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Wardrobe reappearance!

The sweater George's "girlfriend" Carrie wore in "The Boyfriend" (S3 E7) reappeared two seasons later in "The Sniffing Accountant" (S5 E4) - worn by Jerry:

George's vocabulary

Sometimes surprising us!

"Mellifluous"

From "The Jacket" (S2, E3) - "We talked for like 20 minutes... She could do voiceover commercials! Why didn't you tell me about her voice?"Jerry: "I didn't notice the voice."George: "It's mellifluous!"

"Anathema"

From "The Statue" (S2, E6) - "Students can't clean. It's anathema." Jerry: "They don't like it!" George: "How long you been waiting to squeeze that into a conversation?"

Larry Charles Cameos

Writer and producer Larry Charles made four background cameos:

• "The Parking Garage" (Season 3, Episode 6): He plays the bearded passerby in the parking garage who ignores Elaine when she calls out asking for help locating Jerry's car.
• "The Trip, Part 2" (Season 4, Episode 2): When Kramer is arrested in Los Angeles as the suspected "Smog Strangler," Larry Charles appears standing in the crowd right next to Larry David as police lead Kramer away
• "The Airport" (Season 4, Episode 12): In an episode he wrote himself, Charles plays the passenger exiting the airplane lavatory after leaving behind a terrible stench that Elaine is forced to endure.
• "The Pilot" (Season 4, Episodes 23 & 24): He appears uncredited alongside Larry David in the Greenpeace raft with Russell Dalrymple (Bob Balaban) at the end of the episode.

 

Thanks to Kris Brassil for the tip! 

New blooper reel!

Rare, never seen bloopers!

"Kessler"

In S1 E1 - "The Seinfeld Chronicles" - we meet Kramer as KESSLER:

Kramer was based on Kenny Kramer, Larry David’s real-life eccentric neighbor from his days living in Manhattan

When writing the episode, David was hesitant to use Kenny's actual last name. He correctly predicted that if they used the name "Kramer," Kenny would try to exploit the association to the absolute maximum - which he did.

Kenny Kramer immediately capitalized on the show's massive success, launching the real-world "Kramer's Reality Tour" (a New York City bus tour mocking the show's locations) and running for mayor of NYC.

Homeless guy = Uncle Rico!

Go get him Deathblow!

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...complete with all kinds of episode in-jokes.

The controversial unfilmed episode

"The Bet", also known as "The Gun", is an episode that was written for the second season, but was never filmed. In the episode, Elaine bets against Jerry on the ease of buying a handgun to protect herself.

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Seinfeld as a drama

This is mildly updsetting...

WikiSein

WikiSein - great site with deep inside info, by episode.

For example, for the episode The Marine Biologist:

Notes About Nothing:

• About thirteen minutes into the episode, when Elaine confronts Kramer about the electronic organizer, Kramer opens his door wide enough so that one can see inside his apartment, which most noticeably (in this scene) features a framed black-and-white photograph of Jerry Seinfeld on the wall, in a close-up sort of pose with his hand on forehead, looking somewhat exhausted, like most authorial back-flap photographs.
• The production crew made a CGI Whale for the ending, but it was decided it would be funnier if it was told in a story by George.
• Newman had a bigger role in a deleted scene where he scolds Kramer for thinking there's sand in his apartment, And threatens to call his mother Babs.
• At the beach, an offscreen voice asks if there is a marine biologist. The voice is Larry David's.

HAPPY FESTIVUS!

The real Moviefone voice used in episode

In the episode The Pool Guy, Kramer receives misdialed calls meant for a parodied Moviefone after getting a new phone number.

At the end of the episode, Mr. Moviefone was voiced by Russ Leatherman, the real voice of Moviefone.

My two dads

Most people know the actor who played Morty Seinfeld was swapped out in Season 1, but Frank Costanza also began as a different actor:

He was replaced by Jerry Stiller for this episode later in syndication.

The two Mortys:

Nod to Jerry's real life father

Jerry's father, Kal, made signs for a living. A quick Easter egg in this episode:

George's real name

Is not Jason Alexander, it's...

JAY GREENSPAN

The actor that portrays Kramer

In the episode The Pilot, the actor Larry Hankin actually originally auditioned for the real part of Kramer, and was the second choice to Michael Richards.

Some Philosophical Reading

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That's a shame

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Two-parters

Throughout the show's nine season run, there were eight two-part epidsodes:

The Boyfriend in Season 3 (1992)
The Pilot in Season 4 (1993)
The Raincoats in Season 5 (1994)
The Highlights of 100 in Season 6 (1995)
The Cadillac in Season 7 (1996)
The Bottle Deposit in Season 7 (1996)
The Chronicle in Season 9 (1998)
The Finale in Season 9 (1998)