The Jacket

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Season 2, episode 3 first aired 6 february 1991

[edit] Notes About Nothing

• Lawrence Tierney plays Elaine's father Alton Benes. Lawrence has a long list of movie and television credits dating back to the 1940s and is an infamous brawler. While on the set he scared the Seinfeld cast and crew so much - allegedly taking a meat knife from Jerry's kitchen set and hiding it under his jacket - that they never asked him back.
• Bud Abbott, who George mentions is half of the comedy duo Abbott and Costello.
• Kramer mentions this episodes misadventure with the doves, which we hear about but don't see, again in The Stranded (season 3).

[edit] Quotes

• "The back? They never find anything in the back. If they had anything good in the back they'd put it out in the front." - Elaine
• "I'm worried I won't be able to talk to him [Elaine's father], he's such a great writer. Frankly, I perfer the company of nitwits." - Jerry
• "Can I say one thing to you? And I say this with an unblemished record of staunch heterosexuality ... It's fabulous." - George on Jerry's new jacket
• "We had a funny guy with us in Korea. A tailgunner. They blew his brains out all over the Pacific. ... There's nothing funny about that." - Alton Benes
• "Pendant? Those bastards!" - Alton Benes
• "Pipe down chorus boy!" - Alton Benes to George