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Seinfeld
S3.E19
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The Good Samaritan

  • Episode aired Mar 4, 1992
  • TV-PG
  • 23m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
4.3K
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Jerry Seinfeld and Melinda McGraw in Seinfeld (1989)
Comedy

Jerry dates a woman who sideswiped a car, then learns the victim is someone he wants to date. George is drawn into Robin and Michael's marital problems when he says "Bless you" after Robin s... Read allJerry dates a woman who sideswiped a car, then learns the victim is someone he wants to date. George is drawn into Robin and Michael's marital problems when he says "Bless you" after Robin sneezes. Kramer has mysterious seizures.Jerry dates a woman who sideswiped a car, then learns the victim is someone he wants to date. George is drawn into Robin and Michael's marital problems when he says "Bless you" after Robin sneezes. Kramer has mysterious seizures.

  • Director
    • Jason Alexander
  • Writers
    • Larry David
    • Jerry Seinfeld
    • Peter Mehlman
  • Stars
    • Jerry Seinfeld
    • Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    • Michael Richards
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.9/10
    4.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jason Alexander
    • Writers
      • Larry David
      • Jerry Seinfeld
      • Peter Mehlman
    • Stars
      • Jerry Seinfeld
      • Julia Louis-Dreyfus
      • Michael Richards
    • 8User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Jerry Seinfeld
    Jerry Seinfeld
    • Jerry Seinfeld
    Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    • Elaine Benes
    Michael Richards
    Michael Richards
    • Cosmo Kramer
    Jason Alexander
    Jason Alexander
    • George Costanza
    Melinda McGraw
    Melinda McGraw
    • Angela
    Ann Talman
    Ann Talman
    • Robin
    Joseph Malone
    Joseph Malone
    • Michael
    Helen Slater
    Helen Slater
    • Becky Gelke
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jason Alexander
    • Writers
      • Larry David
      • Jerry Seinfeld
      • Peter Mehlman
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    6msleeze

    Becky Gelke? Yes please!

    Not the greatest episode with a couple of middling storylines and one bafflingly useless one.

    Jerry's hit and run girlfriend is only mildly amusing, as is George sleeping with a married woman (!!) because her husband didn't acknowledge her sneezes. Seriously, it's no wonder that the "you're so good looking" thing didn't take off...it's completely a forced catchphrase.

    The less said about Kramer's Mary Hart induced seizures, the better.

    That being said, this one does feature Helen Slater (looking absolutely gorgeous) in a far too brief, unbilled cameo. Just like Jerry, I'd have found any excuse to talk to her...so I'll bump it up an extra star.
    10ThunderKing6

    Edrodio Qouchio!

    Another win for The Seinfeld and crew. A good fun episode.

    This review was typed kn the month of February on the number day if 23 in the so called year if 2023.

    About: Jerry witnesses a hit and run after not getting a thank you wave. That allows him to meet Red She Hulk.

    Elaine has a dinner outing with a married couple

    George says bless you and that leads to imtercourse.

    Kramer has a tiny part of him hvaing seizures.

    Story and production: A non stop story. All 4 get involved for such a blast episode. Each characters story interlocks with each other one way or another.

    Solid good episode.

    Highlight: top 3 are George syaing bless you

    Angela Hulking out

    Jerry saying "Edrodio Qouchio"

    Laugh meter: 10

    Villian: Angela.
    10MaxBorg89

    "I'm gonna sew his ass to his face!"

    Once again, it is shown beyond any doubt that the characters who inhabit the Seinfeld universe don't think in conventional terms when it comes to right or wrong. In fact, they're as morally flexible as comedy protagonists come.

    The Good Samaritan originates from the far-out idea of Jerry witnessing a hit-and-run. Nothing wrong so far, right? Yeah, except Jerry doesn't report the incident, but starts dating the wrongful driver instead, on the grounds that she is very good-looking. Then he meets the victim and realizes he'd rather date her (go figure). Meanwhile, Kramer starts having seizures whenever he hears Mary Hart's voice, and Elaine gets in trouble when it turns out George is having an affair with her married friend.

    The plotting is, as usual, utterly absurd, but then Seinfeld never aspired to be a piece of social realism. Jerry's interactions with the two women (one of whom is played by Melinda McGraw, who would later be Scully's sister on The X-Files) are outrageously fantastic, as is the George storyline, but the biggest laughs are all due to Michael Richards' amazing physical work in the seizure scenes. It's the kind of stuff Emmys were created for (and he won one for Season 3, fittingly enough).
    10Hitchcoc

    Crossing Waves

    This starts with Jerry seeing driver hit a parked car and then keep going. Elaine, who is on the phone with him, talks him into pursuing the driver. It turns out to be an attractive woman who Jerry hits it off with. This leads to a series of cock and bull stories and coverups. George goes to dinner with Elaine and insults the husband, who is a jerk. But the wife is impressed and sleeps with George. The husband is aware and threatens to sew George's ass to his face (among other things). This is great because when things get frantic, this cast gets going.
    10bevo-13678

    Wow

    Pretty good episode. Lost of car chases and got sex scenes

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    • Trivia
      Kramer (Michael Richards) having seizures every time he hears Mary Hart's voice is based on an actual case reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. In 1991, a woman named Dianne Neale suffered epileptic seizures from hearing Hart's voice.
    • Goofs
      Some scenes in Jerry's apartment show the top edge of one of his walls, revealing a background of the walls of the sound stage the show was filmed on, and a lack of a ceiling for the apartment.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Jerry Seinfeld: A man is paralyzed mentally by a beautiful woman, and advertisers really take advantage of this. Don't you love those ads where you see, like, the woman in the bikini next to the 32-piece ratchet set? You know, we'll be looking at the girl in the bikini, looking at the ratchet set, going, "All right, Well, if she's right next to the ratchet set, and I had that ratchet set, I wonder if that would mean that... I'd better just buy that ratchet set."

    • Connections
      Featured in Seinfeld: The Highlights of a Hundred (1995)
    • Soundtracks
      Seinfeld Theme Song
      Written by Jonathan Wolff

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    • Release date
      • March 4, 1992 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production companies
      • Shapiro/West Productions
      • Castle Rock Entertainment
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    • Runtime
      • 23m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 4:3

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