The show's predilection for making episodes out of anything meant that viewers had no idea what the show would focus on week to week. In the reunion, Jerry has gotten together with Elaine while George tries to get back together with his ex-wife Amanda after losing all of his money in a Ponzi scheme. Whether it was cut for budgetary reasons or for simplicity, there was really no need for the wedding scene. With a limited supply of birth control, Elaine puts her boyfriend Billy (played by Scott Patterson) through a “sponge-worthy” test. As it turns out, they're judged guilty and sentenced to a year in prison. Seinfeld, in contrast, famously had the unofficial motto of "No hugging, no learning," and that shined through in the show itself. We discover this in the fifth season’s premiere, “The Mango,” when Jerry gets a second chance to give Elaine the big-O. The film is first referenced in "The Movie," when George goes to see Rochelle, Rochelle instead of watching Checkmate (see below). Creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld intentionally tried to do something different with the hit comedy, which meant turning television conventions on their head. In one memorable episode, George barely cares when his fiancee dies suddenly (from licking the cheap wedding invitation envelopes he insisted on buying). At the end of the episode, Elaine chooses to conserve her sponges, deeming Billy not “sponge-worthy.”. . Jerry and Elaine end up in the same theater. To impress Elaine, Russel joins Greenpeace (Elaine is not impressed) and dies from falling out of a small boat in the middle of the sea. The character of Elaine was developed and is reportedly a combination of creators’ Larry Davis and Jerry Seinfeld’s past girlfriends. Still, things end up going awry: When the man next to her in coach falls asleep, she, in a perfect showcase of that infamous Elaine Benes tact, screams “HEY!” down his ear. Here’s what went down: At first, Elaine found her 60-something-year-old boyfriend alluring and exciting, but soon tires of him and says she just doesn’t enjoy spending time with him. And for that, I can only assume Elaine is the one who initiated the break-up in the first place. Fuck him! Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker gave it a C- at the time, while USA Today's Robert Bianco wrote a scathing review of the finale. Notably, this isn’t a comprehensive list of all her beaus, rather a collection of all the reasons Elaine broke up them. Obviously, she dumped his cheating ass. Elaine even spends time with the Maestro in Tuscany at the end of the episode. “The Raincoats Part 1” Season 3, Episode 18. In true. I stand behind Elaine for that one.  While the actual finale of Seinfeld might have been fairly divisive, it's not necessarily the final word from co-creator Larry David. In that same episode, they have sex three more times. Out of all of Elaine’s boyfriends, Louis-Dreyfus told the. Or does she suffer from emotional intimacy problems and rocks the boat at the first sign of smooth sailing? The president of NBC, Russel Dalrymple (played by Bob Balaban) would, and literally did, die for Elaine. With Elaine, there’s always a “but.” She’ll be dating a hunk of a mensch who adores her, but he wears body paint to a sports game, and for that he must go. At the end of the episode, Elaine chooses to conserve her sponges, deeming Billy not “sponge-worthy.”, Alan is the WORST. \"The Jacket\" revealed that she had a sister in St. Louis and an uncle who worked in the Texas School Book Depository with Lee Harvey Oswald. Jerry and Elaine tag along. BDE. With themes of death, rebirth, and the mortal weight of the characters' sins, it's probably also the only sitcom that shares thematic concerns with Twin Peaks. Throughout Seinfeld, Jerry and Elaine have provided us with two opposing thoughts: they should have ended up together and that they should stay friends.Elaine and Jerry couldn't live without each other, but we are talking strictly in platonic terms. The sitcom Seinfeld didn’t follow any rules exceptfor the one David set forth from the beginning: “nohugging, no learning.” He never wanted the show to become a vehicle for moralinstruction or a feel-good show like so many others. After catching her new boyfriend Glenn (played by Nicholas Walker) avoid a woman on the street, Elaine deduced she was his wife, and they were married. The world of Seinfeld was springy and malleable, filled with the kind of petty inconveniences that could be solved by just not going back to the restaurant where you were rude to your waiter. In a later episode, The Doll, Elaine reveals that they broke up, but Maestro becomes buddies with Kramer and Frank while shooting pool in Frank’s new game room. Alas, he said no. Disturbed by the unfortunate coincidence, and after a public confusion at a New York Giants game, Elaine urges Joel to change his name. Yet, they provided each other with solace, comfort, and went overboard in times of emergencies. Elaine’s most feminist breakup has to be when she ended things with her hunky boyfriend Carl (played by David James Elliot). Anyway, after a rabbi comes onto Elaine, she bursts into Jerry’s apartment lamenting her “shiksa appeal.” Gazing at her longingly, Jerry gets down on one knee and proposes. With Elaine, there’s always a “but.” She’ll be dating a hunk of a mensch who adores her. While looking for a male blonde bombshell in the gym, Elaine inadvertently makes a date with Jimmy (played by Anthony Starke), a dude who refers to himself in the third person. Arguably — it’s me, I’m the one who’s arguing it — the only good thing about Seinfeld is Elaine Benes, played by the illustrious Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Enjoy! She breaks up with David to date Jack, but has an on-again-off-again relationship with him after Jerry tells her about his bizarre alter ego of “The Wiz” in a series of commercials for an electronics store. Dick, a recovering alcoholic, accidentally drinks out of Jerry’s alcoholic drink, sending him into a relapse. As Kramer would say, "Giddy up… The pair then go to reverse the vasectomy, and in the following episode, she breaks up with him because they’d be better as friends. Can you believe creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David didn’t even include her in the pilot? Jerry Seinfeld (the character) was the voice of reason, but that usually manifested by telling his friends that their ideas were stupid and then gleefully watching them fail. Perplexed by the sudden onslaught of invitations to bar mitzvahs from Jewish men who are infatuated with her, George Costanza explains that it’s because Elaine has “shiksa appeal.” He reasons that Elaine — in this episode it’s confirmed she’s not Jewish, though Louis-Dreyfus does have Jewish family on her dad’s side — is attractive to Jewish men because they don’t remind them of their mother. While it's hilarious, it's also a reminder of how morally absent they are; instead of taking the opportunity to realize how many people they've hurt, Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer seem largely unmoved by the parade of their past sins. he wears body paint to a sports game, and for that he must go. She’s a prolific dater, not prone to serious relationships, and is known to end things over some fairly arbitrary reasons. “It’s the situation. While not explicitly shown, we must assume Elaine broke up with Dick over his alcoholism. The madly in love couple met while Carl delivered Jerry’s old couch to Elaine’s house, and after discovering his stance on abortion — pro-life — Elaine had to end it. As the judge says: "I do not know how, or under what circumstances the four of you found each other, but your callous indifference and utter disregard for everything that is good and decent has rocked the very foundation upon which our society is built. Ah, Dr. Reston. The finale almost seems to directly represent a karmic vision of the afterlife. Determined to show Alan that she’s not upset that he called her a “big-head,” she meets up with him but winds up attacking him after he says she has a big head and a bump on her nose. She calls Dr. Reston her “Svengali,” referring to a fictional character who seduces, dominates, and exploits a young woman through hypnosis. Even when characters sometimes suffered logical consequences for their actions, there was rarely any change in how they acted the next week. Taking Judaism Out of ‘The Undoing’ Was Probably For the Best. Poor girl, Carl was perfect on paper except for that one, tiny, but actually huge issue. And I’m not just talking about the infamous “sponge-worthy” episode, when Elaine ends it with her boyfriend Billy because she has a limited supply of the sponge birth control. Elaine avoids the question and promptly leaves, explaining with a mouth full of banana that she’s got a lot going on with work right now, only to return the next day to ask for his hand in marriage. That's not even mentioning the beloved shows that the stars and creators of Seinfeld have made since, including Veep and Curb Your Enthusiasm. While at his house, Elaine finds photos of herself that Joe took from afar. In the episode following the Owen situation (Elaine rebounds quickly) she dates Dick (played by David Naughton), a charming dude with an unfortunate name. She’s also gotten involved with her fair share of legitimate creeps whom she dumps and runs, rightfully so. Over the course of the show, the group committed so many minor crimes (against nature and polite society, if not actual laws) that it's a wonder that they weren't arrested years earlier. The fight escalates and Jake breaks up with her. They end up waiting for a very tardy Kramer to give them a lift home. In the episode “The Deal,” Elaine reveals that they had sex 37 times when they were dating. Determined to show Alan that she’s not upset that he called her a “big-head,” she meets up with him but winds up attacking him after he says she has a big head, The last straw for Elaine and Puddy is complicated. She doesn’t get off scot-free — Eddie has to stay with her for several more weeks after injuring himself during a fight. Set up by a mutual friend (a lousy friend, IMO), Elaine actually likes Alan (played by Tom Gallop) but breaks up with him when she discovers he is a “bad breaker-upper” and drives his exes crazy. But, after getting into a fistfight with a police officer, Kurt is jailed for 10-14 months. ... Elaine and Kramer are prosecuted for violating a "Good Samaritan law" and are sentenced to jail. It would be quicker to list shows that weren't inspired by Seinfeld than to point to the many that were, like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The Office, just to name a couple. Let’s get this out of the way first: every character on Seinfeld is pretty much a sociopath. Look, I understand that Elaine didn’t technically break up with Jake, but she instigated it. In season five, Elaine dates Aaron (portrayed by Judge Reinhold), an unusually nice man and “close talker.” Weirded out by Aaron’s interest in Jerry’s parents — he takes them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art — Elaine breaks up with Aaron for the sole reason that he’s abnormally nice to the Seinfelds. It's a surprisingly grim ending for one of the funniest television shows in history, implying that there was a chance for them to overcome their base impulses and they unquestionably failed that test. Realizing by the time he gets out of jail Kurt would be totally bald, Elaine dumps him and returns the ring. “The Alternate Side” Or does she suffer from emotional intimacy problems and rocks the boat at the first sign of smooth sailing? Jerry and Kramer discover Newman has been hiding bags of mail. Love it or hate it, the Seinfeld ending is certainly audacious. Despite being turned off by his lack of hair, she accepts. In American popular culture, certain pillars stand above the rest. Hal Kitzmiller (played by Vince Grant) buys Elaine a custom-made mattress, which offends her because of the implication that he wants to sleep with her. She ends her engagement with Kurt after he is wrongfully convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Elaine: Eh. However, her strategic plan backfires. The ending is much closer to what fans likely pictured when Seinfeld was wrapping up its run, and David even called the faux reunion "a perfect way to do something like that but not to do it." But Jimmy doesn’t make a return in the series, which I think we can infer is because Elaine grows tired of his “charm.”, In “The Sponge,” one of Seinfeld’s most iconic episodes, Elaine runs out of her favorite birth control method and is dismayed to find that the sponge contraceptive is being taken off the market. “Don’t wait for me,” Elaine tells David, officially breaking up with him. Network executives even loan the cast a private jet, so Jerry and his pals decide to go to Paris. In classic Seinfeld fashion, they witness a crime and, instead of helping, crack jokes and mock the victim for his obesity. Elaine did not date real-life serial killer, ’s most iconic episodes, Elaine runs out of her favorite birth control method and is dismayed to find that the sponge contraceptive is being taken off the market. So, she beats him to the punch. Despite how annoying and bizarre his speech mannerism is, Elaine continues to date him because she thinks it’s charming. Seinfeld might have been about nothing, but it was also about selfish, single-minded characters that burrowed their way into fans' hearts. Why do they end up in jail in the end of Seinfeld? By using our Services, you agree to our use of cookies. Tonight a few friends and I were debating about the seriousness of Jerry and Elaine's relationship. Elaine knows he is innocent, but breaks up with him anyway because who knows how long it will take to get sorted out, and he might end up … The series finale certainly starts off on a positive note: Jerry and George seem to have finalized their deal for the Seinfeld-esque show they're making called Jerry. George leaves the party after hooking up with one of the guests, stranding Elaine and Jerry there. June 04, 2015 1:25am PT by Ryan Gajewski . Breaking up well and leaving on good terms is one of the most important parts of a relationship, Elaine believes. Her father, gruff author Alton Benes (a character based on the novelist Richard Yates and played by Lawrence Tierney), was featured in \"The Jacket\", and a cousin was featured in \"The Wink\". Actually, measuring someone’s worth by how “sponge-worthy” they are is kind of genius. In fact, fan reactions to controversial endings aren't the only things that Seinfeld and The Sopranos have in common. In this episode, George gets invited to a party in Long Island at Steve's house. The actual crime they get arrested for might be "criminal indifference," but the real reason that they get arrested is that they've amassed so much negative karma over the years that something needed to break. However, her strategic plan backfires. Jerry and Elaine's relationship. The ending is much closer to what fans likely pictured when Seinfeld was wrapping up its run, and David even called the faux reunion "a perfect way to do something like that but not to do it." After they get convicted, Jerry talks to George about his shirt button placement, in an exact rehash of the very first lines of Seinfeld. Having completely ignored any chance to redeem themselves or express remorse for their actions, the show ends exactly where it begins: with George and Jerry having a conversation about nothing. The mob family drama came to an abrupt ending not in a shootout or police sting, but in a diner with a hard fade to black and Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" playing. When the bandages come off, a horrified Elaine breaks up with him. Still, you can't say that Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer didn't have it coming in some way. Apparently, the only note NBC gave was “add a girl.” And boy did they. Simpson, which is super eerie considering just a few months after the episode aired, Simpson was charged with murdering his ex-wife and her friend…). The prosecution calls in a series of character witnesses that become a sort of greatest hits parade of some of the funniest Seinfeld episodes while also reminding the viewers just how many awful things the cast have done. What a shanda! In the second season finale, Elaine houses her long-distance boyfriend Eddie (played by Doug Ballard) for a week. Enjoy! While George's star is on the rise, Elaine's is going in the opposite direction. 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