The Suicide

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Season 3, episode 15

[edit] Notes About Nothing

• This episode sees the first appearance of Newman played by Wayne Knight, although the character also featured off-screen in The Revenge with Larry David providing the voice.
• Kramer and Jerry discuss Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a controversial American pathologist. Between 1990 and 1998 Kevorkian assisted in the suicide of over 100 terminally ill people by attaching them to a device he created - the 'Suicide Machine' referenced in the script. You can learn more about Dr. Kevorkian on Wikipedia.
• Drake's Coffee Cake is a confection with cinnamon streusel topping distributed primarily in the Northeastern United States. Drake's Cakes website.

[edit] Quotes

• "Who goes on vacation without a job? What do you need, a break from getting up at eleven?" - Jerry
• "I don't go for these non-refundable deals. I can't commit to a woman I'm not committing to an airline." - Jerry
• "I can't believe [Martin is] in a coma, he's got my vacuum cleaner! You know I loaned it to him, he never returned it, the carpets are filthy!" - Kramer
• "The carpet sweeper is the biggest scam perpetrated on the American public since One Hour Martinizing." - Kramer
• "How do they know the dogfood's any good? Who tastes it?" - Elaine
• "I never assisted in a birth before, it's really quite disgusting." - George