Storylines: Elaine wants to use Jerry’s apartment to host a baby shower for a woman who once went on a date with George. On this date, George gets chocolate syrup spilled on him with no apology from her. Jerry runs into a girl with whom he once went on a date, but he never called her back. Kramer convinces Jerry to install illegal cable.
Personal Take: The baby shower and the illegal cable aren’t exactly exciting storylines. But they’re made exciting with some great directing. One of the coolest, rather unique scenes in the show is when Jerry’s dreaming about getting caught for using illegal cable. The FBI busts him, but Jerry decides to make a run for it. All of a sudden, the show goes 80s-gangster-movie/Quentin Tarantino by going in slow motion as Jerry gets taken down in a shootout. Stuff like this was practically cutting edge for its time, and really was one of the first of many scenes to explore and try crazy things on the set.
Gaps in Society: In the dating world, there are just some occasions when it’s obviously not going to work out. But because neither person is all that familiar with each other, it’s hard to be truthful, even blunt, about the situation. Most people tend to be too polite and just say things like “See you around,” an example Jerry gives, or “I’ll give you a call sometime,” which Jerry actually did to a girl in this episode. With that said, it’s understandable why someone would be hesitant to just come out and say “I don’t think we’re right for each other,” or “I don’t think I want to pursue this relationship.” Instead, one person will just hope the other will read between the lines when he/she says “I’ll give you a call sometimes,” which really translate into “I don’t want to see or talk to you again.” Why do we make things so complicated for ourselves?!
Jerry’s bits: He opens with how men just flip through channels, while women will stop and see what a show is before going on because men hunt and women nest. He also said that kings, emperors, pharaohs and such had multiple storytellers so he could still flip back and forth. His last bit is about trying to figure out what to say to someone you know you’ll never want to see in your life ever again. “Take care now,” he says. “Take off, isn’t that what you really want to say? ‘Take off now. Get out of here’.”
Best Lines:
Jerry: I’m not getting illegal cable.
Kramer: The Mets have 75 games on cable this season.
Jerry: Put it in.
Kramer: Let me go get him. It’s the 90s, man. It’s Hammer time.
Tidbits: Jerry quotes makes reference to a Robert Frost piece when he says “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason….The actress who plays Leslie, the woman who the baby shower was for, returns to play the saleswoman in “The Pie.”…This episode is the first in the series to connect all four characters’ stories at the end.
Running jokes/references/connections: This episode has the first of several references to the Kennedys….There’s another reference to Elaine’s roommate….Jerry mentions how George making an airport run is a big deal, a topic of discussion with none other than Keith Hernandez in “The Boyfriend.”…George mentions that his shirt is covered in bosco, the chocolate syrup he uses for his bank code in “The Code.”…Elaine says she once saw John Kennedy Jr. while on a bus. She wanted to get off, but the bus didn’t stop. It’s okay, because Elaine later sees him in “The Contest.”…This episode makes the second reference to Jerry’s affection for the Mets, the first being in “The Seinfeld Chronicles."
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