S06E16 - The Beard
No: 102 | Season: 6 Episode: 16 | Air Date: 9-Feb-1995 | Production #615
Summary
Elaine tries to convert a gay man to heterosexuality. George, who's now wearing his toupee, discovers that the woman Kramer has set him up with, is bald. Kramer gives a homeless man some Chinese food and begins standing in police lineups for $50 a lineup. Jerry begins to date a cop, but she wants him to take a lie detector test, she thinks he is lying about NOT watching Melrose Place.
Director and Writers
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writers: Carol Leifer
Quotes
Kramer: (to George, about the bald woman) You blew it, boy...You really blew it!
Jerry: When someone is lying, is it true that their pants are actually on fire?
Jerry: (to Elaine) And we discover yet another talent... posing as a girlfriend for homosexuals.
George: I got rejected by a bald woman.
Elaine: I have hit the jackpot. The perfect man -- nothing but sex and shopping.
Elaine: Have you ever been to the ballet?
Jerry: No, but I've seen people on tiptoes.
George: Remember, Jerry, it's not a lie if you believe it.
Notes and Trivia
The homeless man that Kramer gave the Chinese food to is played by Jon Gries, who went on to play Uncle Rico in the hugely popular "Napoleon Dynamite".
Goofs
In the first scene in Jerry's kitchen, George takes a unopened box of Chinese food from the fridge. A second later, the box in George's hand is suddenly open.
When Elaine takes George's toupee off his head and runs to the window to throw it out, you can hear Jason Alexander laughing aloud.
Cast
Jerry Seinfeld | Jerry Seinfeld |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Elaine Benes |
Michael Richards | Cosmo Kramer |
Jason Alexander | George Costanza |
Robert Mailhouse | Robert |
Katherine LaNasa | Cathy |
Jon Gries | Homeless Man |
Edward Winter | Mr. Stevenson (as Ed Winter) |
Georgann Johnson | Mrs. Stevenson |
Joan Scheckel | Denise (as Joan Elizabeth) |
John F. O'Donohue | Gus |
Jerry Diner | Lou |
Mirron E. Willis | Officer #1 |
Ken Kerman | Officer #2 |
Ruth Cohen | Ruthie Cohen |
Bruce Kirschbaum | Guy in Police Lineup (uncredited) |
Jon Manfrellotti | Guy in Police Lineup (uncredited) |