Jerry has a hard time breaking his relationship with childhood friend, Joel Horneck. He tells George its hard to end the relationship because he’s a man. George tells him to treat Joel like a woman, and to break off the relationship normally. While Jerry and Joel are at Monk’s Cafe, Jerry gives Joel the news. Joel begins to cry, which causes Jerry to go back on the break up. He then offers to take Joel to a Knicks game.
Jerry and George were actually supposed to go to the Knicks game together. Jerry feels bad about giving the ticket to Joel, so he offers the other ticket to George. However, George doesn’t want to go to the game with Joel, because he says he doesn’t know him. Jerry ends up making up an excuse as to why he cannot go to the game with Joel, and gives him both tickets. Joel ends up taking Kramer, Jerry’s neighbor, to the game.
This would be the first episode where Kramer mentions his idea for a pizza parlor (under his company Kramerica Industries) where the customers toss their own pizza pie. They kneed the dough, add the toppings, and put in and take it out of the oven themselves.