Season One

Good News, Bad News
gs: Lee Garlington (Claire) Pamela Brull (Laura)

A girl Jerry met on the road wants to stay with him when she comes to New York. George thinks that she is just using Jerry as contingency plan. Hoffman (Kramer)
comes by to borrow a couple of pieces of meat. The girl calls and asks Jerry if she can stay at his apartment for the night, when she arrives she asks to stay for another
night. Jerry is disappointed when everything is going his way until he finds out she is engaged.

b: 05-Jul-1989 pc: 101 w: Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld d: Art Wolff

# NOTE: In this episode, Jerry refers to Kramer as Kessler, because we later learn in "The Betrayal" this was the name on the buzzer for Kramer's apartment. This
also discounts the fact that Kramer has sublet the apartment from Paul Buchman from Mad About You in an episode of that series that aired after "The Virgin." I
suppose that Buchman could have sublet the apartment to someone named Kessler before Kramer had moved in. As strange as Kramer can be, perhaps he thought it
best to not let anyone know he lived there and never changed the name. In the first scene of this episode, Jerry comments George about the button on his shirt. He
repeats this same comment in the last scene of the last episode! [Editor's Note: Yes, as I mention in the description of the final episode.]
# In this episode, the coffee shop Jerry and George go to is not Monk's. The exterior shot reads "Pete's".
# When this episode first aired, the series was known as "The Seinfeld Chronicles".
# Lee Garlington (Claire) was supposed to be part of the original cast, as the friendly waitress who gave advice to the boys about their daily lives (hence why she was in
the opening credits, and not Pamela Brull, who played a bigger role in this episode) but was dropped because she was considered boring.
# In the TV Guide entry for this episode, his character is credited as Hoffman. I assume that this is the way it appeared in the script somewhere along the way. There
were probably a number of name changes for this character, while Kenny Kramer was deciding whether or not his name could be used.
# In this episode, Kramer/Kessler's apartment door is not there. In its place is a picture. Also, Kramer/Kessler has a dog in this episode.
# Even in the pilot episode, there is a Superman reference. When Jerry sits down to watch TV, he is wearing a bright blue pair of sweatpants, and a bright red
sweatshirt.
# Didn't Kramer/Kessler also knock on Jerry's door in this episode?
# Check out Jerry's apartment in this episode! It's WAY different then it is in the other episodes! The walls are yellow, the kitchen cabinets are brown and are EMPTY!
In the other episodes, the walls and cabinets are blue and the cabinets are filled with kitchen stuff. Another thing I should point out is Jerry has NO bedroom! In this
episode all we see is a living room and a bathroom. In the other shows, Jerry has a bedroom and that and the bathroom are connected by a hallway which was also not
present in the first episode. (Brandon)
# The sweatpants are red and the sweatshirt is blue!
# In this episode, George advises Jerry that with women you should never go by your instincts, but always do the opposite. He admits not doing so himself, but later
follows this tactic to perfection in "The Opposite."
# Jerry had a different apartment in this episode.
# Pamela Brull played a character named Dr. Costanza in an episode of "Just The Ten Of Us" in 1988.
# On the Superman outfit, George is scene in a later episode, Summer of George, loafing in red sweatpants and blue t-shirt/sweatshirt.
# Maybe Jerrys sweatpants are orange (not red) and has blue shirt on. Jerry is watching the Mets game (Mets colors are orange & blue) and there is a Mets poster on
the wall behind the couch.
# The series does not have an opening credits sequence. Instead, the lead actor credits play out over a scene. Now commonplace in sitcoms and drama series, this was
considered a novelty in 1990 and sparked a debate over the future of opening credits in TV series.
# Julia Louis-Dreyfus does not appear in this episode.

2. The Stakeout
gs: Lynn Clark (Vanessa) Philip Bruns (Morty Seinfeld) Liz Sheridan (Helen Seinfeld) Maud Winchester (Pamela) William Fair (Roger) Ron Steelman (Artie Levine)
Joe George (Uncle Mac) Ellen Gerstein (Carol) Janet Rotblatt (Woman)

Elaine brings Jerry to a birthday party where he meets a woman who fascinates him. Jerry doesn't know her name and wants to meet her again, so on some advice from
his father, he and George stakeout the lobby of the building she works in.

b: 31-May-1990 pc: 103 w: Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: When this episode is shown in syndication, Phil Bruns still plays Jerry's dad (a role later assumed by Barney Martin). This is unlike George's dad, who was
played by one actor, replaced by Jerry Stiller, and footage was re-shot with Jerry taking over the original dad's part in "The Handicap Spot". Viewer Mike Greenhaus
reminds me that this is the first episode that George uses the name Art Vandelay. The name of Vandelay would be used again in "The Boyfriend" and many other
episodes. Another viewer, Jeremy DeMai, also notes that George first mentions his fetish for wanting to be an architect.
# Viewer Ross Raniere remembers that when this episode was rerun on NBC, Jerry and Julia come on in a bumper before the show started. Jerry mentions how many
episodes they've done so far, with Julia sitting next to him on the set's couch. He then said, "And this is the very first one we did." Jerry then says something about "the
chemistry" and just as the bumper was about to fade, he and Julia embraced each other as if they were going to kiss. This of course was the first episode that Jerry and
Julia had done together. Jerry discounted the Seinfeld Chronicles episode.
# This episode also referenced, for the first time, the business of Importer/Exporter. This was used several times during the series. The most notable one was when
George wanted to go out with Marisa Tomei. George and Elaine thought of an elaborate scheme to hide this from Susan. Susan thought George and Elaine were having
an affair. Rob David
# We learn Elaine's middle name is Marie.
# Starting with this episode, the series is retitled "Seinfeld."
# For part of this episode, Jerry is wearing a red shirt with blue jeans. Red and blue are the colours Superman wears, continuing the reference in every episode.
# The evolution of George's favorite alias "Art Vandelay" is as follows: George and Jerry try to invent the name of their "friend" whom they are saying that they are
meeting. First, George comes up with "Burt Harr...bin...son." "Burt Harbinson." Jerry says. "Sounds made up." George moves on to "Art Core." Jerry: "Art Core?"
George: "...velay." Jerry: "Corevelay?" Later, when the plan is closer to being put into action, George says that he wants to be Art Vandalay. Jerry reminds him that it is
Art Corevelay, but when the name is needed, George uses the last name Vandalay, and the alias is born.

3. The Robbery
gs: Anita Wise (Waitress) James F. Dean (Larry) Kimberly Kates (Diane) Bradford English (Cop) Kimberley Kates (Diane) David Blackwood (Man #1) George
Simms (Man #2)

While out of town Jerry's apartment gets robbed (Kramer left the door open); so he considers moving. However, the apartment that George shows him is also an
apartment that he wants, so they try to decide who will get it. Whoever wins, Elaine wants their apartment. Meanwhile, Kramer searches for the stolen property.

b: 07-Jun-1990 pc: 104 w: Matt Goldman d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Kyle Westphal notes that Jerry tells Elaine that is she needs to have sex while watching his apartment, do it in the tub. Later in "The English Patient", Elaine
says, "Sex in a tub, that doesn't work." Kathleen Tracy's book "Jerry Seinfeld" mentions that this is the first episode featuring Kramer's trademark "entrance" (Kramer
zooming into Jerry's apartment without warning). Kathleen states that this was an accident made by Michael Richards who was late on his cue of entering Jerry's
apartment, so Michael zoomed into Jerry's apartment to make up for lost time. Michael, playing Kramer, zooming into Jerry's apartment later became a habit, and later
became a trademark.

Jerry ponders a few courses of action when he sees that he no longer has anything in common with a clingy and obnoxious childhood friend. George has trouble with his
latest relationship. Kramer has the idea to open a chain of make-your-own-pizza parlors and is looking for investors.

b: 14-Jun-1990 pc: 102 w: Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: If you exclude the pilot and the 100th episode special, this is the only episode that doesn't have the word "the" as the first word of its title. In truth, Kramer's
idea for the make-your-own-pizzaria (excluding the actual patron sliding in the oven) is not that bad. I live about 20 minutes away from a place that does that, and they
have very successful business.
# The introduction of the "next Wednesday" concept, when Jerry invites Joel to the Knicks game on Wednesday. "Tonight?" Joel asks, "No, if I meant tongiht, I would
have SAID tonight." Concept later brought up on The Alternate Side (Season 3) when Sid leaves the keys in Jerry's car, with the result of it being stolen.

Jerry and George get some inside information that gives them hope for a new stock. Elaine has trouble with her boyfriend's cats. She's allergic to them. Jerry plans his
first weekend trip with Vanessa. George says they are "relationship killers." Kramer has an idea for a rollout tie dispenser and warns Jerry about the market. Jerry
becomes worried when the stock drops and they have trouble locating the broker who has information on when to sell their stock. They find out he's in the hospital. Jerry
confronts his dry cleaner about his shirt. Elaine considers the cat problem. Anxious Jerry sells; George plans to go down with the ship. Jerry's trip is a disaster, but the
stock turns okay for George.

b: 21-Jun-1990 pc: 105 w: Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: The same Asian man who runs the grocery store in which Jerry asks if they have a certain item in "puffs," in this episode is also the mailman in "The Cigar Store
Indian" that Jerry offends by asking where a chinese restaurant is. -David Johnson