Episode Guide

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Pilot - July 5, 1989 (The show was originally called "The Seinfeld Chronicles")

1. Good News, Bad News 7/5/89

Jerry doesn't know what to expect when a women he met on the road says that she is coming into town. George tries to explain to Jerry how to read the signals. No Elaine. Absolutely the worst episode I have ever seen. How did this show make it back?

 

Season 1 (4 episodes and then the pilot was re-run)

 

2. The Stakeout 5/31/90

What many believe to be the first episode. Jerry goes to a birthday party for a friend of Elaine and end up flirting with someone there. Jerry and George then stakeout the building where she works in order to meet her. Jerry father is different from the rest of the series. Jerry has a sofa bed in this one which he won't have in episode 6.

 

3. The Robbery 6/7/90

Elaine house-sits for Jerry and the apartment gets robbed when Kramer leaves the door open. George finds a great apartment for Jerry but then gets jealous so neither of them take it.

 

4. Male Unbonding 6/14/90

Jerry tries to break up with a guy he has known since he was ten but he ends up making the guy cry. Kramer wants to start a pizza place where you make your own pie.

 

5. The Stock Tip 6/21/90

George convinces Jerry to invest in the stock market. Kramer enjoys that Jerry is losing money. Jerry takes his girlfriend to Vermont for the weekend and has a bad time. Elaine is allergic to her boyfriend's cats so he dumps her.

 

Season 2 (half season with 12 new episodes)

 

6. The Ex-Girlfriend 1/23/91

George works up the courage to dump his girlfriend but then Jerry starts dating her. She then dumps Jerry because she doesn't like his act. Elaine confronts a guy who has stopped saying hello to her. Kramer is obseessed with getting fresh fruit.

 

7. The Pony Remark 1/30/91

Definately a top ten! Jerry offends an elderly relative with a remark about how immigrants shouldn't have ponies. She dies and Jerry feels she haunted him during the softball championship. Kramer is going to put levels in his apartment.

 

8. The Jacket 2/8/91

Jerry finds a great suede jacket that has a pink and white striped liner. The jacket gets ruined when he wears it to meet Elaine's father and it snows. George can't get a out of his head.

 

9. The Phone Message 2/13/91

George leaves a bad message on a woman's answering machine and the plots as to how he can stop her from listening to it. Jerry dates a woman who likes the Dockers commercials.

 

10. The Apartment 4/4/91

Elaine almost moves into the apartment above Jerry. George wears a wedding ring to attract women. Jerry and George argue over who is a bigger idiot.

 

11. The Statue 4/11/91

Jerry has someone clean his apartment who may or may not have stolen a statue that matched one that George broke when he was a kid. Kramer gets the statue back.

 

12. The Revenge 4/18/91

George quits his job and then slips his boss a Mickey. Jerry and Kramer put cement in a washing machine when they think the laundry guy took money that Jerry left in his bag.

 

13. The Heart Attack 4/25/91

George thinks he is having a heart attack but isn't. He does need his tonsils out so Kramer takes him to see a holistic healer. Elaine dates Dr. Tongue and Jerry can't figure out what he wrote in his sleep (Flaming globes of Sigmund). Jerry and George get hurt after ambulance drivers fight over a missing Chuckle.

 

14. The Deal 5/2/91

Jerry and Elaine try to have This and That so they establish a set of rules. Jerry doesn't know what to get Elaine for her birthday so he gives her cash.

 

15. The Baby Shower 5/16/91

Elaine holds a baby shower in Jerry's apartment while he is getting an illegal cable hookup. George plans to confront a woman who embarrassed him on their only date but Jerry ends up being confronted by a woman who he said he'd call but never did.

 

16. The Chinese Restaurant 5/23/91

This is classic Seinfeld. George, Jerry, and Elaine wait for a table in a Chinese Restaurant and end up missing Plan 9 From Outer Space.

 

17. The Busboy 6/26/91

Geroge accidentally gets a busboy fired but end up saving his life. Elaine can't get rid of an unwanted house guest.

 

Season 3 (The first full season - 23 episodes including the first one-hour show)

18. The Note 9/18/91

George, Jerry, and Elaine get notes from a dentist friend in order to have their insurance pay for their massages. Jerry scares his masseuse by talking about a kidnapped kid. George thinks IT moved when he got his massage. Kramer claims to have seen Joe DiMagio at Dinky Donuts.

 

19. The Truth 9/25/91

Jerry is getting audited and he gives his records to George's girlfriend because she is an ex-IRS agent. George then dumps her and she forces him to tell her the truth about why. She then checks into a mental hospital and throws away Jerry's records. Kramer is dating Elaine's roommate and sees Elaine naked.

 

20. The Pen 10/2/91

Jerry and Elaine visit Jerry's parents in Florida and end up sleeping on a bad sofa bed. Jerry causes a stir when he accepts an astronaut pen from Jack Klompus. Morty retires from president of condo association.

 

21. The Dog 10/9/91

Jerry gets stuck taking care of a dog owned by some drunk he met on an airplane. Jerry, George, and Elaine plan on going to see a movie put when Jerry can't go George and Elaine find it uncomfortable to spend time alone. Kramer tries to break up with his girlfriend.

 

22. The Library 10/16/91

Jerry is hounded by a library policeman to return "Tropic of Capricorn" - overdue since 1971. Jerry calls on his girlfriend at the time to prove that he did return the book but ends up remembering that he had given the book to George. George runs into the gym teacher that caused him to lose the book by giving him a wedgie. Kramer entices the spinster librarian.

 

23. The Parking Garage 10/30/91

The whole gang spends the entire episode looking for Kramer's car in a mall parking garage. George and Jerry get arrested for urinating. Elaine's fish die. Kramer has to lug around an air conditioner.

 

24. The Cafe 11/6/91

Jerry befriends Babu, an immigrant restaurant owner that never has any customers. Elaine takes an IQ test for George but ends up doing bad. They get caught cheating when they try it a second time.

 

25. The Tape 11/13/91

Someone leaves an erotic message on Jerry's tape recorder while he is performing. George hears of a Chinese cure for baldness and has Ping order it for him. When George finds out that it was Elaine that left the message he falls in love with her.

 

26. The Nose Job 11/20/91

George is dating a beautiful woman with a huge nose. Kramer tells her to get a nose job but when it turns out bad George breaks up with her. Kramer uses Elaine to get a jacket from his mom's boyfriend. Jerry is dating a hot chick who is totally stupid. His brain plays chess against his penis to see whether she stays.

 

27. The Stranded 11/27/91

George gets short changed at the drug store and vows revenge. Jerry and Elaine go to a party on Long Island with George but get stuck there when George takes a women home. The party host stops by Jerry's apartment to kill some time but Jerry has to leave. George tries to steal and gets arrested. Jerry returns home to find that the host has had a call girl there and then Jerry gets arrested for solicitation.

 

28. The Alternate Side 12/4/91

Jerry's car gets stolen and he has trouble getting a rental. George takes over parking cars for the tenants but can't handle it. Kramer get to be in a Woody Allen movie. Elaine dates an older man who has a stroke just before she can dump him.

 

29. The Red Dot 12/11/91

Elaine gets George a job so he buys her a cashmere sweater with a slight flaw. Jerry accidentally gives Elaine's boyfriend a drink not knowing he is an alcoholic. George has sex with the cleaning lady and gives her the sweater to shut her up.

 

30. The Subway 1/8/92

Everyone has an adventure on the subway. Elaine gets stuck and misses a lesbian wedding. Kramer gets a tip on a horse and then almost gets robbed of his winnings. George meets a beautiful woman and the she robs him at her hotel room. Jerry meets a naked man and goes to Coney Island with him.

 

31. The Pez Dispenser 1/15/92

Jerry makes Elaine laugh at George's girlfriend's piano recital. George gets "hand" by breaking up with her before she could break up with him. Kramer invents "The Beach". The comedy gang holds an intervention for a friend on drugs.

 

32. The Suicide 1/29/92

Jerry dates his neighbor's girlfriend when he goes into a coma. George lets Kramer go on his dream vacation because a psychic starts to warn him about something bad. Elaine breaks her fast by eating Newman's Drake’s Coffee Cake.

 

33. The Fix-up 2/5/92

Elaine and Jerry fix-up George and a friend by describing their best features. Kramer gives George a condom that ends up being bad and George thinks he gets the girl pregnant.

 

34. & 35. The New Friend: The Boyfriend (Part 1), Of Mastodons and Men (Part 2) 2/12/92

One hour episode where Jerry befriends Keith Hernandez and acts like they are dating each other. George tells the employment agency that he had an interview at Vandelay Industries. Keith goes out with Elaine but she dumps him when she finds out he smokes. Jerry and Kramer go see the baby. Jerry breaks it off with Keith when he asks him to help him move.

 

36. The Limo 2/26/92

Jerry and George takes someone else's limo from the airport and are mistaken for leaders of the Aryan Union.

 

37. The Good Samaritan 3/4/92

Jerry witnesses a hit and run but when he goes to confront the woman he winds up dating her. Kramer has a seizure whenever he hears Mary Hart's voice. Jerry tries to tell the hit and run victim what happened but she end up thinking he did it. Elaine tells of having a fling with a matador. George says "God bless you" to a married woman and ends up sleeping with her.

 

38. The Letter 3/25/92

Jerry's girlfriend paints "The Kramer" and then plagiarizes a movie in a letter she writes to him. Elaine wears an Orioles baseball cap to the Yankee's game and refuses to take it off.

 

39. The Parking Space 4/22/92

George fights over a parking space with a friend of Kramer's that thinks Jerry is a phony.

 

40. The Keys 5/6/92

Kramer is using Jerry's apartment too much so Jerry takes his keys back. Kramer then takes his keys and gives them to George. George takes his keys from Elaine to give to Kramer but doesn't give Jerry Elaine's keys. Kramer decides to pursue his acting bug in Los Angeles.

 

Season 4 (24 episodes including 2 two-parters and 2 hour-long shows)

 

41. The Trip (Part 1) 8/12/92

Jerry is performing on the Tonight Show so he takes George to California with him so they can look for Kramer. George thinks he is real popular when he talks to George Wendt and Corbin Bernsen back stage. Kramer is trying to make it as an actor but ends up the key suspect in a murder.

 

42. The Trip (Part 2) 8/19/92

George and Jerry try to help Kramer get out of jail and he finally gets released when another murder is committed while he is behind bars. Jerry and George can't talk Kramer into coming back but a couple days later he shows up in New York.