The BEST episodes of Seinfeld season 5
Every episode of Seinfeld season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Seinfeld season 5!
The "show about nothing" is a sitcom landmark, with comic Jerry and his three sardonic friends finding laughs in both the mundane and the ridiculous.
#1 - The Opposite
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/1994
George does the opposite and turns his life around.
#2 - The Hamptons
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/1994
Jerry and his friends take an ill-fated trip to the beach.
#3 - The Marine Biologist
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1994
Romance starts to blossom between George and his former college classmate Diane, after Jerry falsely tells her that George is a successful marine biologist. Meanwhile, Elaine's electronic organizer injures an innocent passerby when it is thrown out of the window of a moving limousine.
#4 - The Puffy Shirt
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1993
Jerry is coerced into wearing a ridiculous "puffy" shirt designed by Kramer's girlfriend when he appears on the NBC News' "Today" with Bryant Gumbel.
#5 - The Barber
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1993
Jerry frets over leaving his incompetent barber; George gets a job.
#6 - The Cigar Store Indian
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1993
Elaine's Native American friend Winona thinks Jerry is racially insensitive when he presents Elaine with a cigar-store Indian statue as a peace offering after not driving her home from George's place.
#7 - The Stall
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1994
Elaine agonizes over a woman's refusal to pass her some toilet tissue when she finds that her restroom stall is lacking. Meanwhile, Kramer convinces Jerry that his girlfriend Jane makes a living telling phone secrets, and George acts giddy around Elaine's new hunky boyfriend.
#8 - The Fire
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/1994
George panics during a fire at his girlfriend's son's birthday party and bolts for an escape route, while Kramer's girlfriend has a heckling laugh that threatens to ruin Jerry's act at a comedy club.
#9 - The Mango
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1993
Jerry learns an uncomfortable secret about his romance with Elaine.
#10 - The Non-Fat Yogurt
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1993
Jerry and Elaine question Kramer's claim about a non-fat yogurt.
#11 - The Sniffing Accountant
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1993
Worried about their investments, Jerry, Kramer and Newman search for clues to determine if their accountant's unexplained sniffle could be related to something he may have snorted.
#12 - The Pie
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1994
Jerry obsessively worries when he takes his date to a restaurant famous for their apple pie and she refuses to eat a piece; meanwhile, Elaine discovers that a mannequin resembling her has been showing up in quite a few window displays.
#13 - The Bris
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1993
Jerry and Elaine agree to be godparents to a couple's newborn boy, but they're apprehensive about the duties they must perform at the baby's first religious ceremony.
#14 - The Lip Reader
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1993
George tries to capitalize on Jerry's date with a deaf woman.
#15 - The Conversion
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1993
In the name of love, George goes through the process of converting to the Latvian Orthodox religion.
#16 - The Dinner Party
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1994
En route to a dinner party, Elaine and Jerry pair off to find a perfect dessert, while Kramer and George search for the right wine -- only nothing seems to work out the way they planned.
#17 - The Raincoats (Part 1)
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/28/1994
Jerry's parents are staying with him while they wait to take their trip to Paris and he's just returned from three weeks on the road can't get anytime alone with his girlfriend. George tries to get out of the big brother program, just after he gets talked into it. The Seinfelds avoid the Costanza's dinner invitation. Elaine's latest boyfriend, who's a "close talker," becomes unusually fixated on Jerry's parents and shows them New York City. Kramer makes a deal with Jerry's father to sell belt-less raincoats to a secondhand shop and George sells his father's moth-ridden cabana style clothing, right before they plan a cruise.
#18 - The Masseuse
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1993
Jerry yearns for a massage from his new girlfriend; Elaine worries about her new boyfriend's name.
#19 - The Raincoats (Part 2)
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/1994
Jerry and his girlfriend get some time alone with each other at a movie, Schindler's List, they don't see it; however, Newman sees it and them. A delay in the shipment of the raincoats will make the Seinfelds miss their flight to France, George uses this as an opportunity to get his "little" brother back to his father. The Seinfelds manage to avoid meeting the Costanzas in New York City.
#20 - The Stand-In
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/1994
When Kramer is hired as a stand-in on a soap opera, he befriends a "little person." But his advice on how to look taller doesn't sit well with the midget's other friends. Elsewhere, George is ready to break up with his girlfriend until he discovers that she's being urged to call it quits with him.
#21 - The Glasses
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1993
George's stolen glasses set off a bizarre chain of events.
#22 - The Wife
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/17/1994
Jerry let his girlfriend pose as his wife so that she can receive his dry-cleaning discount. But the scam backfires when his family learns of his "marriage" and Meryl discovers some unexpected items in Jerry's laundry. Elsewhere, a guy at the health club whom Elaine wants to date has some damaging information about George.