S06E11 - The Switch
No: 97 | Season: 6 Episode: 11 | Air Date: 5-Jan-1995 | Production #610
Summary
Elaine lets a potential employer borrow Mr. Pitt's tennis racket, but the injury suffered may ruin her chances, especially when she must get his racket back. Jerry's girlfriend never laughs, but he meets her roommate who does, so Jerry decides he would like to make "the switch." George's model girlfriend may be bulimic. He needs proof, so he meets Kramer's mother, who's a bathroom matron. While there he finds out Kramer's first name, Cosmo. Kramer decides it is time to be himself and begins to use his first name. George has the perfect plan for "the switch," a menage a trois.
Director and Writers
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writers: Bruce Kirschbaum and Sam Kass
Quotes
Elaine: Newman plays tennis?
Jerry: He's fantastic.
George: Are you crazy?! This is like discovering Plutonium...by accident!
Jerry: (about his new girlfriend, a non-laugher) The jokes kept bouncing off her like Superman.
Jerry: I'd have to get new friends . . . orgy friends!
Notes and Trivia
This is the episode where we discover Kramer's first name is "Cosmo". Kramer's first name was originally going to be "Conrad" which was supposed to be revealed in Season 2's "The Bet". However, that episode was scrapped due to its controversial storyline in which Elaine buys a gun. The name "Cosmo" came from Larry David, who had a neighbor named Cosmo while living in New York
When Kramer and Babs are strolling down the street and everyone is saying hello to Cosmo. The last voice heard was that of Larry David.
Goofs
After Jerry tells Elaine and Landis that Newman is a fantastic tennis player, it cuts to a different angle and Jerry is already walking away from them in a different direction.
Ms. Landis says she tore her "humeral epicondylitis", however humeral epicondylitis is a syndrome describing inflammation of the elbow tendons, and is not a muscle itself.
Cast
Jerry Seinfeld | Jerry Seinfeld |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Elaine Benes |
Michael Richards | Kramer |
Jason Alexander | George Costanza |
Wayne Knight | Newman |
Sheree North | Babs |
Gail Strickland | Landis |
Charlotte Lewis | Nina |
Jann Karam | Sandi |
Terry Sweeney | Keith |
Heather Medway | Laura |
Clive Rosengren | Mr. Clotworthy |
Jacqueline M. Houston | Lorraine |
Cheryl Francis Harrington | Waitress |
Tish Smiley | Woman |
Ruth Cohen | Ruthie Cohen |
Larry David | Man on the Street (voice) (uncredited) |