Who was your favorite boyfriend for Elaine? My personal favorite was David Puddy, the “dumb mechanic” (played brilliantly by Patrick Warburton, who later starred as “The Tick”).
Also – does any one think she would have been better off reunited with Jerry? If they ever got back together as a couple (on a permanent basis, not a one-episode fling/sexcapade!), it just might have killed the show. But, do you picture them eventually getting married?
I could see Elaine and Jerry getting married after they get out of jail, but it would have ruined the show.
Puddy was one of my favorite characters, along with J. Peterman.
Another vote for Puddy, especially when it turned out he was religious:
Elaine: Oh. So, you’re pretty religious?
Puddy: That’s right.
Elaine: So is it a problem that I’m not really religious?
Puddy: Not for me.
Elaine: Why not?
Puddy: I’m not the one going to hell.
I liked Puddy [“High five”] but it’s had to see the show working if any of the characters had gotten married.
I guess I could see Jerry and Elaine sort of ending up married but I don’t see them getting too intense or romantic about it. Funny, but I can picture them winding up married more easily than I can picture either of them using the L-word.
I can get that - married against their will, for some circumstances where not being married was only slightly worse than not ending up married. Then seethingly resentful afterwards. That would have worked.
(God I miss Seinfeld.)
Bugger. That should have read: “not being married was only slightly worse than ending up married”.
Just a bit of a hijack…
Watching the show in reruns I am shocked at the casting… the people look like real people. Sure George got some way too hot for him girls at different points but he also dated some pretty average girls… Not even TV pretty… just normal looking actresses…same with the guys. For every “They’re real and spectacular” Teri Hatcher, Jerry had a plain jane he was involved with.
Its really shocking watching early episodes of Friends for the same reason… you see some of the romantic interests and you jsut marvel at how the show became just a vehicle for fashion and beauty.
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Totally Puddy.
I only caught part of the episode and didn’t get the guys name but Elaine was dating this guy that seemed totally perfect. He cooked, he cleaned, was sweet and affectionate, good looking, took excellent phone messages, etc.
Well it was the phone message that broke them up. He didn’t use an ! in a message about a friend of hers having a baby.
And in typical shallow Seinfeld fashion she left him over that.
George did get married — to Susan. And I thought it mostly worked as a source of humor, because it gave George new sources of unhappiness.
Susan dies later on of course, like so many of us do, from ingesting cheap, toxic envelope glue.
George did NOT get married. Susan died licking the envelopes of the wedding invitations.
Ah you’re right. So close, so close, and yet it was not to be.
That would be Jake Jarmel.
Personally, I think she should have gone out with Crazy Joe Davola a few more times.
For some reason, the marriage of Jerry and Elaine immediately triggered me thinking about the end of Animal House, where the fates of the main characters were revealed:
Boone and Katie – Married, 1964
Divorced, 1966
I liked The Maestro as well.
What about the legendary Todd Gack? You know, the guy who kept making ridiculous bets with Elaine that involved him buying her dinner if he lost.
Dustin Hoffman? Yeah, he was in Star Wars!
Puddy is the best. But how about that Joel “Little Stuart likes to go shopping with his mother” Rifkin? And they only had one date, but the guy who took it out might count…
What was the name of the boyfriend who was a furniture designer and was obsessed with the work of Karl Farbman and The Eagles’ “Desperado?”
Also, the one who had the mattress specially designed for Elaine - from the Lumbar Yard?
Obviously I’m a Puddy fan, but these guys were pretty good as well.
In the 25th anniversary edition of Animal House, a new documentary feature showed what the characters have been doing since the movie’s release. It revealed the Boone and Katie were married and divorced three times.
And Senator Blutarski was elected President.
Puddy was the best, and my favorite Puddy episode was “The Devil.”
Of course Elaine and Jerry eventually got married – and she faked it happily ever after!