# A Seinfeld question -- Elaine and her boyfriends **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 1, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108 "2006-09-01T19:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/1 "2006-09-01T19:22:00Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/2 "2006-09-01T19:24:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/3 "2006-09-01T19:26:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/4 "2006-09-01T19:38:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/5 "2006-09-01T19:40:32Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] 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. [/QUOTE] 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.) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/6 "2006-09-01T19:41:57Z")
Bugger. That should have read: “not being married was only slightly worse than ending up married”. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/7 "2006-09-01T19:43:34Z")
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. end of hijack- Totally Puddy. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/8 "2006-09-01T19:53:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/9 "2006-09-01T20:19:53Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] . . . but it’s [hard] to see the show working if _any_ of the characters had gotten married. [/quote] 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. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/10 "2006-09-01T20:24:00Z")
George did NOT get married. Susan died licking the envelopes of the wedding invitations. ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/11 "2006-09-01T20:50:18Z")
[QUOTE=xizor] George did NOT get married. Susan died licking the envelopes of the wedding invitations. [/QUOTE] Ah you’re right. So close, so close, and yet it was not to be. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/12 "2006-09-01T21:12:00Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] 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. [/QUOTE] That would be Jake Jarmel. Personally, I think she should have gone out with Crazy Joe Davola a few more times. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/13 "2006-09-01T21:57:52Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/14 "2006-09-01T23:15:04Z")
I liked The Maestro as well. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/15 "2006-09-02T03:07:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/16 "2006-09-02T03:14:13Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] 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. [/QUOTE] Dustin Hoffman? Yeah, he was in _Star Wars!_ ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/17 "2006-09-02T03:19:07Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/18 "2006-09-02T03:49:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/19 "2006-09-02T04:00:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Boone and Katie – Married, 1964 > > Divorced, 1966 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. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108/20 "2006-09-02T07:07:52Z")
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! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seinfeld-question-elaine-and-her-boyfriends/371108.md?page=2)