I’ve done The Simpsons and I’ve done Friends. Now it’s time for Whip’s Top 10 Seinfeld Episodes.
Descriptions are from Wikipedia because I am lazy
Once again, in chronological order:
1. The Parking Garage

The cast is in search of Kramer's car in the multi-level parking garage of a mall after Kramer purchases an air conditioner, as no one can remember where the car was parked. After carrying the air conditioner for some time, an exhausted Kramer decides to leave it behind one of the parked cars and tries to memorize the number of the parking space. Among other concerns, Elaine fears that her new goldfish will die in the airtight bag before they can get home. So, as the gang search for the car, Elaine desperately begs passerbys in the parking garage to offer them a ride around the building to find their car, but no one she asks helps. As for Jerry, he is eager to urinate. Kramer encourages Jerry to do it in some dark corner where no one can see him. After Jerry does so, he is spotted by an officer and is held in the officer's booth. Jerry tries to talk his way out of trouble by by making up a story, but the officer is not convinced. George is later caught in the act of urinating. Jerry and George are both fined and are let go. After the two find Elaine, Jerry convinces George to ask an attractive woman, whom they saw earlier in the episode, to offer them a lift around the garage. They all get in the woman's car and drive off, but the women soon kicks them out after George said something to the woman that makes her explode in anger (the viewers are not told exactly what George said to the woman, but it had something to do with L. Ron Hubbard). Then by luck, the gang is dropped off right by Kramer's car but unfortunately, Kramer, who has the keys, is still lost somewhere in the garage. Hours pass by as George, Jerry and Elaine wai. Finally, Kramer shows up, having gone on his own hunt for the air conditioner. Elaine's goldfish do not survive and as they all get in the car, the engine fails to turn over.
2. The Tape

George orders a baldness remedy from China. Elaine anonymously leaves an erotic message on Jerry's tape recorder which Jerry, George, and Kramer become obsessed with. Elaine admits to George that she was the sexy voice in the tape. George is shocked to hear this and suddenly becomes attracted to her, but does not tell Elaine about it. Elaine makes George promise not to tell her confession to Jerry or Kramer. Meanwhile, Kramer is making his own home videos by recording whatever Jerry, George and Elaine are doing. George finds it hard to control his obsession with Elaine and finally blurts out to Elaine that he is attracted to her, in front of Jerry and Kramer. Elaine finds this news disturbing and then realizes that Jerry and Kramer have become attracted to her too. Freaked out, Elaine immediately leaves Jerry's apartment.
3. The Contest

The four main characters – Elaine Benes, Cosmo Kramer, George Costanza and Jerry Seinfeld – make a bet to see which one can go the longest without masturbating. It is one of the show's most notable and talked about episodes, and is notorious for its address of the taboo subject. The Contest begins with George telling the others that, "my mother caught me", and explains (without mentioning the word) that he was masturbating in his parent's house, while reading a Glamour magazine. After George's lack of self restraint is criticized by Jerry, George decides to make a bet with him for $100. Elaine and Kramer decide to join in (Elaine for $150, because as discussed, it is easier for a woman to not masturbate, as it is part of "the male's lifestyle"). Each character is confronted with a particular distraction throughout the show. John F. Kennedy Jr. is a distraction for Elaine, the naked woman across the street distracts Kramer and Jerry, and the patient receiving the sponge bath is George's distraction. The first to be eliminated is Kramer, almost immediately. The second is Elaine. The way the show demonstrates someone has lost the contest is by showing the character enjoying a good night's sleep at the end of the day. Also, Kramer and subsequently Elaine are shown publicly placing their money on Jerry's counter as soon as they had lost.
The winner is not actually confirmed in the episode, although circumstances suggest it was George. This was confirmed in both the season five episode "The Puffy Shirt" and the season six episode "The Race". However, in the final episode, it is revealed that George had actually cheated during The Contest, therefore, making Jerry the true winner.
4. The Implant

Jerry dumps his girlfriend Sidra (played by Teri Hatcher) after Elaine says her figure is the result of breast implants. Kramer claims to have seen Salman Rushdie at the health club. By accident, Elaine later discovers the breasts are real when she trips and grabs them for balance.
George accompanies his current girlfriend (Megan Mullally) 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. He argues at the funeral reception with his girlfriend's brother Timmy (Kieran Mulroney) when accused of double dipping a chip.
5. The Hamptons

The four principal characters travel to the Hamptons to see a baby; they find that the baby is altogether ugly. Kramer finds a filled lobster trap and thinks the catch belongs to him. George's girlfriend goes topless when he goes out to get tomatoes; and George is seen naked by Jerry's girlfriend Rachel, to whom he tries vainly to explain that, having just gotten out of the cold water, he is a victim of penile "shrinkage." Elaine is thrilled to be termed "breathtaking" by a doctor (guest star Richard Burgi) until she finds he ascribes the same appellative to the baby. Kramer gets arrested for lobster poaching.
6. The Fusilli Jerry

At the street Elaine tells Jerry she is dating David Puddy, Jerry's mechanic; Elaine thinks of him like a Stanley Kowalski. George is having lunch with his mother, Estelle Costanza, at Monk's. She says she is going for an eye job now that she is separated from Frank ("The Chinese Woman"). Kramer, who has plenty of free time, can pick her up after the operation, and as soon as he gets his new license plates.
At the Department of Motor Vehicles office, Kramer receives someone else's vanity plates which read "ASSMAN". Elaine is shown at bed with David Puddy.
At Monk's, Elaine discusses with Jerry how David Puddy used Jerry's "move" on her while making love. While Jerry says he will prohibit Puddy from doing it anymore, Elaine rectifies saying she liked it and that it wasn't even the same one, as Jerry ended with a "swirl" and David with a "pinch".
At the street George tells Jerry he needs a move to perform with his new girlfriend, Nancy. At the apartment, Jerry finishes explaining the ending of his move which is ad libitum: it can be a pinch but Jerry prefers the clockwise swirl. Kramer enters presenting Jerry with a small statue of him made with fusilli pasta, a "Fusilli Jerry"; he says he is also working on a "Ravioli George". About his ASSMAN plates, Kramer believes that the real owner is a proctologist. He tells Jerry and George that if they ever meet a proctologist at a party, they should stand nearby to be assured of hearing a funny story that will inevitably end with someone claiming "It was a million-to-one shot, Doc".
Jerry confronts Puddy at his workshop, calling him a "hack", about "the move". They have a falling out, and Jerry is prompted to take his car to another mechanic.
George upsets his girlfriend when trying to perform "the move" in bed ("it feels like aliens poking at my body"). Puddy cannot continue doing his move with Elaine because of what Jerry told him. George's mother, Estelle, goes to the doctor and is told she must not cry in 10 days. When going to pick her up, Kramer makes the best of the situation, using the plates to convince a parking lot security guard that he is a proctologist entitled to use a doctors-only space. While driving home the plates elicit cheers and catcalls from passing drivers. When they hit a pothole Kramer reaches across Estelle's chest to brace her, making Estelle think that Kramer is making a pass at her.
At the apartment Jerry says George probably screwed the progression of "the move". Jerry receives a phone call from his new mechanic about an estimate, and he thinks they are overcharging him. Elaine comes with the news that, thanks to Jerry, Puddy won't use "the move" again; since, Puddy has settled on a poor move that involves a "knuckle", and George recognizes it as his own move. Jerry wants Elaine to covertly find from Puddy how much would it be to fix his car. Kramer, the assman, arrives with Sally, his new big-butted girlfriend.
Estelle and Frank start fighting when she retells what Kramer did. Frank recognizes the "stop short and grab" as his move; he sets to find Kramer. Elaine, at bed with Puddy, makes him questions about gaskets and prices. George has just performed great with Nancy; however, she inquires him about the writings in his palm. She discovers he had crib notes and kicks him out; he argues it was a complicated move but it was not like the SAT exam.
Jerry tells Elaine he is going back to Puddy, and that Puddy can now use any move he wants since the value of a good mechanic is better than sex. Frank Costanza arrives looking for Kramer, and they briefly argue over the Bro or Manssier ("The Doorman"). George arrives just in time to see how his father falls over the Fusilli Jerry.
At the doctor's office Jerry, George and Elaine shift uncomfortably in their seats at the thought of "corkscrew pasta". Kramer spots a picture on the wall of the doctor's boat with the name "ASSMAN" on it. Kramer asks the proctologist if his plates got mixed up and whether he is the "assman"; the doctor winks back. In a voice-over, Frank is heard saying, "It was a million-to-one shot, Doc."
In the last scene, George takes his father to his mother's home. She can't hold herself and starts crying.
7. The Rye

Elaine dates a jazz saxophonist and Jerry tells one of the band members that the saxophonist and Elaine are "hot and heavy." Susan's parents meet and have dinner with the Costanzas for the first time, where both families obsess over a loaf of rye bread that wasn't served with the meal, which Frank takes back home. George thinks that by getting Susan's parents out of the apartment for one evening, he can get a new rye and place it in the kitchen, making it appear as though it had always been there. Kramer takes over a friend's horse-drawn carriage for a week and feeds the horse Beef-A-Reeno, the same night he is scheduled to take Susan's parents on a handsome cab ride. The plans fall back when neither Kramer nor Susan's parents can bear the smell emitted by the Rusty the Horse after consuming an entire can of Beef-A-Reeno. Furthermore, the bakery sells the last rye to an elderly women who refused to sell it to Jerry for fifty dollars. Jerry then follows the woman down the street in order to obtain the marble rye loaf, though she still refuses to sell it. When she refuses to give it to him, he steals it from her. By now the Rosses have returned and the only way George can retrieve the Rye is by fishing it out of Jerry's hands from a third story window. He is eventually caught by Susan and her parents, thus ruining his carefully concieved plan.
8. The Serenity Now

Frank is advised to say "serenity now" aloud every time his blood pressure is in danger of going up, however he yells it instead. Jerry's girlfriend gives his Knicks tickets away. She comments that she has never seen him get "real mad." George gets Kramer to help him fix his parents' screen door. They remove the old door and Kramer takes it with him. Frank is selling personal computers; he wants to bring George into his business. Mr. Lippman's son takes advantage of "becoming a man" at his bar mitzvah to tongue-kiss Elaine.
Kramer installs the screen door outside his apartment to give his apartment "the cool evening breezes of Anytown, USA," and turns his hallway into a small town front porch, complete with barbecue grill, lawn chairs, potted plants, and American flag. One of the all-time classic Seinfeld scenes occurs when Kramer sits on his porch with the "fireworks" (a sparkler). His first impulse is to quit but George decides it is finally time to take on his arch-rival, Lloyd Braun, who Frank has also hired to sell computers. When Jerry learns how to get mad, it releases all his other feelings, including caring and another that results in a proposal.
Kramer fights with the neighborhood kids of "Anytown, USA." George tells Elaine she is attractive to the Lippman men because of her "shiksappeal." The result gets her two Lippman men who want to renounce Judaism. George hatches a scheme to sell more computers; however, continual use of the phrase "serenity now" has an adverse effect on his sales. The release of emotions from George has an impact on emotional Jerry. Jerry asks Elaine to marry him. George stores computers in Kramer's apartment. Kramer has a nervous breakdown and breaks the computers. Elaine seeks help from the rabbi to see if she can reduce her "shiksappeal."
9. The Dealership

Jerry plans to buy a car with an insider deal from David Puddy, who has been promoted to a car salesman. George warns Jerry to watch out for deceptive car dealers. Kramer takes the car Jerry is planning to buy for a test drive with another salesman. Elaine returns from a lunch with Puddy at Arby's. Puddy offers Jerry a "high five." Kramer misses the turn to go back to the dealership; instead, he plans to give the car a full test of a Kramer daily routine. Hungry, George seeks out something to eat and must settle for a vending-machine candy bar. Only he can't get one from the machine with a crinkled dollar bill so he asks a mechanic (who he knows has a crisp dollar) for assistance and is refused service. Finally, when he gets the correct change, the Twix bar fails to drop, staying in the machine. With his errands run, Kramer's next test is to take the car to the limits of its fuel tank. Irritated, George seeks assistance from a salesman. When they return to the machine, the Twix bar George had hanging and the one behind it are gone. George suspects the mechanic. Elaine and Puddy have a fight and break up. Jerry's insider deal is off. George confronts the mechanic. Jerry wants George to help him get a good deal; however, George is only interested in getting back at the mechanic. The car salesman riding with Kramer really gets into driving below empty. George tries to complain about the mechanic, but gets into a debate about candy bars. In an attempt to get a great deal on his car, Jerry tries to put Elaine and Puddy "in a relationship today." George sets up a candy bar lineup, to implicate the mechanic, only to find his lineup being eaten. Elaine and Puddy get back together and Jerry is going to get his deal, until Puddy says "high five" to Jerry, one time too many. Kramer and the salesman, with the dealership in sight, decide instead to go for it. Just 5 more miles, no turning back!!
10. The Frogger

is confronted with cake from two separate celebrations at her workplace. She is tired of the forced socializing, so she calls in sick the following day. Jerry and George go to their old high school hangout, Mario's Pizza Parlor, which will soon be closing down, for one last slice of pie. Kramer was at the police station where he obtained some caution tape used for crime scenes and also hears about a serial killer that is on the loose in the Riverside Park area.
At the pizza parlor, George discovers he still has the high score on the old Frogger video game, with a score of 860,630 points. Elaine's co-workers give her a cake to celebrate her return to work from being sick, and she refuses to take part in any future celebrations. Jerry goes out on a date with Elaine's friend Lisi, but he says she is a "sentence finisher, it's like dating Mad Libs." After lamenting that his shrine will be gone, George decides to buy the Frogger machine to preserve his fame, but Jerry asks him how he is going to move it and keep it plugged in to preserve the high score. Kramer discovers the last victim of the serial killer looked a lot like Jerry.
George works to find a solution to his Frogger problem, and Kramer volunteers the help of a man he knows named "Slippery Pete". Elaine misses the 4 o'clock sugar rush that she had gotten used to from all the celebrations, so she decides to raid her boss Peterman's refrigerator, where she finds a piece of cake. She finds out from Peterman that the piece of cake he has in his refrigerator is worth $29,000 because of its historical significance. The cake comes from the 1937 wedding of King Edward VIII.
Jerry is looking to breakup with Lisi, but discovers that she lives in the Riverside Park area. To avoid the serial killer, he takes Lisi back to his place, where she finishes one of his thoughts that takes their relationship to the next level. Elaine tells Jerry and George about the cake and she also tells Jerry that Lisi is planning a weekend trip for them to Pennsylvania Dutch country. Jerry fears that Lisi received the wrong message as that kind of a trip is for a serious relationship. Elaine tries to even out Peterman's slice of cake, but gets swept up in the moment and finishes it off. George tries to coordinate the movement of the Frogger machine. Elaine looks for a replacement for Peterman's cake, and Kramer suggests an Entenmann's cake. Jerry goes to Lisi's apartment, where he tries to break up with her. It goes on for ten hours, when he is ready to leave he discovers it is dark.
After exiting her apartment, Jerry sees a man whom he fears is the serial killer and pleads to be let back in to Lisi's apartment. Peterman has his piece of cake appraised at $2.19. George finds "Slippery Pete" playing his Frogger game on battery power, so there is only about three minutes of power remaining. The only available power source is across the busy street, and Kramer has run out of caution tape. George, convinced he does not need any help, begins moving the machine across the busy street, moving through traffic like the frog from the video game. However, as George reaches the opposite sidewalk, an oncoming semi-truck smashes the game cabinet, causing Jerry to quip, "Game over".
Later, Peterman shows Elaine surveillance videotape of her eating and "dancing" with the slice of cake; he is convinced that the age of the cake and its effect on her digestive system are all the punishment she needs.
Benefit
OH, god, I love Seinfeld...I would have to add the to the list the one where Kramer and Mickey do the "illnesses" for the medical students....I loved it when Kramer walked in to Jerry's house and said, "Well, I got gonorrhea." And Elaine says "That seems about right."
1Elaine's Christmas card picture with her nip exposed is one of my faves. Oh and Bubble Boy.
2I love when Elaine dances. I could watch that all day.
3My all time fav's are the parking garage 'I don't carry a pen...i could punture my scrotum', the contest, the one where Elaine dances 'more like a full body dry heve', and anyone where 'hello Newman' takes place
jen
4This will take some serious thought and consideration. I have a few seasons on DVD and I must say they have the best extras out of any DVD I have ever bought.
I think my fave eppy is the "Suze" one....only because I am constantly quoting different lines from it
5It's SuzIE.
6Are you describing someone you know???
7Oh my, all good choices Whip.
When asked, The Contest always jumps out to me. I also like the Chinese restaurant one, done in real time, lol.
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8"We're forced to bed, But we're free to dream" Gord Downie
The Chinese restaurant eppy was almost on my list but it didn't make the final cut.
9My son loves The Glasses, just because he loves to hear Kramer say "all hopped up on cinnamon swirls" ! lol
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10"We're forced to bed, But we're free to dream" Gord Downie
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