The worst episodes of Seinfeld

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  1. 01

    S07E19 · April 4, 1996 · 30m

    The Wig Master7.0

    Susan's friends are in town for the Broadway production of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Kramer gets to wear the coat and is mistaken for a pimp in public when he accuses a local parking lot of running a prostitution ring out of his car. Jerry buys a jacket and later returns it for spite. Elaine tries to buy a dress from the same guy Jerry gets the jacket from, but is stunned to learn that he's holding it until Elaine sleeps with him.

  2. 02

    S03E22 · April 22, 1992 · 30m

    The Parking Space7.3

    Coming from an outing to a flea market in New Jersey, Elaine and George damage Jerry's car when George drives over a large pothole. When they get to his apartment they end up spending the whole day arguing over a parking space. Elaine meanwhile has to come with a story about the damage to the car.

  3. 03

    S04E01 · August 12, 1992 · 30m

    The Trip (1)7.3

    When Jerry is asked to appear on The Tonight Show in Los Angeles, George accompanies him to look for Kramer.

  4. 04

    S05E13 · February 3, 1994 · 30m

    The Dinner Party7.3

    En route to a dinner party, Jerry and Elaine stop off at a bakery and get held up when the bakery runs out of what they want to purchase. Meanwhile, George and Kramer, en route to said dinner party, stop off at a liquor store to buy a bottle of wine and have a hard time picking one out.

  5. 05

    S07E08 · November 16, 1995 · 30m

    The Pool Guy7.3

    Jerry has a hard time telling the pool guy at his new health club that there isn't room for a 5th member of the group. George's worlds collide when Elaine starts hanging out with Susan. Kramer discovers that his phone number is one digit off from that of a popular movie-finding service and offers help to those that mistakenly call his number.

  6. 06

    S01E04 · June 14, 1990 · 30m

    Male Unbonding7.4

    Jerry ponders a few courses of action when he sees that he no longer has anything in common with a clingy and obnoxious childhood friend. George has trouble with his latest relationship. Kramer has the idea to open a chain of pizza parlors where you make your own pizza pie.

  7. 07

    S01E02 · May 31, 1990 · 30m

    The Stakeout7.6

    When Jerry goes to a birthday party with Elaine, he meets a woman he'd like to ask out, but doesn't get the chance to. When she leaves before he gets a chance to find out her name, he and George stakeout her office building.

  8. 08

    S02E10 · May 16, 1991 · 30m

    The Baby Shower7.6

    When Jerry goes out of town, Elaine uses his apartment for the baby shower of a woman George once dated. However, the party goes awry when Kramer shows up to install illegal cable, Jerry's trip is cancelled, and George intends to confront the mother-to-be for mistreating him on their date years earlier.

  9. 09

    S03E23 · May 6, 1992 · 30m

    The Keys7.6

    Jerry is fed up with Kramer coming into his apartment any time he feels like it and asks him to return his spare set of keys. Kramer begrudgingly complies but then lets it be known that he's leaving for California. When Jerry forgets his keys, he gets George to let him into Elaine's apartment so her can get his spare set.

  10. 10

    S04E09 · November 4, 1992 · 30m

    The Opera7.6

    Elaine unknowingly is dating Crazy Joe Davola, who has just left a threatening message on Jerry's recorder.

  11. 11

    S08E09 · November 21, 1996 · 30m

    The Abstinence7.6

    Abstinence allows George to become a genius, but it turns Elaine into an idiot. Jerry gets bumped from career day at his old Jr. High School. Kramer turns his apartment into a smoking lounge and all the smoke disfigures his face.

  12. 12

    S08E16 · February 20, 1997 · 30m

    The Pothole7.6

    Jerry accidentally drops his girlfriends toothbrush in the toilet. George loses his car keys in a newly paved pothole. Elaine orders food from a restaurant that refuses to deliver to her area. Kramer adopts a highway.

  13. 13

    S01E05 · June 21, 1990 · 30m

    The Stock Tip7.7

    Jerry and George invest based on an insider stock tip, but then lose touch with their inside source. A nervous Jerry lets the declining stock ruin his weekend away with Vanessa, while George decides he's all in.

  14. 14

    S02E01 · January 23, 1991 · 30m

    The Ex-Girlfriend7.7

    Jerry begins to date George's ex - girlfriend before he discovers how clingy she is. Meanwhile George refuses to pay a physical therapist, convinced he did nothing and Elaine has a run - in with a friend who has stopped saying "hello" to her.

  15. 15

    S02E02 · January 30, 1991 · 30m

    The Pony Remark7.7

    Jerry worries that he may have killed an old relative, after he offends her with an off-the-cuff comment about hating kids who had ponies growing up.

  16. 16

    S09E20 · May 7, 1998 · 30m

    The Puerto Rican Day7.7

    Jerry, George, Kramer and Elaine get stuck in standstill traffic due to the massive Puerto Rican Day Parade.

  17. 17

    S01E03 · June 7, 1990 · 30m

    The Robbery7.8

    When Jerry's apartment gets robbed, he decides to move out. George shows him a great apartment, which he plans to take… that is, until George expresses his own desire for the apartment.

  18. 18

    S02E09 · May 2, 1991 · 30m

    The Deal7.8

    Jerry and Elaine establish a new set of ground rules so they can remain friends but still sleep with each other often. With Jerry in a dilemma to find Elaine an "appropriate" birthday gift and with George's skepticism, their new deal is doomed from the start.

  19. 19

    S03E04 · October 9, 1991 · 30m

    The Dog7.8

    When a fellow airline passenger is sent to hospital, Jerry gets stuck watching his unruly dog for several days. With Jerry stuck in his apartment, George and Elaine discover they have very little to talk about on their own. Meanwhile, Kramer has difficulty breaking up with his girlfriend.

  20. 20

    S03E10 · November 27, 1991 · 30m

    The Stranded7.8

    Jerry & Elaine go to a party with George, while there they send signals to each other to get out of bad party conversations. Afterward, George abandons them there, when he leaves with a co-worker he has a chance with. Jerry & Elaine keeping the hosts up real late, while waiting for Kramer to come and pick them up. The host later takes Jerry up on his offer to drop by when he is in the city, just as Jerry is leaving. He stays in Jerry's apartment for the evening and parties with Kramer and a lady of the evening. Later George pays the price for his romance in the workplace (he must quit) and he tries to shoplift at the drug store where he says they still owe him ten dollars.

  21. 21

    S03E11 · December 4, 1991 · 30m

    The Alternate Side7.8

    Jerry's car is stolen and the criminal picks up his car phone. George decides to take a fill-in job moving cars from one side of the street to the other; this turns into a disaster for local traffic flow. Kramer gets a chance to do a line in a Woody Allen film; "these pretzels are making me thirsty." Elaine gets tired of her 66-year-old boyfriend and when she is about to break up with him, he has a stroke.

  22. 22

    S04E02 · August 19, 1992 · 30m

    The Trip (2)7.8

    Kramer is arrested when he is mistaken for a serial killer. After he is exonerated, Jerry, George, and he return to New York.

  23. 23

    S04E05 · September 23, 1992 · 30m

    The Wallet (1)7.8

    Jerry is asked to explain to his parents why he does not wear the watch they gave him. Morty Seinfeld thinks his wallet to have been stolen from him at his doctor's appointment.

  24. 24

    S04E06 · September 30, 1992 · 30m

    The Watch (2)7.8

    Jerry tries to buy his watch back from Uncle Leo, who found it in the garbage, having been thrown there by Jerry. George tries to resurrect the fledgling NBC deal, while Elaine plans a break up from her psychotherapist with Kramer's help.

  25. 25

    S04E07 · October 7, 1992 · 30m

    The Bubble Boy7.8

    Jerry agrees to visit a boy who lives in a plastic bubble on the way to Susan's parents' cabin. Jerry and Elaine, however, get lost; George and Susan visit the bubble boy instead, which later results in a fight after a misprint in Trivial Pursuit.

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