Seinfeld: The Fire
Episode score
9.1
Superb
The Fire
- 84.
- Season: 5
- Episode: 20
- First Aired: 5/5/1994
- Prod Code: 518
Kramer is dating one of Elaine's co-workers, a woman who drives her crazy. Kramer brings her to one of Jerry's shows, where she heckles him relentlessly; unfortunately there is a national magazine critic in the audience. George panics when there is a fire at his girlfriend's apartment, during her son's birthday party. Jerry decides to get revenge by heckling the woman where she works. She runs out of the office onto the street and loses her pinkie toe. Kramer finds the toe, takes a bus to the hospital and saves the passengers from a gunman. Inspired by Kramer's tale, George tries to confront his feelings of cowardice. Add a recap »
- Writers:
- Larry Charles
- Director:
- Tom Cherones
- Stars:
- Michael Richards (Cosmo Kramer)
- Jason Alexander (George Louis Costanza)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine Marie Benes (not in pilot))
- Jerry Seinfeld (Himself)
- Recurring Role:
- Larry David (Comedy Club Emcee (uncredited))
- Estelle Harris (Estelle Costanza)
- Jerry Stiller (Frank Costanza)
- Guest Star:
- Lawrence LeJohn (Fireman)
- Patience Cleveland (Old Lady)
- Hiram Kasten (Michael)
- Lisa Pescia (Joanne)
- Jon Favreau (Clown)
- Dom Irrera (Ronnie)
- Veanne Cox (Toby)
- Melanie Chartoff (Robin)
- When George is sitting in the back of the ambulance after fleeing the fire, the children yell at him for leaving them behind. However, you can see that several of the children are smiling. edit »
- Annoyed that Toby got the promotion because of her pinkie-toe, Elaine rants about how stupid and useless the pinkie-toe is. However, only a few episodes earlier, in "The Conversion," Elaine tells her podiatrist boyfriend how much she loves feet and the pinkie-toe in particular. edit »
- The character Ronnie (played by Dom Irrera) wears a Boston Bruins jersey with the name "Irrera" written on the back. edit »
- When Jerry gives George the magazine with his review inside, we see Jerry flip through the magazine and land on a page with a black background, with the left page facing up. However, in the next shot, he hands the magazine to George with a white sheet facing up on the left side of the magazine, and in the shot after, George is miraculously reading on the right page of the magazine without flipping the magazine over! edit »
- Jerry asks George if he knocked over Robin when he was knocking down everyone, trying to get out of the apartment. George claims that he did knock her down...but when George runs out the door, you can clearly see Robin run in from the bottom right corner of the screen in a red sweatshirt, showing that she never was knocked down by George. edit »
- Jerry pitches a bit about men and women watching TV to Elaine. This bit was the opening stand up for the season 2 episode "The Baby Shower." edit »
- Jerry's stand-up is incorporated into the plot of the episode when we see him practicing for Elaine and when he is actually on stage performing. edit »
- Jerry combines George's "Baby" and Bania's "It's gold" when he says, "It's gold, baby." edit »
- If you listen closely to the announcer call Jerry to the stage, it sounds like Larry David. edit »
- Jerry: There's no precedent, baby!
George: What, are you using my babies now? edit » - Jerry: (after Toby heckled him) Booing and hissing are not part of the show. You boo puppets. You hiss villains in silent movies. edit »
- Kramer: (talking about Toby) Oooh, she's a package full of energy.
Elaine: Yeah, she's a package full of something. edit » - George: Go fold your little balloon animals, Eric. Eric… What kind of name is that for a clown? edit »
- Toby: Look, I have goose bumps. Touch! Touch them! edit »
- (Jerry has turned the tables on a heckler by going to her place of work to heckle her)
Prop Comic: Jerry, you're like Rosa Parks. You opened the door for all of us.
Rosa Parks was the black woman who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Her action inspired the civil rights movement and brought about important changes in legislation. edit »
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