Seinfeld Season 5 : |
Season five of Seinfeld an American comedy television series created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David began airing on September 16 1993 and concluded on May 19 1994 on NBC. |
Episode 1 - [The Mango] |
Details : George tells Jerry about his lack of confidence below the equator. Jerry begs Elaine for another chance when he finds out she faked her orgasms. Kramer gets banned from his favorite fruit shop. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Lisa Edelstein | Leonard Termo | Writer : Lawrence H. Levy | Writer : Larry David | Director : Tom Cherones | |
Air Date : Sep. 16, 1993 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 2 - [The Puffy Shirt] |
Details : George is forced to move in with his parents. He gets a job as a hand model and becomes obsessed with keeping his hands safe. Kramer's girlfriend who designs clothes and talks with a real low voice asks Jerry a question that he politely answers yes to. He agrees to wear one of her new puffy pirate shirts on a Today Show appearance he is making. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Bryant Gumbel | David Brisbin | Wendel Meldrum | Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza | Estelle Harris as Estelle Costanza | Writer : Larry David | Director : Tom Cherones | |
Air Date : Sep. 23, 1993 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 3 - [The Glasses] |
Details : George's glasses are stolen and he needs a new pair so he goes to see Kramer's friend to get a thirty percent discount; all Elaine gets is bitten by a dog and then she becomes afraid of them. While not wearing his glasses George thinks he sees Jerry's girlfriend kissing Jerry's cousin and Jerry tries to figure out if it's true. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Timothy Stack | Rance Howard | Len Lesser | Anna Gunn | Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Tom Gammill | Writer : Max Pross | |
Air Date : Sep. 30, 1993 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 4 - [The Sniffing Accountant] |
Details : George's father gets him an interview as a bra salesman. Evidence points to Jerry's accountant being a drug user. So Jerry Kramer and Newman set out to find out the truth. Elaine's new boyfriend is perfect except for his use of an exclamation point. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Christa Miller | Richard Fancy | John Kapelos | Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza | Estelle Harris as Estelle Costanza | Wayne Knight as Newman | Patrick Cronin as Farkus | Writer : Larry David | Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Jerry Seinfeld | |
Air Date : Oct. 07, 1993 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 5 - [The Bris] |
Details : George gets a great parking spot that becomes a target. Kramer thinks that he has stumbled on the product of a genetic engineering experiment a pig man. Elaine and Jerry are nervous about the religious duties they must do when they agree to become godparents to a couple's newborn including getting the Mohel and holding the baby for the circumcision. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Tom Alan Robbins | Debra Mooney | Jeannie Elias | Writer : Larry Charles | Director : Tom Cherones | |
Air Date : Oct. 14, 1993 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 6 - [The Lip Reader] |
Details : Jerry is smitten with a line judge at the US Open but after he gets her attention he finds out she is deaf. Elaine has a problem not communicating with a limo driver. George wants to use Jerry's girlfriend to read the lips of his ex-girlfriend to find out what she is saying about him. While she is reading the lips Kramer does the translation that gets George in more trouble. Kramer becomes a ball man at the Open when Monica Seles returns to tennis. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Marlee Matlin | Bret Anthony | Christopher Darga | Linda Kash | Dylan Haggerty | Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Carol Leifer | |
Air Date : Oct. 28, 1993 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 7 - [The Non-Fat Yogurt] |
Details : When they begin to gain weight Jerry and Elaine suspect that Kramer has made a bad investment in a non-fat yogurt shop. Jerry inadvertently uses the F word as a result so does Meredith's son Matthew a lot. George meets an old childhood friend whom he is convinced is trying to humiliate him. Elaine begins dating this friend and gives him an idea for his mayoral candidate's campaign. Kramer's date with a lab technician results in strange test results for the future mayor of New York City. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Rudolph Giuliani | John Gabriel | Peter Keleghan | Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza | Maryedith Burrell | Jed Mills | Estelle Harris as Estelle Costanza | Wayne Knight as Newman | Writer : Larry David | Director : Tom Cherones | |
Air Date : Nov. 04, 1993 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 8 - [The Barber] |
Details : George is uncertain about whether his job interview was successful or not so he decides to go into the office and act like an employee while the boss is on vacation. Jerry is reluctant to dump his old barber even when he is given a real bad haircut. Kramer arranges to get him a clandestine haircut at the apartment of his barber. Newman is charged by Jerry's barber to get a sample of Jerry's hair when he suspects foul play. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Fairman | Wayne Knight as Newman | Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Andy Robin | |
Air Date : Nov. 11, 1993 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 9 - [The Masseuse] |
Details : Elaine meets a man who's perfect except his name is the same as a notorious serial killer. Jerry is frustrated when he can't get his girlfriend who's a masseuse to give him a massage even Kramer is a customer. George is obsessed when Jerry's girlfriend doesn't like him so he tries extra hard to get her to like him much to his own girlfriend's dismay. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Lisa Edelstein | Jennifer Coolidge | Anthony Cistaro | Writer : Larry Charles | Writer : Peter Mehlman | Director : Tom Cherones | |
Air Date : Nov. 18, 1993 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 10 - [The Cigar Store Indian] |
Details : Jerry helps George out with a coffee table stain and makes Elaine take the subway home and gives her Mr. Costanza's TV Guide to read. While on the train Elaine meets a strange man obsessed with television. George meets a woman at a refinishing store who he brings back to his parent's home and passes it off as his. A female Native American that he is interested in thinks Jerry is racially insensitive when he presents Elaine with a cigar-store Indian as a peace offering. George gets grounded when his parents return from vacation and find a prophylactic wrapper in their bed and a missing TV Guide. Kramer has an idea for a coffee table book on coffee tables that Elaine doesn't like but Mr. Lippman does. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Benjamin W.S. Lum | Al Roker | Sam Lloyd | Ralph Manza | Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Tom Gammill | Writer : Max Pross | |
Air Date : Dec. 09, 1993 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 11 - [The Conversion] |
Details : George changes his religion to Latvian Orthodox to keep his girlfriend who must break up with him for religious reasons. Jerry finds a tube of fungus cream in his girlfriend's medicine cabinet and fakes an illness until he can figure out what the cream is used for. He asks Elaine to ask her current boyfriend who's a podiatrist. Kramer meets a sister at George's new church who becomes infatuated with him. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Kay E. Kuter | Molly Hagan | Jana Marie Hupp | Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza | Estelle Harris as Estelle Costanza | Tom Verica | Writer : Bruce Kirschbaum | Director : Tom Cherones | |
Air Date : Dec. 16, 1993 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 12 - [The Stall] |
Details : While in a bathroom stall Elaine needs some toilet paper but the woman in the next stall refuses to give her a piece. The woman is Jerry's girlfriend whose voice Kramer recognizes from a telephone sex line. Elaine's boyfriend whose face she just loves takes George Andamp; Kramer rock climbing. After his accident Elaine isn't sure his face will be the same. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Dan Cortese | Jami Gertz | Writer : Larry Charles | Director : Tom Cherones | |
Air Date : Jan. 16, 1994 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 13 - [The Dinner Party] |
Details : The gang struggles to find gifts for a dinner party. Jerry and Elaine stop at a bakery to get a cake but they forget to take a number and lose the chocolate pastry and the one they get has a hair on it. Kramer and George try to get the wine but must get change for a $100 dollar bill and wait for a double-parker to return to his car. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Frank Novak | Sayed Badreya | Mark Holton | Writer : Larry David | Director : Tom Cherones | |
Air Date : Feb. 03, 1994 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 14 - [The Marine Biologist] |
Details : Jerry meets an old college classmate who asked about George whom Jerry says is now a marine biologist. An infuriated Russian writer tosses an electronic organizer belonging to Elaine out of a limousine that hits a passerby on the head. Kramer struggles with his golf swing and sand. While walking along the beach George is called on to use his marine biology skills to save a whale. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Carol Kane | Richard Fancy | Rosalind Allen | George Murdock | Wayne Knight as Newman | Writer : Ron Hague | Writer : Ron Hauge | Writer : Charlie rubin | Director : Tom Cherones | |
Air Date : Feb. 10, 1994 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 15 - [The Pie] |
Details : Jerry can't believe that his girlfriend won't share a piece of pie with him. There is a mannequin at a store that looks like Elaine and she wants to know where it came from. George is interested in a suit that he makes an enemy over. Kramer has an itch. George's new suit makes a noise. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Christine Dunford | Reni Santoni | Suzanne Snyder | Sam Lloyd | Lane Davies | Paul Mantee | Patricia Belcher | Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Tom Gammill | Writer : Max Pross | |
Air Date : Feb. 17, 1994 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 16 - [The Stand-In] |
Details : Kramer talks his stand-in friend a little person into getting lifts to keep his job. Jerry visits a sick friend who's in need of a good laugh at the hospital. George and his latest girlfriend have nothing to say to each other he wants to break up but won't when he finds out she is being urged to break it off. One of Jerry's friends takes it out while on his first date with Elaine. Jerry's friend takes a turn for the worse after his first visit so he tries again. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Debbie Lee Carrington | Danny Woodburn | Thomas Dekker as Bobby | W. Earl Brown | Writer : Larry David | Director : Tom Cherones | |
Air Date : Feb. 24, 1994 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 17 - [The Wife] |
Details : A girlfriend poses as Jerry's wife so she can get a dry cleaning discount. George uses the shower at the health club as a bathroom and is afraid of being turned in after being seen. Elaine is getting mixed signals from a male friend who may be interested. Kramer's getting ready to impress his girlfriend's parents. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Courteney Cox | Liz Sheridan as Helen Seinfeld | Barney Martin | Lawrence Mandley | Len Lesser | Writer : Peter Mehlman | Director : Tom Cherones | |
Air Date : Mar. 17, 1994 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 18 - [The Raincoats (Part 1)] |
Details : Jerry's parents are staying with him while they wait to take their trip to Paris and he's just returned from three weeks on the road can't get anytime alone with his girlfriend. George tries to get out of the big brother program just after he gets talked into it. The Seinfelds avoid the Costanza's dinner invitation. Elaine's latest boyfriend who's a close talker becomes unusually fixated on Jerry's parents and shows them New York City. Kramer makes a deal with Jerry's father to sell belt-less raincoats to a secondhand shop and George sells his father's moth-ridden cabana style clothing right before they plan a cruise. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Judge Reinhold | Liz Sheridan as Helen Seinfeld | Barney Martin | Mike Hagerty | Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza | Sandy Baron | Melanie Smith | Estelle Harris as Estelle Costanza | Dorien Wilson | Writer : Larry David | Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Jerry Seinfeld | Writer : Tom Gammill | Writer : Max Pross | |
Air Date : Apr. 28, 1994 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 19 - [The Raincoats (Part 2)] |
Details : Jerry and his girlfriend get some time alone with each other at a movie Schindler's List they don't see it; however Newman sees it and them. A delay in the shipment of the raincoats will make the Seinfelds miss their flight to France George uses this as an opportunity to get his little brother back to his father. The Seinfelds manage to avoid meeting the Costanzas in New York City. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Judge Reinhold | Liz Sheridan as Helen Seinfeld | Barney Martin | Mike Hagerty | Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza | Sandy Baron | Melanie Smith | Estelle Harris as Estelle Costanza | Wayne Knight as Newman | Dorien Wilson | Stephen Pearlman | LaRita Shelby | Writer : Larry David | Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Jerry Seinfeld | Writer : Tom Gammill | Writer : Max Pross | |
Air Date : Apr. 28, 1994 |
Episode 20 - [The Fire] |
Details : Kramer is dating one of Elaine's co-workers a woman who drives her crazy. Kramer brings her to one of Jerry's shows where she heckles him relentlessly; unfortunately there is a national magazine critic in the audience. George panics when there is a fire at his girlfriend's apartment during her son's birthday party. Jerry decides to get revenge by heckling the woman where she works. She runs out of the office onto the street and loses her pinkie toe. Kramer finds the toe takes a bus to the hospital and saves the passengers from a gunman. Inspired by Kramer's tale George tries to confront his feelings of cowardice. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Jon Favreau | Dom Irrera | Melanie Chartoff as Robin | Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza | Patience Cleveland | Estelle Harris as Estelle Costanza | Veanne Cox | Writer : Larry Charles | Director : Tom Cherones | |
Air Date : May. 05, 1994 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 21 - [The Hamptons] |
Details : Everyone makes a trip to the Hamptons to see the baby and enjoy the weekend. George's girlfriend goes topless and everyone sees her chest before he does. The baby is the most hideous thing they've ever seen. Elaine is confused when a handsome doctor refers to her as breathtaking - the same term he later uses to describe the baby. Kramer finds a filled lobster trap. Jerry's girlfriend sees George naked after he's just gotten out of the pool so something isn't as it should be. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Richard Burgi | Melora Walters | Melanie Smith | Mark L. Taylor | Jesse D. Goins | Writer : Peter Mehlman | Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Carol Leifer | |
Air Date : May. 12, 1994 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
Episode 22 - [The Opposite] |
Details : George comes to the realization that he should try to do the opposite of everything so he does his luck changes and everything begins to go his way including getting a girlfriend a job with the Yankees and moving out of his parents' house. Things begin to be unlucky for Elaine after she buys a box of Jujyfruits. Kramer appears on Regis Andamp; Kathie Lee to promote his coffee table book. Rachel wants to break up with Jerry and he readily agrees because his luck has been even Steven. Elaine's eating of Jujyfruits causes Pendant Publishing to go under and later she realizes that she and George have traded places. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Siobhan Fallon Hogan | Kathie Lee Gifford | Regis Philbin | Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza | Melanie Smith | Estelle Harris as Estelle Costanza | French Stewart | Dedee Pfeiffer | Paul Gleason | Rolando Molina | Writer : Andy Cowan | Writer : Larry David | Director : Tom Cherones | Writer : Jerry Seinfeld | |
Air Date : May. 19, 1994 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★★ |