# Your Favorite "Seinfeld" Episode?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 28, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301 "2010-07-28T12:30:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/1 "2010-07-28T12:30:47Z")
My all time favorite is the one where Kramer finds and rescuse the set of the old “Merve Griffin” TV show. He takes the stuff home and sets it up in his apartment, then interviews his “guests”.
Elaine: “Kramer, these chairs smell like garbage!”
Newman: “I’ve been buying the store brand of wax beans…they taste as good as the expensive ones”
Jack Hannah: “you isiot, squirrels are a hawk’s natural food!”
What’s yours?
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/2 "2010-07-28T12:59:42Z")
Two words
**MAN HANDS** 😃
Everything else pales in comparison
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/3 "2010-07-28T14:38:36Z")
Ugh. I can’t pick one, bu the Merv Griffin episode was great. Serenity Now?
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/4 "2010-07-28T14:46:41Z")
NO SOUP for YOU!
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/5 "2010-07-28T15:13:36Z")
I’m out.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/6 "2010-07-28T15:19:30Z")
I’ve been outed. I wasn’t even in!!
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### Author:  [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/7 "2010-07-28T15:20:31Z")
The Marine Biologist - it has the big payoff at the end.
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### Author:  [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/8 "2010-07-28T15:22:27Z")
The Fire.
“You made the stops?”
“They kept ringing the bell!”
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/9 "2010-07-28T15:31:43Z")
Festivus.
“Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be ANOTHER WAY!”
The Feats of Strength, the Airing of Grievances, it’s got it all.
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/10 "2010-07-28T15:32:38Z")
The Parking Garage.
“Unbelievable. I’m never gonna get outta here. Guy goes to pee, he never comes back. It’s like a science-fiction story.”
“There’s too much urinary freedom in this society.”
“Why do I always have the feeling everyone’s doing something better than me on Saturday afternoon?”
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/11 "2010-07-28T15:34:24Z")
The Bris. Between the twitchy mohel, George trying to get compensation from the hospital for a suicidal jumper landing on his car, and Kramer trying to hunt down the Pig Man, that episode has me in stitches from beginning to end.
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/12 "2010-07-28T15:59:31Z")
> [@unwashed\_brain](#):
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> The Marine Biologist - it has the big payoff at the end.
This one. “Dovetailing” became the show’s signature, but a lot of the time the technique was forced and/or predictable. This was neither.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/13 "2010-07-28T16:41:24Z")
These are all great. The best part of the marine biologist episode is George telling the whale story. Equally funny is the episode where Kramer recounts how he tried returning the severed toe by taking the bus. (The one that **StusBlues** mentioned.)
I think my favorite episode is the one where Elaine hates the woman who “can’t spare a square”, who turns out not only to be Jerry’s girlfriend but Kramer’s phone sex operator. And Elaine is dating a mimbo that George has a man-crush on.
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/14 "2010-07-28T17:02:21Z")
George Costanza: The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. I got about fifty feet out and suddenly the great beast appeared before me. I tell you he was ten stories high if he was a foot. As if sensing my presence, he let out a great bellow. I said, “Easy, big fella!” And then, as I watched him struggling, I realized that something was obstructing its breathing. From where I was standing, I could see directly into the eye of the great fish.
Jerry: Mammal.
George Costanza: Whatever.
Cosmo Kramer: Well, what did you do next?
George Costanza: Well then, from out of nowhere, a huge tidal wave lifted me, tossed me like a cork, and I found myself right on top of him - face to face with the blowhole. I could barely see from the waves crashing down upon me but I knew something was there. So I reached my hand in, felt around, and pulled out the obstruction.
[George reveals the obstruction to be a golf ball]
Cosmo Kramer: What is that, a Titleist?
[George nods]
Cosmo Kramer: Hole in one, huh?
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/15 "2010-07-28T17:17:50Z")
**The Opposite** , where George does everything 180-degrees differently than what his impulses tell him to do. Also, Elaine buys jujyfruits (with disastrous results) and Kramer appears on Regis & Kathie Lee.
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### Author:  [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/16 "2010-07-28T18:49:06Z")
_The Fire_ was actually the first Seinfeld episode I ever watched (I was too busy watching In Living Color over on FOX for the first couple seaons), so that still holds a warm place in my heart - George pushing down people to escape a tiny kitchen fire is what sold me on the show.
Overall, my favorite would have to be the trilogy of dinner party episodes (\*The Dinner Party, The Rye, and The Stranded \*) which I often mix up because they are 3 great episodes which all do basically the same thing – I crack up whenever I think about GORE-TEX, “I don’t drink wine, I drink PEPSI”, Beef-A-Rino, Saddam Hussein’s double parking, George with the fishing pole, and getting caught eating a pastry out of the garbage can (“so you said, what the hey, let’s eat some trash!”)
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### Author:  [@Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susanann)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/17 "2010-07-28T19:37:13Z")
The most intriguing, is the girl who ALWAYS wore the same black and white dress.
I am still waiting to find out why.
Did she have 20, 30, 40 of the exact same dress?
Did she only own 1 dress?
Why couldnt Jerry after the break-up have continued to hand around her home/neighborhood and then observe what she was wearing?
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### Author:  [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/18 "2010-07-28T19:55:45Z")
My favorite was the one where Kramer went to work in the office.
I looked it up - its called _The Bizarro Jerry_, and it contains this exchange:
> [@](#):
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> Kramer: “What did you want to see me about, Mr. Leland?”
> Mr. Leland: “Kramer, I’ve been reviewing your work. Quite frankly, it stinks.”
> Kramer: “Well, I’ve been having trouble at home and, uh, I’ll work harder. Nights, weekends, whatever it takes.”
> Mr. Leland:“No, no, I don’t think that’s going to do it. These reports you handed in, it’s almost as if you have no business training at all. I don’t know what this is supposed to be.”
> Kramer: “Well, I’m just trying to get ahead.”
> Mr. Leland:“I’m sorry, there’s just no way that we can keep you on.”
> Kramer: “I don’t even really work here.”
> Mr. Leland:“That’s what makes this so difficult.”
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### Author:  [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/19 "2010-07-28T20:09:57Z")
> [@fusoya](#):
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> I crack up whenever I think about GORE-TEX…
_Hey George, can you feel this?_
_WAP_ _WAP_ _WAP_ _WAP_
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### Author:  [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-seinfeld-episode/548301/20 "2010-07-28T20:10:26Z")
> [@Susanann](#):
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> Why couldnt Jerry after the break-up have continued to hand around her home/neighborhood and then observe what she was wearing?
Other than Elaine and his mother, I don’t think Jerry is particularly interested in women he’s not having sex with.
My favorite single episodes have already been mentioned, but I liked the whole arc that revolved around the series based on Jerry’s life.
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