When you have Asperger Syndrome, you always want to see a bad episode have a really good ending. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen in the Seinfeld world.
In this episode, Jerry and George's baseball team were supposed to be playing against a team featuring actress Bette Midler (that's right, the poodle from Oliver and Company) Running towards home, George runs right into her, knocking her on the ground. Bette is in pain and has to go to the hospital. George is blamed by everyone.
Unfortunately, everyone also thinks Jerry put George up to it. Now everyone hates him! After running away from an angry mob, he and George hide out in Jerry's apartment. Unfortunately, Kramer is able to get in and scolds Jerry for what he did. HE DIDN'T DO DAMN ANYTHING!
Kramer takes care of Bette at the hospital. He makes her a Macoroni Midler. Bette needs a replacement for the play and Jerry's crybaby girlfriend agrees to replace her. It's a huge failure. She cries over a hot dog falling on the ground...but not by her grandma dying. Wha? o__O That's pretty silly actually.
But on the stage, her shoe gets untied. She gets completely out of character and cries. Cry, cry, cry. And in the end, no problems are solved. This season finale may be funny by some, but I've got my opinions and that blaming someone for something they didn't do and the problem not being solved isn't good.
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George and Jerry are suspected, by the cast and Kramer, of deliberately injuring Bette Midler during a softball game, giving Jerry's girlfriend, Bette's understudy, a chance to perform. Kramer becomes Bette's personal assistant. Elaine gets George's father to translate for her when she suspects that her manicurist has made some obvious snide remarks in a foreign tongue. While crying about losing her manicurists, Elaine meets the owner of a catalog, J. Peterman, and gets herself a new job.moreless
 Michael Richards |
Cosmo Kramer |
 Jerry Seinfeld |
Himself |
 Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
Elaine Marie Benes (not in pilot) |
 Jason Alexander |
George Louis Costanza |
 Bette Midler |
Herself |
Guest Star |
 June Kyoto Lu |
Ruby |
Guest Star |
Amy Hill |
Kim |
Guest Star |
 Jerry Stiller |
Frank Costanza |
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 John O'Hurley |
J. Peterman |
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Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions
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TRIVIA (7)
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The actual J. Peterman Catalogue is based in Lexington, Kentucky and not New York City.
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Goof: During the softball game, George knocks over Bette Midler, trying to score a run. The umpire yells "Safe!" but if you look closely, George never touches home plate.
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Kramer doesn't ask for the cookie because the guy on the other line heard Bette ask for it. She's a singer...she projects her voice.
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Bette sings a song in the hospital to Kramer that includes the line, "Rochelle, Rochelle." However, at the end of the episode, the announcer says that the part of Rochelle will be played by Genisse -- meaning that it was originally Bette's role. Why would the character of Rochelle sing a song that refers to herself in the third person?
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How the hell could the costume department of a big Broadway production forget to tie up the star's shoes in Rochelle Rochelle? And the shoes didn't JUST come undone, the tongues were wide open!...ER
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Both Jerry and George are seen playing baseball with their rights hands, even though they're left handed.
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When the K-man is holding Bette in his arms on the baseball field, he sings to Bette Midler "you are the wind beneath my wings" - his voice is clearly dubbed over. Maybe it didn't come out well in the original scene.
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QUOTES (7)
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Kramer: You know, maybe in Korean 'dog' isn't an insult. Could be like the word 'fox' to us. Oh, she's a DOG!
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Kramer: It's macaroni Midler!
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Kramer: Oh, understudies are a very shifty bunch. The substitute teachers of the theater world.
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George: When you're talking about a movie like "Beaches," moving from the chair to the couch…that's quite a voyage.
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Bette: If I don't get a Black and White cookie I'm not going to be very pleasant to be around.
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Jerry: (to the understudy) So you don't cry when your grandmother dies? But a hot-dog makes you lose control?
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Jerry: Just once I would like to tell someone they stink. You know what? I didn't like the show. I didn't like you. It just really stunk. The whole thing real bad. Stinkaroo. Thanks for the tickets though.
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NOTES (5)
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Bette Midler was credited as a "Special Apperance".
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First appearence of the character J. Peterman.
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Elaine says "...they're the BEST, Jerry, the BEST" - just like Kenny Bania always says.
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Frank uses his move "stopping short" w/ his former Korean girlfriend. This is the same move Kramer uses on Frank's wife Estelle in "The Fusilli Jerry". Kramer also made a "Macaroni Midler" which is another reference to that episode.
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According to Kenny Kramer, Jack Luceno is Michael Richard's double when shooting is done in NYC.
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ALLUSIONS (2)
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Jerry: So, your Grandmother dies, and you don't cry, but a hotdog makes you lose control.
The line 'A hot dog makes her lose control' is from the theme song of The Patty Duke Show.
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This episode was a parody of the 1994 ice skating incident, when Nancy Kerrigan did to Tanya Harding what George did to Bette Midler.
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