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Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 7, Episode 24, “The Invitations”. Seinfeld Post Show Recaps: The Invitations Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur didn’t get cheap on this two hour action-packed recap of Seinfeld. This week they breakdown the epic season seven finale “The Invitations”, which was written by Larry David himself in his final episode with the show until the series finale. This also marked the end of Jerry’s standup to open or close the show. George’s Storyline – George has the wedding coming up fast, and he couldn’t be more panicked. He’s been unenthusiastic, and skimps on the wedding preparations along the way, including picking low grade wedding invitations. After explaining to Jerry that he can’t psych himself up enough to just break it off with her, Jerry and Elaine give him some ideas that could lead to Susan calling it off, though he can’t pull any of them off. He arrives home feeling hopeless, but discovers Susan lying unconscious on the floor. At the hospital, he learns that Susan has died from toxic glue on the wedding invitation envelopes. The episode ends with George trying to set up a date with Marisa Tomei the day after the funeral, but is hung up on immediately. Grade: Akiva – A+, Rob – A+ Jerry’s Storyline – Jerry is starting to worry about growing old with just Kramer now that George is getting married. So distressed over this idea, he nearly gets hit by a car walking down the street, when a woman named Jeannie pulls him out of the way just in time. After talking to Jeannie for a bit, he realizes she is exactly like him, and he’s in love. He’s so overcome by this, he decides to ask her to marry him, and she says yes. He, much like George after he got engaged, is instantaneously remorseful. This is further exasperated when Susan dies, and now Jerry is the only one getting married. Grade: Akiva – A-, Rob A Elaine’s Storyline – Elaine is offended that as such as close friend, she’s not part of the wedding party. George asks Susan if Elaine can be an usher, but she shoots the idea down quickly, not wanting a female usher. Throughout the episode she gives George some ideas on how to turn off Susan to the point she calls off the wedding, but George couldn’t pull off the smoking without getting ill. Grade: Akiva – inc, Rob – inc. Kramer’s Storyline – Kramer notices that the bank down the street is offering $100 if their staff doesn’t say hello. When he tries to collect the money on a technicality, he’s denied and decides to come back to talk to the manager. The manager meets with his staff to discuss the situation, and decide to give Kramer $20 since he got a greeting that begins with H. Kramer’s only tie in to the main plot line was when he accidentally called Susan Lilly, causing her to demote him from being an usher. Grade: Akiva – D, Rob – B Episode Ranking – 46 (Rob was thinking top 9) Emails – Johnny De Silveira pointed out how they have podcasted about Seinfeld for 173 hours 31 minutes and 17 seconds up to now. Roger emailed in with a story about how he worked with a woman who was scared to lick envelopes after watching this episode. Dr. Thomas thought the doctor’s bedside manner was almost as bad as the gang’s response to Susan’s death. Jeff wondered if either of them dated a woman exactly like them. Lindsay wondered if either of them helped with their wedding planning. Dan the benefactor thought Kramer was more accurate than the bank manager in the type of wood the desk was, and noted that they’ve raised $667 to the charity so far. Matt asked how many different boxes of cereal is acceptable to have in the cabinet. Courtney and Cendall asked what their biggest deal breaker would be in a relationship. Craig thought perhaps Susan only gets her parents’ wealth if she’s married. Finally, Chester asked why Susan’s parents aren’t paying for the wedding, and why didn’t George file a lawsuit against the invitation maker for the poisonous glue. Rob and Akiva have a separate podcast over on Rob Has A Podcast where they discuss Big Brother: The All Seinfeld Edition. Tune in next week as the guys will recap the first episode of season eight, “The Foundation”. Send in your questions by emailing [email protected]. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast by going to postshowrecaps.com/seinfeldITunes where you can rate and review the podcast. You can get a discussion going about the podcast by leaving a comment on the show page, and as always, you can follow them on Twitter @robcesternino and @keev26.   Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Poin

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 7, Episode 23, “The Wait Out”. Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Point

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 7, Episodes 21 & 22, “The Bottle Deposit”. Seinfeld Post Show Recaps: The Bottle Deposit (part one and two) You don’t have to outbid Sue Ellen Mischke to get the latest Seinfeld Post Show Recap with Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur. This week, they discuss “The Bottle Deposit”, in which both parts aired May 2, 1996 as an hour long episode for season seven. The episode was written by Gregg Kavet and Andy Robin. George’s Storyline – George is scolded by Wilhelm for not paying attention enough at work. When he is giving him an assignment, Wilhelm ducks into the bathroom, but George doesn’t follow right away. When he finally walks in, Wilhelm had kept talking, so George has no idea what the assignment was. Despite many attempts to learn what he was supposed to be doing, George never finds out. When going to confess, Wilhelm thanks him for doing a great job on the assignment, much to George’s confusion. When Steinbrenner reads the report Wilhelm turned in, he assumes George is crazy and has him committed. Grade: Akiva – A, Rob – A Jerry’s Storyline – Jerry has to take his car to the mechanic after loaning it to Kramer. Tony the mechanic gives Jerry a hard time about how he’s taking care of it. When he goes to the shop to get Peterman’s golf clubs out of the backseat, he gets in an argument with Tony, who decides to steal the car. While on the run, Tony calls Jerry to let him know he took the car because Jerry doesn’t deserve it. He and Elaine actually go to a crime scene to identify the car, but it was not his. Tony ends up getting away from Kramer’s chase by throwing the JFK golf clubs at the mail truck. Grade: Akiva – B, Rob – C+ Elaine’s Storyline – Elaine is tasked by Peterman to bid on a set of golf clubs once used by President Kennedy. When Sue Ellen Mischke is there, the two get in a bidding war, with Elaine spending twice the authorized amount to win them. Peterman wasn’t happy, and was less happy when the clubs were in the back of Jerry’s stolen car. After Tony tossed all the clubs at the tailing mail truck, they were mostly destroyed. Though when Elaine brought them to Peterman, he just believed that they were destroyed as the result of Kennedy’s temper. Grade: Akiva – B, Rob – B- Kramer’s Storyline – Kramer gets roped into a bottle deposit scam with Newman when he tells Kramer they can use a mail truck for free. After collecting enough to make a good profit, they set off to Michigan to turn them in for double the deposit. On the way, they spot Jerry’s stolen car and decide to chase it, though they have to dump all the cans, and eventually Newman, to keep up speed. When the truck breaks down after Tony threw the clubs at it, Kramer gathers them and finds Newman running from a man with a shotgun. Grade: Akiva – A, Rob – A Episode Ranking – 67 Emails – Johnny De Silveira shared how Wayne Knight experienced heart palpitations after filming the chase scene, which led him to start leading a healthier lifestyle over the next few years. Lindsay, who Rob got to meet at the live taping in New York, asked if either of them ever attended a live auction. Dan the benefactor asked if they thought Kramer should have stopped to pick up the JFK clubs, or continue chasing the mechanic. Courtney and Cendall asked if Kramer chasing after the mechanic was the nicest thing he does in the whole series. Pat from Ohio noted that Jerry’s car comes equipped with fuel injection, so the muffin wouldn’t get sucked up. Matt found it lazy of the editors to have the shot of Kramer and Newman on the road be the same section of road each time. Shawn Falconer wrote in to share that he is engaged and both Rob and Akiva are invited to the wedding. Caleb thought that you can’t blame George for not following Wilhelm into the bathroom. Craig thought Kramer kicking Newman out the truck is the worst thing he’s ever done. Amir liked how we got to see one of Kramer’s schemed getting hatched. Chester thought it made no sense for either Elaine or Jerry to leave anything in the backseat of a car Tune in next week as the guys will recap “The Wait Out”. Send in your questions by emailing [email protected]. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast by going to postshowrecaps.com/seinfeldITunes where you can rate and review the podcast. You can get a discussion going about the podcast by leaving a comment on the show page, and as always, you can follow them on Twitter @robcesternino and @keev26.   Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Point

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 7, Episode 20, “The Calzone”. Seinfeld Post Show Recaps: The Calzone Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur just got their clothes out of the oven and are ready to bring you another recap of the iconic 90s sitcom, Seinfeld. This week, they discuss “The Calzone”, which first aired April 25, 1996 as part of season seven. The episode was written by Alec Berg and Jeff Schaffer. George’s Storyline – When George brings in a calzone to a meeting, Steinbrenner loves it so much, he orders George to bring him one everyday and have lunch with him. Soon enough, George gets banned from the calzone place for a misunderstanding with the tip jar. He enlists Newman’s help to get the calzones to Steinbrenner, but it immediately fails when Newman doesn’t show because he doesn’t work in the rain. Desperate, he tries to get Kramer to go, but he’s kicked out for trying to pay for the calzone all in change. Grade: Akiva – A, Rob – A- Jerry’s Storyline – Jerry starts dating a woman name Nicki who is so attractive, she is able to get anything she wants, and get out of any trouble. Jerry uses this to his advantage for a while, but backfires when he sends her to get actual Cuban cigars from Todd Gack, but she ends up falling for his dating loophole and Jerry loses her. He gets a small amount of revenge for that though when he sends Kramer to pay for the cigars with a bag of change. Grade: Akiva – A- , Rob – C+ Elaine’s Storyline – Elaine is going on a date with a guy Todd Gack, who lost a bet to her when he tried to say Dustin Hoffman was in Star Wars. Despite doing everything from asking her out again, introducing her to his parents, and kissing her he insists that they are not dating. She fights this dating loophole every step of the way, until ultimately Todd uses the same trick on Jerry’s girlfriend Nicki. Grade: Akiva – A-, Rob – C+ Kramer’s Storyline – Kramer is fixated with wearing clothes right out of the dryer, so much so that he’s gathered up all the change he can find to fulfill his habit. When the inconvenience of running down to the laundry room every time takes its toll, he discovers he can get the same results by putting the clothes in the oven. When George enlists him to get the calzones for Mr. Steinbrenner, he convinces the clerk at Paisanos to put his wet clothes in the oven, but they end up burning. Grade: Akiva – B, Rob – A Episode Ranking – 56 Emails – Johnny De Silveira thought George should have given his tip in change so it could have been heard. Craig asked if either of them have a specific meal they like to have at a specific time. Courtney and Cendall have a bet with each other for how many calzones he could eat. Hunter pointed out how terrific Wayne Knight was in this episode. Dan the benefactor had some interesting details about how much $300 in change would way. Lindsay wondered if walking one to the door is considered dating behavior. Pat in Ohio thought George could just have the calzones delivered. Caleb asked what the most expensive thing either of them bought with all change. Matt wondered why Wilhelm wasn’t in the meeting. Colin the pizza delivery guy noted how usually people are showy about their tipping. Finally Chester. He first noted that Jerry’s theory about Todd Gack’s dating loophole is exactly a storyline used for George later in the series. He also pointed out how Newman has been seen doing his route in the city, so how is it now all the way out in the Bronx. Before signing off, they read some of their ITunes reviews. Tune in next week as the guys will recap both parts of “The Bottle Deposit”. Send in your questions by emailing [email protected]. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast by going to postshowrecaps.com/seinfeldITunes where you can rate and review the podcast. You can get a discussion going about the podcast by leaving a comment on the show page, and as always, you can follow them on Twitter @robcesternino and @keev26.   Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Point

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 7, Episode 19, “The Wigmaster”. Seinfeld Post Show Recaps: The Wig Master Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur never bring us a podcast out of spite, particularly this week as they bring us “The Wig Master”, which first aired April 4, 1996 as part of season seven. The episode was written by Spike Feresten, of “The Soup Nazi” fame. George’s Storyline – George spends the episode trying to figure out what strange things are going on at the long term parking lot where he’s been keeping his car. Between the car not being available to him, Kramer finding a condom on the passenger side floorboard, and of course the scantily clad ladies seemingly open for business hanging around. When he tries to pay one of the ladies for more information, Susan walks up and sees him giving her money. Grade: Akiva – C-, Rob – C- Jerry’s Storyline – Jerry is interested in buying a new blazer, but when he uses the excuse that he wants his friend’s opinion, the salesman thinks he’s lying. Jerry decides to bring Elaine along to prove he wasn’t lying, but she is enamored with the salesman, so she doesn’t let him off the hook, actually encouraging Jerry to buy it. Later on, he decides he’s going to return the jacket out of spite, but when he tells another sales clerk that, they don’t let him return it. Grade: Akiva – B , Rob – B- Elaine’s Storyline – Elaine ends up dating a salesman that was showing Jerry blazers at a fancy clothing store. He draws her interest further by promising her a discount on a dress, but she’ll have to wait for a new shipment to come in. When it takes longer than expected, she asks one of the other sales people about the shipment, only to be told they actually have that dress in her size in stock. Out of retaliation, she decides to cut off the salesman’s pony tail. Grade: Akiva – B, Rob – C Kramer’s Storyline – Kramer has a couple of storylines in this episode. First, he is unable to get his car out of the Jiffy Parking lot, leaving him without keys to his apartment. He ends up staying at Jerry’s, though the couch is too small, so they share Jerry’s bed. He also meets Susan’s friend, the wig master, and through one of his friends, he’s able to wear one of the “dream coats” from the play they are working on. The two stories collide when Kramer is falsely arrested as a pimp at the Jiffy Lot when he’s fighting with one of the prostitutes while wearing the dream coat. Grade: Akiva – B, Rob – B- Episode Ranking – 118 Emails – Johnny De Silveira asked why George and Kramer are the only ones who care about the prostitution going on at the Jiffy Park. Courtney and Cendall asked if the guys have ever had cool hair styles. Dan the benefactor thought Kramer might have taken the spare keys from Jerry last week after getting tossed in the Hudson River. Evan noticed that Ian appeared as a chef that was preparing Russell’s pasta primavera. Mark remarked how the Jiffy Park attendant appears later on as an employee at Jiffy Dump. Lindsay asked if they have any good annoying houseguest stories. Hunter wondered if they have gone “way out and wild” with anyone. Craig thought Seinfeld did his namesake a disservice in this episode. Amir wondered why the blazer storyline wasn’t written for George, and noted that George could have got out of the engagement easy with getting caught with the prostitute. Lastly, Chester noted that staying with someone in Manhattan for two weeks is insane. He also asked why Jerry would write a check to pay for the blazer. Finally Chester noted that this episode should be ranked much higher. Tune in next week as the guys will recap both parts of “The Calzone”. Send in your questions by emailing [email protected]. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast by going to postshowrecaps.com/seinfeldITunes where you can rate and review the podcast. You can get a discussion going about the podcast by leaving a comment on the show page, and as always, you can follow them on Twitter @robcesternino and @keev26. Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Point

Listen to the Podcast: Seinfeld Post Show Recap: The Doll Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur hope each week that their Seinfeld recap podcasts don’t fall on deaf ears. This time they break down “The Friars Club”, which first aired March 7, 1996 as part of season seven. The episode was written by David Mandel. George’s Storyline – George had the smallest storyline he’s had in several seasons. He spends the episode trying to promote Susan’s friend Hallie as an ideal mate for Jerry, but really his efforts are to get Jerry locked into couples life with him. He tries his best to sway Jerry when he becomes sour about Hallie (referred to by Akiva throughout as Hannah), but it was to no avail. Grade: Akiva – inc., Rob – C Jerry’s Storyline – Jerry has several things happening in the episode. He’s excited to be set up with one of Susan’s friends. They go on a double date to a Friars Club dinner, where he has applied to become a member. He has to borrow one of their jackets to wear inside, but he forgets to return it. He wears it again when they all go on a double date to see The Flying Sandos Brothers, but the group takes his jacket as part of the show and ultimately loses it. Jerry quickly sours on Hallie when she doesn’t seem sad about the jacket. Grade: Akiva – B+ , Rob – C Elaine’s Storyline – Elaine has a new coworker that she suspects is milking his hearing deficiency to get out of work. She makes several attempts to catch him hearing, even eliciting Jerry’s help, but can’t prove it, so she ends up stuck doing the work he was supposed to. In one of her attempts to catch Bob, she fakes making a pass at him, but Peterman hears her. She ends up going to The Flying Sandos Brothers show with Bob at Peterman’s request, and Bob makes a shameless pass at her. Grade: Akiva – B, Rob – C Kramer’s Storyline – Kramer has decided to follow the pattern of De Vinci and only sleep 20 minutes every few hours for maximum efficiency. This puts a strain on his everyday life, as he randomly falls asleep at inopportune times. It culminates when he falls asleep while being romantic with his new girlfriend Connie, who has obvious mafia ties. She thinks he’s dead, so she calls “friends” to come dispose of the body. When Kramer wakes up in a bag floating down the river, he goes to the police to report her. Grade: Akiva – A-, Rob – B Episode Ranking – 105 Emails – Johnny De Silveira (an OG emailer) asked if they have had any crazy dreams. Courtney and Cendall (new regulars) wondered why Elaine didn’t persist with Bob. Evan (new emailer) asked if it was better to get out of work by pretending to be annoyed, or to not hear. Dan the benefactor (old regular) thought it was ridiculous that Kramer’s girlfriend wouldn’t check his breath or pulse. Lindsay (old regular) agreed with Jerry in not being enthusiastic about participating in the show. Caleb and Craig (new and old regular respectively) both wanted to change the episode title. Matt (new regular) asked if the Joey that Connie refers to could be Crazy Joe Devola. Kenny from England (new emailer) had his own take on how Kramer gets his money. Chester (an OG emailer) as usual had several hot takes and discrepancies. Tune in next week as the guys will recap both parts of “The Wig Master”. Send in your questions by emailing [email protected]. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast by going to postshowrecaps.com/seinfeldITunes where you can rate and review the podcast. You can get a discussion going about the podcast by leaving a comment on the show page, and as always, you can follow them on Twitter @robcesternino and @keev26. Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Point

Listen to the Podcast: Seinfeld Post Show Recap: The Doll Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur prove once again that they are the Pavarotti and Domingo of podcasting, churning out a new Seinfeld recap week after week. This time, they bring us “The Doll”, which first aired February 22, 1996 as part of season seven. The episode was written by the dynamic duo of Gammill and Pross. George’s Storyline – George spends the episode trying to avoid a creepy doll of Susan’s that looks just like his mother. When he brings the doll to show Jerry, Jerry acts like it’s not that creepy, though he shares with Elaine it is. George ends up yelling at the doll when he’s eating at the diner, then finally, Frank rips the doll’s head off when he thinks it’s Estelle yelling at him . Grade: Akiva – B-, Rob – A Jerry’s Storyline – Jerry has an appearance on The Charles Grodin Show, and finds a BBQ sauce bottle that closely resembles him while in Memphis. Because Susan’s friend Sally makes him carry a large present back to New York with him, the bottle breaks in his carryon that he has to stow above the seats. He has a chance to exact revenge on Sally by making her carry a case of it up with her on her flight, but she had an empty seat next to her, and she doesn’t even get the right bottle. Things come to a crashing conclusion for him at the show when Sally brings the wrong doll to him, then the other tenor uses Jerry’s pants as a napkin. Grade: Akiva – C, Rob – C- Elaine’s Storyline – Elaine uses needing a picture to show Frank a potential relative of his she saw in Tuscany as an opportunity to reconnect with Bob the maestro. When she learns that his favorite singer, the “other” guy of the three tenors, will be at Charles Grodin, she gets his autograph on a poster to make up for the one she accidentally ruined. When she brings it to him, he’s excited, but then immediately ruins it by spilling a bottle of wine on it. Grade: Akiva – D-, Rob – C- Kramer’s Storyline – Kramer is excited to try out Frank Costanza’s new billiard room, but soon discovers the room is too small to fully use the cues. When they meet up with the maestro and he comes over, they discover that his conductor baton works perfectly to avoid hitting the walls. While it was great for the game of pool, it ended up bending the baton, ruining Bob’s performance. Grade: Akiva – B-, Rob – C+ Episode Ranking – 131 Emails – Johnny De Silveira wondered what the Tuscan Costanza imported/exported. Courtney and Cendall wanted to offer a few other ideas for the name of Frank’s billiard room. Dominic wondered if pool is at it’s least popular. Travis asked if Jerry Stiller actually forgets the line “the place to be” and they left it in. Jeff P. gives kudos to the production for finding a shirt that George has actually worn for doll Estelle to criticize. Craig thought it was strange that the symphony couldn’t follow the maestro merely because of a bent conductor baton. Paul wondered if they have learned any podcasting tips like not wearing the pants to keep the crease. Dan the benefactor wondered why George would want to set up Jerry with Sally. Matt found it interesting that Frank has no interest in politics when he was so fond of Lloyd Braun. Evan noticed that Jerry’s appearance on Charles Grodin was not shown. Lindsay wondered if they have received terrible wedding gifts. Amir thought they should have a scene with Sally and Newman. Chester pointed out that Robert De Niro first did the pants off while sitting trick to preserve the crease. He also wondered why the maestro would be so interested in playing pool at Frank’s. Lastly he thought the roughness with the Estelle doll was a bit too much. Tune in next week as the guys will recap both parts of “The Friars Club”. Send in your questions by emailing [email protected]. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast by going to postshowrecaps.com/seinfeldITunes where you can rate and review the podcast. You can get a discussion going about the podcast by leaving a comment on the show page, and as always, you can follow them on Twitter @robcesternino and @keev26. Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Point

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 7, Episode 16, “The Shower Head”. Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Point

Listen to the Podcast: Seinfeld Post Show Recap: The Cadillac Part 1 & 2 Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur get together each week for their recap of the classic NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This time they discussed parts one and two of “The Cadillac”, which first aired February 8, 1996 as part of season seven. The episode was written by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, marking the last written episode for Jerry, and the 3rd to last for Larry. George’s Storyline – George learns that one of Elaine’s friends knows Marisa Tomei, who happens to be attracted to funny bald men. He becomes obsessed with the idea, even watching her movies so much it makes Susan jealous. He decides having coffee with Marisa wouldn’t be considered cheating, but Elaine’s friend is in the hospital, so he has to go there in order to get the phone number. While out on his date with Marisa, it’s going great until he reveals he actually is engaged, leading to him getting slapped, ruining the whole thing. Grade: Akiva B, Rob B+ Jerry’s Storyline – Jerry just got back from a gig that gave him one of his largest paydays, leading both Kramer and Elaine to think of him differently. He decides he is going to use the money to buy his dad a new Cadillac, but when he brings it to them, the flashy car creates doubt in the board of Del Boca Vista, with them thinking Morty is stealing funds to pay for the car. Despite their efforts to win over the board members, the deciding vote happens to be the elderly woman that Jerry stole the rye bread from a while back, so Helen and Morty get banished from the retirement community. Grade: B from both Elaine’s Storyline – Elaine suddenly becomes enamored with Jerry when she learns he is more well off than she imagined. She spends the whole episode trying to cozy up to Jerry, while simultaneously trying to deal with George asking her to get Marisa Tomei’s number from her friend who is sick in the hospital. Grade: Akiva B-, Rob C Kramer’s Storyline – Kramer spends the whole episode in a cat and mouse game with the cable guy, who has made an appointment to come remove the free cable he’s been getting. He successfully gives the man the runaround, and at the end of the episode, the cable guy is so beat down, he agrees that cable companies need to rethink their scheduling process to better serve their customers. Grade: C from both Episode Ranking – 111 Emails – Baby correspondent sisters Courtney and Cendall answered Rob and Akiva’s question from last week, while adding how they’ve found some celebrity pictures to represent what they think Rob and Akiva look like. Megan Z wrote in to share how she has thought that Akiva was actually Rob‘s former podcast cohost Roy Wood Jr. Johnny De Silveira asked how much Jerry made for his big gig. Dan the benefactor asked who would be today’s equivalent of Marisa Tomei. Matt emailed in to question the Del Boca Vista board for not looking for the bill of sale on the Cadillac. Lindsay thought Elaine’s obsession with Jerry’s money came out of nowhere. Caleb thought Susan was out of line for questioning George re-watching a movie. Craig asked why George wouldn’t have just broken up with Susan. Amir thought it was out of character for Morty to just accept a car from Jerry when he wouldn’t even let him pay for dinner in The Wallet. For those listeners wanting to roast the iconic emailer Alexander Chester, send them to [email protected]. Chester wondered why Jerry would sleep on his parents fold out when he just came into so much money. He thought Susan’s reaction to George watching Marisa Tomei movies was too on the nose. Lastly, he thought the cable guy was making promises he can’t keep. Tune in next week as the guys will recap both parts of “The Shower Head”. Send in your questions by emailing [email protected]. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast by going to postshowrecaps.com/seinfeldITunes where you can rate and review the podcast. You can get a discussion going about the podcast by leaving a comment on the show page, and as always, you can follow them on Twitter @robcesternino and @keev26. Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Point  

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 7, Episode 13, “The Seven”. Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Point  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Htfar0Vmu0 Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 7, Episode 12, “The Caddy”. Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Point  

Listen to the Podcast: Seinfeld Post Show Recap: The Rye Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur stocked up on Beef-a-Reeno so they could bring you another Seinfeld Post Show Recap. This week they break down “The Rye” which first aired January 4, 1996 as part of season seven. The episode was written by Carol Leifer, who would leave the show soon after. News – Rob shared how they interviewed Jennifer Armstrong, writer of the book Seinfeldia, which you can find in Post Show Recaps much like any other Seinfeldrecap podcast. In lieu of news, Akiva decided to go on a rant instead. He was kicked out of Rob‘s 20 team Fantasy Football League for being one of the bottom teams. Rob offered to let Keev co-own his team. Jerry’s Story – Jerry doesn’t have a main storyline this episode, but he does have a hand in George’s adventure with the rye. He comes up with a plan for George to get a marble rye to replace the one Frank stole. He suggested to have the Rosses go with Kramer on the handsome cab ride, and George can go up to the apartment and replace it. Jerry went to the bakery to get it, but they were sold out. He notices an elderly lady just purchased the last one, so he offers to buy it from her. When she refuses, he wrestles it away from her, calling her an old bag in the process. Elaine’s Story – Elaine has started dating a jazz musician, but she is not fully impressed with his ambitions in the bedroom. She becomes worried about the relationship when Jerry tells her one of John’s backup performers called them “hot and heavy”. But when John writes a new song called “Hot and Heavy”, she thinks it a good thing. After sharing with John how she’d like him to try some more selfless things in the bedroom, he agrees. But after a long afternoon tryst, John can’t play the saxophone properly, effectively ruining his set, and the relationship. George’s Story – George is getting ready with his parents to have dinner with the Rosses. Frank wants to stop at the bakery and get a nice marble rye to show the Rosses how classy they are. At the dinner, both sets of parents make things uncomfortable with their fighting, and strange conversation topics. On the way home, Estelle and Frank complained about the dinner, and Frank revealed he stole back the rye bread after the Rosses didn’t serve it. Jerry helps George concoct a plan to get the Rosses out of their apartment by having Kramer take them on the handsome cab ride so George could replace the rye. When the horse’s flatulence ends the ride early, George has to come up with another plan, so he gets a fishing rod and has Jerry attach it to the rye. After he hauls it up, he turns around to see Susan and the Rosses watching him the whole time. Kramer’s Story – Kramer starts off the episode with a gigantic haul of food from Price Club. He bumps into a friend who happens to play backup to Elaine’s new boyfriend John, and tells him that Elaine and John are really “hot and heavy”. Later on, he runs into a neighbor who asks Kramer to operate his handsome cab ride while he is on vacation. In an effort to get rid of some of the bulk food he bought, he feeds it to the horse. While taking the Rosses out on ride, Rusty the horse ends up with gas so bad that the ride has to be cut short. Tangents – Both Rob and Akiva aren’t huge fans of buying in bulk, feeling that most of the purchases are of things they don’t need. Akiva thought that rye bread isn’t great, but it’s fine, while Rob solved the mystery of what makes a marble rye different than regular rye. Rob talked about how contestants on Survivor tend to give a lot of thought to the mating habits of fowl, much like Frank Costanza. Rob thought it strange that George would go home with his parents when he lives with Susan. Rob shared how he has never had Chef Boy-R-D, based on his Italian parents feeling it would be sacrilege. Grades and Rankings – Elaine earned an A-, with the guys applauding the show for talking about a subject matter not discussed much back in 1996. Kramer earned an A, with it being considered a top five storyline. George and Jerry also earned As. While it didn’t make the top 9, Akiva thought it deserved a ranking of 37, while Rob thought it was definitely top 9. Emails – Johnny De Silveira asked if they remember meeting their in-laws. Both remembered it well. Lindsay asked if they too overbuy at Costco. Akiva definitely does, while Rob‘s freezer has no room due to too much milk reserve for the baby. Jiff noted that Jerry should have been happy that Kramer bought all that food for himself. Craig emailed in to share how Mabel was the first witness against the gang in the finale. Brent wondered if stealing the rye bread was the most out of character act, but Rob thought it was right in line with Jerry’s true self, and not out of the question for any of the four to hav

Rob and Akiva interview the author of the best selling book Seinfeldia, Jennifer Armstrong   Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino (@robcesternino) and Akiva Wienerkur (@Keev26) the author of the best selling book Seinfeldia, Jennifer Armstrong (@jmkarmstrong). Get Seinfeldia in the U.S.: Amazon.com Get Seinfeldia in Canada: Amazon.ca Subscribe to the Seinfeld ONLY Podcast on iTunes Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Point

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Listen to the Podcast: Seinfeld Post Show Recap: The Sponge Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue to bring you sponge-worthy Seinfeld recap episodes week after week. This time they breakdown “The Sponge”, which first aired December 7, 1995 as part of season seven. The episode was written by friend of the show Peter Mehlman. News – Due to his annual vacation to Del Boca Vista, Akiva didn’t have any new Seinfeld news this week. He added that he’s been so busy, the show could be rebooted with all women and he wouldn’t have heard about it. Jerry’s Story – Jerry is interested in a woman Lena who has an unlisted number. He is able to find it out by peeking at a sponsor sheet for Kramer’s AIDS Walk, and even comes up with a plan to avoid sharing the unscrupulous way he found the number by lying about buying a speed boat. As the episode goes along, Jerry becomes uncomfortable with how good of a person Lena is, thinking the relationship won’t work. When he sees a lifetime supply of sponges in her hall closet, he realizes she isn’t as innocent as he feared. He had already started the breakup conversation with her though, and his alternative story to share was how he changes the waist size on his jeans tag, which ultimately turns Lena off. Elaine’s Story – Elaine has a new boyfriend, and after some uncomfortable discussion about birth control, she learns from Kramer that her method, the sponge, is being discontinued. This leads her to go on a search for all the remaining sponges in her neighborhood, ultimately purchasing a case of 60. Despite having 60, she really feels the need to hoard them, going as far as not sharing any with Susan, and ultimately deciding her new boyfriend is not “sponge-worthy”. George’s Story – George doesn’t have a story of his own, but adds significantly to Elaine and Jerry’s story. Susan shares with him how great Jerry looks in his jeans, so George discloses to her how Jerry actually changes the waist size on the tag from 32 to 31. This ends up turning into an argument when he says he can’t share everything with her. Susan is further upset with him when she learns he doesn’t even know what kind of contraception she uses. He ends up smoothing things over by sharing with her how Jerry got Lena’s number from the AIDS walk donation list. Things go south again when George doesn’t want to use a condom when Elaine won’t share any of her sponges with Susan. Kramer’s Story – Kramer has signed up for an AIDS walk and is getting sponsors. However, Jerry is concerned about how serious Kramer is taking it, since he is out of shape and decided to have an all-night poker game the night before. Despite this, Kramer does make it to the walk, however, he is jumped by a group of walkers, including Bob and Cedric of armoire stealing fame, for not wearing the ribbon during the walk. Rob and Akiva’s Tangents – Right away, the guys veered off topic by debating whether they would eat a can of tuna from nearly ten years ago, then discussed how far the podcast has come since Akiva’s first vacation in Florida during the early days of the podcast. They talked about how changing the Facebook profile picture is today’s version of wearing a ribbon. Rob shared how he feels baggy jeans will ultimately make a comeback, as all fashion is cyclical. They discussed how beloved the sponge actually was in the 90s, with Rob adding the caveat that they know nothing about women, let alone female products such as the sponge. Akiva said it’s more important to share everything with your fiancé as opposed to your wife. The guys debated how long 60 sponges would last for Elaine. Akiva admonished Jerry for referring to the homeless as “bums”, but Rob thought you could get away with it. Akiva talked about a homeless man who has a Netflix subscription. Rob shared how his hatred for the Kardashians does make him a Taylor Swift supporter. He also noted how 11 of the people he follows on Twitter also follow Tide detergent. Grades and Rankings – Akiva and Rob were complimentary of the episode and the core four’s performances. They both agreed Elaine deserved an A, with Robcalling it the most iconic of all the Elaine storylines. George also got an A for his supporting story. They disagreed on Jerry, with Akiva giving him an A-, while Robthought it was more of a B. Kramer and the AIDS walk was not the funniest part, but Akiva thought he deserved a B. Rob was also critical of Kramer, thinking it was a C+ performance. Overall, the episode was one of the better ones, with Akiva slotting it at 32, noting it could have been ranked even higher. Emails – Johnny De Silveira wondered what was the strangest way the guys were able to get a woman’s phone number. They laughed at how little Johnny knows them after so many episodes, since neither were big ladies men when they were youn

Listen to the Podcast: Seinfeld Post Show Recap: The Pool Guy Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur never let their world’s collide, ensuring to bring you a Seinfeld podcast each and every week. This time they discuss “The Pool Guy”, which first aired November 16, 1995 as part of season seven, and was written by David Mandel. News – There was a small bit of news in the Seinfeld universe this week. Akiva brought up how there are some Seinfeld “spec” scripts floating around out there, and one was sent to Akiva, where the plot was about 9-11. Akiva thought it was a bit racy, so he didn’t talk too much about it. Jerry’s Story – Jerry reluctantly makes friends with the pool guy named Ramon at his new health club. When Ramon is fired from the job, he inserts himself into Jerry’s life, leading to Jerry having to tell Ramon he has enough friends. When Ramon is rehired by the club, he harasses Jerry at every opportunity, even poking Jerry with the pool skimmer. Jerry yanks on the skimmer, causing Ramon to fall into the pool and get knocked out when Newman cannon balls onto him. Neither Jerry nor Newman will give Ramon mouth to mouth resuscitation, so they both have their membership revoked. Elaine’s Story – Elaine is looking for someone to go to an old clothes exhibit when Jerry suggests she ask Susan. When the two hit it off, Susan soon becomes part of the gang, even taking George’s spot at Monk’s, leading him to have to eat alone at Reggie’s. The friendship comes to an end when Susan gets annoyed by Elaine and Jerry talking throughout a movie, leading her to realize all these four do is sit around and talk. George’s Story – George is incensed when Elaine starts to hang out with Susan, feeling like his “worlds are colliding”. When Susan starts using some of their phrases and eventually takes his seat at Monk’s, he gets Jerry to understand his plight. Fortunately for him, the gang’s antics turn Susan off, and balance restores to his worlds. Kramer’s Story – Kramer gets a new phone number, which happens to be one number off the movie phone line. He spends much of the episode fielding calls, eventually starting to help the callers figure out where their movie is playing. The episode ends with the real voice of Movie Phone banging on Kramer’s door, wanting Kramer to stop stealing his business. Grades and Rankings – Akiva was generally up on the performances this episode. He thought Kramer, Elaine and George all deserved an A. Jerry on the other hand received a D-, as both he and Rob felt the pool guy storyline was really weak. Because of the weak Jerry plot, this potential top ten episode falls way down the list to number 63. Rob thought it was a bit low. Emails – Johnny De Silveira noted that this episode won a WGA award for writing. He also wondered why Jerry wouldn’t have given up his seat to George at the coffee shop when he noticed he was so upset over Susan being there. Lindsay asked where the lifeguard was at this health club of Jerry’s. Rob and Akiva agreed that this made for a bad club. Liz wondered why George was planning to never have his soon to be wife interact with his best friends, feeling that independence is for single people. Rob and Akiva disagreed, noting that it remains important well after being married. She also noted that mouth to mouth is no longer a method of resuscitation, and that it is solely done with chest compressions now. Hunter asked if the moral of the episode is to not make new friends, to which Rob and Akiva noted that Jerry has been preaching this since the early episodes. Roger weighed in on his thoughts of who would win in a fight between all the core four. He thought Kramer would beat George and Jerry because he’s shadier and would lose to Elaine because he has a soft spot for her. He thought Elaine would lose to Jerry because of old feelings for her, but would defeat George. Rob and Akiva agreed for the most part. Caleb asked how much the guys would have to be paid to see an exhibit about old clothes. Akiva thought he could do it for a decent sum, as long as it didn’t interfere with something more important and he didn’t have to be there for too long. Dan the benefactor wondered what kind of job specific sign offs they would use. After bandying about a few ideas, the guys decided it would be too ridiculous. Amir wrote in confirming that his blind date with Akiva wouldn’t have happened if the Mets game were just a regular game. He also thought Ramon would have made a good witness in the finale in the case against the core four. Chester closed things out by asking how Ramon could be fired for putting too much chlorine in the pool, but didn’t for harassing members. The guys thought with the lax lifeguard situation helps prove why this happened. He also noted that George was supposed to go to the Paragon Theater, but he was clearly at a

Listen to the Podcast: Seinfeld Post Show Recaps: The Secret Code Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur didn’t get Leapin’ Larry as a sponsor this week, but they still brought a quality recap once again. This time, they break down “The Secret Code”, which first aired November 9, 1995 as part of season seven. The episode was written by Alec Berg and Jeff Schaffer. News – Akiva shared that the feedback on last week’s unique episode was more positive than they were anticipating. Akiva also had a story about a man who tried to pull a Kramer and bring thousands of cans to Michigan to capitalize on their 10 cent deposit return for all cans and bottles. He was arrested and is facing prison time, as doing this is considered illegal. Jerry’s Story – Jerry’s asked to do an advertisement for the local electronics store called Leapin’ Larry’s. Jerry inadvertently offends Larry when an employee thinks Jerry is making fun of Larry’s prosthetic leg, when really his leg had just fallen asleep. After smoothing over things with Larry, Jerry’s leg falls asleep again, but this time he accidentally kicks over a can of paint thinner, which causes the store to catch fire when it poured into an electrical outlet. Elaine’s Story – Elaine becomes rather obsessed with Fred, who said “nice to meet you”, when they already met before. Him not knowing her inadvertently caused her to want to go on a date with him, but when they go out, she realizes he is dreadful and can’t wait to escape. George’s Story – George has the biggest storyline of the episode. Things start off in the wrong direction for him when he’s reluctant to share his ATM pin with Susan. In addition to this trouble, he also finds himself as Peterman’s right hand man when both Elaine and Jerry bail out of a dinner with all of them. He becomes further entrenched when Peterman makes George go with him to his ailing mother’s death bed. While there, he decides to share his ATM pin code with her, but she starts shouting it out right before passing away, leaving Peterman to be concerned about what Bosco means. Both stories collide together when the fire Jerry started at Larry’s causes a man to be trapped in an ATM, and George has to reveal his ATM code to Peterman to help get the man out. Kramer’s Story – Kramer has ambitions of helping the local fire department by providing them with a map of his shortcuts to get to fires more quickly. While there pleading his case, he’s rebuffed by the captain, but on his way out, accidentally knocks out one of the fireman. Kramer gets to fulfill his dreams of drive the ladder on the truck from this, but his lack of training causes the truck to get out of control, and they don’t make it to the fire at Leapin’ Larry’s on time. Grades and Rankings – Akiva thought this was a mediocre episode, ultimately slotting it at 127. Akiva gave Jerry a B, Kramer an A-, George an A-, and Elaine got a D-. Rob was in agreement with all, particularly Elaine’s grade, feeling her storyline had no traction at all. Emails – Johnny De Silveira noted that the firehouse scene is the same exterior shot used in Ghostbusters. Max the millennial thought this was a subpar episode as well, thinking the Citizen Kane reference was particularly out of touch with the millennial crowd. Craig from Vancouver asked if either of them keep secrets from their wives. Rob said he shares more on the podcast than he does with Nicole. Craig also asked if Nicole would listen to the whole podcast if she could find out some kind of secret about him, but Rob thought she wouldn’t spend the time. Lindsay wondered if their ATM pins were something they go to great lengths to keep secret, but neither of them felt it was that important. She also agreed with them both about how useless the Susan character is this season. Roger asked if Bosco is an actual thing? Rob thinks the powdered drinks are far inferior to the syrup, and Akiva confirmed that Bosco still exists. Caleb also asked if they felt the same way when their wives asked about the ATM pin, to which they confirmed they didn’t worry about keeping it secret. He also had a game for them, providing a list of less famous people that appeared on the Celebrity Apprentice. Rob was able to debunk everyone on Caleb’s list as more famous than Larry Thomas, The Soup Nazi. Amir asked why Jerry and George needed a good excuse to get away from Peterman. The guys agreed, feeling there were a number of perfectly good excuses they could have used. He added that George should have changed his ATM code once Peterman’s mother shouted it out. Chester closed things out by pointing out how there have never been ATM codes longer than four digits. He also wondered why Leapin’ Larry’s employee would laugh, thinking Jerry was making fun of Larry. He also wondered why George would walk into P

Listen to the Podcast: Seinfeld Post Show Recaps: The Soup Nazi Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur never shy away from their public displays of affection for Seinfeld, as they continue to bring you episode recaps week after week. This time, they break down an iconic one in “The Soup Nazi”, which first aired November 2, 1995 as part of season seven. The episode was written by Spike Feresten. News – There was a bit of Seinfeld news this week. The guys briefly discussed if this episode is the most memorable. Akiva had a different spin on Melania Trump’s speech from the convention. He feels strongly that she plagiarized Jerry by wearing a puffy shirt. Rob brought up how the show Mr. Robot‘s new season is littered with references to Seinfeld. Lastly, Keev mentioned how Long Island City is holding a screening of “The Summer of George”, plus a couple other episodes. Jerry’s Story – Jerry is dating a new woman named Sheila, who he shares a very public and cutesy affection for, calling each other by the nickname “Schmoopie”. While smitten with her, he’s even more smitten by the new soup restaurant where the owner is very strict about the ordering process. He also has to deal with George’s anger over Jerry’s newfound public displays of affection, to which he torments him over it by rubbing it in George’s face. While at the soup restaurant with Sheila, the owner, known as The Soup Nazi, catches them kissing and wants to ban them, but Jerry doesn’t defend Sheila, essentially picking the soup over her. Elaine’s Story – When Elaine wants to get some food, Jerry suggests they go to the new soup place with the eccentric owner. On the way there, Elaine notices an armoire for sale on the street, so she stops to buy it. Her building super won’t allow her to move it in on a Sunday, so she elicits Kramer to stay outside and guard the armoire overnight. When Kramer asks her to get him some soup in return for watching it, she is too indecisive in line, causing The Soup Nazi to ban her for one year. Meanwhile, she commiserates with George about how nauseating Jerry and Sheila are with their baby talk, but bails on George when he confronts Jerry. When Kramer tells her The Soup Nazi is going to give her his armoire for free, she goes down there to express her thanks, but The Soup Nazi tells her if he knew it was for her, he’d have smashed the armoire to pieces. She discovers all the famous recipes in the armoire and decides to ruin The Soup Nazi by making them public. George’s Story – George starts off the episode on a bad note when he The Soup Nazi kicks him out for asking for free bread, getting told the classic line “no soup for you!”. After studying up on the procedures, he is able to successfully get the soup on his next visit, but not before The Soup Nazi tells him “you’re pushing your luck little man” when George comments on getting the free bread this time. His focus for the second half of the episode is on how disgusted he and Elaine are on Jerry and Sheila’s public displays of affection, particularly calling each other Schmoopie. But when he calls Jerry out, Elaine bails, leaving him to disparage Jerry on his own. When he tries to show Jerry how ridiculous it is by acting the same way with Susan, Jerry remains unflappable, but Susan really enjoys it, causing more problems for George in the long run. Kramer’s Story – Kramer’s main objective in the beginning of the episode is to watch Elaine’s armoire outside her building overnight until she can move it into her apartment the next day. While watching it, two “street toughs” notice it and steal it from him. While carrying on a conversation about the theft with The Soup Nazi, who he is inexplicably friends with, The Soup Nazi offers him his own armoire to give to his friend. Rob and Akiva’s Tangents – There were many tangents in this two plus hour episode, but the guys started with discussing Rob’s process of getting verified on Twitter. Rob pointed out how it was quite out of character for Jerry to be on board with the “Schmoopie” and PDA. Akiva noted how former Sportscenter anchor Craig Kilborn was recently on the Bill Simmons podcast, and has lost his mind. Akiva shared how he and his wife used to intentionally harass his former college roommate with PDA. Akiva noted that they had a guest planned, but they had to cancel. Akiva thought that if he were to stop going kosher, he’d immediately fly to In-N-Out Burger. Grades and Rankings – Jerry got a B from Akiva and Rob, Elaine was deserving of an A, Kramer got a B+ and George got a B. Akiva decidedly said while it’s not the number one episode, The Soup Nazi is definitely in the top nine. Emails – Johnny De Silveira wondered why Elaine mentioned Lima Bean soup when it wasn&#

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Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 16, “The Beard“. Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur are only looking to convert everyone to Seinfeld fanatics as they bring you a new recap each and every week. This time they break down “The Beard”, which first aired February 9, 1995 as part of season six. The episode was written by Carol Leifer. News – There was a bit of Seinfeld news this week. But first, Akiva talked about how there has been great feedback on the 100th voicemail show, adding that his wife confirmed off air he is not a nerd. Akiva shared how the real J Peterman catalogue is trying to resurrect the urban sombrero, starting a Kickstarter to raise $500,000 for this and a few other items, though they have only raised a few thousand dollars to date. Jerry’s Story – While at the police station waiting for Kramer’s friend to sketch a picture of the woman he wants to set up with George, Jerry meets an attractive police woman and gets her number. When they get together later, she shows him around the station, showing him the polygraph, sharing how one of the cast members ofMelrose Place was hooked up to that machine. Jerry lies about knowing anything about the show, but Kathy doesn’t believe him, so she makes him take the test himself to find out. Jerry goes to the best liar he knows for advice on how to cheat, and George explains that it’s not a lie if you believe it. Despite the advice, Jerry can’t pull it off, eventually admitting everything he knows about the show. Elaine’s Story – Elaine is going to the ballet with a friend of a friend named Robert, posing as his girlfriend, since his conservative boss may not be accepting of him being gay. She has such a great time, she starts to become attracted to him, hoping to get him to “switch teams”. She’s successful at first, but ultimately Robert realizes he can’t change who he really is. George’s Story – George is still wearing the toupee he was fitted for in “The Beard”. While Jerry and Elaine both think he looks ridiculous, Kramer loves it, and even wants to set George up with a friend of his. When George meets Kramer’s friend Denise, he notices she is bald. When he complains to Jerry and Elaine, Elaine is so incensed at his hypocrisy, since he is bald too, she rips off the hair piece after George tries to say he wasbald. George was happy to be back to his old self, but then Denise breaks it off with him for being bald himself. Kramer’s Story – Kramer wants to set up George with an old friend of his, but he doesn’t have a picture. He has a friend who is a sketch artist at a police station, so they all head down so George can get an idea of what she looks like. On the way there, he gives a Tupperware dish of Chinese food to a homeless man, but the man doesn’t give the empty dish back afterward. While at the police station, he’s offered fifty dollars to pose in a police lineup. The next time he sees the homeless man, Kramer gives him some change, but accidentally throws it in his coffee. Later, when the homeless man is a witness of a crime and Kramer is one of the stand ins at the line up, he points out Kramer as the suspect. Rob and Akiva’s Tangents – Rob shared that Nicole gets wound up at other people, especially the LA Mommy groups on Facebook, to which Akiva noted this is a good thing, keeping Rob from being the one to catch her ire. Rob asked Akiva if “Hammer Time” is over, but Akiva said it’s hard not to play the hits. Akiva noted that the actor who played Kathy the Sergeant is actually now married to one of the stars of Melrose Place. Akiva talked about how the kids show Peppa Pig is such a great You Tube video since it’s three straight hours. Rob’s son Dom was watching You Tube and Rob noticed one of the videos was a toilet bowl full of snakes. Lastly, Akiva shared how his appearance on the Survivor voicemail podcast last week boosted his Twitter followers from the 500s to well over 700. What wouldn’t work in 2016 – While they didn’t break it down officially, Rob noted that in 2016, people wouldn’t consider it an option to have someone switch sexual orientations. Grades and Rankings – Akiva really enjoyed Jerry’s story, giving him an A, while Rob didn’t buy that Jerry would be watching Melrose Place, giving him a B. For George, Akiva enjoyed it enough, but decided to go with an A-. Rob thought George was on top of his game, emphatically saying it was an A++. Both the guys agreed Elaine had one of her strongest episodes, so they both gave her an A. They thought Kramer had little to do, agreeing with a grade of a C or C+. Akiva liked the Melrose Place stuff, but thought it an average episode slotting it i

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episodes 14 & 15, “The Highlights of 100” as well as their own 100 episode journey. Subscribe to the Seinfeld ONLY Podcast on iTunes Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Point

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 13, “The Scofflaw.” Seinfeld Post Show Recaps: The Scofflaw Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur are no scofflaws, as they continue to bring a new Seinfeld recap each and every week. This week they break down “The Scofflaw”, which first aired January 26, 1995 as part of season six. The episode was written by friend of the podcast Peter Mehlman. News – Rob wanted to remind the listeners not to dilly dally, and send in voicemails for next week’s podcast by visiting postshowrecaps.com/voicemail for their own 100th episode retrospective. Akiva had a bit of other news to share. Jon Lovitz, who played Gary in this episode, recently posted on social media how he was dating a much younger woman, but it turned out to be an April fools joke. Lastly, Rob shared how Garry Shandling, a good friend of Jerry’s, passed away last week. Jerry’s story – Jerry has very little to do with this episode. George shares how their old friend Gary had cancer, but Jerry had already known, and didn’t share with George because he has no poker face. When George proves he has no poker face with the Gary not having cancer secret, Jerry agrees to not tell Gary he knows until George can get the parking space Gary promised him. When Gary rescinds the spot, George gives Jerry permission to let Gary have it about lying about the cancer. George’s story – George bumps into an old college friend of his and Jerry named Gary. Gary lets George know he hasn’t been around because he’s been battling cancer, but offers George a great deal on a covered parking spot, so George forgives him. George immediately tells Jerry about Gary, but he’d already known. Later on, Gary shares to George that he actually did not have cancer, but he has to keep it a secret. The next time he sees Jerry, Jerry immediately notices George’s poker face, getting him to spill the secret. George also is intrigued by the toupee that Jerry paid for Gary to get, thinking he might want to get fitted for one himself, since Gary was now showing so much confidence. While getting fitted, Jerry is there, mocking him mercilessly, thinking he looks ridiculous, but George decides to give it a try anyway. When an attractive woman at Monk’s sees him, she looks interested, adding to his confidence. Elaine’s story – Elaine takes exception to Kramer telling old boyfriend Jake Jarmel that she said hi, not wanting to relinquish the upper hand in the post relationship. She goes down to the book signing just to explain she did not say hi, which Jake takes as a bigger sign that she hasn’t let go. Still angry about this, she notices a man wearing glasses like Jake’s, so she quickly asks to buy them, just so she can rub it in Jake’s face, since he didn’t want to share where he got them with Kramer. After rubbing it in to Jake, she bumps into Mr. Lippman, and decides to give him the glasses when admired them, in an effort to keep in Lippman’s mind for a possible job. Jake would later notice Lippman with the glasses, and starts a fight to wrestle the glasses away, ending any chance for Elaine to land a job from Lippman. Kramer’s story – Kramer accidentally calls a police officer a pig when yelling it at a driver throwing garbage out their window. He is also in search of a new look, and when visiting Jake Jarmel at a book signing, takes a liking to his glasses, but Jake won’t share where he got them. Later on he explains to the cop why he yelled pig, noticing the cop’s eye patch, which works for Kramer’s search for a new look. The cop explains to Kramer that he caused him to miss out busting the “white whale” of parking tickets, who he has been chasing for over 15 years. Later on, Kramer discovers the white whale was Newman, who he forces to turn himself in, ultimately causing George to lose out on the parking space from Gary. Rob and Akiva tangents – Akiva noted at the top of the podcast that there were some recurring characters to reappear, like Mr. Lippman and Jake Jarmel. Rob was thinking the podcast could use an NYPD correspondent to help with the legal questions that crop up from time to time. Akiva wondered as he closes in on 100 podcasts with Rob who else was in the 100 club. While Stephen and Tyson aren’t quite there yet, Josh Wiggler and Nicole would be the only two to welcome Akiva in. Rob mentioned in the emails how he was disappointed to not get an invite to Aras’ wedding, though with it being a destination wedding, he wouldn’t be able to go anyway. What wouldn’t work in 2016 – Most of the episode would work just fine today, but Akiva did notice a few anomalies. Jake Jarmel’s glasses would be easy for Elaine to find on the interne

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 12, “The Label Maker.” Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur labeled themselves excited to bring you another Post Show Recap of their run through the Seinfeld series. This time they break down “The Label Maker”, which first aired January 19, 1995 as part of season six. The episode was written by Alec Berg and Jeff Schaffer. News – Rob wanted to remind the listeners to call in to the voicemail line on postshowrecaps.com/voicemail for their own 100th episode retrospective, or the traditional way by emailing [email protected]. Akiva noted that Obama was in Cuba with Seinfeld guest star Derek Jeter for a goodwill baseball game this past week. Jerry’s story – Jerry has to give away his Super Bowl tickets due to the Drake having his wedding the same day. He eventually gives them to Tim Whatley. He learns soon after that the Drake’s wedding is off, and is thinking of degifting the tickets, since Whatley was guilty of regifting the label baby. He later finds out that Tim has invited Newman, then eventually Elaine. After Tim learns Elaine doesn’t want to share a bed, he offers the ticket back to Jerry, who ends up seated next to Newman at the game. George’s story – George is dating a new woman, Bonnie, and is finally getting to see her apartment. When he sees Bonnie’s apartment, he is in love with it, especially the velvet couch, except she has a male roommate that looks just like George. He can’t seem to get over it, eventually inadvertently convincing Bonnie to drop Scott as a roommate. This ruins everything, since all the great stuff, including the velvet couch in the apartment belonged to Scott. Elaine’s story – Elaine discovers that Tim Whatley may have regifted the label maker to Jerry she gave him for Christmas. She decides to get to the bottom of it by going out with Tim, then asking to go up to his apartment after to look for it. This leads Tim to think he is getting to go “downtown” with her, so he invites her to the Super Bowl with him, though the hotel he reserves only has one bed. Elaine is offended by this, so she calls off the date, admonishing Tim for regifting the label baby. Kramer’s story – Kramer and Newman are involved in a heated game of Risk, so heated that they needed to have Jerry keep an eye on the board while Newman was at work. Despite many attempts by Newman to disrupt the status of the game, they eventually reconvene. The game is interrupted again when Kramer’s car gets towed, but he grabs the board to take with him. While on the subway, a Ukrainian mistakes their game talk for trashing his country, so he promptly smashes the board, ruining their game. Rob and Akiva tangents – Rob and Akiva went on several great tangents throughout the recap. Akiva shared how he threw a Super Bowl party for the very game in the episode, complete with the six foot party sub. The guys talked about how they both have experience with label makers, both agreeing the labels leave much to be desired. Rob shared how he had a college friend that went the female roommate route that didn’t go well, while Akiva confirmed he could never be the Scott in that situation. Akiva wondered why Newman doesn’t evoke the federal offense technique whenever anyone lays a hand on him. When discussing which character would make the worst world leader, Akiva thought it would be Uncle Leo, but Chester had a whole list, with Steinbrenner, Mr. Lippman, Mr. Peterman and Susan as the greatest potential world leaders. What doesn’t work in 2016 – In 2016, Jerry could just sell his Super Bowl ticket online. Also, Kramer and Newman would probably have played a digital game, or just snap a photo of the Risk board with a phone. Lastly, George could find out a lot about Bonnie and Scott from their Facebook pages. Grades and Ranking – Akiva and Rob thought Jerry had a descent storyline, earning a B. They thought George was great once again, earning an A. They disagreed on Elaine’s grade, with Akiva saying C, while Rob loved the “label baby” line, giving her a B. Both enjoyed the Kramer and Newman Risk game, deciding he deserved an A. Akiva thought it was a solid but not spectacular episode, ranking it at 92, while Rob thought it should be ranked better. Emails – Dan the benefactor wondered who would be a better world leader, Kramer or Newman. He thought Kramer would be too erratic, but Newman is evil. Johnny De Silveira wondered why George couldn’t just break up with Bonnie. Akiva and Rob chalked it up to George being George. Craig emailed in to remark how happy he was to hear the CFL reference. He also asked how they thought George’s devils’ threesome ended up. Rob and Akiva thought George probabl

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 11, “The Switch.” Seinfeld Post Show Recaps: The Switch Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur have already revealed their names, aren’t wasting perfectly good meals, and have no need for a $300 tennis racket, but they do continue to bring you a new Seinfeld recap week after week. This time they break down “The Switch”, which first aired January 5, 1995 (the back nine of Hammer Time) as part of season six. The episode was written by Bruce Kirschbaum and Sam Henry Kass. News – Rob talked about how Shawn Falconer worked his magic once again, answering Rob’s recent question about when Seinfeld peaked. He was able to determine that season five and season seven had similar peaks after running many different rankings through his algorithm. Akiva also saw a Seinfeld related tweet from Jay Mandium that joked how Gammill and Pross are now writers for Fuller House. Jerry’s story – Jerry is dating a woman named Sandy who doesn’t laugh at Jerry’s jokes, which is a problem for a comedian. When he goes to her apartment, he meets her roommate Laura, who has a terrific laugh that she puts on display for Jerry. This leads him to think he got stuck with the wrong roommate, but George comes up with a plan to turn off Sandy The plan is to ask Sandy to have a ménage a trois and get her to dump him when offended, then ask out the roommate a week later. When he presents the idea to Sandy, she’s into it, and so is Laura. George is thrilled when Jerry tells him this, but Jerry just can’t be a threesome guy. George’s story – George is dating a model who eats like a horse, but immediately goes to the restroom after eating, leading him to suspect she is purging the food. He is concerned about this, but only because he feels it’s wasting money to not digest the food. He devises a plan to try to catch her in the act of purging, but needs a woman to be in the bathroom to confirm it. Jerry shares how Kramer’s mother is a matron (bathroom attendant), and if they eat at her restaurant, she can make it happen. When George gets to the restaurant, he learns from a waitress that Babs had quit, so he bursts into the bathroom when he hears retching, only to discover it wasn’t Nina. Elaine’s story – Elaine runs into the woman Mrs. Landis she interviewed with at the tennis club when she was picking up Mr. Pitt’s racquet. She is taken with the fancy racquet of Pitt, so Elaine lets her borrow it in hopes of earning goodwill getting a second shot at a job at Doubleday Publishing. When Elaine goes to pick up the racquet, she sees that Landis has badly hurt her arm, making Elaine feel bad and not ask for the racquet back. She later sneaks into the office to get it back, but is caught by one of Landis’ assistants, again ruining her chance at a job there. Kramer’s story – Kramer has an iconic storyline this episode. Jerry reveals Kramer’s mother is a matron at a restaurant and can help George determine if his girlfriend is actually bulimic. When they go to see Babs, she calls Kramer by his first name, Cosmo, leading George to immediately tell Jerry and Elaine when he sees them next. When they tease Kramer about it, he tells them while he’s run from the name his whole life, he’s now ready to embrace it. He even reconciles with his mom, convincing her to quit her job as a matron and start enjoying life now that she’s clean and sober. This foils George’s plan to have Babs confirm if Nina is purging. The reunion with his mom takes a sour turn at the end of the episode when he walks in on Babs making out with Newman, who she was charmed by earlier in the day. Rob and Akiva tangents – Rob and Akiva role played a way for Elaine to effectively ask Landis for the racquet back. They talked about how NBC really publicized the Kramer first name reveal. They also spent some time breaking down George and Jerry’s three way plan, but Rob concluded that their ideas were less funny, sexy and interesting than what the writers came up with. Akiva came up with another logical way for George to get out of bursting into the woman’s bathroom, but both realized it’s not funny. During the emails, Rob posed a question to fake Jerry asking if anything interesting ever happened to the characters outside of what happens on the show. Akiva also shared that Chester’s first name is Alexander, and Chester’s dad told Akiva he doesn’t like him. What doesn’t work in 2016 – In 2016, bulimia would not be a subject to be taken so lightly. Also, Elaine could easily contact Landis and Jerry could private message Laura the roommate via Facebook. Grades and Ranking – The guys started with Elaine, thinking it was the least intere

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 10, “The Race.” Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur chose to podcast this week about Seinfeld, bringing you the recap of “The Race”, which first aired December 15, 1994 as part of season six. The episode was written by Gammill, Pross, LD and Sam Kass. News – Though he didn’t have hard news to share, Akiva wanted to talk about a tweet of Jerry’s from this past week where he said if Jerry and George were cool, it would have ruined the show. Akiva argued he always thought Jerry was cool. Jerry’s story – Jerry’s new girlfriend Lois’ boss is Jerry’s arch nemesis Duncan from high school, who is still sore about Jerry beating him in the 9th grade race. Jerry and George reveal to Elaine that Jerry actually jumped the gun, but he’ll never admit it to Duncan. He and George devise a plan to have George pretend to bump into Jerry and Duncan and confirm that Jerry did not cheat at the race, which ends up not quite working. When Duncan threatens to fire Lois if Jerry doesn’t redo the race, he finally agrees. At the race, Kramer’s car backfires right before the race starts, so Jerry jumps out ahead once again, winning the race. George’s story – George notices some personal ads in the Communist newspaper Elaine’s boyfriend Ned is reading. When his secretary overhears him talking to one of the ladies, she tells on him to Steinbrenner. Steinbrenner is actually happy about this, as it gives the Yankees an opportunity to scout Cuban baseball players, sending George to go meet with Fidel Castro. Castro likes George as well, and gives him full access to any of their players. Elaine’s story – Elaine starts off the episode getting banned from having delivery from Hop Sing Chinese Food for complaining about her order. She is dating a man named Ned who turns out to be a Communist, which intrigues Elaine. She does try to up Ned’s wardrobe from the drab attire a Communist wears. Things end up sour with Ned when Elaine gets him banned from Hop Sing, which was the restaurant his Communist father used to spend all day in after being black listed decades ago. Kramer’s story – Mickey has landed Kramer a job as a mall Santa for the holidays. On his first day, Ned starts feeding Kramer Communist propaganda, which Kramer in turn stars preaching to the kids visiting. One of the kids shouts out that he’s a commie, leading to the mall manager firing him. Rob and Akiva tangents – The guys started the show discussing how neither of them love running so much, though they both dabble. They talked about how Ned is fine to be a Communist for Elaine, just as long as he is pro choice. Akiva had a lot of questions about the mall Santa that Rob was able to fill him in on. Rob also explained what homeroom was in school, and how Rob didn’t attend much since he used to read the school’s morning announcements. What doesn’t work in 2016 – In 2016, the relations with Cuba have thawed considerably. Also, someone would have videotaped the race on their phone, allowing Duncan to prove Jerry jumped early. Jerry, George and Duncan would probably be Facebook friends, so George couldn’t pretend to bump into them after 20 years. Grades and Ranking – Both the guys agreed that Jerry’s story deserved an A, as well as George’s. Akiva got Rob to agree that Elaine’s story was deserving of a B+. They disagreed on Kramer’s grade, with Akiva giving him a B-, while Rob thought it was definitely the weakest story, earning a C. Akiva thought this was the best episode of season six so far, slotting it at 17, with Rob agreeing that it’s an underrated episode. Emails – David emailed in to share that he’s listened to the all Seinfeld Post Show Recaps 11 times over. He shared how he loves that Akiva has a better microphone than in the beginning, and how the podcasts improve with each episode. Colin the delivery guy remarked about how all the business owners in Seinfeld are quick to ban customers. Colin added that the pizza place he works at has banned customers, but only in extreme circumstances. Andrew, Akiva’s childhood friend wrote in to comment on how great the soup countdown was, adding how a young Akiva once told his mother she made a poor excuse for a matzo ball. Lindsay emailed in to ask what the 2016 equivalent would be to Elaine dating a communist. Akiva and Rob thought a conspiracy theorist or the Illuminati would correlate. Dan the benefactor noted how George could have bridged the gap with Cuba in order to bring in El Duke` a few years later. Craig from Vancouver added that the phase “I choose not to run” was derived from Calvin Coolidge. Travis noted that Kramer’s ideas for deli me

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 9, “The Secretary.” Seinfeld Post Show Recap: The Secretary Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur got out their skinny mirrors for this week’s recap of their run through theSeinfeld series. This time they discuss “The Secretary” which first aired December 8, 1994 as part of season six. The episode was written by Carol Leifer and Marjorie Gross. News – Rob was interested in trying to determine when the peak of Seinfeld‘s greatness happened, to which Akiva noted it won’t come for some time. Akiva got an email celebrating their tangents and their disapproving wives, adding that he’s received many similar emails. Lastly, Topher Grace has put together a whole Seinfeldepisode from the Seinfeld related clips in Curb Your Enthusiasm. Jerry’s story – Jerry brings his clothes to another new dry cleaner. While at the movies a few days later, he thinks he sees the dry cleaner Willie wearing his jacket he dropped off. He confirms it later when there is a ticket stub in the jacket pocket. When he confronts Willie and asks for his mother’s fur coat back, Willie stalls him by making Jerry show him the ticket, but he gave it to Kramer so he could write down Uma Thurman’s number. While back at Barney’s getting the ticket, he sees Willie’s wife wearing his mom’s fur, so he follows her into the dressing room, taking it from her. George’s story – George is looking to hire a secretary, but is emphatic that she must not be too attractive. As he interviews the candidates, he dismisses several beautiful women, plainly telling them they are too attractive to work for him. He ends up choosing Ada, a staunch and efficient looking woman. Despite not hiring for looks, he finds Ada’s efficiency so attractive, he sleeps with her in his office, shouting out that he is giving her a raise in the throws. Ada gets the raise from Steinbrenner that actually pays her more than George. Elaine’s story – Elaine is unhappy with a dress she buys at Barney’s, thinking the store might be using skinny mirrors in their dressing room. She heads back to exchange the dress, but when there, she doesn’t trust the mirrors in the store, so she wears the new one outside for an unbiased look. Doing so left salt stains on the bottom of the dress, so she is stuck buying the new one that makes her look too “hippy”. Kramer’s story – Kramer merely wants to buy some new moisturizer at Barney’s, but his story develops when he gets Uma Thurman’s number, and subsequently sells the suit he’s wearing to Bania when he runs into him at the store. His day goes awry when he realizes he needs clothes to wear home, plus he needs to get Uma’s number that’s on Jerry’s dry cleaning ticket in the suit jacket. Bania gives the suit back after Kramer’s “nancy-boy” moisturizer leaked all over the suit, in turn ruining the ticket with Uma’s number. Rob and Akiva tangents – The guys found it interesting that Jerry has gone through so many dry cleaners in the six seasons. They discussed how George would immediately be fired for sexual misconduct by telling women they aren’t getting hired because of their looks. Akiva noted how Seinfeld paints a negative picture of the small business owner, since they are often depicted ripping Jerry off. They debated what Ada’s salary was when she started, considering she then made more than George after the raise. Also, they tried to determine why Kramer wouldn’t empty his pockets when he sold Bania the suit. Their last tangent was about Uma Thurman and her career during the emails. What doesn’t work in 2016 – Akiva thought this episode might have the most things that wouldn’t work in 2016. Aside from the obvious lawsuit the Yankees and George would face from him commenting on the ladies’ looks in the interview, they thought that Elaine could post Instagram pictures of the dress for advice, and wouldn’t be allowed outside the store to look at the dress. Lastly, Kramer could just put Uma’s number in his phone. Grades and Ranking – Akiva was more happy with this episode than Rob, so they disagreed on some of the letter grades and ranking. Akiva thought Jerry deserved a B+, while Rob gave him a C. They both agreed that George knocked it out of the park, giving him an A. For Elaine, Akiva thought she deserved a B-, while Rob thought it was C worthy. Akiva thought Kramer earned an A-, while Rob was feeling it deserved a B. Akiva ranked the episode at 38, while Rob said he’d place it between 80 and 100. Emails – Dan, the benefactor emailed in to share how he went to visit “George’s Bar” in Melbourne, Australia

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 8, “The Mom & Pop Store.” Seinfeld Post Show Recap: The Mom and Pop Store Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur have all their sneakers clean and ready for this week’s Seinfeld Post Show Recap episode. This week they breakdown “The Mom and Pop Store”, which first aired November 17, 1994 as part of season six. The episode was written by Tom Gammill and Max Pross. Seinfeld related news – Akiva shared how Jerry is selling some of his Porsches, one of which is going for $7 million dollars. In other news, Jerry won a bet with actor Steve Martin that led to Martin doing the opening standup act for Jerry after a decades long absence. Jerry’s story – Jerry spends much of the episode wondering if he is invited to Tim Whatley’s party, considering Tim called for George and Elaine’s addresses. Meanwhile, Kramer convinces him to let the Mom and Pop cobbler store clean and detail all his sneakers. After stepping in gum, George doesn’t allow Jerry in his new car, so he has to wear cowboy boots since all his other shoes are at the cobbler. After ridiculing George when they find out the John Voight who owned it spelled his name differently, George kicks him out the car near some street toughs. When they chase him, he slips because of the boots and chips a tooth. Desperate for a dentist because of his tooth, he tries to tag along to the party with either George or Kramer, but neither want to be associated with party crashing. He decides to crash it on his own, and when he gets a dentist to look at the tooth, he accidentally knocks a statue of the Empire State Building out the window that falls on the Woody Woodpecker balloon being blown up below, popping it. Tim yells at Jerry and points out he wasn’t even invited to the party. The episode ends with Jerry and Kramer on a bus down to New Jersey in order to track down Mom and Pop, who stole Jerry’s shoes. George’s story – George is shopping for a new car and has his sights set on the Volvo, but the salesman convinces him to buy the Chrysler LeBaron because the actor Jon Voight once owned it. When Jerry is skeptical about it all, George tries to find a way to prove it so. When Kramer gets bitten by Jon Voight, George also notices a pencil in the glove box from the prior owner, so he and Kramer decide to ask one of the dentists at Tim Whatley’s party to confirm if the bite marks are the same. But at the party, Tim remarks how George must have bought John Voight the dentist’s LeBaron, ruining the mystique of the car. Elaine’s story – Elaine is excited to be invited to Tim Whatley’s party, since she’s always had a crush on him. In the meantime, she helps Mr. Pitt win a spot holding the rope on the Woody Woodpecker balloon in the Thanksgiving Day Parade by answering trivia about big band music. When she picks up the tickets, she has to sit through a live big band performance, with the noise causing temporary hearing loss. While at Tim’s party, she mistakenly turns down Tim when he asks her on a date, because she couldn’t hear him ask. Kramer’s story – Kramer convinces Jerry to let the local Mom and Pop cobblers to clean all his sneakers to help keep them in business. When he brings the sneakers in to the cobblers, he gets a nose bleed. While lying back to stop the bleeding, he notices the wiring on the ceiling looks like it needs attention, which ends up costing Mom and Pop thousands of dollars. While battling another nose bleed later, Kramer sees Jon Voight getting in a cab, so he chases him down to ask about the LeBaron. Voight is startled by Kramer, so he bites his arm to get away from him. Rob and Akiva tangents – Akiva opened the show by discussing his Twitter feud with his 14 year old sister. Rob and Akiva spend some time talking about Jon Voight’s show Ray Donovan. Rob brought up to Akiva that he didn’t share the not so fun fact of Boutros Boutros Golly recently passed away. In the emails, Rob shared how he has often suffered from sporadic nose bleeds throughout his life. What wouldn’t work in 2016 – It would be easy to find out via Instagram whether Jon Voight did own this car. Also, Wal-Mart would have long since caused Mom and Pop to go out of business. Letter grades and rankings – Akiva thought George deserved a B+, while Rob loved it, giving him an A. Both thought Jerry deserved a C, as it was pretty weak. Both also agreed that Kramer deserved an F. Lastly, they agreed that Elaine deserved a B. Akiva thought there were many holes in the plotline, so he ranked it at 144, while Rob thought it should be much higher. Emails – Johnny De Silveira noted that writer Tom Gammill was the one who thought he was buying Jon Voight’s LeBaron, a

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 7, “The Soup.” Seinfeld Post Show Recap: The Soup Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur aren’t serving any swordfish, but they are bringing you their next recap in the their run through Seinfeld series. This week, they talk about “The Soup”, which first aired November 10, 1994 as part of season six. The episode was written by Fred Stoller, who also appears as a character later in season seven. And as a special treat, Akiva brings his list of top 25 soups, which starts at 1 hour, 12 minutes and 15 seconds into the podcast. Seinfeld related news – Akiva had an email asking him if Misha would really be distracted by Kramer screaming from the bathroom. Akiva indeed felt this wouldn’t happen, and researched that OJ Simpson himself could have been one to sabotage Misha, since he was at the ’84 Olympics, and in the U.S. in 1994, but Rob didn’t buy this far fetched theory. Rob shared a piece from Seinfeld2000 on Twitter that had Kanye West’s new rap playing over the Seinfeld theme song. Lastly, Akiva shared the tweet of the week from @katerade which said “The most unbelievable thing about Seinfeld is that a comedian has three non-comedian friends”. Jerry’s Story – Jerry runs into a fellow comedian named Kenny Bania who has been working out so much that he offers Jerry a brand new suit that doesn’t fit him anymore. Since Jerry dislikes Bania so much, he doesn’t want to accept it, but everyone else talks him into it. After accepting the suit, Bania throws in how Jerry can take him out to dinner to pay him back for it. Jerry and Bania go to Mendy’s for the dinner, where Bania lauds the swordfish, uttering the famous line, “it’s the best Jerry, the best!”. But Bania only wants soup on this visit, thinking he’ll get his meal another time. At Monk’s Bania joins Jerry and George despite them trying to keep him away. Jerry convinces Bania to order a sandwich, then immediately tells him that this is the meal, though Bania wants it to be from a restaurant like Mendy’s. Jerry is adamant that there’ll be no more dinners. So annoyed by it all, Jerry decides to give Elaine’s boyfriend the suit, right before Bania asks for the suit back. The episode ends with Elaine sending Bania after her boyfriend in the suit. George’s Story – A new waitress at Monk’s named Kelly has been flirting with George, prompting him to ask her out. While out on a walk date, George points out how the word manure is actually a refreshing word, which causes Kelly to share that she has a boyfriend. While discussing the situation later with Jerry, Jerry concludes that Kelly “pulled an audible” after hearing the manure talk, infuriating George. In subsequent visits, Kelly gives George the cold shoulder, leading George to be so uncomfortable, he has to start going to Reggie’s to avoid her. After hearing Kramer got Hildy fired from Reggie’s for calling there too much, he decides to sabotage Kelly the same way so he can start going back to Monk’s. The plan fails miserably when Kelly explains George is Jerry and Elaine’s friend and just trying to get her in trouble. The manager warns Jerry and Elaine that next time George shows up, he’s going to turn him into a hand puppet. Elaine’s Story – Elaine met a man in England named Simon while on a trip there with Mr. Pitt, and she decided to fly him out to stay with her in New York. Shortly into his trip, Elaine realizes he’s rude and mooches off of her, leaving her regretting her decision. By the end of the episode, when Simon is hinting at staying in New York, Elaine effectively ends his stay by sending Bania after Simon to get back the suit. Kramer’s Story – Kramer has decided to get rid of his refrigerator after going through his ordeal with the kidney stones. Added to that, he has started dating a waitress named Hildy, who works at the bizarro diner Reggie’s. Having no food at his house and entertaining an always hungry Hildy, Kramer has to keep raiding Jerry’s for food, since he no longer has a fridge. His relationship with Hildy ultimately ends when he gets her fired for calling into her work too often. Rob and Akiva Tangents – Rob and Akiva discussed how Kelly was actually a character from “The Ex-Boyfriend”, leading them to agree that a Seinfeld trivia between the two could be entertaining. They talked about the merits of having a day date versus a nighttime date, concluding the nighttime date gives a person an easy out based on the time. Akiva tricked Rob into believing that there is a New York City diner employee connection, where they all know each other. Akiva shared how the actual Mendy’s in NYC has ran with the Seinf

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 6, “The Gymnast.” Seinfeld Post Show Recap: The Gymnast Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur are great with the mothers, but even better with podcasting, so they continue to bring a new Seinfeld Post Show Recap each and every week. This time, they discuss “The Gymnast”, which first aired November 3, 1994 as part of season six. The episode was written by Alec Berg and Jeff Schaffer, who both would later go on to write on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Schaffer and his wife would also create the FX show The League. Seinfeld related news – Akiva wanted to talk further about his favorite parts of Larry David on Saturday Night Live last week. Rob agreed it was the best SNL of the season so far. Akiva also had an email from a listener who pointed out that Akiva mentioned in a season four podcast from this summer, how it would be great if Larry David hosted SNL, but it would never happen. Jerry’s Story – Jerry starts dating Katya, a former Romanian gymnast, who Kramer has encouraged him to sleep with for her flexibility. His problem is, they have nothing to talk about. Once he finally does sleep with Katya, it was underwhelming, and now he’s lamenting having to stay with her a few more weeks because of it. Jerry decides to take Kramer with him and Katya to the circus, where her friend Misha is performing the tight rope. At the end of the episode, Katya breaks up with him, explaining that in Romania, the comedian is supposed to be the most sensual lover imaginable and he was “no comedian” in that regard. George’s Story – George is still dating Lindsay, despite the snafu with the book club. In the opening scene, we learn that George takes his shirt off when going to the bathroom, an important plot point for later on. He is going to a party at Lindsay’s mother’s apartment, which is great for George, since he’s always done well with mothers. He charms at the party until the end, when Lindsay’s mother catches him eating an éclair out of the garbage. After talking his way out of it, he is then caught by the mother cleaning a windshield like a “bum”, but only because he accidentally threw his coffee out on it. His last chance is quickly blown when at another party, he emerges from the mother’s bathroom without a shirt, having been mesmerized by the 3D art hanging in there. Elaine’s Story – Elaine spends much of the episode trying to keep Mr. Pitt focused on the Molland Springs water merger, though Kramer’s 3D art has him distracted. When the merger meeting is about to happen and Mr. Pitt can’t tear himself away from the 3D art, he send Elaine, who inadvertently criticizes Mr. Pitt’s idea for the new water name. In the subsequent meeting to decide on the new name, Mr. Pitt rushes there in a beige horseback riding outfit, covered in ink from Elaine’s fountain pen he warned her not to use. The most unfortunate part is the ink smudged on the middle of his upper lip, making him look just like Hitler. Kramer’s Story – Kramer battles a kidney stone through much of the story, but he starts out getting everyone hooked on staring for the image hidden in the 3D art. The kidney stone wreaks havoc throughout, causing Kramer hilarious spasms. After he effectively transfixes Mr. Pitt with the 3D art phenomenon, he goes to the circus with Jerry and Katya, where the kidney stone finally makes it way out. His howling from the pain causes Katya’s friend Misha to fall from the tight rope, though Kramer dances out of the bathroom, finally experiencing the relief. Rob and Akiva Tangents – In the opening, Akiva shared his opinion on the Jeff Schaffer show The League, revealing it will not be covered in 2018 when they are done covering Seinfeld. They discussed why George would prefer to take his shirt off in the bathroom, thinking the back of the toilet would be cold on the back. Rob actually discovered a movie Akiva has seen when he talked about the movie Mallrats having a similar 3D art storyline. Akiva shared a story about his weird former principal who made him get help as he was suffering similarly as Kramer from a kidney stone at school one day. Lastly, they talked about how they consistently give their wives the answers they want to hear, whether it’s the truth or not. What wouldn’t work in 2016 – 3D art is nonexistent today, and not too many homeless are washing car windows in 2016. Also, the Olympics are readily available on YouTube. Letter grades and ranking – Akiva thought Jerry had a weak storyline, giving him a C+. He enjoyed George’s story, giving him an A, as eating out of the garbage is legendary. Kramer deserved an incomplete, since he had so little to do with the main plot. Lastly, they gave E

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 5, “The Couch.” Seinfeld Post Show Recaps: The Couch Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur aren’t opening a make-your-own-pizza place, but they did bring you the latest episode in their run through the entire Seinfeld series. This week, they recapped “The Couch” which first aired October 2, 1994 as part of season six. The episode was written by the Larry David. There was some news in the Seinfeld universe this week. First, Larry David just had his appearance on Saturday Night Live. Akiva shared a story about a writer who wrote about how Jerry said his name wrong a few times in an interview, then called later to apologize. Also, there was a favorable ITunes review that Akiva had to translate because it was written in Hebrew. The story for Jerry is he is excited for his new love seat he bought. When Kramer tells Jerry about going to business with Poppie, and how his restaurant has this fantastic duck dish, he decides to try it out, despite the hand washing issues he had the last time. While at the restaurant, he decides to cause some trouble by asking Poppie his opinion on abortion, enraging Elaine and other diners to the point of walking out when he says he’s against it. Later on, Kramer brings Poppie by Jerry’s so he can pay Poppie for the special order duck. While waiting for Jerry, Poppie pees on Jerry’s new couch, ruining it. George’s girlfriend convinced him to join a book club, getting assigned to read Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote. While he’s enthusiastic, he just can’t get into the book, watching TV and reading Cracked Magazine instead. When his time starts running out, Jerry recommends George just rent the movie. The video store doesn’t have a copy, so George gets the address of who rented it by sneaking a look at the computer at the front desk. He shows up at the people’s apartment, and they reluctantly let George watch along with them. Not long into the movie, George gets aggravated by the woman talking during the movie and the daughter taking his seat, which causes him to spill his grape juice all over the couch, getting thrown out before seeing the end. Elaine is immediately smitten when she meets one of the movers bringing Jerry his new couch, and later on has a great date with him when he brings Jerry’s old couch over to her apartment. While at dinner with Jerry, she learns that Poppie is anti-abortion, so she walks out before eating, prompting Jerry to question what she would do if her new mover boyfriend felt the same. When she learns that he is anti-abortion as well, they inevitably break up. Kramer is partnering up with Poppie on his idea for a make-your-own-pizza restaurant. Despite Elaine and Jerry ruining a night of Poppie’s business with the abortion talk, Kramer and Poppie are still partners for the new venture. The relationship does sour however when Kramer and Poppie argue over what a customer can put on their pizza. There were some great tangents by Rob and Akiva this week. First, they found it unbelievable that the couch movers would just drive all over town to deliver other things not on their schedule. They also talked about how strange it was that Jerry didn’t remember Poppie at first, and how Poppie’s has become quite the fancy place. Next, they debated when the “hot take” era began, with Akiva thinking it was concurrent with the start of Twitter, while Rob thought it was when Tim Tebow was the quarterback of the Broncos. Rob also thought it possible that the writers might have had to change Poppie to peeing on the couch from going number two. He came up with his theory based on the chili gift Poppie was given by Elaine and Jerry. In 2016, George would have zero difficulty getting to watch Breakfast at Tiffany’s, but that was really all that would need to change from 1994. The guys thought that Jerry’s storyline was great and deserved an A. They also thought George had a strong showing, giving him an A as well. Akiva was not big on Kramer’s storyline, settling on a C after Rob questioned him giving a D. Lastly, he gave Elaine a B+, but Rob thought Elaine deserved lower. Akiva enjoyed this episode, but it wasn’t an all-timer, so he ranked it at 74. The email bag was pretty full this week. First, Jim asked why the daughter would sit next to George, a complete stranger, when watching the movie. The guys agreed, noting that 1994 was before the “to catch a predator” world. Harry wrote in to share that there are now some make-your-own pizza places, but Akiva thought the business idea never really took off. Liz asked if Jerry would be upset if it was a baby who peed on the couch. Akiva thought with it being Jerry the neat freak, he’d have a problem with any urine. Craig not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDbN9TZqFcg Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 4, “The Chinese Woman.” Seinfeld Post Show Recaps: The Chinese Woman Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur are out there and loving every minute of their weekly Seinfeld Podcasts. This week they break down “The Chinese Woman” which first aired October 13, 1994, and was written by friend of the show Peter Mehlman. This episode also marks the halfway point in the series. Before the weekly news, Akiva announced that he secured a special guest for the “halfway home” episode 90, with Donna Chang herself, Angela Dohrmann joining the guys to weigh in on the episode. In other news, Larry David will be hosting Saturday Night Live the night before the Super Bowl. Also, in a syndicated column, someone sent in a letter describing the exact story of Keith Hernandez and Jerry in “The Boyfriend”. Jerry’s storyline is largely one that wouldn’t fly in politically correct 2016. In an attempt to call George, the line gets crossed and he chats with this woman Donna Chang, who he develops an immediate interest in because he’s always wanted to date a Chinese woman. When he meets Donna for dinner, he realizes she is Caucasian and not Chinese, and that her last name was originally Changstein. After a few more stereotypical comments and lifestyle choices by Donna, Jerry has had enough and decides to call her on it, telling her she’s not Chinese. Elaine is once again getting her friend Noreen in relationship trouble when she constantly hangs up on her new boyfriend because he engages her in long conversations. She learns that Noreen’s relationship is on the rocks because he’s paranoid about all the calls to the house where someone hangs up. In a scene similar to last week, Elaine and Noreen are talking at Monk’s, and Noreen seems to want to take a cue from Elaine once again and dump her boyfriend for his idiosyncrasies. Her story finishes when Kramer starts to intercept all her calls to Noreen, effectively keeping her from further influencing Noreen. George has a smaller story in this episode. When he learns that Jerry and Elaine saw Frank in the city with a man wearing a cape, he tries to figure out why. His story intersects with Jerry’s when Estelle ends up talking with Donna Chang when the lines get crossed. She shares with George that his parents are getting a divorce, sending him in a tailspin, since now he’ll have to spend twice as much time visiting them separately. When Estelle makes another call that rings to Donna, Donna effectively changes Estelle’s mind and the divorce gets called off. Donna and Jerry go to dinner at the Costanzas, and when Estelle sees Donna is not Chinese, she wants to go through with the divorce, since she won’t take advice from a woman from Long Island. Kramer spends most of the episode trying to get used to not wearing jockey underwear, since Jerry has him worried that the jockeys can cause low sperm count and he wants to one day have kids. He later visits the clinic to confirm this is true. After struggling with boxer shorts, he decides to go all the way free, much to the chagrin of Jerry and Elaine. His story intersects with Elaine’s when he tries to keep her from further negatively influencing Noreen. At the end of the episode, he yells out the window to Jerry that Noreen is late, so the Kramer name might just live on. Rob and Akiva had a couple of great tangents. First, they debated whether Donna Chang purposely tries to make people think she is Chinese. Akiva thought that was her goal, but Rob thought if she did, she wouldn’t meet the people in person, so she could keep them thinking that she is Chinese. They discussed at length how some of these jokes about race would absolutely not work in today’s television. Lastly, they try to figure out why Noreen would be trying to jump off a bridge at the end of the episode. Akiva thought the combination of possibly being pregnant and the string of boyfriends she’s dumped over the last few weeks led to her to this. In 2016, besides the politically incorrect storyline, there were just a few things that wouldn’t work from this episode. Capes are still quite unfashionable. Akiva thought Clue is not a game being played anymore, and there has since been the invention of the boxer brief. You could also figure out what Donna Chang looks like on Facebook. In grading the storylines, Akiva thought Jerry deserved a B+, while Rob agreed. Elaine got a C, George got an A-, and lastly, Kramer had some great lines, earning him an A. Akiva thought this was an underrated episode, so he ranked it at 65. After the recap, Angela Dohrmann joined the guys for an interview. They asked her if she thought Donna Chang was intentionally trying to trick peo

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 3, “The Pledge Drive.” Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur are never mistaken for their wives with their rich, radio voices, which they used to bring you the latest Seinfeld episode recap. This week, they talked about “The Pledge Drive”, which first aired October 6, 1994 as part of season six. The episode was written by Tom Gammill and Max Pross. There was only a bit of Seinfeld news this week. Akiva researched any connection to Seinfeld with the recent celebrities that have passed. He learned that David Bowie was the musical guest in 1999 when Jerry hosted Saturday Night Live. Jerry has been asked to host a charity drive for PBS. He receives a thank you card from the woman Kristin who is running it, but throws it away after reading it. When Kristin sees the card in the trash, Jerry tries to prove he’s sentimental by showing her all his cards from his nana. When Kramer notices checks in all the cards from Jerry’s Nana, he convinces Jerry to cash them. Nana gets a call from her bank since the cashed checks overdrew her account. Nana tries to go down to the bank after not leaving the house alone for 25 years, but the bank wasn’t at the same location as the last time she was there. Uncle Leo calls Jerry to tell him Nana was missing. Nana, who found the new location of the bank, calls Jerry from there, but Elaine answers and thinks it’s Dan, so she yells then hangs up. George is tasked with finding a Yankee to appear on the pledge drive, trying to appeal to the Yankee brass by pushing the network’s high culture. He wins over his boss Morgan on the idea when Morgan sees him eloquently eating his candy bar with a knife and fork, after being impressed when hearing Elaine talk about Mr. Pitt doing the same thing. George’s second plot line has him reeling from the waitress at Monk’s secretly giving him the middle finger at every opportunity. This comes to a head when George is driving Danny Tartabull to the pledge drive and sees another driver flip him off. He chases the driver for an hour only to learn the man had his hand in a cast projecting his middle finger up, leading to Danny Tartabull missing the pledge drive appearance. Elaine’s story starts with her hearing from Jerry that her friend Noreen hit on him. When she calls to confront Noreen, she mistakes her boyfriend Dan for Noreen, since his voice sounds exactly like hers. She mentions how Jerry thought Noreen was hitting on him, causing Dan to get upset. She would later hear Jerry’s reason why he thought she was flirting, and her and George disproved it. When Noreen learns this and asks Elaine about it, Elaine inadvertently turns Noreen off from Dan, pointing out his high talking, leading to her actually being attracted to Jerry now. Dan shows up at PBS to confront Jerry, but Jerry thinks it’s Noreen’s voice, so when he sends Kramer out to handle it, Kramer confuses Dan by assuming it’s him who’s attracted to Jerry. Kramer had small parts that wove through Jerry’s storyline. First, he decides to work the phones at the pledge drive Jerry is hosting, though he wants a cut of the proceeds. He also notices Jerry’s cards from his nana’s and convinces him to cash them. All the stories piece together in the ending segment. Uncle Leo comes by the pledge drive to assure Jerry that Nana’s okay, and tries to give him money. Nana calls in to the pledge drive, but Kramer answers and thinks it Dan at first, reassuring him that Jerry is not interested. Nana tells him she is Jerry’s grandmother, and she wants to give her money to Jerry, not PBS. The scene cuts to Monk’s, where Jerry shows a card from Kristin that has Bugs Bunny giving him the middle finger on it. Lastly, Jerry sees everyone in the surrounding tables at the diner eating candy bars and deserts with a knife and fork. There were a few great tangents by Akiva and Rob this week. The guys discussed whether rich people worry about what is for dinner. Akiva tried to argue that him eating non chocolate candy is an extra bonus to avoid getting his hands dirty, though Rob took great exception, arguing that it’s fine if you just freeze the chocolate. They also discussed how hard it must be for athletes to deal with thousands of pleas to do charity events. Next, they talked about a plan to get the modern day Danny Tartabull out of child support trouble by pooling all his money toward Powerball tickets. Rob told a story about how his son opened up a the wrapper of a candy bar at the check out counter when he took his eye off him, forcing him to have to buy it. Later on, Nicole was disappointed because the 100 grand bar wasn’t one she liked. Rob and Akiva agreed that this episode doesn’t have anything that wouldn’t work

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 2, “The Big Salad.” Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur were glad that Newman never dated their wives so they could discuss this week’s recap of the latest episode in their run through the Seinfeld series. This week, they took on “The Big Salad”, which first aired September 29, 1994 as part of season six. The episode was written by the Larry David. First Akiva shared this week’s Seinfeld news. Julia Louis-Dreyfus turned 55 this week, and Jason Alexander appeared on The Nerdist Podcast, where he discussed the unique contract negotiations the cast had between season eight and nine. He also mentioned how he thought a spin off with Jackie Childs, or the Seinfeld and Costanza parents would have been great. In this episode, Jerry dates a woman Margaret, but after seeing George and his new girlfriend trying so hard, he feels like dating is too embarrassing, so he wants to avoid go outside with her. Things turn further worse when he learns that Margaret once dated Newman, but he dumped her. He can’t let this go, learning from Newman that he just didn’t find her pretty enough, souring Jerry on Margaret altogether to the point he can’t even kiss her. Newman takes every opportunity to needle Jerry about this, which further turns off Jerry, leading him to break it off with Margaret. George is dating a sophisticated woman named Julie, who’s interests are far different than his. In an effort to impress her, he buys Elaine a big salad at Monk’s, though he can’t let it go when Julie takes credit for the purchase when giving it to Elaine. In a later scene, George tells Elaine how he actually bought the salad, though Elaine is not impressed at all. Elaine complains to Julie about how George wanted credit for the salad purchase, causing Julie to break up with him. Elaine is tasked by Mr. Pitt to find a specific mechanical pencil. When the creepy salesman at the stationary store tries to hit on her and get her number, she gives Jerry’s number to thwart him off. The salesman calls Jerry’s several times to give meaningless updates about his progress on the pen, but she ducks every call. Eventually, Elaine decides to buy the pencil somewhere else, really letting down the creepy salesman to the point he guilts her into going on a date with him. Kramer’s story starts with him describing an argument he had with his golf partner, former baseball player Steve Gendason. Gendason violated a rule, so Kramer gave him a penalty stroke, which enraged Gendason, causing a huge argument. Later on in the episode, Jerry sees a news report about how Gendason murdered a dry cleaner after getting in an argument over a stained garment. Kramer feels guilty for putting Gendason in the mindset to commit this crime. He makes amends by driving the getaway car for Gendason, a scene exactly like the OJ Simpson car chase. There were several great tangents by Akiva and Rob this week. First they discussed how the writers of the show must have had a hard time with the string of new girlfriends Jerry and George have each episode. Next they talked about the correlation between this episode and the OJ Simpson ordeal that happened the summer prior to this airing. Akiva wondered if Rob was a museum guy, but Rob has never been predisposed to them. In 2016, there would be only be a couple things that would be different. They all could have followed the Gendason situation on the internet, and DNA evidence would have sunk Gendason. Akiva gave the episode a ranking of 95, feeling it was more enjoyable the first watch. Both cast their letter grades on each of the core four. They thought Jerry deserved a B, and Elaine deserved a D, since it didn’t go anywhere. Akiva thought George deserved an A-, while Rob thought a B+. Lastly, they thought Kramer deserved a B+. The email bag was pretty full this week. Johnny De Silveira offered some insight to the Miss America winners. He also asked what ever happened to Gendason, to which Akiva thought it probably mirrored the OJ thing. Amir thought Julie should have known handing the big salad to Elaine would mean she was taking credit. Amir also noted that Jerry does have a problem with dry cleaners. Craig thought Newman had his most complete story in this episode. He wondered if either of them have dated and dumped a woman out of their league, to which Rob laughed. Craig also wondered if Newman is an enigma wrapped in a riddle or a Twinkie, and they both thought Twinkie. Liz wanted to thank them for discussing Making a Murder, and she wondered if either of them needed credit for something they’ve done. Both of them agreed that they do want to be recognized. Finally, Chester wondered why Jerry would pay for pens, since you can get a free one just about anywhere. Tune in next week as the guys

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 1, “The Chaperone.” Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur have all the poise, grace and cotton shirts needed to bring you the latest recap in their run through the Seinfeld series. This week, they tackle “The Chaperone”, which first aired September 22, 1994 as the premiere of season six. The episode was written by Larry David, Bill Masters and Bob Shaw. Before delving into the news, Akiva put a bow on season five by ranking it as the best season so far. For news this week, there was a bar themed after George Costanza opened in Melbourne, Australia. Jerry’s storyline has him meeting Miss Rhode Island at the Yankee game and hitting it off. When he learns she can’t go out for dinner because her chaperone is not able, he enlists Kramer to fill in, which eventually leads to Kramer taking over as her pageant advisor. Jerry ultimately ruins Miss Rhode Island’s chances at Miss America when he accidentally kills her doves when he dumps water on them to quiet them on the balcony below. George storyline has him eager to make a splash with the Yankees. He learns from Danny Tartabull that the uniforms are made of polyester, which is why they get so hot in the summer. He champions a plan to switch to cotton uniforms, which is at first met with great success. All the players are raving about the difference with the cotton uniforms, but after the first washing, the Yankees are stuck with uniforms that are too small, leading to Don Mattingly splitting his pants. Elaine has a bigger storyline to open season six. She has a shot at taking over Jackie Onassis’ editor job after not working all summer, but the interview goes poorly. She meets Justin Pitt, a friend/colleague of Jackie O, who is mesmerized by Elaine since she is dressed like her. He hires her as his personal assistant but the job turns out not that great, as Elaine learns Mr. Pitt is eccentric and can’t even decide on a simple pair of socks to buy. It turns completely south when she is unable to go to Atlantic City with Jerry and George because she has to help Mr. Pitt find the right socks. Kramer’s part of the episode revolves around Jerry asking him to chaperone Miss Rhode Island on their date. When he Inquires about her game plan for the pageant, he starts to advise her on anything and everything, since he’s watched every Miss America pageant since he was six years old. He has her shaping up every part of her performance, and when the doves from her magic act die from Jerry throwing water on them, he switches her talent to singing, which goes terribly, since she is tone deaf. Rob and Akiva has several great tangents in this recap. First, they debated whether any other sport has been used in correlation to intimate activity before baseball. Next, they talked about how Major League Baseball was amidst a strike when this episode featuring the Yankees aired, and they also created a fake new podcast “Sports Serial”. Akiva shared how he had an interview where he knew wasn’t getting the job, much like with Elaine in this episode. Lastly, they talked a bit about Regis, and how it would have been great to get him on this episode as well. There wasn’t much that would be different in 2016. Akiva jokingly said that no one was pulling a Steve Harvey and announcing the wrong winner in this pageant, and maybe the science of comfier uniforms could have improved since 1994. While both Rob and Akiva liked the episode, it wasn’t the caliber of the last few episodes of season five. Akiva ranked it at 109, to which Rob agreed. They both agreed Jerry deserved a B, Kramer deserved a B, George earned himself an A-, and they both agreed Elaine deserved a C. There were only a few emails to start off the new season. Johnny De Silveira pointed out that the baseball scenes were shot at Angels Stadium, and the original title was supposed to be called “The Birds”. He also asked why Jerry didn’t just close the window instead of pouring water on the birds. Lastly, Chester wondered if the chaperone was really necessary as part of the pageant rules. He also asked why Jerry didn’t just use George as the chaperone when Kramer starts to take it too seriously. They both thought it was a great point. Tune in next week as the guys will recap “The Big Salad”, another high powered classic. Send in your questions by emailing [email protected]. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast by going to postshowrecaps.com/ seinfeldITunes where you can rate and review the podcast. You can get a discussion going about the podcast by leaving a comment on the show page, and as always, you can follow them on Twitter @robcesternino and @keev26. Subscribe to the Seinfeld ONLY Podcast on iTunes Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast R

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss the finale of Season 5, Episode 22, “The Opposite.” Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur skipped out on the Jujyfruits (not kosher and also gross), but might just start their podcast about podcasts when they finish recapping the latest episode of Seinfeld. This week, they break down “The Opposite”, which first aired May 19, 1994 as the finale of season five, and was written by Jerry, Larry and Andy Cowen. The news was slim this week. Akiva shared a top ten podcast list that ranked their Seinfeld podcast number one. It happened to be on his own podcast 32 Fans in 32 Days that he does with Chester. George once again has the richest storyline in this episode. He starts off lamenting how his life turned out, only to decide at the diner to do everything the opposite of his instincts, since they are always wrong. Once he starts this, everything starts going his way. He catches the eye of an attractive woman, who not only wants to date despite him admitting he’s jobless and living with his parents, she lines him up with a job at the New York Yankees as the Assistant to the Traveling Secretary. This is the first appearance of Larry David’s voice as George Steinbrenner. Jerry has very little to do in “The Opposite”, besides discovering that he always tends to break even in life. When Elaine throws a 20 dollar bill out the window, Jerry soon after discovers a 20 in his coat pocket. While at dinner with Rachael, she breaks up with him, and he’s so convinced things will even out, he isn’t even upset. The idea culminated when he realized how Elaine and George have swapped lots in life; one is up while the other is down. Elaine starts the episode celebrating Pendant Publishing getting bought out in a big merger, and on the heels of deciding to move in with Jake Jarmel. Things starts to spiral downward when Mr. Lippman inadvertently kills the merger at Pendant by appearing rude by not shaking hands while he’s sick. She then learns that she’s being kicked out of her apartment for a variety of reasons, then hits bottom when Jake dumps her for getting Jujyfruits at the movies right after hearing that he was hit by a car and in the hospital. Kramer’s coffee table book is finally a go, and he will get to go on Regis and Kathy Lee to promote it. When he goes “bonkos” on Regis and the interview goes sour, Lippman tells him to not do any more press. Kramer is crestfallen because he was dreaming to go on Sonja Live. Rob and Akiva had several great tangents this week. First they talked about how the actress who plays Victoria is Dedee Pfeiffer, sister of the star Michelle. Akiva once again shunned Star Wars, preferring to watch the new Chipmunks movie. They discovered that 411 was actually in existence dating back to the 1930s in New York City, and that 311 the band was not named for the KKK as rumored. Akiva shared how his cousin works for Facebook, and his mother wanted to thank Mark Zuckerberg. In discussing what would be different in 2016, Rob thought Jerry talking about the wardrobe benefits of being gay included a line about “recruiting” someone new wouldn’t be politically correct. The guys continued to grade each of the gang’s storyline. George was an iconic part of the plot, so they gave him an A. Elaine’s fall from grace was well received by both, but Akiva gave her an A, while Rob gave her a B. Kramer got an A from both despite not having a big part of the plot. They both agreed that Jerry had little to do with the episode, but was enjoyable. Akiva gave him a B+ and Rob gave him a B-. Akiva ranked the episode in the top 9, adding that it is not number one. There were a bunch of emails this week. Johnny De Silveira asked if either of the guys tried behaving the opposite to impress a girl. Akiva hadn’t, but Rob tries doing the opposite of his instincts with Nicole from time to time. He also asked if Kathy Lee had an issue in real life with being kissed by Kramer like that. The guys hadn’t heard there was a problem. Dan the donator wanted to know if Jason Alexander won the Emmy, but Rob confirmed that Michael Richards actually did that year. Dan also noted that by doing the extra long podcasts, the guys have raised $206 for Baby Buggy, a charity run by Jerry Seinfeld’s wife. Eddie Mack wondered if the real Steinbrenner would have been a continuing character if he played himself. Craig asked why George didn’t stick with the opposite since things worked out so well. The guys didn’t have an answer, but Rob often wondered that himself. Harry noted that he loved following them go through season five. He asked why Kramer wore a puffy scarf but not a puffy shirt. Also, he questioned why Elaine would pay the outrageous price for Jujyfruits at the theater. Lastl

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 5, Episode 21, “The Hamptons.”   Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur gathered once again to bring you a breathtaking Seinfeld recap, and during Festivus week no less. This week they breakdown “The Hamptons”, which first aired May 12, 1994 as the penultimate episode of season five. It was written by Peter Mehlman and Carol Leifer, and was one of only a few episodes that did not take place in Manhattan at all. After disusing how big Festivus still is, even with non Seinfeld watchers, Akiva shared a bit of news. Jerry will entertain President Barack Obama in an episode of his upcoming season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Akiva also shared that he was blocked for the first time on Twitter, and by none other than his own 14 year old sister. Jerry’s part of the episode is minor to the overall plot. His girlfriend Rachael’s father allows her to see Jerry again after the Schindler’s List make out session, so she comes along to The Hamptons as well. He spends much of the time playing damage control, since Rachael walks in on George, seeing him naked after experiencing “shrinkage”. George has a huge role in the storyline this week. He is finally getting his chance to sleep with his new girlfriend Jane. When he learns that the rest of the gang saw Jane topless, he decides it’s only fair for him to see Jerry’s girlfriend naked to make up for it. When Rachael ends up walking in on George, he is incredibly embarrassed because he just got out of the pool and was suffering from “shrinkage”. When Rachael shares the shrinkage news to Jane, Jane decides to head back to the city early, leading George to seek revenge against Rachael. He decides to sneak some of the leftover lobster into some scrambled eggs the next morning, not telling Rachael, who is kosher and can’t eat shellfish. Elaine’s story is also a small one. The baby’s doctor describes her as breathtaking, though when he also calls Michael and Carol’s ugly baby breathtaking, she isn’t sure if he was being nice to her, or being nice about the baby. Kramer has a small part to the plot this week. While rummaging around the beach, he discovers a lobster trap with a bunch of lobsters that he brings back to the beach house for everyone. When the host Michael hears he emptied a commercial trap, he gets upset, since that was how his father had made a living. When a local cop stops by to inquire about the empty trap, Michael rats out Kramer, leading to him having to join a highway clean up crew to pay off the fine. Akiva and Rob had some great tangents this week. First they debated why the baby’s doctor would essentially be a live in physician on their weekend away. Next they talked about how Puff Daddy has changed his name yet again, going from Diddy back to P Diddy. Rob thought it would be a good idea to do a Serial-like podcast about the disgraced CEO Martin Shkreli. Rob felt that if he was hosting guests and one of them was inexplicably cooking, he’d ask where they got the food from. Rob also wondered how bad it would be to trick a kosher person into having shellfish, to which Akiva thought her level of commitment to the religion would determine it, suggesting he might be the wrong person to weigh in since he is kosher himself. In 2015, there wouldn’t be much that was different. Rob thought George could Google “shrinkage”, and Akiva thought they’d have a chance to see the baby on Facebook, but ultimately both thought it was a timeless tale. Akiva decided to rank this iconic episode in the top 9, joining “The Marine Biologist and “The Contest”. Akiva and Rob both thought George’s storyline was a big A+, adding that there aren’t many better from any character in any episode. Jerry had such a small storyline, really just serving as a buffer to the other characters, so they both gave him an incomplete. They gave Elaine an A, though it was a very small part of the plot. Kramer was deserving of A- from Akiva, while Rob was way down on Kramer in particular, giving him a C or C-. There were several emails this week. Travis loved the episode, but didn’t like it ending with Rachael throwing the tomato, to which Rob and Akiva agreed. Dr. Tom the medical correspondent offered the answer for shrinkage. He said it shrinks to maintain the optimum body temperature. Raul Castillo wondered if Rob would be mad if Akiva saw his wife naked. Rob wouldn’t be if it was an accident. Raul also asked if Rob would eat the stolen lobsters, but Rob thought he wouldn’t ask too many questions about it. Liz wrote in to ask if either of them have met ugly babies. Rob thought most babies are standard looking, while Akiva agreed that most babies don’t get cute until the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvMd-pjSMc Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 5, Episode 20, “The Fire.” Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur couldn’t get Eric the Clown to guest on the Seinfeld podcast this week, but they trudged along anyway with their recap of “The Fire”, which first aired May 5, 1994. The episode was written by Larry Charles, who Akiva thought had his best episode to date. There was no Seinfeld news this week, but Akiva offered the listeners a can’t miss recommendation in a new Netflix show, Making a Murder. He likened it to the podcast Serial, though he thinks it will be even better. Jerry is having a writer from Entertainment Weekly review one of his sets, so he invites George and Kramer to bring along their new girlfriends for support. Kramer and his girlfriend Toby come to the show, and Toby inexplicably interrupts the show, going as far as heckling Jerry for telling a joke about women. The Entertainment Weekly article ends up highlighting this bombed set in the article, causing a gig in Miami to be cancelled due to the bad press. When he tells George about this, George recommends Jerry go to her work and heckle her, for the ultimate comedian’s revenge. The plan goes awry when Toby gets upset and runs out of the office, only to have her pinky toe severed by a street sweeper. Elaine had a small part to this episode. Her colleague Toby, who is dating Kramer, is interested in a senior editor position that Elaine is also interested in. She eventually loses the job to Toby, since their boss felt bad for Toby after having her foot run over. George’s storyline is one of the greatest in the whole series. His new girlfriend Robin’s son is having a birthday party, and when the stove catches fire, he barrels over every woman, child and clown in an effort to save himself. When called out on this, he makes up several elaborate lies about how he was acting fast as the leader saving everyone, though no one buys it. After hearing Kramer’s heroic story, George feels compelled to make up for his cowardly ways, but it goes poorly at the end of the episode. Ronnie the prop comic is holding up a fake gun, and George clears out the club by yelling about the gun, ruining Jerry’s opportunity to show the Entertainment Weekly writer a good set. Kramer is dating an obnoxious woman from Elaine’s office named Toby, who is helping him move forward with his coffee table book. After he brings her to Jerry’s show and she ruins it, he spends much of his time defending her. After Jerry causes Toby to have her toe run over from a street sweeper, Kramer finds the toe on the street and hops a bus to rush it to Toby at the hospital. While on the bus, he apprehends a hijacker, takes over driving the bus when the driver passes out, and successfully delivers the toe to Toby, where it’s successfully reattached. Akiva and Rob had several great tangents, as usual. First they debated whether the birthday for a baby or an elderly person is easier to attend, ultimately deciding the baby’s birthday is better. Next they discussed how the prizes won on The Price is Right end up costing the winner a great deal in taxes. The guys wondered whether a random comic today would get heckled for a bit about women being nesters.They also compared how Eric the Clown not knowing Bozo was like Rob not knowing Marc Maron or Richard Hatch. Lastly they debated how the pinky toe is the most useless appendage, but Akiva thought the appendix is more useless than that. In 2015, Akiva thought nobody would take a bus, and couldn’t rob it since everyone has metro cards. Also, EW is not covering a comedy show. Lastly, he thought that you should never invite more than four little kids to a birthday party. In ranking the episode, Akiva was thrilled with it, so he put it at 20, though Rob felt quite differently, thinking it should be ranked in the 90s somewhere. The guys were especially happy with each of the storylines this week. Both thought Kramer knocked it out of the park with his hijacker monologue, earning an A. Elaine, though not a big part of the episode, was feisty and funny, so Akiva gave her an A, but Rob knocked her down to a B- because her scenes with Toby weren’t too great. Jerry gets a B from Akiva and a C+ from Rob, since both were a little down on his involvement. George had an all time episode with the fire scene, so Akiva gave him an A, and Rob gave him an A+. There were a few emails this week. First, Craig suggested Akiva go see the new Star Wars movie and write a review about it, but Akiva held strong in his quest to never see any of the franchise. He also asked why everyone didn’t get off the bus when Kramer would stop to get away from the gunman. Travis emailed to point out how this episode had great monologues, and thought Akiva w

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 5, Episodes 18 & 19, “The Raincoats.” Upcoming Schedule (Subject To Change) #84 – “The Fire” – Questions deadline: Tues, Dec 15th @ 3pm ET #85 – “The Hamptons” – Questions deadline: Tues, Dec 22nd @ 3pm ET #86 – “The Opposite” – Questions deadline: Tues, Dec 29th @ 3pm ET Subscribe to the Seinfeld ONLY Podcast on iTunes   Subscribe: Seinfeld Podcast in iTunes | Seinfeld Podcast RSS Feed | View our archive of Seinfeld Episode Recaps to This Point