The Wink

Very strange combination (but what did we expect). First of all, we have Jerry trying to change his diet. He's eating a grapefruit and inadvertently hits George in the eye. For the rest of the episode he develops an involuntary wink. It leads to one misunderstanding after another. Then we have the absurdity of Jerry's inability to eat any meat. Instead of explaining about his health issues, he hides the meat in a jacket pocket which ends up with Elaine being chased by dogs. It is remindful of Norm Peterson working in a fish market being chased by cats on Cheers. There is also Kramer, who takes a birthday card, signed by all the Yankees, and gives it to a memorabilia guy who then gives it to a little boy in the hospital. The results are hilarious..

This is a great episode, however, rather than a total critique I just want to point out one of the funniest quotes of the season. Jerry says, "Your genitals are still lined up." If you can't remember the context then go back and watch it again. I also love the roll of the wake-up call guy and how they use his character. In general, this is a very well written and directed episode from the later years of Seinfeld. An interesting note regarding the directors of Seinfeld of which there were a total of 4. Andy Ackerman and Tom Cherones are the two main directors and were used for most of the episodes. David Steinberg directed 2 episodes in 1991 and David Owen Trainer also directed 2 episodes, one in 1994 and the other in 1997. Tom directed 79 episodes during the first half of the shows run. Andy directed this episode and the most episodes that totaled 88 during the last half of the shows 9 season duration. I love how episodes like these are written so that everything comes together by the end and everyone and/or thing that happens is connected. That is definitely one of Larry David's trademarks. Enjoy!

Wink wink nudge nudge say no more. A nudge is as good as a wink to a blind bat

The Wink tells of the dangers of eating grapefruit. Jerry eats a grapefruit, sends pulp into George's eye and then all of a sudden, so ludicrous as it is, starts winking uncontrollably. As a result of this, he gets one of his colleagues in trouble when his boss thinks he's covering for his colleague when nope...he's just unable to control that winky eye! Meanwhile, Kramer goes on a journey to make some money with birthday card for the big boss that he nabs from George's work at the Yankees- of course, once again George did not approve this being sold but tragically, it gets sold to a child dying from cancer.

Another entertaining episode from Season 7 even though it may come as weaker than the previous three.

A lot of weird things going on but thankfully is a good weirdness. Elaine starts dating his wake up guy and for some reason I find this idea very entertaining. I mean, it definitely is unrelatable but it's just so original you can't help but go alone with it. The same case goes for George's storyline: Jerry spills some grapefruit on George's eye, making him to wink involuntarily. This sets up most of the events that take place in the episode and, to its merit, it is quite funny in the beginning but as the episode continues George's wink habit disappears out of the blue. So that's kind of lazy from the writers.

The other two story lines are Jerry trying to prove his manhood to Elaine's relative and Kramer trying to get the Yankee's signed card back from an ill kid at the hospital. Both stories are crazy and give us great moments.

Apart from that we get the first appearance of the great George Steinbrenner.

On a side note, I'd like to point out the job of continuity the writers are doing with this season. Similar to Season 4, every episode acknowledges something that happened earlier in the season (on this case Elaine's relationship with dogs).