I was watching that rerun, but was interrupted. Did Kramer ever get his bizarre idea realized 9a coffe table book about coffee tables)? How much did he make off it?
I think it was published but they canceled his publicity tour after the debacle on the Regis and Kathy Lee show.
Short answer: no.
Long answer: in a later episode, the publishing company president (who was Elaine’s boss at the time) committed an unintentional faux pas with some visiting Japanese businessmen who had just bought the company. He had a cold and, having no handkerchief or Kleenex, sneezed into his hands. The Japanese group (which spoke no English) then approached him and held out their hands to shake his. He deferred motioning that he had cold germs. The Japenese–thinking he was referring to them having germs–took this as an insult and had him fired. Since he was the person who OK’d Kramer’s “Coffee table” book, the project was canceled and Elaine was canned because she was assigned to oversee it.
In a later episode, Kramer discovers his coffee-table book in Barnes & Noble’s “Remaindered Books” section.
Elaine could’ve prevented the faux pas since her boss left his handkerchief in her office, but her mouth was full of Jujyfruits (left over from when she bought them at the movie theater before leaving to visit her date in the hospital) and she couldn’t say a word.
This episode (where George is Mr. Opposite and gets his Yankee dream job) is my favorite from the entire *Seinfeld *series.
Not published, but produced. IIRC, it ended up being turned into a movie.
Can’t you see what’s happened? I’ve become George!
Don’t say that.
It’s true. I’m George! I’m George!
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Yes, that was the episode where Jerry observed that on the rare occasion when things went right for George, they would have to go badly for Elaine. (Jerry also said things always evened out for him personally and I’m not sure if he ever factored Kramer into the equation. I was kind of hoping that would be reflected in how things turned out for the characters in the final episode but, alas, that was not to be.)
I agree it must’ve been published as why would he go on Regis and Kathy Lee to promote a non-published work.
All that was suggested was that Kramer not do any more publicity for it.
I will buy you a new keyboard!
He wasn’t fired. The Japanese hadn’t bought the company yet, and he said that without the merger that the company would go under. So they decided not to buy, and the company got shut down.
So I think it was published (since it was picked up for a movie later), but only so many went out before the company shut down.
I refuse to believe that the final episode ever happened. Such a let-down in almost every way.
Yes, the very last line of the series should be “Somebody remember where we parked.” from the Puerto Rican Day Parade.
And I’ll say it again: Kramer and Newman should’ve gotten their own show.
I hope you’re not thinking about that Michigan bottle scam again.
“Newman, you beautiful bastard, you’ve done it!!!”
Thanks, it’s been awhile since I saw the episode so I forgot about that detail (which actually makes more sense than what I thought).
yeah… he definitely showed up with a copy of a book on the Regis and Kathy Lee show… Remember, it had little legs that you could fold out to make your coffee table book a coffee table itself.
Yep. “I told you that guy’s bonkos!”
The banter between Kathy Lee and Regis is priceless in that episode. They talk about him like two old aunts at a holiday gathering. I never paid attention to them until watching it for about the 100th time.
The last episode could have worked, but they had it backwards. That guy who they got arrested for not helping? That was the best thing that ever happened to him. All the old guest stars at the trial should have been witnesses for the defense, not the prosecution, describing how Jerry’s (et al) attempts to help them had screwed up their lives.