definitely up there.

Also, the episode from earlier seasons where Jerry and Elaine fixed up George and her friend, and Kramer gives George a condom, which he uses, only to find later that it's defective.

But really, they are too numerous to list.

"The Opera" is on TBS right now. A classic!

The time where Jerry is encouraged to talk dirty and instead says something weird to his date. He spends the whole episode hoping she doesn't tell Elaine, who she's friends with. The last line of the show, as Elaine leaves Jerry's apartment - 'her mother bought her some panties and they're all laid out for her.' And Jerry just freezes in horror ...

Crazy Joe Davola.

R263, the defective condom one was great.

And George's date was played by Maggie Wheeler, who was super funny as Cynthia.

Interestingly, I could not stand her as Janice on Friends.

I feel like a lot of the guest stars who were very amusing on Seinfeld were annoying as heck on Friends.

2 words......Izzy Mandelbaum

I had a pony, and I loved him

NONE. THE ASSHOLE AIN'T FUNNY.

R236: Rusty!!

Who remembers when Elaine was dating her shrink?

He was super hot and funny as hell.

"Not that there's anything wrong with that...."

I feel like that was the first ep I watched where I said to myself, "Yes, this is a good show."

Prior to that one, I found it kind of juvenile.

I kind of liked it when all those people testified against them

I like the 1. The Today Sponge one.

2. The one where Kramer converts Susan's girlfriend, ie makes her straight again.

3. Any episode with Mickey the little person.

Also love all of the episodes with Dr. Tim Watley, the dentist.

The Contest where they bet who can go the longest without masturbating, the one where Kramer takes dog medication, Jerry ends up wearing the puffy shirt because of Kramer’s girlfriends low talking and the one where Jerry couldn’t remember the lady’s name that rhymed with a female body part

"Did your mother lay out your panties for you?"

The Japanese tourists sleeping in Kramer's Swedish dresser.

The only ones I enjoy are Elaine -centric( the soup nazi, the contraceptive sponge)

I have two:

Puffy Shirt, because it had one of the most clever and slyest jokes to ever get past the TV censors:

[quote]He could've had any woman in the world, but none could match the beauty of his own hand

The episode where Elaine thinks her BF is black. Then it turns out he thought she was Puerto Rican. When they find out they aren't ethnic, she goes, "Wait...so we're just a couple of white people?"

R280, agreed on both of those!!

The car with the B.O. was good too.

R279, I agree that Elaine was great.

In the sponge ep, I love when she gives her new guy a "job interview" to see if he is sponge worthy.

Also, the ep where Elaine's new bf won't go down on her is hilarious.

Mr. Pitt eats his candy bar with a knife and fork.

Loved the one with Germophobics and Rageaholics!

One of my favorites!

People being able to laugh at themselves. It's like some distant, mythological era in history now.

George becomes a "hood" to attract a girl.

The Kramer acting like a dog thread was also the one where Elaine becomes self conscious because she is told that she has a big head.

I remember really liking that episode.

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"I like to encourage Intruders". crazy Joe Davola from The Opera episode.

Another one of my faves is The Limo. George as the mistaken leader of the Aryan Nation. " AstroTurf?? Ya know who's responsible for that, dontcha? The Jews!!!"

Man hands is the BEST. It's funny just to say "man hands."

"You made out during schindler list?"

"Moland Springs"

Mr. Pitt with the ink stain on his upper lip yelling about he will annex Poland at any cost. And his stock, will rise HEIGH!