Writer:	Jennifer Crittenden
Director:	Andy Ackerman
Star:	Michael Richards (Cosmo Kramer),  Jerry Seinfeld (Himself),  Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine Marie Benes (not in pilot)),  Jason Alexander (George Louis Costanza)
Recurring Role:	John O'Hurley (J. Peterman),  Patrick Warburton (David Puddy)
Guest Star:	Megan Cole (Peggy),  Kathleen McClellan (Melissa),  Jack Hackett (Alan),  Michael Fishman (Gregg),  David Dunard (Leader),  Wayne Wilderson (Walter),  Brian Levinson (Andy),  Eric Simonson (Friend)

James Spader is credited as a "Special Appearance". (edit) While playing Scrabble, Melissa uses the word "zephyr" and records 66 points. This would require a double word score and a triple letter score on the Z. (edit) Elaine rubs her armpit, butt, and so on, with Peggy's keyboard, telephone receiver, etc., in order to pique Peggy's germophobia. In "The Pacakge", Elaine rubbed a telephone receiver on the rash on her neck, in the hope of infecting an obnoxious nurse. (edit) When Melissa tells Jerry that she fixed his bicycle, Jerry replies, "Thanks, but I never use it, it's just for show." (edit)

George: I'm not here for rage, I'm here for revenge. (edit) (getting mad at an anger management class)
George: Am I talking to you Pinhead? (edit) Jerry: What is wrong with my body?
Elaine: Chicken wing shoulder blades.
Jerry: Is that it?
Elaine: No but that's one problem, why? (edit) George: I'm losing it! (edit) George: This bread has nuts in it! (edit)

When Elaine laughs at George for telling the "you'll stretch the neck out" story, she says "You do have a big head." Apparently she would know, because in the previous season's "The Andrea Doria" episode, Elaine was told she had a big head by her ex-boyfriend, a cab driver and a man on a park bench. (edit) When George is tricked into going to ragaholics anonymous, the actor playing the man at the podium speaking is David Dunard, you may also see him way back in Season 3 "The Parking Garage", he played the security guard who caught Jerry and George urinating in the parking lot. He also makes an appearance in the series finale, playing his security guard character again. (edit) In this episode, Melissa fixes Jerry's bike, and he says: "Thanks, but I don't use it, it's just for show." However, a few episodes later, in "The Bookstore", Kramer rides it around his apartment. Apparently, Jerry only means that he doesn't ride the bike, but it still works. (edit) There are several problems with this episode's reference to AA's 12 Steps:

1) Step 9 calls for amends to be made to all people the alcoholic had harmed as a result of his/her drinking. Step 9 has nothing to do with apologizing for stupid things like calling someone by the wrong name or not lending them a sweater.

2) George says that after "taking personal inventory" (Step 10), Hanky only had to "count his blessings and say a prayer." However, these are not Steps 11 and 12.

3) George is under the impression that once an alcoholic has completed the 12 Steps, he has completed the AA program. Hanky's sponsor seems to share a similar view, as he says that Hankey is "doing very well", and "already on Step 10." However, alcoholics/addicts spend the rest of their lives involved with their 12 Step programs, and continue step work over time. Completing the steps quickly is not a positive thing. (edit) Upon learning that Elaine, like Jerry, spends only 10 minutes in the shower, Kramer asks Elaine if he can smell her. In Season 3's "The Red Dot," Elaine and Jerry ask Kramer to take a drink and let them smell him. Interestingly, in this episode, when being smelled, Elaine is standing in almost the exact spot in Jerry's kitchen where Kramer stood to be smelled in "The Red Dot." (edit)

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Three scenes, three primate references: Talking at Monk's, Elaine calls the male body "simian." In the next scene, when Jerry and Melissa are talking about nudity, she sees him as a lantern-jawed, head-scratching ape. In the scene after that, Jerry is peeling and eating a banana while talking on the phone. (edit)