...ags quite a bit. Keith Hernandez's guest spot feels forced and painful, but the episode has its good moments: specifically, George going to ridiculous lengths to extend his unemployment benefits, and a conspiracy-heavy JFK spoof that digs deeper into Kramer and Newman's incessant scheming.
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... dynamic, the season-three finale sees Kramer flee to L.A. after Jerry demands his spare keys back. The story works best as an extended setup for the supersize L.A.-centric episode "The Trip," though Kramer's Murphy Brown cameo at the end provides perfect punctuation.
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142. "The Soup Nazi" (Season 7). One of many episodes where the cultural resonance ("No soup for you!") overshadows the episode's just-okay comedic material — George's annoyance at Jerry and his girlfriend Sheila calling each other "schmoopie" is funny, but Elaine and Kramer's subplot just sits there like the armoire they try (and fail) to move into the former's apartment.
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... Samaritan" (Season 3). George sheds light on his ceaseless self-deprecation with two sentences: "I don't think I'm special. My mother always said I'm not special." You know what is special? Kramer's massive seizure while hearing Mary Hart's voice on Entertainment Tonight, a bit of physical comedy that turns him into a contorting rubber-band of a human being.
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118. "The Jimmy" (Season 6). Is Jimmy, the gym rat who can't stop saying his own name, mentally disabled? Will Kramer's novocaine from dental surgery ever wear off? Is Tim Whatley running a sex club in his dentist's office? The last plotline is perhaps season six's most terrifying because it could conceivably happen. You don't know what dentists do after they put you under.
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...ankees' good graces continues, Kramer reaches a new low by promising a sick child that Paul O'Neill will hit two home-runs in one game. Kramer does a lot of despicable things throughout Seinfeld, but trying to rip a signed greeting card from a sick kid's hands is one for the ages.
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145. "The Susie" (Season 8). Who is Susie? "I'm Susie, she's me," Elaine tells J. Peterman at the end of this episode — but Peterman doesn't get it, and neither does the audience. The plot of "The Susie," a mistaken-identity tale taken four or five steps too far, seems impressive at first, but in the end there are n...
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147. "The Checks" (Season 8). Elaine singing "Witchy Woman" to her unamused boyfriend Brett is an inspired moment. Less so is Kramer's treatment of the Japanese tourists staying with him, even if the plot is more a commentary on Kramer's ignorance than it is on Japanese culture.
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149. "The Suicide" (Season 3). How much is a Drake's Coffee Cake, anyway? The many battles involving the pastry — who has it, who wants it, and, in a fasting Elaine's case, whom she has to attack to get a bite of it herself — overshadow the episode's lackluster ma...
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