The WORST episodes of Seinfeld
Every episode of Seinfeld ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Seinfeld!
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 Bottle Deposit (Part 2)
Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1992
Wilhelm is delighted with the job George did on the project; however, he has no idea what he did or how he did it. The detective on the case thinks he's found Jerry's car, damaged beyond recognition. It's not, and later Jerry's mechanic calls him from the car. Kramer spots Jerry's car in Ohio. Steinbrenner calls George into his office about the project report and has him committed. Kramer ditches the cans, bottles, mailbags and Newman in pursuit of Jerry's car. Newman finds a farmer's house, complete with the proverbial daughter. The mechanic throws the clubs and bag at Kramer's truck, allowing him to get away. Deena is happy to see that George is getting the help he needs. Peterman is stunned when he finally gets the clubs, "Elaine, I never knew Kennedy had such a temper."
#2 - The Highlights of 100 (Part 2)
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/1995
A special one-hour Seinfeld looks back at the first one hundred shows.
#3 - The Seinfeld Chronicles
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/5/1989
Jerry is ecstatic that a woman he met on the road is coming to stay with him in New York, but his flabbergasted when he discovers she's engaged to be married.
#4 - The Bookstore
Season 9 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/9/1998
A bookstore busts Uncle Leo for shoplifting and George for bathroom reading; a misdeed at a company party costs Elaine; Kramer and Newman get a rickshaw, and audition homeless people to pull it.
#5 - The Stake Out
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/31/1990
Jerry and his ex-girlfriend Elaine discover the true meaning of friendship when Jerry decides to pursue romance with a gorgeous friend of Elaine's.
#6 - The Bottle Deposit (Part 1)
Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/2/1996
George doesn't hear the details on an important project that Wilhelm wants him to champion. Peterman wants Elaine to bid on a set of golf clubs at the Kennedy auction, her ceiling is $10,000; however, she gets into a bidding war with Sue Ellen, the Oh Henry! candy heiress. Consequently, she spends a bit more than she was authorized. Newman finds the missing ingredient to make it cost effective in Kramer's scheme to collect used pop bottles and cans and take them to Michigan where the refund is doubled. Jerry takes his car to a mechanic, who's fanatical about car care. Elaine meets Jerry to get the golf clubs out of his car, but the mechanic, distraught over Jerry's negligence, steals it. Kramer and Newman collect their bottles and cans and hit the road in a mail truck.
#7 - The Trip (1)
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/12/1992
When Jerry is booked to appear on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," he takes George with him to Los Angeles to search for Kramer -- who vanished in a huff months earlier only to pop up inexplicably on TV in an episode of "Murphy Brown." George and Jerry are unaware that their wayward friend is in trouble as a victim of mistaken identity. Meanwhile, George bothers every celebrity he encounters.
#8 - The Cadillac (Part 2)
Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/1996
Kramer continues to play with the cable guy. George's obsession with Marisa makes Susan suspicious. Elaine calls Jerry in Florida and tells him she wants to come and join him. Elaine gets George Marisa's phone number and now he needs her for an alibi (which involves her "boyfriend" Art Vandelay, an importer/ exporter). Morty's ace in the hole, to keep him from impeachment, is the woman that Jerry stole the marble rye from, only she doesn't remember him, at least at first. The cable guy zeros in on Kramer, but he gets away. George's meeting with Marisa doesn't go as well as planned and Susan thinks he's having an affair with Elaine. The cable guy concedes defeat.
#9 - The Robbery
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/7/1990
When Jerry's apartment is broken into, George persuades him to look at a new one. But the decision to move sets off an unhappy chain of events as Elaine wants to rent Jerry's old place, and George really wants his new one.
#10 - The Cartoon
Season 9 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/1998
An actress turns Jerry's criticism into a one-woman show; Kramer stops talking after offending George; Elaine struggles to understand a cartoon in The New Yorker.
#11 - The Couch
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1994
Jerry's new couch gets Elaine a new boyfriend.
#12 - The Phone Message
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/13/1991
After mustering enough courage to call a girl for a second date, George repeatedly gets her answering machine then blurts out a nasty message. Regretting it later, he talks Jerry into helping get rid of the message before it can be heard.
#13 - The Busboy
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/26/1991
George feels guilty for inadvertently getting a busboy fired from his job and then tries to make it up to him. Meanwhile, Elaine spends the week with an old boyfriend who is visiting her from out of town.
#14 - 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.
#15 - The Opera
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/1992
A simple night out turns into a nightmare when Jerry meets Elaine at the opera -- unaware that her new boyfriend is "Crazy Joe Davola," the maniac who's been stalking him and vowing revenge for some imagined slight.
#16 - Male Unbonding
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/14/1990
Jerry finds that trying to end a friendship with Joel, a guy he's known and disliked for years, is harder than breaking up with a woman.
#17 - The Friars Club
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/7/1996
Jerry's relationship with Susan's best friend is impaired by a missing jacket.
#18 - The Fatigues
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1996
Elaine's promotion of a mail room clerk sparks a mutiny; Jerry discovers his girlfriend's mentor is dating Bania; Kramer brings Frank out of retirement to cook.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Glasses
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1993
George's stolen glasses set off a bizarre chain of events.
#22 - The Label Maker
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/1995
A pair of Super Bowl tickets circulates among Jerry and his friends.
#23 - The Jacket
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/6/1991
While shopping with Elaine, Jerry discovers a suede jacket that is totally irresistible in spite of its hefty price tag. After buying the jacket, Jerry learns an age-old truth: Clothes don't make the man.
#24 - The Dog
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1991
Jerry is stuck at home when he gets roped into dog-sitting a rambunctious hound. Without Jerry around, George and Elaine find they have little in common. Meanwhile, Kramer insists it's the absolute end for him and his girlfriend and that he's going to end the relationship.
#25 - The Handicap Spot
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/1993
Jerry and George narrowly avoid a public stoning after George parks his father's car in a handicapped spot -- inciting an angry mob to trash the vehicle when a disabled woman is injured as a result of the illegal parking. And while George's unsuspecting father is mistakenly arrested for the interaction, George and Kramer shop for an electric wheelchair to give to the recuperating victim.