The arrival of a Kenny Rogers Roasters restaurant, and its huge neon chicken sign, delivers some prime Michael Richards physical comedy, as Kramer just about loses his mind when the neon chicken floods his apartment with blinding red light day and night. “The Chicken Roaster” (Season 8, Episode 8) Image Credit: Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television 23. We also get flashbacks to George’s traumatic high school days, when he was dubbed “Can’t stand ya” by his gym teacher and subjected to the dreaded atomic wedgie. Bookman, who relentlessly grills Jerry about a missing library book like it’s an unsolved murder. This early standout blesses us with one of the greatest guest spots in Seinfeld history: veteran character actor Philip Baker Hall as gruff library investigator Lt. Image Credit: Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television 24. Plus, George gets one of the first-ever documented “man crushes” on Elaine’s jock boyfriend Tony, played by MTV Sports host Dan Cortese. Jerry had a revolving door of girlfriends throughout the series, but Jami Gertz was one of the most memorable as Jane, the phone sex operator who couldn’t “spare a square” for Elaine in the next bathroom stall. Image Credit: Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television 25. The gang’s desperate guesses - “Mulva?” - still make us giggle. But even better is Jerry dating a girl and not remembering her name, knowing only that it rhymes with a part of the female anatomy. Kramer’s errant Junior Mint plopping into Elaine’s ex-boyfriend mid-surgery is an unforgettable sight gag, of course, and George plotting to buy the patient’s artwork, thinking that it’ll skyrocket if he dies, is classic Costanza. Image Credit: Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television 26. (“You’re not ‘out there’! You can’t be, because I’m out there!”) Jerry’s feud with Puddy over a stolen sex move is quality stuff, too, and the subplots dovetail beautifully - and painfully - when an incensed Frank lands on Kramer’s dried-pasta statue of Jerry… um, the wrong way. This is, of course, “the Assman episode,” where Kramer’s new “ASSMAN” license plate earns him plenty of attention, including from George’s mom Estelle, who is single again… to George’s horror. “The Fusilli Jerry” (Season 6, Episode 20) Image Credit: Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television 27. You’ll only make him madder.) Also enjoyable: Elaine embarks on a passionate liaison with a video store clerk based on his romantic “employee picks” film selections… only to learn that he’s a pimple-faced teen. “The Comeback” (Season 8, Episode 13)Īlso known as “the Jerk Store episode,” in which George only thinks of the perfect witty reply to an office rival’s insult hours later: “Well, the jerk store called, they’re running out of you!” (Don’t ask what a “jerk store” is, exactly. Image Credit: Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television 28. Not only that, but we also get George showing up for a job he wasn’t expressly hired for (the Pensky file!) and Kramer stumbling off the runway during an ill-fated bachelor auction. Here, Seinfeld turns a highly relatable dilemma - Jerry wants to dump his old, incompetent barber for a younger one - into an operatic tragedy, with Jerry’s betrayal sparking intense passion and jealousy in his old barber Enzo. Image Credit: Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television 29. (Her delighted giggle watching a pair of rotating tires is just darling.) Plus, we get Kramer’s classic cry when he sees the toll that smoking cigars has taken on his face: “Look away, I’m hideous!” This is an admittedly minor entry in the Seinfeld canon, but it comes with a fantastic conceit: While abstaining from sex, George suddenly becomes a genius because all the brainpower he devotes to sex is now freed up, and conversely, Elaine becomes an idiot while her boyfriend is abstaining. Image Credit: Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television 30.
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