# Favorite Seinfeld episode **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816 "2000-01-16T21:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/1 "2000-01-16T21:50:00Z")
Try the pie.No! ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/2 "2000-01-16T22:00:00Z")
Who can abstain the longest… sounds like a SD chat topic LOL * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/3 "2000-01-16T22:50:00Z")
i just recently saw the one with Elaine dancing so I have to say that was one of the best. I also liked the one where everyone was dragging her to see “The English Patient” and she yelled “Will you shut up and DIE already?!?!?” * * * Sarcasm detector? Oh, THAT’S a real useful invention! ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/4 "2000-01-16T23:02:00Z")
No soup for you! and It’s shrinkage I tell you - shrinkage. There are so many classic Seinfeld’s it’s really hard to pin down a favorite. However, that one that went backwards has to win the “worst show ever made in the history of TV” award. ---
**Author:** ![dekayx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@dekayx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dekayx)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/5 "2000-01-17T02:07:00Z")
so many episodes are true classics- hard to beat Keith Hernandez and the magic loogie… esp since Wayne Knight was in JFK… ---
**Author:** ![melanietarrant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@melanietarrant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melanietarrant)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/6 "2000-01-17T02:12:00Z")
i was a chef for a while. i actually had quite a few people come everyday just for my soup. and one of the waiters thought he was hillarious nicknaming me the soup nazi. * * * I’m pink therefore I’m Spam ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/7 "2000-01-17T02:13:00Z")
The contest, hands down. (No pun intended!) I also liked the episode where Elaine tells Jerry that she faked her orgasms and he’s begging for a new chance. ---
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/8 "2000-01-17T02:22:00Z")
I’d have to say the “man hands” episode! Whenever I think of the screen shot of Jerry’s GF cracking open the lobster, I can’t stop laughing! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dekayx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@dekayx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dekayx)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/9 "2000-01-17T02:28:00Z")
how about George running out of the bathroom shouting “Vandelay Industries” ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/10 "2000-01-17T02:31:00Z")
I gotta go with the Contest. Are you master of your domain? There are so many good ones that everytime I see a good rerun I think thats the “best” one, so its kinda hard to pick just one. I always loved the Soup Nazi, and the one series where Kramer goes to LA is pretty funny. And anything which has Jackie Childs in it is certain to make me laugh. “I can do anything, I’m Keith Hernandez” ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/11 "2000-01-17T03:15:00Z")
The puffy shirt episode. And the one where Jerry mugs an old lady to get the last loaf of marble rye to give to George. I have never seen “The Contest”, I heard the television stations are never ever going to re-run it, either. ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/12 "2000-01-17T03:42:00Z")
Is anyone here a marine biologist? ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/13 "2000-01-17T03:47:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I have never seen “The Contest”, I heard the television stations are never ever going to re-run it, either. You’re thinking of the infamous episode where Kramer inadvertently burns a Puerto Rican flag, thus incensing many Puerto Rican viewers. It wasn’t one of the better Seinfeld episodes though I did chuckle at the scene where Kramer looks upon a Puerto Rican Day Parade riot and sighs wistfully, “It’s like this every day in Puerto Rico.” * * * “My hovercraft is full of eels.” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/14 "2000-01-17T03:56:00Z")
“The Boyfriend” -better known as "The Keith Hernandez/JFK episode. This is also the episode where George says, “Say Vandelay Industries!” “The Junior Mints” - better known as the one where Jerry doesn’t know his girlfriend’s name. “Mulva?” “The Soup Nazi” 'Nuff said. “The Airport,” and the following episode, “The Pick.” Both have the same beautiful model. ## Oh…I could go on, but I’d end up naming 50 episodes. “Life is hard…but God is good” ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/15 "2000-01-17T04:01:00Z")
Kramer’s talk show - when he salvaged Merv Griffin’s set. There was so much going on: George running through the park, kicking pigeons - “We had a DEAL!” . Jerry drugging his girlfriend with turkey and red wine so he could play with her vintage toys. Elaine and her “sidler” co-worker and the Tic-Tacs. Kramer and Newman with Jim Fowler - “Where are the cameras?” They were all good - just reading through this thread and recalling the episodes mentioned makes me laugh out loud. And so many good of lines. “Maybe the dingo ate your baby.” “These pretzels are making me thirsty!” “Serenity Now!” “Festivus for the rest of us!” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/16 "2000-01-17T04:02:00Z")
> [@](#): > > ## quote: > > ## I have never seen “The Contest”, I heard the television stations are never ever going to re-run it, either. > > You’re thinking of the infamous episode where Kramer inadvertently burns a Puerto Rican flag No, “The Contest” appears in either season 4, or 5, the greatest of all Seinfeld seasons. “The Puerto Rican Day” is episode 167 (I believe), and it’s not until season 9. Yes, I know WAY too much about Seinfeld. Adam ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/17 "2000-01-17T04:52:00Z")
Marine Biologist gave me my favorite line from a Seinfeld, George explaining to the gang at the diner what happened at the beach and beginning with, “The sea was angry that day, my friends … like an old man sending back soup at a deli.” I think I have to go with Soup Nazi. Strong honorable mentions to The Puffy Shirt (featuring ‘The Low-Talker’), and Master of Your Domain. * * * “In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” - Ecclesiastes 1:18 ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/18 "2000-01-17T04:54:00Z")
“Bubble Boy” was a great one, too. ---
**Author:** ![tenspeedjohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenspeedjohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenspeedjohn)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/19 "2000-01-17T10:50:00Z")
Elaine: The dingo’s ate your baby. George digs up a pothole to get his “holy cow” key chain back. Kramer maintains a strech of highway. * * * Not so fast, you mucko! ---
**Author:** ![Lemmon2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lemmon2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemmon2000)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816/20 "2000-01-17T11:54:00Z")
Jerry’s girlfriend who’s name rhymed with part of the female anatomy. Delores… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-seinfeld-episode/12816.md?page=2)