Jackie Chiles
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Jackie Chiles is a fictional attorney portrayed by American actor Phil Morris.
The character began on the renowned NBC television series Seinfeld. Jackie Chiles is an obvious parody of famed attorney Johnnie Cochran, both are bespectacled, mustachioed, African-American lawyers with similar names and penchants for grandiose vocabulary. Morris also emulates Cochran's distinctive enunciation and delivery for the character. After appearing in several episodes during the series later years, Chiles, along with many other minor characters from the show's past, appears again in the program's finale and is crucial in getting the characters convicted on charges of "wanton indifference". The character's catch phrase is "I am outraged!" Some have commented that the real-world persona of attorney Cochran was so flamboyant Morris had to do little more than mimic him directly in order to have a successful character who is, in reality, more impersonation than caricature.
Since the end of Seinfeld, the character has appeared in a series of television commercials.
Jackie Chiles represents Kramer in three different episodes.
In the first ("The Maestro," season 7, episode 113), Kramer sneaks a cafe latte into a movie theatre and burns himself while trying to climb over the legs of another patron. The coffee company offers a settlement: a lifetime of free coffee at all of their stores throughout North America and Europe and $50,000 in cash; Kramer takes the offer of free coffee before the executive finishes speaking and mentions the cash.
In the second episode featuring Chiles ("The Caddy," season 7, episode 122), Jackie sues Oh Henry! candy bar heiress Sue Ellen Mischke for alledgedly causing Kramer personal injury due to an automobile accident. Kramer is distracted while driving when he sees Mischke walking the streets of New York City wearing only a bra. Chiles describes her actions as "lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous!" The lawsuit fails when Kramer demands she try on the bra to prove it is hers. It fails to fit because she tries putting it on over a leotard. Jackie yells at Kramer, "Of course a bra's not going to fit on over a leotard. A bra's gotta fit right up against a person's skin... like a glove!"—an obvious parody of the O.J. Simpson trial.
In the third episode featuring Chiles ("The Abstinence," season 8, episode 143), Kramer's face ages prematurely when he turns his apartment into a smoking lounge. Jackie and Kramer meet with a tobacco-company lawyer where Jackie tells her "By the time this case gets to court, he'll be nothing but a shrunken head." After the tobacco-company lawyer tells them she'll have an offer to settle out of court in the morning, Jackie tells Kramer, "Jackie's cashing in on your wretched disfigurement." Kramer settles the case without Jackie's knowledge for a Marlboro-man style billboard in Times Square featuring his own face. Jackie dubs this "the most public yet of my many humiliations."
Jackie represents George, Elaine, Jerry, and Kramer in the final episode, when they violate the Good Samaritan law.
