# How many times did the characters on Seinfeld get arrested or convicted **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-did-the-characters-on-seinfeld-get-arrested-or-convicted/695170 "2014-08-09T15:27:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-did-the-characters-on-seinfeld-get-arrested-or-convicted/695170/21 "2014-08-10T20:02:32Z")
Did George get arrested for public indecency after wearing his nude suit and running into a Yankees game? ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-did-the-characters-on-seinfeld-get-arrested-or-convicted/695170/22 "2014-08-10T21:01:58Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Did George get arrested for public indecency after wearing his nude suit and running into a Yankees game? Didn’t sound like it… _KOREN (O.C.): Alright, Yankees, two. Orioles, nothing. Wait a minute! A short stocky bald man is streaking across the field. JERRY: Oh my God, George! KOREN (O.C.): Check that. He’s not streaking. He’s wearing a flesh-tone body-stocking. Apparently, he’s a bit bashful, and oddly, no-one seems upset._ And later, he’s seen on a pay phone inside Yankee Stadium having this conversation: _George is at a public telephone, wearing the flesh-tone body-stocking and looking thoroughly dejected. GEORGE: Jerry. I can’t get fired. A passing fan spots him. FAN: Hey, body-suit man. 's up? He slaps palms with George, who doesn’t look especially pleased by the attention. The fan points out George to more fans. FAN: (pointing) Hey, body-suit man! The fans gather round, making positive noises. George looks resigned to his minor celebrity._ ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-did-the-characters-on-seinfeld-get-arrested-or-convicted/695170/23 "2014-08-11T04:26:43Z")
did George and Jerry actually get arrested for urinating in the parking garage or just mall security ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-did-the-characters-on-seinfeld-get-arrested-or-convicted/695170/24 "2014-08-11T15:44:48Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > Nope, that was the back-up from a traveling production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, provided by its costume designer, Charmaine. Ah, you’re right! I got my pimp coats mixed up! ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-did-the-characters-on-seinfeld-get-arrested-or-convicted/695170/25 "2014-08-11T16:35:15Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I was never a viewer of another long-running, set-in-NYC show: _Friends_. I wonder if the rate of ‘arrest’ storylines in that show is comparable? i don’t recall any friends arrests… closest I recall was Phoebe when she found the cops badge. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-did-the-characters-on-seinfeld-get-arrested-or-convicted/695170/26 "2014-08-11T16:57:03Z")
Jerry was caught speeding but the cute blonde got him out of the ticket. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-did-the-characters-on-seinfeld-get-arrested-or-convicted/695170/27 "2014-08-11T18:31:19Z")
> [@simster](#): > > i don’t recall any friends arrests… closest I recall was Phoebe when she found the cops badge. Interesting. Both shows are comedies concerning groups of single friends living in New York City, but one has many stories that feature “brushes with the law,” while the other (from your recollection) has, basically, none. The shows were making different points and coming from different philosophies, I guess, but it’s still an odd disparity. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-did-the-characters-on-seinfeld-get-arrested-or-convicted/695170/28 "2014-08-11T18:33:38Z")
Well, he characters on _Seinfeld_ were mostly high-functioning sociopaths, so that might figure into it. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-did-the-characters-on-seinfeld-get-arrested-or-convicted/695170/29 "2014-08-11T18:55:57Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Well, he characters on _Seinfeld_ were mostly high-functioning sociopaths, so that might figure into it. Good point. The Seinfeld stories tended to be about People Behaving Badly, whereas I gather that the Friends stories were more about True Love Matches and the rocky road to arriving at them. Which wouldn’t lend itself to urinating in parking garages, so much. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-did-the-characters-on-seinfeld-get-arrested-or-convicted/695170/30 "2014-08-11T22:09:39Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Well, he characters on _Seinfeld_ were mostly high-functioning sociopaths, so that might figure into it. Yup. I don’t know about sociopaths, but self centered narcissists. The characters on friends didn’t really have those personality traits. Part of why I asked this OP is because I can’t think of a lot of shows where the characters got arrested multiple times over an 9 year period where the characters weren’t being overtly portrayed as criminals. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-did-the-characters-on-seinfeld-get-arrested-or-convicted/695170.md?page=1)