S03E09 - The Nose Job
No: 26 | Season: 3 Episode: 9 | Air Date: 20-Nov-1991 | Production #309
Summary
Jerry's brain and penis play chess against one another to decide whether he should keep dating a vacuous model with whom the "sex is great" but not anything else. George is dating a woman with a big nose, Kramer tells her it like it is and she gets a nose job; however, there is a complication. Kramer gets Elaine to help him retrieve the jacket.
Director and Writers
Director: Tom Cherones
Writers: Peter Mehlman
Quotes
George: I'm going straight to hell, no two ways about it.
George: You won't think I'm a bad person?
Jerry: Too late for that.
Kramer: You're as pretty as those girls, you just need a nose job!
Kramer: I'm your fiance. Peter Von Nostrand.
George: Very exciting, very exciting, it's like watching a birth!
Notes and Trivia
This episode features one of the first scenes which Julia Louis-Dreyfus had the hardest time getting through without laughing. She continually burst into giggles at the sight of Michael Richards as Kramer stuffing his pipe with tobacco, and he was displeased with her inability to get a grip, insisting that she was throwing off his concentration.
In the scenes where Jerry's brain and penis play a metaphorical game of chess, the penis is represented by Seinfeld wearing a painted combat helmet (of the style worn by the US military from the 1940s to the '80s).
In this episode George mentions he is from Long Island, whereas in other episodes he states that he grew up in Queens. Yes, technically Queens is located on the western end of Long Island, but a New Yorker would never refer to Queens as "long Island".
Goofs
When George hands Audrey the mirror, Elaine can be seen talking to Kramer, but her voice is muted.
Cast
Jerry Seinfeld | Jerry Seinfeld |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Elaine Benes |
Michael Richards | Kramer |
Jason Alexander | George Costanza |
Susan Diol | Audrey |
Roy Brocksmith | Landlord |
Tawny Kitaen | Isabel |
Joseph V. Perry | Newsstand Owner |
David Blackwood | Interviewer |