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The Finale

Jerry and George have finally struck a deal with NBC to produce their pilot, Jerry, as a series and will be leaving New York City for California to begin work. Jerry is given use of NBC’s private jet as a courtesy and he, George, Elaine, and Kramer decide to go to Paris for “one last hurrah”. On the plane, George and Elaine argue over the quality of the plane and what Elaine considers an “effeminate” way in which George sits in the jet, while Kramer is still trying to get water out of his ears from a trip to the beach he made earlier in the day.

Kramer’s desperation to get the water out of his ears causes him to jump up and down on the plane and, as a result, he stumbles and falls into the cockpit, which causes the pilots to lose control. While the plane is nosediving, the four prepare for death. George, momentarily feeling the need to confess, reveals he cheated in “The Contest,” and Elaine begins to tell Jerry that she always loved him; but the plane steadies itself and they make a safe emergency landing in the small town of Latham, Massachusetts.

While waiting for the plane to be repaired, they witness an overweight man (John Pinette) getting carjacked at gunpoint. Instead of helping him, they crack jokes about his size while Kramer films it all on his camcorder, then proceed to walk away. The victim notices this and tells the reporting officer, who arrests them on a duty to rescue violation that requires bystanders to help out in such a situation. Because this is the first case implementing this law, the prosecutor wants to find out everything he can about Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer in order to win. Jerry and his friends don’t have any choice but to call on Jackie Chiles to represent them for the upcoming trial.

The second part starts with people associated with the main characters packing for the trial. Jerry’s parents, George’s parents, Newman, Uncle Leo, J. Peterman, David Puddy, Mickey, Kenny Bania, Susan’s parents, the rabbi from Elaine’s building, the pool guy, George Steinbrenner and Keith Hernandez are among those shown. Chiles mounts the defense that the witnesses are only exaggerating to settle scores with the four and that the four did not want to get shot by the criminal, and that the carjacker is free to “laugh and lie”.

A lengthy trial ensues, presided over by Judge Arthur Vandelay. George considers this to be a good sign, as Arthur Vandelay was one of the many fake names he used for himself and phony companies he claimed to have worked for. In addition to the officer who arrested them and the carjacking victim, many of the four’s former acquaintances — including Marla Penny, the low-talker, Donald Sanger, Babu Bhatt, Yev Kassem, George Steinbrenner and Dr. Wexler from “The Invitations” — are called as character witnesses against them. In addition, many others from New York have made the trip to watch the trial in the courtroom.

Despite the effort of George’s mother to try to convince Judge Vandelay to reduce the punishment, the jury finds Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer guilty of doing nothing and they are sentenced to one year each in a state prison.

In the final scene before the credits, the four main characters sit in a jail cell. Kramer is finally able to get the water out of his ears after days of trying. Jerry begins a conversation about George’s shirt buttons, using lines from the first episode.[3] George then wonders if they have had that conversation before.

Throughout the first half of the episode, Elaine tries to get hold of her friend Jill. First, she can’t get any reception with her cell phone on the street. Then, Jerry interrupts her with news of the pilot pickup and Elaine hangs up on Jill to take the call. Jerry then scolds her for, first, trying to rush the call before they all leave for Paris and, next, for thinking about calling from the plane. Finally, Elaine decides that she’s going to use her one phone call from prison to call Jill, saying that the prison call is the “king of calls”.

In the final scene of the series, Jerry is wearing an orange jumpsuit, and performing a stand-up routine of prison-related jokes to an audience of fellow prisoners (including Kramer and George; Elaine is not seen as she is in a women’s prison). No one is laughing, except for the studio audience and Kramer. As he is then yanked off the stage, he says to his audience, “Hey, you’ve been great. See you in the cafeteria.”

The Chronicle

Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer plan to go to the movies, but Jerry takes out a little time to look at nine years of memories. During the opening scene, Jerry breaks the fourth wall by talking directly to the audience, while Kramer and George, down the hall on their way to the movies, are still entirely in character and keep interrupting Jerry by yelling back at him, worried that they’ll miss the previews.

The first montage of clips is set to John Williams’ Superman score. Superman is Jerry Seinfeld’s favorite superhero and is often referenced in the show. It plays out short clips of great moments of the series.

The swing music shows short clips of cast wearing different costumes and hairstyles throughout the series. That includes “The Puffy Shirt”, “The Barber”, “The Wig Master”, “The Subway”, and “The Reverse Peephole”.

More clips are seen and finally the closing minutes feature a series of bloopers and a musical montage that features the song “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” by the band Green Day, from their 1997 album Nimrod.

Although mentioned in “Notes About Nothing”, during the musical montage of the beginning of this half of the show, “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” by Michael Jackson plays during clips of the cast dancing. This montage also contains a spoiler of the final episode. At one point, Jerry, George and Elaine can be seen dancing down the hallway of a prison (a prison guard is standing by the door in the background).

The Puerto Rican Day

The gang are heading back to Manhattan after leaving a Mets game early (to beat the traffic), but run into trouble with a driver in a maroon Volkswagen Golf. In the car, George boasts about the clever comment (“That’s gotta hurt!!”) he recently made during a pivotal moment in a new film about the Hindenburg disaster titled Blimp.

As they approach Fifth Avenue, traffic is blocked by the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade. They almost find a way out down an alley, but are blocked by their nemesis in the maroon Golf, whose driver refuses to let them cross over.

Elaine gets out of the car, worried about not being able to arrive home for her Sunday night “weekend wind-down” routine, which includes watching 60 Minutes. She starts walking only to find the traffic move again. She gets into a taxi (where she is oddly infuriated by the sight of a dog with its ear flipped inside out), only to find the traffic immediately stop. Then, she leaves the taxi, only to find the traffic immediately moving again.

George also leaves the car when he sees that the film Blimp is playing in a nearby theater, and he wants to repeat his funny comment for the audience. But his attempt to be funny is undermined by a man with a laser pointer and when George makes the comment, nobody laughs because they are instead laughing at the laser.

Jerry and Kramer are finally allowed to take their shortcut when Jerry is forced to make an apologetic wave to the maroon Golf driver. As they pass by the Golf, Jerry calls the driver a “jackass”, only to find himself stuck in the alley by oncoming traffic. The maroon Golf driver laughs and won’t let him back up again.

A frustrated George then returns to the car, only to find the red dot of the laser pointer appearing all over parts of his body. A panicked George can’t see the man holding the laser and worries he will go blind if it touches his eye.

Seeking an alternative way home, Elaine tries to find a way out by walking underneath the viewing stands. In a send up of The Poseidon Adventure, Elaine becomes the leader of a group of similarly distressed people trying to find their way out. She ultimately, however, leads them to a dead end where they have to scream for help to the people above.

Kramer, meanwhile, becomes desperate for a restroom and spots an apartment for sale across the street. To gain access to its restroom, he poses as H.E. Pennypacker, a wealthy industrialist, philanthropist, and bicyclist interested in the property. While there he sees the Mets game (they had left early) on the apartment’s television. He excitedly tells Jerry, who also leaves the car and enters the apartment to watch, posing under his alias Kel Varnsen.

George thinks he spots the laser guy and plans a sneak attack, grabbing what he thinks is the laser pointer only to discover it is a pen. Back outside, Kramer accidentally sets the Puerto Rican flag on fire with a sparkler (“Dios mio!”) and a mob of people, led by Bob and Cedric (in their third and final appearance), attacks him. He runs back into the apartment.

George also enters the apartment to wash the ink from his hands. Jerry then realizes that all three of them are in the apartment and nobody is watching the car. They look out the window to find it destroyed by the angry mob.

Late in the evening, when the parade’s over, Jerry, George and Kramer see the destroyed car in dismay. Elaine arrives, her clothes and hair filthy with food. Then the maroon Golf driver passes by and calls Jerry a “jackass”. Defeated, the gang starts walking home and Jerry says “remember where we parked”, making reference to season three episode The Parking Garage. While they’re shown walking from behind, it is seen that George still has the laser dot on his waist.

The Maid

Jerry hires a maid, Cindy (played by Angela Featherstone), whom he then starts sleeping with. Elaine discovers she has 57 messages on her answering machine when Kramer attempts to send her a fax. George tries to get a nickname (T-Bone) but a co-worker gets the one he chose instead. George tries reasoning with the new T-Bone to get his nickname. When he throws up his arms in anger over this, his co-workers nickname him Koko.

The episode also featured the New York area code 646. When the 212 area code ran out of numbers, 646 was created. Elaine repeatedly gets a piercing high beep in her phone after Kramer signs up to receive restaurant menus by fax with a service called “Now We’re Cookin'”. Elaine then gets a new number with the 646 area code. She is not happy with the new number because she believes the area code makes it too long to dial. She is proved correct when attempting to give her number to a man in the park. Initially eager, he reads the number, asks if it is in New Jersey. Her response is, “No, it’s just like 212 except they multiplied every number by 3… and added 1 to the middle number.” He makes an excuse and walks off. When an old woman named Mrs. Krantz dies, Elaine manages to get her old 212 number. Mrs. Krantz’s grandson Bobby keeps calling Elaine’s apartment, ignorant of the fact that his grandmother is dead, and that Elaine has her number. Elaine tries to convince Bobby that his grandmother has died by pretending to die herself; this backfires when Bobby dials 911 and firefighters beat down Elaine’s door.

Kramer’s girlfriend moves ‘away’ (in reality she only moves downtown), leading him to struggle with the drawbacks of a long-distance relationship. Jerry begins to realize that because of their relationship, Cindy is no longer doing any work, but he’s still paying her, which leads Kramer to comment ‘Uh-oh – you’re a John!’ When Jerry confronts Cindy, she walks out on the job and the relationship.

Jerry later meets Cindy’s boss – a parody of a pimp – who threateningly tells Jerry if he doesn’t get the money from him, he’ll get it from Cindy. Meanwhile Kramer gets lost while visiting his girlfriend. When Jerry goes to pick him up, he spots Cindy and slows down to give her her money – unfortunately, a passing policeman mistakes them for a prostitute and a John. Later, a lost Kramer is approached by Cindy’s boss and is talked into a maid job, joking about the similarities between the scene and Kramer being approached by a pimp.

The Frogger

Elaine is confronted with cake from two separate celebrations at her workplace. She is tired of the forced socializing, so she calls in sick the following day. Jerry and George go to their old high school hangout, Mario’s Pizza Parlor, which will soon be closing down, for one last slice of pizza. Kramer was at the police station where he obtained some caution tape used for crime scenes and also hears about a serial killer, who is nicknamed “The Lopper”, that is on the loose in the Riverside Park area.

At the pizza parlor, George discovers he still has the high score on the old Frogger video game, with a score of 860,630 points. Elaine’s co-workers give her a cake to celebrate her return to work from being sick, and she refuses to take part in any future celebrations. Jerry goes out on a date with Elaine’s friend Lisi, but he says she is a sentence finisher and, “it’s like dating Mad Libs”. After lamenting that his shrine will be gone, George decides to buy the Frogger machine to preserve his fame, but Jerry asks him how he is going to move it and keep it plugged in to preserve the high score. Kramer discovers the last victim of the Lopper looked a lot like Jerry.

George works to find a solution to his Frogger problem, and Kramer volunteers the help of a man he knows named “Slippery Pete” (played by Peter Stormare). Elaine misses the 4 o’clock sugar rush that she had gotten used to from all the celebrations, so she decides to raid her boss Peterman’s refrigerator, where she finds a piece of cake. She finds out from Peterman that the piece of cake he has in his refrigerator is worth $29,000 because of its historical significance. The cake comes from the 1937 wedding of King Edward VIII.

Jerry is looking to breakup with Lisi (Julia Campbell), but discovers that she lives in the Riverside Park area. To avoid the Lopper, he takes Lisi back to his place, where she finishes one of his thoughts that takes their relationship to the next level. Elaine tells Jerry and George about the cake and she also tells Jerry that Lisi is planning a weekend trip for them to Pennsylvania Dutch country. Jerry fears that Lisi received the wrong message as that kind of a trip is for a serious relationship. Elaine tries to even out Peterman’s slice of cake, but gets swept up in the moment and finishes it off. George tries to coordinate the movement of the Frogger machine. Elaine looks for a replacement for Peterman’s cake, and Kramer suggests an Entenmann’s cake. Jerry goes to Lisi’s apartment, where he tries to break up with her. It goes on for ten hours, when he is ready to leave he discovers it is dark.

After exiting her apartment, Jerry sees a man whom he fears is the Lopper and pleads to be let back in to Lisi’s apartment (it’s actually just “Slippery Pete”). Peterman has his piece of cake appraised at $2.19. George finds “Slippery Pete” playing his Frogger game on battery power, so there is only about three minutes of power remaining. The only available power source is across the busy street, and Kramer has run out of caution tape. George, convinced he does not need any help, begins moving the machine across the busy street, moving through traffic like the frog from the video game. However, as George reaches the opposite sidewalk he is unable to lift the game onto the curb; an oncoming Freightliner smashes the game cabinet, causing Jerry to quip, “Game over”.

Later, Peterman shows Elaine surveillance videotape of her eating and “dancing” with the slice of cake; he is convinced that the age of the cake and its effect on her digestive system are all the punishment she needs. This episode was originally going to be titled “The Cake Parties.”

The Bookstore

Kramer “hangs out” more than usual at Jerry’s place. At the beginning of the episode, Jerry leaves Kramer alone in his apartment. Kramer immediately jumps up and starts to make a smoothie and spills juice all over the counter, then uses Jerry’s couch cushion to clean it up. Kramer is then seen riding Jerry’s bike around his apartment, yelling down at people on the street, and doing a Jerry stand-up impersonation. He also hosts several dozen people over for tea. Later at night when Jerry returns, Kramer has put everything in the apartment back to normal, except for a glass of soda on the coffee table without a coaster. Jerry exclaims, “I don’t believe this!” and places a coaster under the glass.

Jerry and George are at a bookstore, Brentano’s, where George hopes to meet women and Jerry spots Uncle Leo shoplifting. George takes a large book into the bathroom with him, then the bookstore makes George buy the book. Elaine is at the annual Peterman party, where everyone is anxious to know if she is going to dance again. Elaine didn’t dance at the party; instead, she and a man named Zach got drunk and made out at their table. George suggests that she tell everyone that she and Zach are dating (so that she won’t be known as the “office skank”). Kramer and Newman plan to implement Kramer’s idea for running a rickshaw service in the city. They are getting a rickshaw from Hong Kong, now they need to find someone to pull it. Jerry confronts Uncle Leo about the stolen book. Uncle Leo claims it is a right as a senior citizen. Elaine catches her man with another woman. Kramer and Newman attempt to interview potential rickshaw pullers from a collection of homeless men; however, one of the candidates takes off with the rickshaw. George tries to return his book, but is told the book has been “flagged” as having been in the bathroom. Jerry rats out Uncle Leo at the bookstore.

Jerry talks with his parents about Uncle Leo’s theft and finds out about his prior, the crime of passion of which his mother will not tell him the details. His parents also inform him of the senior approach; it is not stealing if you need it. Elaine plans to use the cheating angle to protect her reputation. Jerry tries to talk with Uncle Leo, but the only thing Uncle Leo tells him is that he never forgets when he’s been betrayed. George discovers his book has been “flagged” in all the databases as a bathroom book. Elaine’s plan goes awry when J. Peterman demands that she help Zach get off the “yam yam” by helping him to quit cold turkey. Jerry has a nightmare about Uncle Leo. Newman and Kramer discover where the rickshaw is and Kramer loses the contest to determine who will pull the other. George tries to donate his book to charity, but even they won’t take the marked book. When Kramer gets tired pulling Newman in the rickshaw up a hill and lets it go, the results are disastrous as the rickshaw runs over Elaine’s “boyfriend” Zach. George plans to steal a good copy of the book, so he can return it to get his money back. Just as Jerry finds out from the manager that the manager has been told that the store needs to make a good example out of a shoplifter, any shoplifter, as long as they catch him in the act. Jerry then points out that George is shoplifting, and he gets caught.

The Burning

Elaine thinks that boyfriend David Puddy may be religious after finding Christian rock stations set on his car radio. At the coffee shop, George laments to Jerry about losing respect at a project meeting led by Mr. Kruger after following a good suggestion with a bad joke. Jerry suggests that George use the Vegas showmanship trick of leaving the room after a comedic high note. Elaine tells George and Jerry about her suspicions with Puddy. George suggests altering his radio presets as a test. Kramer and Mickey Abbott get an acting gig playing sick for some medical students. Jerry’s girlfriend Sophie (Cindy Ambuehl) calls him with the “it’s me” greeting, but he does not recognize her voice. At the next Kruger meeting, George takes Jerry’s suggestion and actually leaves the room after a well-received joke and goes to a movie theater to see Titanic (1997 film). For their acting job, Mickey and Kramer are assigned bacterial meningitis and gonorrhea, respectively. Elaine confirms that Puddy is religious. Kramer picks up on the showmanship idea and gives an impressive theatrical performance of gonorrhea for the med students. When Sophie uses the unwelcome “it’s me” greeting on Jerry’s answering machine, George suggests he return the favor when he calls back. Sophie does not recognize Jerry’s voice. Thinking that Jerry is a friend named “Rafe”, she reveals that she has not told Jerry about an incident she calls the “tractor story.” Puddy confirms that he is religious and doesn’t care that Elaine is not, because he is “not the one going to Hell.”

George and Jerry speculate on what the tractor story may be, George thinks she may have lost her thumbs in an accident and had her big toe’s grafted on in there place. causing Jerry to yell that she does not have “toe-thumbs”. Elaine is frustrated that Puddy does not seem concerned about her, when he thinks she is going to Hell. George’s showmanship backfires when Kruger throws everyone else off the large project because they are boring in comparison. Kramer is concerned about being typecast when the hospital wants him to perform gonorrhea again the next week, due to his stellar performance. Jerry sees a scar on Sophie’s leg and assumes it was from a tractor accident. George finds that he has to do all the actual work on the project as Kruger constantly makes excuses and goofs off. Puddy asks Elaine to steal a newspaper. He would do it himself, but he reasons that he is bound by the Ten Commandments and she is going to Hell anyway. Kramer is attacked by Mickey after trying to take over Mickey’s assigned role of cirrhosis of the liver. Elaine and Puddy seek the advice of a priest about their relationship. The priest informs them that they’re both going to Hell for premarital sex, much to Elaine’s delight. Sophie tries to tell Jerry the tractor story, but he tells her that he already knows about it (believing it to be about the scar). Kramer and Mickey enter, still arguing about being given (the role of) gonorrhea, and Sophie tells them her tractor story. She says she got the gonorrhea from riding a tractor in her bathing suit. Kramer tells her that that’s impossible and she says that’s what her boyfriend told her (with the implication that her boyfriend gave her gonorrhea, and that she was rather gullible and believed him). After hearing that, Jerry leaves the relationship on a comedic high note. George tries to get Mr. Kruger to work and instead he makes silly comments and walks off on a high-note just like George previously did, leaving George with a mountain of paperwork.

The Wizard

Jerry buys his dad a $200 Wizard organizer for a birthday present. George receives a message from Susan’s parents, the Rosses. Jerry and George debate about the race of Elaine’s new boyfriend and that intrigues her – is he black? George returns the call from the Rosses; the Foundation is having an event this weekend, but George doesn’t want to attend, so he comes up with a story that he has to close on his house in the Hamptons. Kramer announces his retirement, a Hollywood big shot has optioned his coffee table book about coffee tables. Elaine finds evidence that leads her to believe her boyfriend is black. Susan’s parents see George on the street in the city, during the time he is supposed to be in the Hamptons.

Jerry is woken up early in the morning at his parents’ house and gives his father the Wizard, which Jerry claims he got from a deal at only $50. Morty is only impressed by it being a “tip calculator”, although Jerry claims it does other things. Later he discovers that Kramer has moved down there, to join the other retirees. Elaine laughs when Susan’s parents ask her about George’s house in the Hamptons, revealing the lies. Morty, who can’t run for president of the condo association because he was impeached from their previous condo, decides that Kramer should be elected condo board president of Del Boca Vista phase III, so Morty will run things from behind the scenes, like a “puppet regime”. Elaine schemes to try to determine her boyfriend’s race. As George finds out the Rosses knew that he lied, and they allowed him to continue lying, he keeps building on his lie and picks up the Rosses to take them to the Hamptons, to “see who’ll blink first”.

Kramer begins his campaign and the condo newsletter, The Boca Breeze has good things to say about him. When Elaine’s boyfriend says they are an interracial couple, she is convinced he is black. Kramer receives some bad press from The Boca Breeze; it’s damage control time. Kramer suggests buying each member of the board one of those Wizard “tip calculators”. Jerry knows he can’t get the deal he told his father he’d received, but Kramer says not to worry, Bob Sacamano’s father lives down there and can help them out. Elaine discovers her boyfriend is not black, and that he referred to them as an interracial couple because he thought she was Hispanic. Sacamano’s father comes through with knock-off “tip calculators” called “the Willard”, which can’t calculate tips properly and in some cases lack a full complement of numerals, costing Morty and Kramer the election. George and the Rosses reach the Hamptons, where he blinks first and the truth is revealed. The Rosses confirm that they dislike George, and blame him for Susan’s death.

The Strong Box

George tries to break up with his girlfriend, Maura, only she doesn’t agree. Jerry has purchased cuff links worn by Jerry Lewis in Cinderfella. He plans to use them as a conversation starter with Lewis when he goes to an upcoming roast at the Friar’s Club. George insists that all he needs as a conversation starter is the fact that they share the same name “…Jerry”. Elaine’s new boyfriend puzzles and intrigues her with his secretive behavior. Jerry jokingly suggests that perhaps he is a super-hero concealing his secret identity. The exterior of the apartment of Elaine’s secretive new boyfriend is actually located in Manhattan’s East Village at 4 St. Mark’s Place. Neighborhood landmarks like Trash and Vaudeville and the St. Mark’s Hotel can be seen in the shot.

With burglaries occurring in the building, Kramer has obtained a strongbox to hold his valuables. He needs to find a place to hide his key. A place that no one knows, except him. His first place doesn’t work. George lays out all of the reasons that they should be officially broken up, Maura still doesn’t agree “to turn the key.” Elaine gives up on her mystery man when he runs from a woman that Elaine deduces is his wife. She returns to Jerry’s apartment to find that his intercom is broken. So she shouts to him from the street, about the mystery man, while she waits for the opportunity to get into his building. Jerry inspects his intercom, only to find Kramer’s strongbox key hidden inside. Kramer hides his key again. Jerry finds the key again and decides to go down to let George in. While downstairs, a neighbor who’s forgotten his key and is unknown to Jerry asks to be let in. Jerry politely denies him entry. Elaine goes to the mystery man’s shabby apartment and discovers he is poor and on welfare. The woman he ran from is his welfare caseworker. Jerry discovers the keyless neighbor, does in fact live in his building, and to add more discomfort to Jerry, he also lives on his floor, and right next door to Kramer.

Elaine tells Jerry about Glenn being poor, and they suggest that she could just pay him off to get out of the relationship. However, this plan backfires when she discovers how much she means to Glenn. George decides that cheating on Maura might be his ticket out. Kramer lets Phil, Jerry’s “new” neighbor, keep his parrot in the hallway. Kramer also hides his key at Phil’s. Jerry needs his cufflinks for the roast, only to find out that Kramer has locked them in his strongbox. The key to the strongbox was hidden in the parrot’s food dish, only now the parrot is dead (because he choked on Kramer’s key) and buried in a pet cemetery. The Godfather Part II is referenced here when Jerry accuses Kramer of Fredo’s death; to which Kramer exclaims that “Fredo was weak and stupid! He shouldn’t’ve eaten that key!!”. George tries getting caught with the other woman, only both women agree that they can work with George through this incident. Elaine discovers that Glenn is, in fact, married and poor. Kramer and Jerry go to the pet cemetery to exhume the key, his neighbor catches only Jerry. George asks what’s in the cooler (strongbox) as he easily opens it up. Kramer then claims, “This is one for the books, huh Jerry? Really one for the books!”

The Cartoon

Kramer again gets Jerry into trouble, by revealing what he truly thinks of Susan Ross’s old college roommate Sally Weaver (Kathy Griffin).

Elaine obsesses over the meaning of a cartoon that appears in The New Yorker. Elaine and later Kramer comments that George’s new girlfriend (Tracy Nelson) looks a lot like Jerry. In fact Kramer tells George, “Just because they look alike, that doesn’t mean you’re secretly in love with Jerry.” Jerry confronts Kramer’s frankness. Sally claims that Jerry has ruined her life and she’s quitting the business. Jerry can’t have that on his conscience; he talks her back into the business. Kramer makes an important life decision: the only way to keep his mouth shut is to stop talking. Before he finally stops talking, Kramer’s constant references to the looks of George’s girlfriend drive George out of Jerry’s apartment.

Elaine goes to The New Yorker offices to seek an explanation for the cartoon. She discovers that the editor (Paul Benedict) didn’t understand the cartoon either – he simply “liked the kitty”. Sally opens her new one-woman show about “Jerry Seinfeld, the Devil”. Elaine’s complaint gets her the opportunity to do her own cartoon for the magazine. Jerry confronts Sally about the content of her show. Newman is her biggest fan; finally, he can see a “show that is about something”. Kramer discovers the disadvantages of not talking. George worries about why he really likes his girlfriend. A clip of Sally’s show appears on Channel 9 news; it features Jerry’s latest confrontation with her. Jerry calls Sally and the message he leaves on her answering machine appears in her show as well. Later the lawsuit he filed appears in her cable special. Jerry decides to cut off all communication with Sally. Elaine’s first comic appears in The New Yorker. J. Peterman thinks it is a great cartoon until he realizes it is a Ziggy.

George and his girlfriend discuss their relationship, until she gets chewing gum in her hair. Sally starts talking to the silent Kramer, until he can’t take it anymore. He tells her to shut up, then he apologizes and says that he hasn’t spoken for days. Sally tells him to lay it on her. To remove the gum from her hair, George’s girlfriend cuts her hair; her new hairstyle looks exactly like Jerry’s. Sally’s new cable show is about to come on and Jerry is convinced she’ll have nothing to talk about, and is proven wrong because Kramer talked with Sally at Monk’s Coffee Shop. George decides to take a few days off from his “relationship” with Jerry.