Season Four

41. The Trip (1)
gs: Corbin Bernsen (Himself) George Wendt (Himself) Debi A. Monahan (Chelsea) Fred Savage (Himself) Peter Murnik (Lt. Martel) Elmarie Wendel (Helene) Debi A. Monaham (Chelsea) Ricky Dean Logan (The Freak) Vaughn Armstrong (Lt. Coleman) Keith Morrison (Himself) Manfred Melcher (Officer) Christopher Michael Moore (Studio Guard) Dyana Ortelli (Lupe) Michael Gerard (Recepcionist)

With Elaine in Europe, Jerry asks George to accompany him on a trip to LA and The Tonight Show; while there they will try to locate Kramer. While auditioning, Kramer must deal with the advances of an older female landlord (an actress who hasn't worked since 1934) and get someone in Hollywood to read his script treatment. A body is discovered; the victim, a young woman, was strangled. Kramer meets a woman at an audition and he gives her a copy of his script. Jerry loses the correct phrasing for some new jokes and George tries to get Lupe, the chambermaid, to make his bed just right. At The Tonight Show, George disturbs the guests and Jerry bombs. The woman Kramer gave the script to is strangled and his script is found in her possession. Kramer's face is shown on the news as the prime suspect for the "Smog Strangler," a serial-killer.

b: 12-Aug-1992 pc: 401 w: Larry Charles d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: The Trip (1) and (2) are the first episodes since the pilot without Elaine Benes. Elaine is not even mentioned in the episode.

Jerry and George try to contact the police to tell them Kramer is innocent. Kramer still doesn't know he's wanted. Jerry and George get a ride in a police car and while en route the officers pick up a possible 519. The 519 suspect is put in the back of the car with George and Jerry and they ask him tipping advice. Then all units are called in on Kramer's building, Jerry and George leave the police car door open and the 519 suspect escapes. While Kramer is in for questioning, another victim is found. He is let go and Jerry and George want to know what he is going to do, he is going to stay in LA. Jerry and George are back in New York and Kramer turns up like nothings changed.

b: 19-Aug-1992 pc: 402 w: Larry Charles d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: The remaining episodes in this season have a loose, but interconnecting thread, and should be viewed in order. Of course when syndicated the episodes are shown in anything but a logical order. Marty Rackham will reappear as Elaine's exclamation point avoiding boyfriend, Jake Jarmel, in "The Sniffing Accountant". He will return as Jake in two more episodes. In part one of this two parter, George's bed is the one on the right, which he asks Lupe the chambermaid for a "no tuck". In this part, George ends up sleeping on the bed on the left, which is "tucked" and Jerry is on George's "no tuck" bed. Contributor "iamthewinter" asks, why would they switch beds? Also, this causes George to lose the bet over who has to tip the maid, which he forgets to do anyway.
# Viewer Jeff Holland notes that the hotel the Kramer stays in, is the same one that Julia Roberts stays at in "Pretty Woman".
# The reason why Elaine was in Europe is because of Julia's off-screen pregnancy with her first child, and eventual maternity leave afterwards.

NBC executives ask Jerry to come up with an idea for a TV series. George decides he can be a sitcom writer and comes up with "nothing." Kramer trades a radar detector for a helmet, later Newman gets a speeding ticket. While waiting to meet the NBC executives, George and Jerry meet Joe Davola, a writer and "a total nut" who goes to the same shrink as Elaine. Jerry searching for conversation, mentions Kramer's party, whereto Joe wasn't invited. While discussing the disaster of the meeting with NBC, George focuses on starting a relationship with the female NBC executive. Kramer shows his approval by throwing up on her. The helmet saves Kramer from an attack by "Crazy" Joe Davola. While all this is going on Elaine is in Europe with her shrink.

b: 16-Sep-1992 pc: 403 w: Larry David d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Originally broadcast as part of a 60 min episode. The character of Russell (Dalrimple) is based on NBC executive Warren Littlefield. This is a role Bob Balaban was born to play as he did show in the late night talk show wars movie called The Late Shift.

Kramer suffers side effects from his head injury. NBC gives Jerry and George another meeting and on the way, Jerry throws out a watch his parents gave him. He then meets his Uncle Leo, who picks the watch out of the garbage. Kramer agrees to be an alibi for Newman's trial on a speeding ticket. George and Jerry meet with NBC executives and they give the go ahead for a pilot. Later they hide in the coffee shop, afraid of an attack from "Crazy" Joe. Elaine's shrink realizes that he didn't leave an extra prescription for Joe Davola, for the time while he's on vacation.

b: 16-Sep-1992 pc: 404 w: Larry David d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: Originally broadcast as part of a 60 min episode.

Jerry's parents come to town to see a back specialist, they hear about "Crazy" Joe not liking Jerry and ask about the watch they gave him. George "negotiates" the deal with the NBC and gets a box of cigars from Susan's father. While at the doctor's office Morty's wallet is "stolen". Elaine returns from her trip and tries to end her relationship with her shrink. The deal with NBC is lost.

b: 23-Sep-1992 pc: 405 w: Larry David d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: Julia returns from maternity leave after giving birth to her son, Henry.

Jerry has dinner with his parents and Uncle Leo. Women, who's paying and the watch are all discussed. Elaine uses Kramer as "her boyfriend" in trying to fool her shrink. George gets Russell's address and tries to get the pilot reinstated. Jerry tries to buy back the watch. Outside her shrink's office, Elaine meets "Crazy" Joe, whom she begins to date.

b: 30-Sep-1992 pc: 406 w: Larry David d: Tom Cherones

Jerry's girlfriend, Naomi has a laugh that sounds like "Elmer Fudd sitting on a juicer," and when she hears George's message to Jerry, she breaks up with him. So instead, Jerry asks Elaine to accompany him on a trip to a cabin in the mountain with George and Susan. Kramer isn't invited. Jerry agrees to a side trip to visit a sick fan, a "Bubble Boy." George gets into a fight with the "Bubble Boy" over the correct answer to a Trivial Pursuit question. Kramer and Naomi also make the trip to the cabin and get the fire started.

b: 07-Oct-1992 pc: 407 w: Larry David & Larry Charles d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: The question mentioned is supposedly an actual error that was discovered in the question set of a board game, while Trivial Pursuit is mentioned in this episode, other sources claim that a home edition of Jeopardy contained the error. I haven't seen any proof of it being one over the other. The error of "Moops" instead of "Moors" was in a home version of Jeopardy. Also in the same version there was an error of "Cafetown instead of Capetown, South Africa, but the writers thought "Moops" was funnier.
# One of the townspeople on the prowl after George describes him as "some bald guy from the city." This actor is Tony Papenfuss who played one of the Daryl's on TV's "Newhart." This is a rare opportunity to hear his voice!

Jerry and George begin to work on the pilot for the series they pitched to NBC. Jerry says the wrong thing while "messing" around with one of Elaine's co-workers. George & Susan tell her father about the cabin fire, he becomes distraught and letters saved from the fire soon explain why. Kramer goes to the Cuban Embassy in search of cigars and makes a deal.

b: 28-Oct-1992 pc: 408 w: Larry David s: Larry David and Elaine Pope & Tom Leopold d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Cuba is not recognized as a sovereign nation by the United States, so Cuba does not have an embassy in the United States, yet somehow Kramer finds it. It turns out that the Cuban Embassy is located in the United Nations. Warren Frost and Grace Zabriskie both appeared on David Lynch and Mark Frost's series Twin Peaks. Another Twin Peaks cast member joins Grace and Warren in an appearance in "The Rye".

"Crazy" Joe leaves Jerry a message saying he will put the "kibosh" on him. Kramer has tickets for the opera, Pagliacci, and everyone is going including Elaine and her boyfriend "Crazy" Joe. Elaine drops in on Joe's apartment and is she surprised by what she discovers, so she maces him with cherry Binaca and ends their relationship. Susan can't attend, so George tries to scalp her ticket. Joe, a big fan of Pagliacci, comes to the opera in clown garb; Elaine and Jerry attend together not realizing their different estranged relationships with Joe.

b: 04-Nov-1992 pc: 409 w: Larry Charles d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Bill Saluga is best remembered for a character he played in Vegas and on variety television. That character's name was Raymond J. Johnson Jr... "Oh you don't have to call me Johnson. Now my name is Raymond J. Johnson Jr. You can call me Ray or you can call me...". You get the idea! Also in 1979, Bill released a disco album called "Dancin' Johnson", whose catalog number is SP-12018 on A&M Records. The Opera that Kramer wants Jerry and the others to go to is "Pagliaci". He plays a CD of the Opera at Jerry's house. In addition, we hear the music when Devola is making up his face. The point is, this is the same music as heard in "The Keys", when Jerry phones Kramer's mom to ask her about Kramer. She was totally drunk, listening to the music.

After much procrastination, George and Jerry strain to think of an idea for their TV series a few hours before a meeting with NBC executives. Jerry finds out a girl he once met is still a virgin, and later Elaine educates her about men after sex. George wants to end his relationship with Susan so he can exploit his writing profession as a pick-up line. Elaine runs into a Chinese delivery boy. Kramer watches too much television.

b: 11-Nov-1992 pc: 410 w: Peter Mehlman s: Peter Mehlman and Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: Following the broadcast of this episode Michael Richards played Kramer on an episode of Mad About You. It starred Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt. In the episode called "The Apartment," Reiser must get rid of his old apartment, that it seems Kramer has been subletting from him. However, in the first episode of the seventh season, George and Susan are seen watching and commenting on an episode of Mad About You. See also the NOTE associated with "Good News, Bad News."

George's mother throws her back out when she falls down after catching him doing "you know." When George says he'll never do it again, Jerry challenges him to a contest of self-denial, when he accepts, Elaine and Kramer want in on the action, or rather the lack of it.

b: 18-Nov-1992 pc: 411 w: Larry David d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Thanks to this episode, the series won the Emmy for best Comedy, Writing and Supporting Actor (Michael Richards). The episode was based in a real life experience of writer Larry David. Tom Cherones won the Director's Guild of America Award for this episode. This episode was based on a real contest that Larry David participated in.
# When Estelle is lying in the hospital bed and tells George that she is hungry, George throws her a box of tic tacs. According to Jerry Seinfeld, this was not part of the scene. Jason Alexander just did it impromptu and Estelle could not stop laughing for 20 minutes.
# On the Letterman show, actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus admitted that the censors would not allow the cast to say the word "masturbation".
# TV Guide named this episode, specifically the moment where Kramer says he's out, as the third funniest moment in TV history.
# The "hot nurse" is played by Andrea Parker, most known for her role as Miss Parker on NBC's drama The Pretender and currently a regular on the ABC sitcom Less Than Perfect. After having started as a dancer, this was her first speaking part as an actress on a network show. As she's later said, if you were going to be on just one episode of Seinfeld, this was the one to be on.
# Although it is, of course, alluded to, the word "masturbation" is never once mentioned throughout the entire episode.

When their flight home gets canceled, Jerry & Elaine gets on another flight, the latter gets cramped into coach and Jerry parties in 1st class with a model. George and Kramer go between JFK and La Guardia to pick them up. When they settle on an airport George meets a convict and Kramer sees a man who owes him $240 from years ago.

b: 25-Nov-1992 pc: 412 w: Larry Charles d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Larry Charles makes a cameo appearance as the guy who stinks up the bathroom before Elaine goes in. Thanks to Greg Gattuso for this tidbit. Greg is author of the book "The Seinfeld Universe". Viewer Paul Brackett, who must work in the airline industry, notes the following:

    "They were flying from St. Louis to JFK, then to LGA. Only TWA flies these routes non-stop. They showed 2 ground shots of the aircraft, and both of the ground shots were of a Southwest airlines Boeing 737. Then they showed the plane in flight a couple of times, both shots were of a McDonnell Douglas DC-9. Then they showed the interior of the coach section, in which the colors of the seats and the configuration resembled the interior of a Delta coach plane, with 3-3 seating. Both the 737 and the DC-9 are 3-2 seating. Then they showed the interior of the first class section, which looked like the interior of a Continental DC-10 First class section, based on seating arrangements and color of the seats. One would think that folks in the TV industry would fly enough to notice these things!"

# A St. Louis based viewer, Randy Canis notes that Jerry and Elaine are not at the real Lambert Field. I wouldn't expect them to be, that would be too expensive to film and only viewers familiar with the airport would ever notice.
# When Larry David does his uncredited "Voice of Man ordering the leftover kosher meal" the voice he uses he will later reuse as the voice of George Steinbrenner.
# As they are driving to the airport in St. Louis, Jerry mentions that Elaine got to see her sister on this trip. This ties in with a later episode (The phone message) where Elaine mentions that she has a brother-in-law.
# To supplement the excellent information from Mr. Brackett, the plane is clearly a SWA jet on the outside, but Southwest has never had a first class section. ecgberht

Elaine is humiliated when she accidentally shows a bit too much on her Christmas card photo, that she has sent out to everyone she knows. Jerry has a date with the model from the plane, she later dumps Jerry because of "The Pick." George tries to reunite with Susan, but realizes it's a mistake, and uses "The Pick". Kramer goes to Calvin Klein to complain about "The Ocean," a fragrance they stole from him, and is asked to pose for a risqué underwear advertisement.

b: 16-Dec-1992 pc: 413 w: Larry David s: Larry David and Marc Jaffe d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: This is the first time a company would get out of a lawsuit by offering Kramer to be in their advertisement.

Jerry tries to make two show dates and afterwards go to the movie theater to meet everyone. George gets in the wrong line for tickets. George, Elaine & Kramer decide to go to another theater to see the movie. Kramer waits outside for Jerry but also wants a hot dog. Jerry misses his first show, then goes to movie theater to tell everyone he won't make the movie, but no one is there. Through a comedy of errors, everyone (but Kramer) misses the movie, they were originally going to see.

b: 06-Jan-1993 pc: 415 w: Steve Skrovan & Bill Masters & Jon Hayman d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: According to viewer Jim Gilhooly, writer Steve Skrovan appears in an uncredited cameo as the man with the white hat that sits next to Elaine at the movie. This episode marks the first appearance of the (fictional) film "Rochelle, Rochelle," which in the show had a healthy run on video and became a Broadway musical starring Bette Midler.

George meets a Chinese female lawyer who thinks he is real funny; so he tells Jerry not to be funny around her, but she becomes attracted to this. Kramer returns early from baseball fantasy camp, where he accidentally punched Mickey Mantle. A mix-up with Jerry's mail causes Babu to be arrested for not renewing his visa. Jerry tries to get the lawyer to help Babu, but George's honesty when his relationship is threatened causes Babu to be deported and Elaine to still be sued by the delivery boy she hit.

b: 27-Jan-1993 pc: 414 w: Peter Mehlman d: Tom Cherones
56. The Shoes
gs: Gina Hecht (Dana Foley) Anita Barone (Gail Cunningham) Michael Ornstein (Waiter) Denise Richards (Molly) Bob Balaban (Russell Dalrymple)

Jerry and George struggle to keep their idea for a TV series alive, one of their problems is they don't know how to do the Elaine character. Jerry meets an old girlfriend he never could kiss, later Kramer gets the opportunity. The ex-girlfriend talks about Elaine's shoes, mainly because she wants them. George is caught staring at the cleavage of the daughter of the NBC executive who is approving their script. Elaine's cleavage provides a means to turn the tables on him.

b: 04-Feb-1993 pc: 417 w: Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: Viewer Jeff Holland notes that it took Jerry and George a while to get around to adding a female to their pilot, just like it took Jerry and Larry to do.

No thanks to Elaine, Jerry must work hard to prove he is straight when a college reporter mistakenly reports that he and George are gay, "not that there is anything wrong with that." Things really get out of hand when the article is picked up by the New York Post.

b: 11-Feb-1993 pc: 416 w: Larry Charles d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Viewer Jerry Balsam notes in this episode that Estelle claims to have been helped up by the super; however, we all know that the Costanzas live in a house in Queens. The hospital scene with George and his mother, when the male nurse comes in to give the male patient a sponge bath is a take off of a similar scene in the episode "The Contest." The dialogue between George and his mom, and the nurse and patient is almost identical. The only difference is the sex of the nurse and patient, obviously to go with the theme of this episode.
# Larry Charles was nominated for an Emmy for this episode.

Jerry, Elaine & George volunteer to help the elderly. Jerry gets assigned to a nasty old man. Elaine is repulsed by the goiter problems of hers and George depresses his charge. Kramer and Newman try the business of selling old records to a used record store. Jerry loses track of his man when they try to take him to the dentist to repair his dentures, after the man had bitten Kramer's arm.

b: 18-Feb-1993 pc: 418 w: Bruce Kirschbaum s: Larry Charles d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Viewer Eric Scheffel notes that old man's name is Sid Fields. This was the name of the landlord on the The Abbott & Costello Show. Which of featured Jerry's two favorite comedians, Bud Abbott & Lou Costello. In fact on 24 Nov 94, instead of an episode of Seinfeld being on, Jerry hosted a one hour special about the duo. The special was called Abbott & Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld. Viewer Gerry Myerson notes that the other old man was named Ben Cantwell. Baseball trivia buffs recognize this as the name of a pitcher for the Boston Braves, who lost 25 games in 1935. No one has lost that many games in a season since then.
# Syd Field is also a well-known authority on screenwriting who has written many books and is undoubtedly known to or by the writers.

Jerry dumps his girlfriend after Elaine says her figure is the result of implants. Kramer claims to have seen Salman Rushdie at the health club. By accident Elaine later discovers the breasts are real. George accompanies his current girlfriend to Detroit for her aunt's wake. While there he tries to get a copy of her death certificate so he can get a 50% discount on the airfare.

b: 25-Feb-1993 pc: 419 w: Peter Mehlman d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Teri Hatcher plays Jerry's girlfriend in this episode. She will later play Lois Lane, in the series Lois & Clark. A distant Superman reference. Meagan Mullally, who plays George's girlfriend, later will star in Will and Grace with Debra Messing, who also dated Jerry in the episode "The Wait Out."

Jerry has a date with a woman whose name he has forgotten, but it "rhymes with a female body part." Could it be "Mulva"? Elaine visits an old boyfriend who's in the hospital for an operation; he was once fat, thin she's interested again. Kramer gets an opportunity to witness the operation and he drags Jerry along, while watching they have an accident with a "Junior Mint."

b: 18-Mar-1993 pc: 421 w: Andy Robin d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Her name is... I can't tell you everything! However, if you must know, see "The Foundation," where she returns assuming that Jerry has grown up. This episode sparked a lawsuit from an employee of a company located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The employee claims that this company allegedly used the following incident as an excuse to fire him. He discussed this episode with a female co-worker. She didn't get the joke. So he provided a photocopy of a dictionary definition of the body part in question so he wouldn't have to say it.
# For the record, the company from Milwaukee was in fact Miller Brewing Company, of Miller High Life and Miller Lite fame. Second biggest brewer in the country. This is why this case got so much press. He originally won about $25 million in damages, but later had to file for bankruptcy after Miller appealed and the courts threw the case out. (http://www.jsonline.com/news/Metro/dec01/4579.asp for more information)
# Jerry noted in an interview that the line, "Let me finish my coffee and we'll watch them slice the fat bastard up" was not in the original script. It was improvised on the day of the taping.
# Victor Raider-Wexler plays the doctor in two other episodes. The Invitations and The Summer of George.

The strong body odor of a valet is left in Jerry's car. George can't believe it when he spots Susan holding hands with another woman. Elaine loses her current boyfriend and Jerry is forced to try to sell the car, because the odor has taken a life of its own and permeated everything. George is turned by Susan's new outlook on life. Susan's friend is swayed to heterosexuality by Kramer, though later turned back off by a whiff of a jacket that Kramer borrowed from Jerry. When the car can't be sold, Jerry winds up leaving it and the keys out on the street.

b: 15-Apr-1993 pc: 422 w: Larry David & Peter Mehlman d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: The movie "Rochelle, Rochelle" is mentioned first in the episode "The Movie." It is also mentioned in the Seinfeld series a third time in "The Understundy." Kramer mentions his disgust over Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and his trading away of some of the Yankees best prospects. He mentions Jay Buhner in his list. In the later episode "The Caddy" Frank Costanza mentions this same disgust over Steinbrenner trading Buhner.

Going out to buy an engagement party present for "The Drake," George parks his father's car in a handicap parking spot, after taking Kramer's advice. An angry mob trashes the vehicle when a disabled woman gets injured, because of the illegal parking. While visiting the woman at the hospital, Kramer falls in love and feels compelled to replace the wheelchair. George becomes his father's butler after his father gets arrested for parking in the spot.

b: 13-May-1993 pc: 420 w: Larry David d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: The U.S. syndicated version of this episode features Jerry Stiller in the role of Frank Costanza. Viewers overseas still see John Randolph in the role. The sequences were re-shot in the spring of 1995. A role he didn't formally start until the next season in "The Puffy Shirt". I've been typed that the John Randolph version is still being seen overseas. Viewer Jerry Balsam notes that in this episode, Kramer was referred to as a "hipster doofus," which is an inside joke Larry David wrote in response to a review of the series by Francis Davis that appeared in the December 1992 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. In the review, Davis describes one of the characters as "Jerry's across-the-hall neighbor, a hipster doofus known simply as Kramer." See the article at the Atlantic Monthly's website. Elaine uses this same term to describe Kramer in next season's "The Glasses."
# Viewer Ross Raniere seems to remember some controversy surrounding this episode before it was first aired. There was some backlash and offense taken at the plot. It was written in an article that it may not be aired. Given the production code of the episode, I would suggest that the airing of the episode was delayed and perhaps some of the content adjusted to appease the critics. Anyone have any details?
# Overseas viewer Baptiste has noticed that in this episode Jerry says that he wants to buy a yo-yo. In the "The Junior Mint", he has one and he is learning to play with it (we actually see him try and try, explaining that he is just learning): an example of losing something when episodes are shown out of production order.
# The actress who played the "Angry Woman" in the mob that Jerry talks to is Kathy Kinney, she would later to go onto to play Mimi in The Drew Carey Show.
# I just saw episode 62, "The Handicap Spot". The version I'm watching is the one where Frank Costanza is played by Jerry Stiller, and at the end in the scene where George comes home to tell him about the destroyed car we can see George, seemingly exited, reading a Glamour magazine...maybe a later issue than the one he read in "The Contest".

Jerry and George get the green light to produce Jerry, the pilot for the series based on their "nothing" lives. Russell Dalrimple, the president at NBC behind the pilot, is obsessed with Elaine. George is obsessed with a white spot on his lip and a box of raisins taken by actor playing Kramer. The real Kramer has an internal plumbing problem and on his way to fix it, he gets delayed and is caused to "miss his chance." Jerry has an audition with the new "Elaine," a method actress interested in being Elaine in every way. The real Elaine has a problem with the coffee shop, they appear to be only hiring buxom waitresses, so she tries to get hired and files a report.

b: 20-May-1993 pc: 423 w: Larry David d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Originally broadcast as part of a 60 min episode. This episode aired the same night as Cheers series finale.
# During the auditions for "Jerry", the people that come in and audition read lines from previous episodes of Seinfeld, such as "The Deal" and "The Note".
# Another episode from which dialogue is being read is "The Pony Remark."

Rehearsals for the pilot begin. Russell's obsession with Elaine begins to affect his work. George asks TV Kramer about the raisins. The real Kramer might be forced to work on his plumbing problem by using the "dreaded apparatus." Elaine gets an investigation started on the owner of the diner. George gets the results of the biopsy of his white spot. At the taping of the pilot, Elaine sneaks in disguised and "Crazy" Joe jumps out of the audience. Elaine finds Morty's wallet in Jerry's couch. Everyone from the past season comments on the pilot as it's broadcast, they all think it's great. When Russell disappears, the fate of the pilot is in the hands of the new president, a person convinced that Jerry can't act.

b: 20-May-1993 pc: 424 w: Larry David d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Originally broadcast as part of a 60 min episode. The major characters from the past season that make comments on the pilot were not credited for this episode; however, we know who most of them were, so I've included their credit for this episode. In watching the second part "Pilot" episode, the Russell character fires a stage hand who spills coffee on him (after Russell is rejected by Elaine over the phone). The actor playing the stage hand looks very much like Chris Penn (Sean Penn's brother). Is it, and should he be added to the cast list?