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"Crazy" Joe leaves Jerry a message saying he will put the "kibosh" on him. Kramer has tickets for the opera, Pagliacci, and everyone is going including Elaine and her boyfriend "Crazy" Joe. Elaine drops in on Joe's apartment and is she surprised by what she discovers, so she maces him with cherry Binaca and ends their relationship. Susan can't attend, so George tries to scalp her ticket. Joe, a big fan of Pagliacci, comes to the opera in clown garb; Elaine and Jerry attend together not realizing their different estranged relationships with Joe. Add a recap »

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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:: Peter Crombie ("Crazy" Joe Davola); Heidi Swedberg (Susan Ross)

Guest Star:: Glen Chin (Man #3); Jason Wingreen (Man #2); Tom Celli (Man #1); Bill Saluga (Usher); Hariet S. Miller (Mrs. Reichman); Ross Evans (Mr. Reichman)

Goof: George sells his ticket to the Chinese man for $250, yet when Jerry asks the man how much he bought George's ticket for, he says $175. edit »
When Joe Devola is leaving a message on Jerry�s machine, he sputters four times because of the hair on his tongue. Yet when Jerry plays the message a while later, we only hear Devola sputter three times, which indicates that this is a slightly different recording or that it was edited somehow. edit »
When Elaine and Jerry are in his kitchen and he says he�s looking forward to meeting her new boyfriend, a jar of pickles suddenly appears on the counter when Elaine replies that she�s got to go. edit »

For his performance in this episode Jerry Seinfeld received a 1993 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. edit »
The opera that Kramer wants Jerry and the others to go to is "Pagliacci". He plays a CD of the opera at Jerry's house. In addition, we hear the music when Davola is making up his face. The point is, this is the same music as heard in "The Keys", when Jerry phones Kramer's mom to ask her about Kramer. She was totally drunk, listening to the music. edit »
Bill Saluga is best remembered for a character he played in Vegas and on variety television. That character's name was Raymond J. Johnson Jr.� "Oh you don't have to call me Johnson. Now my name is Raymond J. Johnson Jr. You can call me Ray or you can call me�" You get the idea! Also in 1979, Bill released a disco album called "Dancin' Johnson", whose catalog number is SP-12018 on A&M Records. More recently Saluga played the part of Louis Lewis in Seinfeld co-creator Larry David's HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm in Nov 2005. edit »

Jerry: (to a police officer) But officer, he threatened me. I don't understand, that's not right. What if it was the President of the United States, I bet you'd investigate. Well, so what? What's the difference? I'm a comedian of the United States. And I'll tell you, I'm under just as much pressure. edit »
Jerry: I don't like the opera. What are they singing for? Who sings? You got something to say, say it. edit »
George: Do you know the last time I wore this thing? Six years ago, when I made that toast at Bobby Leighton's wedding.
Jerry: Oh, that was a bad toast.
George: It wasn't that bad.
Jerry: I never heard anybody curse in a toast.
George: I was trying to loosen 'em up a little bit.
Jerry: There were old people there, all the relatives. You were like a Redd Foxx record. I mean, at the end of the toast nobody even drank. They were just standing there, they were just frozen! That might have been one of the worst all time toasts.
George: Alright, still her father didn't have to throw me out like that, he could have just asked me to leave. The guy had me in a headlock! edit »
Jerry: The hardest part about being a clown, it seems to me, would be that you're constantly referred to as a clown. "Who was that clown?", "I'm not working with that clown, did you hire that clown?", "The guy's a clown!". How do you even start into being a clown, how do you know that you want to be a clown, I guess you get to a point where your pants look so bad, it's actually easier to become a clown than having the proper alterations done. Because if you think about it, a clown, if there isn't a circus around them, is really just a very annoying person. You're in the back seat of this guy's Volkswagen, "What, you're picking somebody else up? Oh man!" edit »
(Loud thump is heard from the door)
Jerry: Who is it?
Kramer: It's me!
Kramer: Why are you locking the door now? edit »

The song Jerry sung; "Overture, curtain, lights/this is it, we'll hit the heights/and oh, what heights we'll hit/on with the show this is it!"; was the theme song used for the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show Saturday mornings on CBS in the early 70s and various Warner Brothers cartoon packages since then. edit »

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The Opera
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