S03E10 - The Stranded
No: 27 | Season: 3 Episode: 10 | Air Date: 27-Nov-1991 | Production #209
Maybe the dingo ate your baby.Summary
Jerry & Elaine go to a party with George, while there they send signals to each other to get out of bad party conversations. Afterward, George abandons them there, when he leaves with a co-worker he has a chance with. Jerry & Elaine keeping the hosts up real late, while waiting for Kramer to come and pick them up. The host later takes Jerry up on his offer to drop by when he is in the city, just as Jerry is leaving. He stays in Jerry's apartment for the evening and parties with Kramer and a lady of the evening. Later George pays the price for his romance in the workplace (he must quit) and he tries to shoplift at the drug store where he says they still owe him ten dollars.
Director and Writers
Director: Tom Cherones
Writers: Larry David &
Quotes
Woman: I have lost my fiance, the poor baby.
Elaine: Maybe the dingo ate your baby.
George: Every day is a date.
Jerry: That's one of Dante's nine stages of hell, isn't it?
George: You got aloe? I love aloe.
George: The last time a woman said that [make love to me] to me I wound up apologizing to her.
Notes and Trivia
This episode was originally produced for the second season. However, Larry David did not like it and postponed the airdate. The original airing of the episode included an introductory segment with Jerry explaining that there would be continuity errors.
Cast read-through for this episode: January 16, 1991. Filmed before a studio audience: January 22, 1991. First aired: November 27, 1991.
On the DVD box set, you may find this episode on Season 2
Elaine tells someone at the party that she is reading manuscripts for Pendant Publishing. Jerry walks by and says "Pendant! Those bastards!". This is a reference to what Elaine's father said in "The Jacket" when Elaine told him she was working for Pendant. In another possible reference to that episode, Kramer tells Steve a story that involves a magician and someone almost getting hit by a car. Although we don't here the entire story it sounds suspiciously like when he and Elaine picked up his friend's doves.
At the party in Long Island, George's co-worker brags about having just sold 129 West 81st Street. This is the same address Jerry uses in the show, and the building used for exterior shots of his apartment.
Jerry says he's 36 years old, and we assume that George is the same age. This is only episode where any of the main characters age is mentioned directly.
When Jerry is writing something on a notepad at the party, he does it with his left hand.
When Elaine says, "Maybe the Dingo ate your baby" she is making a reference to a line by Meryl Streep in the 1988 film "A Cry In The Dark".
Goofs
At the party, the guy going on and on about peanuts to Elaine says that the cashew is a legume. It is not. The peanut is (grows in a pod), but the cashew is the seed of the cashew tree.
Just before Mr. Pocatillo leaves Jerry's apartment, before he goes to kiss Patty's hand, the door is wide open, yet he goes to kiss her, and starts to leave and the door is closed.
When Elaine and Jerry are waiting for Kramer to pick them up, Jerry picks up a book on the civil war. In the next shot, it's on the coffee table again and in the next shot it's in his lap.
Cast
| Jerry Seinfeld | Jerry Seinfeld |
| Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Elaine Benes |
| Michael Richards | Kramer |
| Jason Alexander | George Costanza |
| Michael Chiklis | Steve Pocatello |
| Teri Austin | Ava |
| Bobbi Jo Lathan | Patti |
| Gwendolyn Shepherd | Cashier |
| Dwayne Kennedy | Frank |
| Marcia Firesten | Jenny |
| Michael Milhoan | Security Guard |
| John Putch | Roy |
| Melissa Weil | Gwen |
| Ellen Ratner | Ellen |
| Frank Piazza | Cop |