The Good Samaritan
- Episode aired Mar 4, 1992
- TV-PG
- 23m
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.
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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.
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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.
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).
Did you know
- TriviaKramer (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.
- GoofsSome 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."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Seinfeld: The Highlights of a Hundred (1995)
- SoundtracksSeinfeld Theme Song
Written by Jonathan Wolff