S04E16 - The Shoes
No: 56 | Season: 4 Episode: 16 | Air Date: 4-Feb-1993 | Production #417
Summary
Jerry and George struggle to keep their idea for a TV series alive, one of their problems is they don't know how to do the Elaine character. Jerry meets an old girlfriend he never could kiss, later Kramer gets the opportunity. The ex-girlfriend talks about Elaine's shoes, mainly because she wants them. George is caught staring at the cleavage of the daughter of the NBC executive who is approving their script. Elaine's cleavage provides a means to turn the tables on him.
Director and Writers
Director: Tom Cherones
Writers: Larry David &
Quotes
George: How's this for criticism? Um...you stink. How do you like that criticism?
(George is looking at Russell's daughter and her cleavage)
Russell: Get a good look, Costanza?
Jerry: (on men) We're like some kind of weird fish where the eyes operate independently of the head.
Jerry: You know primavera is Italian for spring.
George: No!
Kramer: I understand women. The snub is good. They love the snub.
Elaine: Why are my shoes a topic of conversation?
Notes and Trivia
Denise Richards, who played Russell Dalrymple's 15 year old daughter, was actually 22 at the time the episode aired.
Goofs
George tells his therapist that he and Jerry pitched "the butler story" to Russel Dalrymple. However, in "The Virgin", they actually pitched it to Rita Kirsen, who was sitting in for Russell while he was in Los Angeles.
The script that Jerry leafs through, after George threw it to him while ranting to Elaine about how his therapist didn't think it was funny, is all blank pages.
Cast
Jerry Seinfeld | Jerry Seinfeld |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Elaine Benes |
Michael Richards | Kramer |
Jason Alexander | George Costanza |
Bob Balaban | Russell Dalrymple |
Gina Hecht | Dana Foley |
Anita Barone | Gail |
Michael Ornstein | Waiter (as Michael Ornstein) |
Denise Richards | Molly (as Denise Lee Richards) |
Norman Brenner | Chef (uncredited) |
Ruth Cohen | Ruthie Cohen |