The BEST episodes directed by Tom Cherones

The Contest
star
8.51
2055 votes

#1 - The Contest

Seinfeld - Season 4 - Episode 11

George's mother throws her back out when she falls down after catching him doing "you know." When George says he'll never do it again, Jerry challenges him to a contest of self-denial, when he accepts, Elaine and Kramer want in on the action, or rather the lack of it.

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Stocks
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8.51
147 votes

#2 - Stocks

NewsRadio - Season 3 - Episode 9

Matthew returns from a Japanese vacation bearing gifts, including a katana for Dave. Mr. James teaches Beth the intricacies of the stock market.

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Bill Moves On
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8.46
196 votes

#3 - Bill Moves On

NewsRadio - Season 5 - Episode 1

The news crew copes with the loss of their good friend, Bill, after he dies of a heart attack.

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President
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8.44
225 votes

#4 - President

NewsRadio - Season 3 - Episode 1

Mr. James decides to run for President of the United States while Lisa declares to expose all of his secrets. Matthew grows a 70's style moustache to ""get chicks"".

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Arcade
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8.39
213 votes

#5 - Arcade

NewsRadio - Season 3 - Episode 4

Dave worries that the past will repeat itself when an arcade game, Stargate Defender, is installed in the hallway. Lisa and Dave take the SATs to prove they're not getting dumber. Bill is obsessed with the stale, plastic, leathery sandwiches from a vending machine.

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Halloween
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8.35
154 votes

#6 - Halloween

NewsRadio - Season 3 - Episode 5

Mr. James requests that the reticent staffers wear costumes to his Halloween party. Lisa convinces everyone to dress up by promising that Dave will wear the most outlandish costume ever. A psychic tells Bill the exact date of his death..36 years in the future.

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The Opposite
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8.33
1726 votes

#7 - The Opposite

Seinfeld - Season 5 - Episode 22

George comes to the realization that he should try to do the opposite of everything, so he does, his luck changes and everything begins to go his way including getting a girlfriend, a job with the Yankees and moving out of his parents' house. Things begin to be unlucky for Elaine after she buys a box of "Jujyfruits." Kramer appears on Regis & Kathie Lee to promote his coffee table book. Rachel wants to break up with Jerry and he readily agrees, because his luck has been "even Steven." Elaine's eating of "Jujyfruits" causes Pendant Publishing to go under, and later she realizes that she and George have traded places.

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The Outing
star
8.28
1569 votes

#8 - The Outing

Seinfeld - Season 4 - Episode 17

No thanks to Elaine, Jerry must work hard to prove he is straight when a college reporter mistakenly reports that he and George are gay, "not that there is anything wrong with that." Things really get out of hand when the article is picked up by the New York Post.

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Movie Star
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8.27
178 votes

#9 - Movie Star

NewsRadio - Season 3 - Episode 8

James Caan visits WNYX to study Bill and prepare for an upcoming film role, but gets distracted and ultimately enthralled by a nervous Matthew. Dave decides to buy a television for Lisa, revealing his passion for Green Acres. Jimmy takes Beth and Catherine to a Knicks game.

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Daydream
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8.22
212 votes

#10 - Daydream

NewsRadio - Season 3 - Episode 7

Daydreams plague staffers on an unbelievably hot day. Among others, Beth fantasizes that she's being stalked by Matthew, who's taking on horror movie guises; and Joe dreams he turned each of the staffers into androids.

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Chock
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8.22
191 votes

#11 - Chock

NewsRadio - Season 4 - Episode 11

Dave finds it hard to say no when his old college a cappella singing group 'Chock Full o' Notes' reunites for Dave's 32nd birthday, hoping to take the pop charts by storm. Meanwhile, Lisa tries to motivate Matthew without reducing him to tears. Joe has a beef with one of Dave's friends.

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The Fix-Up
star
8.14
7 votes

#12 - The Fix-Up

Ellen - Season 2 - Episode 5

When Ellen's blind date, whom she remembers as a childhood weirdo, turns out to be a perfectly normal guy, she's eager to pursue the relationship, but a series of complications convinces him that she's the one who's strange.

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Stupid Holiday Charity Talent Show
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8.12
199 votes

#13 - Stupid Holiday Charity Talent Show

NewsRadio - Season 4 - Episode 8

Dave unveils a previously hidden talent to compete in a charity talent show. If a WNYX staff member wins, Mr. James will re-hire Matthew in this incredibly hilarious episode.

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Review
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8.11
218 votes

#14 - Review

NewsRadio - Season 3 - Episode 2

A new coffee shop is opened on the first floor of the Criterion Building. Matthew becomes obsessed with Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon.

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The Thirty-Minute Man
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8.11
9 votes

#15 - The Thirty-Minute Man

Ellen - Season 2 - Episode 3

Ellen flips for a customer whose visits to the bookstore spice up her life, but her rising hopes for romance fall flat when she learns he's a pizza delivery man who savors his work.

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Super Karate Monkey Death Car
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8.10
237 votes

#16 - Super Karate Monkey Death Car

NewsRadio - Season 4 - Episode 4

Andrea forces the staff to take lie detector tests. Lisa fears she will not pass the test due to her extensive criminal past. Jimmy has his book, which failed in the U.S., translated into Japanese then back into English.

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The Cheever Letters
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8.09
1621 votes

#17 - The Cheever Letters

Seinfeld - Season 4 - Episode 8

Jerry and George begin to work on the pilot for the series they pitched to NBC. Jerry says the wrong thing while "messing" around with one of Elaine's co-workers. George & Susan tell her father about the cabin fire, he becomes distraught and letters saved from the fire soon explain why. Kramer goes to the Cuban Embassy in search of cigars and makes a deal.

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The Hamptons
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8.07
1459 votes

#18 - The Hamptons

Seinfeld - Season 5 - Episode 21

Everyone makes a trip to the Hamptons to "see the baby" and enjoy the weekend. George's girlfriend goes topless and everyone sees her chest before he does. "The baby" is the most hideous thing they've ever seen. Elaine is confused when a handsome doctor refers to her as "breathtaking" - the same term he later uses to describe the baby. Kramer finds a filled lobster trap. Jerry's girlfriend sees George naked, after he's just gotten out of the pool, so something isn't as it should be.

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The Boyfriend (2)
star
8.06
1021 votes

#19 - The Boyfriend (2)

Seinfeld - Season 3 - Episode 18

George tries two more approaches with the unemployment officer. Kramer gets Jerry to accompany him to see a former neighbors' new baby, "you got to see the baby." Though he's gone out with Keith once, does that mean he must help him move. Elaine and Keith are hitting it off until he pulls out a cigarette. George wants to sleep with a really tall woman. Keith supports the "second spitter theory." Jerry and Elaine both breakup with Keith and George might get his wish.

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The Song Remains the Same
star
8.04
188 votes

#20 - The Song Remains the Same

NewsRadio - Season 2 - Episode 14

Mr. James disrupts the office with his early April Fools' Day practical jokes. Bill is interviewed by a Wall Street Journal reporter. Lisa and Matthew compete for the right to cover the New Hampshire primary.

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The Marine Biologist
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8.02
1488 votes

#21 - The Marine Biologist

Seinfeld - Season 5 - Episode 14

Jerry meets an old college classmate who asked about George, whom Jerry says is now a "marine biologist." An infuriated Russian writer tosses an electronic organizer belonging to Elaine out of a limousine that hits a passerby on the head. Kramer struggles with his golf swing and sand. While walking along the beach, George is called on to use his marine biology skills to save a whale.

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The Puffy Shirt
star
8.02
1728 votes

#22 - The Puffy Shirt

Seinfeld - Season 5 - Episode 2

George is forced to move in with his parents. He gets a job as a hand model and becomes obsessed with keeping his hands safe. Kramer's girlfriend, who designs clothes and talks with a real low voice, asks Jerry a question that he politely answers yes to. He agrees to wear one of her new puffy pirate shirts on a Today Show appearance he is making.

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The Barber
star
8.00
1671 votes

#23 - The Barber

Seinfeld - Season 5 - Episode 8

George is uncertain about whether his job interview was successful or not, so he decides to go into the office and act like an employee while the boss is on vacation. Jerry is reluctant to dump his old barber even when he is given a real bad haircut. Kramer arranges to get him a clandestine haircut at the apartment of his barber. Newman is charged by Jerry's barber to get a sample of Jerry's hair when he suspects foul play.

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Caroline and the 28 lb. Walleye
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8.00
5 votes

#24 - Caroline and the 28 lb. Walleye

Caroline in the City - Season 1 - Episode 13

Caroline's parents (Holliman & Hartley) roll out the red carpet when she visits her home town for a ceremony in her honor, but something smells fishy when her brother (who has upstaged her all their lives) arrives with big news of his own.

Adam's Birthday
star
8.00
8 votes

#25 - Adam's Birthday

Ellen - Season 2 - Episode 8

Convinced that Ellen is limiting his potential, Adam moves out, leaving Ellen with limitless possibilities as to what to do with his vacant room.

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The Toast
star
8.00
7 votes

#26 - The Toast

Ellen - Season 2 - Episode 7

When Ellen hosts the wedding rehearsal dinner for her brother and his bride-to-be, she unintentionally causes their breakup.

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The Parking Garage
star
7.97
2093 votes

#27 - The Parking Garage

Seinfeld - Season 3 - Episode 6

Everyone separates to try to find the car in a huge parking garage. Jerry needs to use the bathroom so he finds a place to go and gets busted. Elaine tries to get help from people passing by. George joins Jerry in getting busted. Kramer is wearing "the jacket," and forgets where he put down the air conditioner he was carrying and causes George to be really late for his parent's 47th anniversary.

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Complaint Box
star
7.96
141 votes

#28 - Complaint Box

NewsRadio - Season 3 - Episode 14

A newly installed complaint box makes Dave's life miserable. Mr. James goes fishing, but thanks to Joe's invention, the Garelli 5000, stays in contact with the office via satellite hookup.

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The Bubble Boy
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7.96
1665 votes

#29 - The Bubble Boy

Seinfeld - Season 4 - Episode 7

Jerry's girlfriend, Naomi has a laugh that sounds like "Elmer Fudd sitting on a juicer," and when she hears George's message to Jerry, she breaks up with him. So instead, Jerry asks Elaine to accompany him on a trip to a cabin in the mountain with George and Susan. Kramer isn't invited. Jerry agrees to a side trip to visit a sick fan, a "Bubble Boy." George gets into a fight with the "Bubble Boy" over the correct answer to a Trivial Pursuit question. Kramer and Naomi also make the trip to the cabin and get the fire started.

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The Limo
star
7.95
1587 votes

#30 - The Limo

Seinfeld - Season 3 - Episode 19

On a whim, Jerry and George take a limo from a passenger that Jerry knows never made it on the plane. While taking the limo they call Elaine & Kramer to join them for an event at Madison Square Garden, but it isn't the type of event they were hoping for.

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Wino
star
7.95
123 votes

#31 - Wino

NewsRadio - Season 5 - Episode 16

The formerly evil Johnny Johnson returns to the station, now a homeless wino, to claim Lisa's hand in marriage. Lisa finds it hard to resist Johnny... despite his noxious odor.

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The Boyfriend (1)
star
7.94
1560 votes

#32 - The Boyfriend (1)

Seinfeld - Season 3 - Episode 17

Jerry meets Keith Hernandez and wants to make a good impression. Meanwhile, George is out of time on his unemployment and he works harder than ever on his scheme to get a 13 week extension. He tells the unemployment office he was really close on Vandelay Industries, a company that makes latex products and whose main office is Jerry's apartment. Kramer and Newman hate Hernandez back to a time when they were allegedly spit on by him; however, Jerry supports the "second-spitter theory." Keith asks Jerry about Elaine's status. Keith makes a date with her and breaks a date with Jerry.

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The Alternate Side
star
7.94
1773 votes

#33 - The Alternate Side

Seinfeld - Season 3 - Episode 11

Jerry's car is stolen and the criminal picks up his car phone. George decides to take a fill-in job moving cars from one side of the street to the other; this turns into a disaster for local traffic flow. Kramer gets a chance to do a line in a Woody Allen film; "these pretzels are making me thirsty." Elaine gets tired of her 66-year-old boyfriend and when she is about to break up with him, he has a stroke.

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The Implant
star
7.93
1399 votes

#34 - The Implant

Seinfeld - Season 4 - Episode 19

Jerry dumps his girlfriend after Elaine says her figure is the result of implants. Kramer claims to have seen Salman Rushdie at the health club. By accident Elaine later discovers the breasts are real. George accompanies his current girlfriend to Detroit for her aunt's wake. While there he tries to get a copy of her death certificate so he can get a 50% discount on the airfare.

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Catherine Moves On
star
7.92
229 votes

#35 - Catherine Moves On

NewsRadio - Season 4 - Episode 7

Each staffer offers up a very different version of events of the day Catherine announces she's leaving WNYX. Joe realizes that Catherine's always yearned for him.

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Rose Bowl
star
7.92
167 votes

#36 - Rose Bowl

NewsRadio - Season 3 - Episode 15

WNYX staffers evaluate their co-workers, leading to problems based on Matthew's belief that Bill is a God. Jimmy buys fake movie memorabilia, unaware that the sled from Citizen Kane was named 'Rosebud' not 'Rose Bowl'. Joe represents Jimmy in a lawsuit against the man who sold the items.

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The Airport
star
7.91
1485 votes

#37 - The Airport

Seinfeld - Season 4 - Episode 12

When their flight home gets canceled, Jerry & Elaine gets on another flight, the latter gets cramped into coach and Jerry parties in 1st class with a model. George and Kramer go between JFK and La Guardia to pick them up. When they settle on an airport George meets a convict and Kramer sees a man who owes him $240 from years ago.

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Mistake
star
7.91
164 votes

#38 - Mistake

NewsRadio - Season 3 - Episode 23

Matthew is no longer the weirdest person in the office, when a strange temp comes in. Dave is featured in a national magazine where he inexplicably insults each staff member...and reveals his passion for tap dancing.

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The Cigar Store Indian
star
7.91
1523 votes

#39 - The Cigar Store Indian

Seinfeld - Season 5 - Episode 10

Jerry helps George out with a coffee table stain and makes Elaine take the subway home and gives her Mr. Costanza's TV Guide to read. While on the train, Elaine meets a strange man obsessed with television. George meets a woman at a refinishing store who he brings back to his parent's home and passes it off as his. A female Native American that he is interested in thinks Jerry is racially insensitive when he presents Elaine with a cigar-store Indian as a peace offering. George gets grounded when his parents return from vacation and find a prophylactic wrapper in their bed and a missing TV Guide. Kramer has an idea for a coffee table book on coffee tables that Elaine doesn't like but Mr. Lippman does.

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The Public Domain
star
7.91
202 votes

#40 - The Public Domain

NewsRadio - Season 4 - Episode 3

Dave tries to get Matthew rehired amidst chaos. Andrea hires a man to share Dave's Job, Jimmy brings a camera crew into the office to film a documentary, and Bill prepares for a new career as a singing political satirist a la Mark Russell.

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The Stall
star
7.90
1581 votes

#41 - The Stall

Seinfeld - Season 5 - Episode 12

While in a bathroom stall, Elaine needs some toilet paper, but the woman in the next stall refuses to give her a piece. The woman is Jerry's girlfriend whose voice Kramer recognizes from a telephone sex line. Elaine's boyfriend, whose face she just loves, takes George & Kramer rock climbing. After his accident, Elaine isn't sure his face will be the same.

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The Fire
star
7.88
1408 votes

#42 - The Fire

Seinfeld - Season 5 - Episode 20

Kramer is dating one of Elaine's co-workers, a woman who drives her crazy. Kramer brings her to one of Jerry's shows, where she heckles him relentlessly; unfortunately there is a national magazine critic in the audience. George panics when there is a fire at his girlfriend's apartment, during her son's birthday party. Jerry decides to get revenge by heckling the woman where she works. She runs out of the office onto the street and loses her pinkie toe. Kramer finds the toe, takes a bus to the hospital and saves the passengers from a gunman. Inspired by Kramer's tale, George tries to confront his feelings of cowardice.

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Caroline and the Married Man
star
7.88
8 votes

#43 - Caroline and the Married Man

Caroline in the City - Season 1 - Episode 12

Richard sets Caroline up on a date with a man (Gravitte) who can get him a civic commission for an important mural, and they hit it off; then Richard discovers the guy is married.

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The Pez Dispenser
star
7.86
1653 votes

#44 - The Pez Dispenser

Seinfeld - Season 3 - Episode 14

Kramer joins the "Polar Bear Club." Jerry gets one of Kramer's Pez dispensers which makes Elaine laugh during a piano recital of George's girlfriend, and that puts their relationship in jeopardy. Kramer has an idea for a cologne that smells like the beach and suggests that George make a preemptive breakup with his girlfriend, that will give him the "upper hand." The Pez dispenser has a remarkable effect during a drug confrontation.

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The Old Man
star
7.86
1269 votes

#45 - The Old Man

Seinfeld - Season 4 - Episode 18

Jerry, Elaine & George volunteer to help the elderly. Jerry gets assigned to a nasty old man. Elaine is repulsed by the goiter problems of hers and George depresses his charge. Kramer and Newman try the business of selling old records to a used record store. Jerry loses track of his man when they try to take him to the dentist to repair his dentures, after the man had bitten Kramer's arm.

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Guns 'N Ellen
star
7.86
7 votes

#46 - Guns 'N Ellen

Ellen - Season 2 - Episode 17

After her apartment is robbed, Ellen goes on a safety spree, but her obsession with security makes her a model of insecurity.

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The Pitch
star
7.85
1512 votes

#47 - The Pitch

Seinfeld - Season 4 - Episode 3

NBC executives ask Jerry to come up with an idea for a TV series. George decides he can be a sitcom writer and comes up with "nothing." Kramer trades a radar detector for a helmet, later Newman gets a speeding ticket. While waiting to meet the NBC executives, George and Jerry meet Joe Davola, a writer and "a total nut" who goes to the same shrink as Elaine. Jerry searching for conversation, mentions Kramer's party, whereto Joe wasn't invited. While discussing the disaster of the meeting with NBC, George focuses on starting a relationship with the female NBC executive. Kramer shows his approval by throwing up on her. The helmet saves Kramer from an attack by "Crazy" Joe Davola. While all this is going on Elaine is in Europe with her shrink.

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The Mango
star
7.84
1979 votes

#48 - The Mango

Seinfeld - Season 5 - Episode 1

George tells Jerry about his lack of confidence below "the equator." Jerry begs Elaine for another chance when he finds out she faked her orgasms. Kramer gets banned from his favorite fruit shop.

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The Junior Mint
star
7.84
1573 votes

#49 - The Junior Mint

Seinfeld - Season 4 - Episode 20

Jerry has a date with a woman whose name he has forgotten, but it "rhymes with a female body part." Could it be "Mulva"? Elaine visits an old boyfriend who's in the hospital for an operation; he was once fat, thin she's interested again. Kramer gets an opportunity to witness the operation and he drags Jerry along, while watching they have an accident with a "Junior Mint."

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The Pick
star
7.83
1379 votes

#50 - The Pick

Seinfeld - Season 4 - Episode 13

Elaine is humiliated when she accidentally shows a bit too much on her Christmas card photo, that she has sent out to everyone she knows. Jerry has a date with the model from the plane, she later dumps Jerry because of "The Pick." George tries to reunite with Susan, but realizes it's a mistake, and uses "The Pick". Kramer goes to Calvin Klein to complain about "The Ocean," a fragrance they stole from him, and is asked to pose for a risqué underwear advertisement.

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