Season Five

Season 5

65. The Mango
gs: Lisa Edelstein (Karen) Leonard Termo (Joe) Veralyn Jones (Renee)

George tells Jerry about his lack of confidence below "the equator." Jerry begs Elaine for another chance when he finds out she faked her orgasms. Kramer gets banned from his favorite fruit shop.

b: 16-Sep-1993 pc: 501 w: Lawrence H. Levy & Buck Dancer s: Lawrence H. Levy d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: The co-writing credit for the teleplay that was credited to Buck Dancer, is changed to Larry David in the syndicated reruns. Larry must have decided to use a pseudonym for the original broadcast. Buck is also the first name George would use if he was a porn star, the full name being Buck Naked. The way George says "Im back, baby" is the same way his father says it in "The Fatigues" after he tries his wife's eggs

George is forced to move in with his parents. He gets a job as a hand model and becomes obsessed with keeping his hands safe. Kramer's girlfriend, who designs clothes and talks with a real low voice, asks Jerry a question that he politely answers yes to. He agrees to wear one of her new puffy pirate shirts on a Today Show appearance he is making.

b: 23-Sep-1993 pc: 503 w: Larry David d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: George remarks that he won "the contest" at his hand-model photo shoot. This episode marks the beginning of three related quotes. In this episode, Jerry says "But I don't wanna be a pirate!" Then, in 607 The Mom & Pop Store, Jerry says "But I don't wanna be a cowboy!" A few episdoes later, in 613 The Scofflaw, Kramer says "I wanna be a pirate!"
# George also mentions his father wears his sneakers in the pool in "The Phone Message".
# Rare episode in which a scene doesn't take place at Monk's Coffee Shop. They are many episodes without Monk's, but most of those do not take place in New York City("The Hamptons", "The Trip", "The Parking Garage" for example). There are 2 scene in a different restaurant instead: the scene where George is with his parents, and the last scene after George burned his hands on the iron in Jerry's dressing room.
# Don't forget the pilot episode "good news, bad news". The restaurant in which George and Jerry are sitting in (it's actually the first Seinfeld scene ever!) is NOT Monk's. If I'm not mistaken, it's Pete's.

George's glasses are stolen and he needs a new pair, so he goes to see Kramer's friend to get a thirty percent discount; all Elaine gets is bitten by a dog and then she becomes afraid of them. While not wearing his glasses, George thinks he sees Jerry's girlfriend kissing Jerry's cousin and Jerry tries to figure out if it's true.

b: 30-Sep-1993 pc: 502 w: Tom Gammill & Max Pross d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Dedicated "In Memory of our Friend John Oteri". John was one of the production assistants on the previous seasons. George is seen eating a bag of Rold Gold Pretzels which he was doing commericals for at the time.

George's father gets him an interview as a bra salesman. Evidence points to Jerry's accountant being a drug user. So Jerry, Kramer and Newman set out to find out the truth. Elaine's new boyfriend is perfect except for his use of an exclamation point.

b: 07-Oct-1993 pc: 504 w: Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: This episode was recorded on 14 Sep 93 and was attended by 18 members of the Vandelay Industries Mailing List. Christa Miller will reappear as another character in "The Doodle". Newman, who we all know as a postman, has trouble mailing a letter, which leads to Jerry, Kramer, and Newman losing all of their money when the accountant files Chapter 11.
# I think it's funny in this episode that Kramer suggests he, Jerry, and Newman should be private detectives, and later Michael Richards's sitcom on NBC revolved around him being a private detective.
# Notice that in this episode, the woman at the mailbox whose material Newman feels, is the same woman that worked with George Costanza, and whose wig he threatened to take off in The Revenge - Efti

George gets a great parking spot that becomes a target. Kramer thinks that he has stumbled on the product of a genetic engineering experiment, a "pig man". Elaine and Jerry are nervous about the religious duties they must do when they agree to become godparents to a couple's newborn, including getting the Mohel and holding the baby for the circumcision.

b: 14-Oct-1993 pc: 505 w: Larry Charles d: Tom Cherones

Jerry is smitten with a line judge at the US Open, but after he gets her attention, he finds out she is deaf. Elaine has a problem not communicating with a limo driver. George wants to use Jerry's girlfriend to read the lips of his ex-girlfriend to find out what she is saying about him. While she is reading the lips, Kramer does the translation, that gets George in more trouble. Kramer becomes a ball man at the Open, when Monica Seles returns to tennis.

b: 28-Oct-1993 pc: 506 w: Carol Leifer d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: When George is on TV eating the ice cream, Larry David is the voice of the second announcer. He says "Hey buddy they've got a new invention, it's called a napkin." He is also the voice of the dispatcher that tells the limo driver he's to pick up Tom Hanks. Both uncredited.

When they begin to gain weight, Jerry and Elaine suspect that Kramer has made a bad investment in a non-fat yogurt shop. Jerry inadvertently uses the "F" word, as a result so does Maryedith's son Matthew, a lot. George meets an old childhood friend whom he is convinced is trying to humiliate him. Elaine begins dating this friend and gives him an idea for his mayoral candidate's campaign. Kramer's date with a lab technician results in strange test results for the future mayor of New York City.

b: 04-Nov-1993 pc: 508 w: Larry David d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Around this time it was reported that four versions of the ending of this episode were shot. The correct one being used based on results of the mayoral election being held at that time. The syndicated rerun of this episode shows more footage of the mayoral campaign, featuring Rudy Giuliani, who was not credited for his appearance (unless you count the caption during his press conference). In this episode Peter Keleghan plays Lloyd Braun. Note that in later episodes he is played by Matt McCoy.

George is uncertain about whether his job interview was successful or not, so he decides to go into the office and act like an employee while the boss is on vacation. Jerry is reluctant to dump his old barber even when he is given a real bad haircut. Kramer arranges to get him a clandestine haircut at the apartment of his barber. Newman is charged by Jerry's barber to get a sample of Jerry's hair when he suspects foul play.

b: 11-Nov-1993 pc: 507 w: Andy Robin d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: The music in the background for many of the scenes in this episode is from Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville".

Elaine meets a man who's perfect except his name is the same as a notorious serial killer. Jerry is frustrated when he can't get his girlfriend, who's a masseuse, to give him a massage, even Kramer is a customer. George is obsessed when Jerry's girlfriend doesn't like him, so he tries extra hard to get her to like him, much to his own girlfriend's dismay.

b: 18-Nov-1993 pc: 509 w: Peter Mehlman d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: On an episode of Love and War that was broadcast on 6 Dec 93, Jerry and Larry David appear in a cameo as themselves. Viewer Jeff Holland notes that one of the names that Elaine suggests her boyfriend change his name to was O.J.. Several months later of course we all know what happened to that name.
# In this episode Jerry calls George "a bad seed" when his girlfriend is complaining about him. Elaine will refer to George as "a bad seed" again in 804 "The Little Kicks."
# Jerry mentions his streak of not throwing up, a streak that finally ends a couple episodes later in "The Dinner Party".

Jerry helps George out with a coffee stable stain and makes Elaine take the subway home and gives her Mr. Costanza's TV Guide to read. While on the train Elaine meets a strange man obsessed with television. George meets a woman at a refinishing store who he brings back to his parent's home and passes it off as his. A female Native American that he is interested in, thinks Jerry is racially insensitive when he presents Elaine with a cigar-store Indian as a peace offering. George gets grounded when his parents return from vacation and find an unused prophylactic in their bed and a missing TV Guide. Kramer has an idea for a coffee table book on coffee tables that Elaine doesn't like but Mr. Lippman does.

b: 09-Dec-1993 pc: 510 w: Tom Gammill & Max Pross d: Tom Cherones

George changes his religion to Latvian Orthodox to keep his girlfriend who must break up with him for religious reasons. Jerry finds a tube of fungus cream in his girlfriend's medicine cabinet and fakes an illness until he can figure out what the cream is used for. He asks Elaine to ask her current boyfriend who's a podiatrist. Kramer meets a sister at George's new church who becomes infatuated with him.

b: 16-Dec-1993 pc: 511 w: Bruce Kirschbaum d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Viewer Paul Redkoles notes that Jerry's girlfriend is sub-letting apartment 5E, which we all know to be Newman's apartment. We learn here that both Jerry and George are left-handed.

While in a bathroom stall, Elaine needs some toilet paper, but the woman in the next stall refuses to give her a piece. The woman is Jerry's girlfriend whose voice Kramer recognizes from a telephone sex line. Elaine's boyfriend, whose face she just loves, takes George & Kramer rock climbing. After his accident, Elaine isn't sure his face will be the same.

b: 06-Jan-1994 pc: 512 w: Larry Charles d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: Viewer Jeff Holland that this is the first episode where Jerry actually uses his computer. He uses it at least once more, during the last season. And on a related note, while the computer in the background has been an Apple Macintosh, some viewers have said that they spotted a copy of Windows 95 lurking in the background in future episodes.

The gang struggles to find gifts for a dinner party. Jerry and Elaine stop at a bakery to get a cake, but they forget to take a number and lose the chocolate pastry and the one they get has a hair on it. Kramer and George try to get the wine but must get change for a $100 dollar bill and wait for a double-parker to return to his car.

b: 03-Feb-1994 pc: 514 w: Larry David d: Tom Cherones

Jerry meets an old college classmate who asked about George, whom Jerry says is now a "marine biologist." An infuriated Russian writer tosses an electronic organizer belonging to Elaine out of a limousine that hits a passerby on the head. Kramer struggles with his golf swing and sand. While walking along the beach, George is called on to use his marine biology skills to save a whale.

b: 10-Feb-1994 pc: 513 w: Ron Hague & Charlie Rubin d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: Rosiland Allen (who plays Diane in this ep) played Wendy Smith on Seaquest DSV, a show about a submarine that has a dolphin crew member - and this episode centers around George prretending to be a marine bioligist to date her.

Jerry can't believe that his girlfriend won't share a piece of pie with him. There is a mannequin at a store that looks like Elaine and she wants to know where it came from. George is interested in a suit that he makes an enemy over. Kramer has an itch. George's new suit makes a noise.

b: 17-Feb-1994 pc: 515 w: Tom Gammill & Max Pross d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Christine Dunford, the acerbic saleswoman who tells Elaine that the "Elaine mannequin" is wearing "a twelve hundred dollar Gaultier dress" previously played Leslie, "unequivocally the worst date of [George's] life", in "The Baby Shower." Suzanne Snyder (Audrey) previously played Ava (the attractive Nazi) in "The Limo."

Kramer talks his stand-in friend, a "little person" into getting lifts, to keep his job. Jerry visits a sick friend, who's in need of a good laugh, at the hospital. George and his latest girlfriend have nothing to say to each other, he wants to break up, but won't when he finds out she is being urged to break it off. One of Jerry's friends "takes it out" while on his first date with Elaine. Jerry's friend takes a turn for the worse after his first visit, so he tries again.

b: 24-Feb-1994 pc: 516 w: Larry David d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: This marks the first appearance of Danny Woodburn as Micky Woodburn, another of Kramer's (increasingly bizarre) circle of friends, as Mickey Abbott, probably named after Bud Abbott one of Jerry's favourite comedians.

A girlfriend poses as Jerry's wife so she can get a dry cleaning discount. George uses the shower at the health club as a bathroom and is afraid of being turned in after being seen. Elaine is getting mixed signals from a male friend who may be interested. Kramer's getting ready to impress his girlfriend's parents.

b: 17-Mar-1994 pc: 517 w: Peter Mehlman d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: At one point, George justifies urinating in the shower by claiming that he read in medical journals that it's dangerous to hold it in. Oddly, there is a scene in "The Phone Message" where Jerry has to explain suddenly losing his urge to urinate, and George said he read about such things in medical journals.

Jerry's parents are staying with him while they wait to take their trip to Paris and he's just returned from three weeks on the road can't get anytime alone with his girlfriend. George tries to get out of the big brother program, just after he gets talked into it. The Seinfelds avoid the Costanza's dinner invitation. Elaine's latest boyfriend, who's a "close talker," becomes unusually fixated on Jerry's parents and shows them New York City. Kramer makes a deal with Jerry's father to sell belt-less raincoats to a secondhand shop and George sells his father's moth-ridden cabana style clothing, right before they plan a cruise.

b: 28-Apr-1994 pc: 519 w: Tom Gammill & Max Pross and Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld d: Tom Cherones

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

Jerry and his girlfriend get some time alone with each other at a movie, Schindler's List, they don't see it; however, Newman sees it and them. A delay in the shipment of the raincoats will make the Seinfelds miss their flight to France, George uses this as an opportunity to get his "little" brother back to his father. The Seinfelds manage to avoid meeting the Costanzas in New York City.

b: 28-Apr-1994 pc: 520 w: Tom Gammill & Max Pross and Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld d: Tom Cherones

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

Kramer is dating one of Elaine's co-workers, a woman who drives her crazy. Kramer brings her to one of Jerry's shows, where she heckles him relentlessly; unfortunately there is a national magazine critic in the audience. George panics when there is a fire at his girlfriend's apartment, during her son's birthday party. Jerry decides to get revenge by heckling the woman where she works. She runs out of the office onto the street and loses her pinkie toe. Kramer finds the toe, takes a bus to the hospital and saves the passengers from a gunman. Inspired by Kramer's tale, George tries to confront his feelings of cowardice.

b: 05-May-1994 pc: 518 w: Larry Charles d: Tom Cherones

NOTE: If you listen closely to the announcer call Jerry to the stage, it sounds like Larry David.

Everyone makes a trip to the Hamptons to "see the baby" and enjoy the weekend. George's girlfriend goes topless and everyone sees her chest before he does. "The baby" is the most hideous thing they've ever seen. Elaine is confused when a handsome doctor refers to her as "breathtaking" - the same term he later uses to describe the baby. Kramer finds a filled lobster trap. Jerry's girlfriend sees George naked, after he's just gotten out of the pool, so something isn't as it should be.

b: 12-May-1994 pc: 522 w: Peter Mehlman & Carol Leifer d: Tom Cherones

George comes to the realization that he should try to do the opposite of everything, so he does, his luck changes and everything begins to go his way including getting a girlfriend, a job with the Yankees and moving out of his parents house. Things begin to be unlucky for Elaine after she buys a box of "Jujyfruits." Kramer appears on Regis & Kathie Lee to promote his coffee table book. Rachel wants to break up with Jerry and he readily agrees, because his luck has been "even Steven." Elaine's eating of "Jujyfruits" causes Pendant Publishing to go under, and later she realizes that she and George have traded places.

b: 19-May-1994 pc: 521 w: Andy Cowan and Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld d: Tom Cherones

# NOTE: Starting with this episode, Larry David supplies the voice of George Steinbrenner. Steinbrenner is only seen from the back. Steinbrenner's back is occasionally played by Larry David or actor Lee Bear. Kenny "real" Kramer does a great impression of Larry David and by default does a great impression of Steinbrenner. Viewer Paul Redkoles notes that in this episode Kramer mentions he thought of the idea for the book while skiing; however, it is in "The Cigar Store Indian", that Kramer first thinks of and mentions the book.
# When Kramer mentions that he thought of the book while skiing, he says at the end "true story". This is an obvious reference to the stories celebrities tell on talk shows. I think he was making it up, like a alot of celebrities do when they are on talk shows.