Seinfeld: The Switch
Episode score
8.9
Great
The Switch
- 97.
- Season: 6
- Episode: 11
- First Aired: 1/5/1995
- Prod Code: 610
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. Add a recap »
- Writers:
- Sam KassBruce Kirschbaum
- Director:
- Andy Ackerman
- Stars:
- Michael Richards (Cosmo Kramer)
- Jason Alexander (George Louis Costanza)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine Marie Benes (not in pilot))
- Jerry Seinfeld (Himself)
- Recurring Role:
- Wayne Knight (Newman)
- Guest Star:
- Tish Smiley (Woman)
- Cheryl Francis Harrington (Waitress)
- Jacqueline M. Houston (Lorraine)
- Clive Rosengren (Mr. Clotworthy)
- Heather Medway (Laura)
- Terry Sweeney (Keith)
- Jann Karam (Sandi)
- Charlotte Lewis (Nina)
- Gail Strickland (Landis)
- Sheree North (Babs Kramer)
- Larry David (Man on the Street (voice) (uncredited))
- The night this episode originally aired on NBC, it was followed by an episode of the show Madman of the People called "Notes From the Underground" which featured a guest appearance by actress Liz Sheridan, better known to Seinfeld fans as Helen Seinfeld, Jerry's mother. edit »
- Miss Landis injured herself playing tennis. When she is telling Elaine about the injury she said "I tore my humeral epicondyles." The humerus is the bone in the upper arm and the epicandyles are parts of teh bone. It is impossible to tear a part of a bone. edit »
- Obviously this episode shows that George doesn't like women who throw up after they eat. But in "The Fix-Up" he dated Elaine's friend as part of the fix-up. And Jerry specifically told him that "She Likes to Throw Up". edit »
- Why does Jerry ask what is Babs like, when he has her number and spoke to her over the phone? (The Keys) edit »
- Normally, at the end of the pre-final scene, the image freezes and shows the 3 main executive producers (some are shown at the beginning of the episode). There are some episodes where they are showed during the ending credits. This is the first episode that shows that. edit »
- This is the episode that Kramer's first name is revealed to be Cosmo. edit »
- When Kramer and Babs are strolling down the street and everyone is saying hello to Cosmo. The last hello was yelled out by Larry David. edit »
- Jerry: I'm not an orgy guy. edit »
- George: Do you realize in the entire history of western civilization no one has successfully accomplished the roommate switch. In the middle ages you could get locked up for even suggesting it.
Jerry: They didn't have roommates in the middle ages.
George: How do you know?
Jerry: Well, for one thing, they didn't have apartments.
George: Well, I'm sure at some point between the years 800 and 1200 somewhere there were two women living together. edit » - Kramer: All my life I've been running away from that name. That's why I wouldn't tell anybody. But I've been thinking about it. All this time I'm trying not to be me. I'm afraid to face who I was. But I'm Cosmo, Jerry, I'm Cosmo Kramer, and that's who I'm going to be. From now on, I'm Cosmo! edit »
- Jerry: (about his new girlfriend, a non-laugher) The jokes kept bouncing off her like Superman. edit »
- George: Every time we go out to eat, the minute we were done eating, she's runnin' to the bathroom.
Elaine: So you're concerned?
George: Elaine, of course I'm concerned. I'm paying for those meals. edit »
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