What's your all-time favorite Seinfeld episode?

[Katherine Brengle]

I can't help myself--I am so flooded with relief right now that I figured I would post my first truly pointless Lounge thread!!!

My favorite is... ooh, so many to choose from... I have to say that I honestly love the Soup Nazi episode, but also the one where Jerry's girlfriend looks like a completely different person in different light--too funny and that is the one with Festivus as well (the name of the episode is The Strike, which is my favorite holiday.

"It's a Festivus for the rest-of-us!" Wiki actually has an entry on Festivus, which just rocked my world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus .

What's yours?

[DS1]

1. So many good ones

Kramer putting his clothes in the pizza oven
Costanza doing a real-life Frogger with the Frogger machine to keep his high score
Kramer getting nailed poaching lobsters from the traps
Jon Voight's car
Costanza goes on a bad-boy streak, gets picked up in the police station by his father
Frank Costanza cooking for the WWII Veterans
"Oooh, you're too good for the Early Bird special now?"
RISK
Elaine's dance gets bootlegged and sold on the street

[Catchawave]

3. "Shrinkage" !

When George was caught with his pants down and the girl giggled, then gave him condolences Same ep. as the lobster traps I think.

[Beaverhausen]

2. The Bet; Bubble Boy; The Marathon

[terrya]

4. "Not that there's anything wiong with it!"

It's hard to choose...but that one is probably my favorite.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. So many to choose from, but "The Wizard" is classic.

It's the one where Kramer runs for condo president with Jerry's dad's help in Florida and where Elaine doesn't know if her boyfriend is black, white or mixed race.



EDIT: Also, the "Jerk Store" episode was a classic.

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. I like the one where George accidentally strangles a prostitute...

...and he and Kramer hide her in the trunk of Jerry's car, but they don't tell Jerry. Then, a couple of weeks later, Jerry and Elaine are in his car, and he asks her "do you think it stinks?" and she says "oh, I think it stinks." And then Kramer gets in the car and he does that silly convulsive thing because it smells so bad. "Jerry! I'm too delicate for prison!"

Hilarity.

[SaveElmer]

7. Master of my domain....

The quintiseential episode....

Closely followed by the one where George pulls a golf ball out of a whales blowhole!!

[DanCa]

11. The sea was angry that day my friends.

I also love the Frogger episode.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. "Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. "

[Taxloss]

8. The competition to see who can go longest without ...

... and they never mention exactly what they're not doing.

Brilliant, brilliant stuff.

"Master of my domain? I'm king of the county."

That or the one where George is mistaken for a Neo-Nazi leader in the back of a limo.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. The one where Jerry and George take that limo from the airport

that was meant for the white supremicist guy.

[flamingyouth]

18. Oh yeah, that's a classic

"Are you sure you want to open with that?"

[Jade Fox]

22. That's the one I was trying to remember!

That was good.

[mac56]

10. The Keith Hernandez episode.

After that - the Soup Nazi, the Contest, and the one about Jerry and Elaine trying to work out the rules for having a sexual relationship.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Too hard to choose...

Though it's safe to say that if Puddy, J. Peterman, or Frank Costanza made an appearance, it was classic, haha.

[kay1864]

14. The "Jimmy" episode

Every element tied back together...the dentist, the vertical leap shoes, George and the Kung Pao chicken, Mel Torme, Jimmy going out with Elaine...

Brilliant.

[DanCa]

15. No restrictions

Where George takes his shirt off when he uses the bathroom.

[flamingyouth]

16. I think "The Slicer" is sheer comic genius.

Oh man, that just starts an excellent story arc when George gets the job working at Krueger Industrial Smoothing.

"He looks like a Peanuts character!"

[Fenris]

23. "You got a little thing for this fella?"

[maveric]

17. "The Second Spitter"

A spoof on the movie "JFK".

[fight4my3sons]

19. I can't decide..

The Bet; there was that pig man one; the one with the close - talker; Festivus; and the soup Nazi; oh, and the one with Babu (or however you spell his name)

[Canadian Socialist]

20. "Sponge Worthy"

bit of trivia... the man who was "sponge worthy" plays Luke on the Gilmore Girls. And ohhh baby, is he ever!

[Va Lefty]

21. Soup Nazi

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!

[Sacajawea]

24. George taking an eclair * out of a garbage pail and he's just about to

sink his teeth into it and someone (potential girlfriend's mother?) sticks her head in the kitchen at the very instant he's biting down....

Just started laughing out loud thinking about it!!!

*(maybe it was a cannoli)

[EstimatedProphet]

25. The soup Nazi, Festivus, and the alternate group of friends

[Kat45]

26. Are you talking about the bizarro Jerrys? I love that one.

Also love the one with the contest. And the one when Jerry accidentally drops his girlfriend's toothbrush into the toilet. And the one when George finds the place where all the really hot chicks hang out and Jerry dates "Man-hands."

[EstimatedProphet]

27. Yeah, and those are all good

[AwakeAtLast]

28. I always liked the Chinese restaurant episode

That one always stuck with me - and drove me crazy!!!!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

29. "Merv Griffin"...without a DOUBT, "Merv Griffin"...

Hype?

Of COURSE...the whole Seinfeld legend is FILLED TO OVERFLOWING with HYPE.

But that ONE EPISODE...from the final season...lived UP to all of the hype.

GENIUS. 23 minutes of PURE COMEDIC GENIUS.

I CANNOT wait for the Season 9 DVD.

[goreo8]

30. Soup Nazi episode And

The "puffy shirt" episode were both funny.

[Misunderestimator]

31. Any episode in which Julia Louis-Dreyfus starred...

[njdemocrat106]

32. The Hot Tub, The Junior Mint, The Blood, The Pie

I think Seinfeld has got to be the most quotable sitcom in TV history. Jerry and the gang did leave on a high note, IMO.