Elaine gets a raise at Pendant Publishing, which is merging with a Japanese conglomerate to avoid bankruptcy, and is publishing Kramer’s coffee table book. She has also reunited with her boyfriend Jake Jarmel. (It is never revealed how they got over their exclamation point issue.) George returns from the beach and decides that every decision …
Category Archives: Season 5
The Hamptons
The four principal characters travel to the Hamptons to see a baby; they find that the baby is altogether ugly. While on the beach, Kramer finds a filled lobster trap and thinks the catch is his, unaware that it’s a commercial lobster trap. George’s girlfriend (Melora Walters) goes sun tanning topless while he goes out …
The Fire
At Pendant Publishing Kramer is discussing his idea of a coffee table book about coffee tables with Elaine and his new girlfriend, Elaine’s co-worker, Toby (Veanne Cox). Elaine finds Toby, as well as Kramer’s book, very annoying. George is dating Robin, (played by Melanie Chartoff whom Larry David knew from the time they worked on …
The Raincoats
Jerry and George are in Monk’s discussing his parents staying with him for three days until they leave for Paris and how he is dying for some private time with his girlfriend Rachel (Melanie Smith). Alec approaches them with an offer to join the Big Brother program. George reluctantly agrees to look after young Joey …
The Wife
Jerry’s girlfriend, Meryl (Courteney Cox), poses as his wife in order that she may share in his 25% dry cleaning discount. In fact, Jerry is having fun with the idea of having a wife, even if it’s just to start a sentence. George urinates in the shower while at the health club and fears he …
The Stand-In
Riding on a bus Jerry and George meet a friend, Al Netche, who tells them another friend, Fulton, is in a hospital, and that Jerry may want to visit him as he might need a “good laugh.” George feels bored when he has nothing to talk about with his girlfriend, Daphne, and he wants to …
The Pie
Jerry is miffed after his girlfriend Audrey (Suzanne Snyder) refuses to take a bite of his pie. Kramer has seen in an upmarket clothing store a mannequin that looks just like Elaine. Also he has developed a terrible itch in his back, and uses Jerry’s spatula to scratch. Elaine and George visit the store; Elaine …
The Marine Biologist
While having a conversation with Elaine about his favorite yellow t-shirt, “Golden Boy” (which, due to its age, is “dying”), Jerry tells her the novel War and Peace was originally called War, What is it Good For? (a reference to Edwin Starr’s hit song “War”). Kramer gives Elaine an electronic organizer. Also he has acquired …
The Dinner Party
Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer prepare to attend a dinner party, but Elaine feels they must bring wine and cake to the party. George, who is sporting a large Gore-Tex coat due to the cold weather outside, does not understand why, thinking that it would be better to bring Pepsi and Ring Dings. Jerry and …
The Stall
At a movie theater’s restroom, Elaine, realizing she does not have any toilet paper left, asks the woman in the next stall (Jami Gertz) if she has any toilet paper to spare, but the woman refuses, claiming that she “can’t spare a square.” Elaine pleads with the woman, but she leaves, ignoring Elaine. The woman …