Shocking you made a useless dickish post for no reason. Again.
Amazingly, the other two episodes I was thinking of in round 1 are still here. I’ll go with:
Season 6, Episode 11: The Switch
This one has a fantastic Jerry/George plot where Jerry is trying to dump his girlfriend (who has no sense of humour) for her roommate (who laughs at everything he says). The planning session is one of my favourite scenes in the whole series:
And the result (watch George’s resigned reaction, Jason Alexander played it perfectly):
Also notable for the introduction of Kramer’s mother, who we meet when Kramer suggests her as a matron who can spy on George’s girlfriend, who he thinks has an eating disorder (“Elaine, of course I’m concerned. I’m paying for those meals! It’s like throwing money down the toilet.”) and blurts out his first name, unknown to everyone at this point:
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Ok here I go - NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Plot
Jerry, George and Elaine visit a new soup stand. Jerry explains that the owner, Yev Kassem, is known as the “Soup Nazi” due to his insistence on a strict manner of behavior while placing an order, but his soups are so outstandingly delicious that the stand is constantly busy. En route, Elaine notices a man on the sidewalk with an armoire for sale. She forgoes the soup in favor of buying it. However, her building superintendent informs her that furniture move-ins are not allowed on Sundays, so she asks Kramer to watch the armoire and promises to get soup from Kassem for him in return. While she is away, two men intimidate Kramer and steal the armoire.
At the soup stand, George complains about not receiving bread with his meal. When he presses the issue, George’s order is taken away and his money returned. On a subsequent visit, George buys soup, but Elaine, having scoffed at Jerry’s advice on how to order, draws Kassem’s ire and is banned for a year.
Jerry and his girlfriend Sheila visit the soup stand. Kassem is repulsed by their public making out, so Jerry disavows Sheila to stay on Kassem’s good side. Jerry talks about the breakup with George, who expresses disgust at Jerry and Sheila’s baby talk and public displays of affection. Undeterred, Jerry makes up with Sheila at Monk’s. George tries to teach him a lesson by behaving similarly with Susan, but this only leads to escalating affection between the couples as Jerry and George struggle to out-disgust each other. Susan is charmed by George’s public show of affection and continues to mirror this behavior. Sensing George’s discomfort at this, Jerry gloats by informing him that he and Sheila have broken up again.
Kramer, who has befriended Kassem, tells him about the armoire theft. Kassem offers him an armoire he has in storage as a replacement. Elaine is elated and goes to Kassem to thank him. When Kassem learns the armoire was for Elaine, he says he would rather have destroyed it than give it to her. Vowing revenge, Elaine returns to her apartment with Jerry, where they discover Kassem’s soup recipes in the armoire. Elaine returns to the soup stand and confronts Kassem with the recipes, threatening to publicize them.
Jerry encounters Newman, who is running to get a pot from his apartment. Newman tells him that because of what Elaine said to Kassem, he is giving away whatever soup he has left, closing down his stand, and returning to Argentina. Jerry runs towards the soup stand.
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Fwiw I atted you, not sure if you got it though. I was waiting for you to make my pick
I’ll take over for Nich if that’s ok? Still plenty of value in this draft! And I get 3 of the next 5 picks from what I see?
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Soup Nazi was the episode I was initially touting was my slam-dunk #1 pick.
Still top 10 imo though
Some surprise picks
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Alright according to what passes for a spreadsheet a few posts up, it appears as though it is my turn.
For my 2nd pick, I’ll take…The Pick (Season 4 Ep 13)
Lots to UNPACK in this episode.
Jerry gets caught in a pick at a light…or did he?
But there’s a lot more going on in this one. Like how everyone (but George) got a look at Elaine’s nipple
Tia (the model who “caught” Jerry picking at the light) works for Calvin Klein; Kramer finds out her boss stole his idea and created a perfume that makes you smell like the beach. Kramer doesn’t become a fragrance millionaire but things work out for him in the end
And George pines so badly over the loss of Susan that he sees a therapist to deal with his feelings. However, the session consists almost entirely of him trying to remove his coat.
Namath
- The Opposite
- The Pick
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I gotta go to the bathroom then I’ll come back with my two picks
Can I Pick for Nich’s 1st rounders first?
Gonna be so sick if you pick my pick but yeah.
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Yeah I was really surprised to see it fall that far.
1st Round Late Pick - The Subway
Each of the four principal characters has a unique experience during a subway ride.
Jerry encounters a nudist on his way to Coney Island.
George is seduced by a woman intending to rob him on his way to a job interview and ends with him handcuffed to a bed, missing his job interview and walking back in a bed sheet.
Elaine misses a lesbian wedding due to being stuck on the subway.
Kramer overhears a betting tip on a horse race and places $600 on a 30-1 shot.
This scene is a classic and I don’t think I’ve had a conversation about a horse race since that doesn’t involve the line “his mother was a mudder?”
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Oh fuck you
Fuck you so much lol
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Still tons of value! Would be funny if you sniped me right back.
That was the other one I was considering. Great value here.
It begins with George sitting at an outdoor cafe with Jerry, free from his job at the New York Yankees and celebrating the reception of his severance package he has received as a result. He has such great ideas like reading a book from beginning to end and playing frisbee golf for this great time. When he gets attacked by a bee after his proclamation, you know not everything is going to as planned during…
“The Summer of George” (Season 8, Episode 22)
Instead of pursuing his ambitions, he spends his time relaxing so much that he never changes his clothes and ends up so weak from his lack of movement that his legs atrophy.
The B-side plots involve Jerry in a relationship with a girl who has a somewhat ambiguous relationship with a guy named Lyle, She is so demanding that Jerry resorts to recruiting a lethargic and lazy George to do his grunt work.
Kramer is a seat filler at the Tony’s and ending up with an award for a play he didn’t participate in and being forced to fire an apparently short-fused Raquel Welch in order to keep the award.
Elaine inadvertently mocking a woman who doesn’t move her arms while walking (played by SNL alum Molly Shannon) which ends with Elaine getting her desk trashed.
In the end it comes together in physiotherapy with George learning to walk again while Sam is being trained to move her arms while walking
I would argue that this episode has the strongest B-plots of any Seinfeld episode in the series. While I relate perhaps a bit too much to the main plot, it’s the three B-plots and how they perfectly merge together at the end that makes this episode one of the best episodes in the entire show.
SuperUber Seinfeld Episodes
- The Contest
- The Summer of George
Gotta say that I didn’t expect to get my top two episodes in the draft. I assume you’re taking over for nick, meb
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Oh this is some bullshit. Why aren’t why YouTube videos showing up like they did in the preview?!
Guess you can’t put YouTube inside a spoiler?
2nd Round Pick 18 The Fire
If you had to use one episode to describe George Costanza’s character on Seinfeld, it has to be The Fire. A small fire breaks out in the kitchen at the birthday party for George’s girlfriend’s son. George proceeds to panic and push down women, children, an elderly woman with a walker, and anyone else in his way to get out of the apartment.
A side story about Jerry getting heckled by Elaine’s coworker and going to Pendant Publishing to heckle her in return leads to one of Kramer’s best scenes on the show.
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Summer of George great pick!
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