The Gum

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The Gum is the 120th episode of Seinfeld. The episode was the tenth episode of the show's seventh season. Written by Tom Gammil and Max Pross and directed by Andy Ackerman, it originally aired on December 14, 1995.

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Kramer tells Jerry and George that Lloyd Braun had a nervous breakdown and was previously in an institution. Kramer is Lloyd Braun's mentor for the time being, and invites him to have coffee with them. Lloyd offers Jerry and George gum from his friend in Chinatown. Jerry reluctantly accepts because he doesn't want to make Lloyd Braun feel crazy. Jerry tells Elaine about what happened to Lloyd Braun and Elaine thinks it was because she broke up with him. Elaine tries to avoid Lloyd Braun at the movie theater, so she sits in the front with Jerry after telling Lloyd Braun that Jerry forgot his glasses, which he must wear from now on whenever he sees Lloyd Braun. Elaine looses a button in the theater, so Lloyd Braun thinks she is flirting with him.

Meanwhile, George thinks that the cashier, Ruth Cohen, has stolen his twenty-dollar bill. He decides later that day to drop of gifts at his parents house. He meets with an old friend, Deena Lazzari, who begins to think George is crazy. Deena Lazzari's father, known as Pop Lazzari, also had a nervous breakdown, and begins to mettle with George's car, which had its engine ruined after he tempered with it. George continues to encounter Ruth Cohen, and just grows angrier at her. At the end of the episode, George's car catches on fire, and at that moment Ruth Cohen is pulled up behind him honking her horn.