Seinfeld (Season 3) DVD

Rated: Not Rated
Genre: TV Series
Length: 522 minutes
Director: Tom Cherones
Year: (1991-1992)

Britt Gillette's Seinfeld (Season 3) DVD Review

The preeminent show of the 1990's decade, Seinfeld grew from an idea of "a show about nothing" into a sacred pop culture icon - not that there's anything wrong with that.

The show follows the life of comedian Jerry Seinfeld and the exploits of his "short, quirky, bald guy" best friend, George Costanza (Jason Alexander), Jerry's neurotic neighbor Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards), and Jerry's ex-girlfriend Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Through the years, they're joined by loveable cast of characters that includes Newman, Uncle Leo, the Soup Nazi, Frank and Estelle Costanza, the Bubble Boy, and countless others.

The third season DVD offers some of the best episodes yet, with classic lines such as "I think it moved" (episode 18) and "These pretzels are making me thirsty" (episode 28). The third season also includes the famous two part episode guest starring Keith Hernandez (episodes 34 & 35), the episode where George has sex with the cleaning woman (episode 29), and the famous pez dispenser show (episode 31).

Below is a synopsis of every episode from season three…

Episode 18 (The Note): While meeting with the physical therapist, Jerry makes a comment that's misconstrued and the therapist refuses to work with him. Jerry then consults with his friend Roy (who is a dentist) to write prescription so that George and Elaine can get their massage therapy covered by insurance. When George goes in for his massage, he's surprised to find a male masseuse waiting for him. The whole experience is a traumatic one for George who explains to Jerry, "I think it moved". Meanwhile, Kramer believes he cited Joe DiMaggio eating at Dinky Donuts and spends the remainder of the episode trying to chase him down. Eventually, Jerry's friend Roy loses his license as the result of an insurance fraud investigation…

Episode 19 (The Truth): Jerry hopes that George's relationship with a former IRS worker will ease his tax audit worries. But George breaks up with her prematurely, after already giving the woman Jerry's tax records. Meanwhile, Kramer is dating Elaine's roommate. He ends up seeing Elaine naked and breaks her coffee table while having sex with her roommate. George makes an attempt to get Jerry's tax records back, but finds that his ex-girlfriend has been admitted to a clinic to treat her rampant depression…

Episode 20 (The Pen): Elaine agrees to accompany Jerry on a trip to visit his parents at their retirement condo in Florida. But soon regrets the disastrous trip, as the Seinfeld's keep the temperature abnormally hot, and the sofa Elaine is forced to sleep on has a bar that sticks in her back all night long. With a messed up back, Elaine takes some muscle relaxants that cause her to blurt out "Stella!" when meeting Jerry's parents' friend. Meanwhile, Jerry's capillaries burst while scuba diving, making him an attractive dinner companion as well. This episode also sees the debut of the astronaut pen…

Episode 21 (The Dog): While on a flight home from a show, Jerry encounters an annoying passenger who becomes ill in mid-flight. Since the man has no family, he asks Jerry to take care of his dog, Farfel, until he gets out of the hospital. With an unruly dog in his apartment, Jerry doesn't feel comfortable going to the movies. Elaine and George are disappointed because they have nothing to talk about when only with each other (because they're friends-in-law through Jerry). Desperate for conversation, they really hit it off when they start trading Jerry stories. Meanwhile, Kramer makes yet another attempt to break up with his girlfriend, while Jerry unsuccessfully hunts for Farfel's owner…

Episode 22 (The Library): This episode sees the debut of the notorious Bookman, a library cop bent on cleansing libraries of the kind of filth Jerry represents. Bookman comes after Jerry for a copy of Tropic of Cancer that's twenty-years overdue. To corroborate his story, Jerry tracks down a former girlfriend. Meanwhile, Kramer (who loves to read library newspapers on their "sticks") strikes up a romance with the librarian, breaking the rules and incurring the wrath of Bookman. Eventually, Jerry gives up on finding the book, although the audience finds out that he gave it to George, only to have George drop it in the locker room while receiving a wedgie from classmates with the assistance of the gym teacher. George wonders if the homeless man outside of the library is the old gym teacher who got fired as a result of the incident…

Episode 23 (The Parking Garage): Jerry, George, Elaine (carrying a goldfish in a bag), and Kramer (carrying an air conditioner) leave the mall and begin searching the parking lot for their car. Having little success, they decide to split up. The entire is spent wandering through the parking garage. Jerry has to go to the bathroom, but there isn't one anywhere to be found. Eventually, he decides to go in a corner, but is picked up by the mall security guard. Jerry blames his act on a medical condition, saying he risked "uro-miciticsis poisoning" if he held it in any longer. The guard doesn't buy it and ends up bringing George for the same thing. Tired of carrying the air conditioner, Kramer hides it behind a car, only to forget where he put it once all of the gang is finally reunited and they locate the car. George is upset because their wasted evening causes him to be late for his parent's 47th anniversary…

Episode 24 (The Cafe): Jerry tries helping out Apu, a Pakistani immigrant who opened up a restaurant across the street. Jerry tells him to sell all Pakistani food because the would give him a unique business niche. Meanwhile, George's girlfriend wants him to take IQ test, but he's afraid to do so because he doesn't want her to know how dumb he is. When Elaine brags about her IQ, George enlists her to take the test for him - but Elaine spills coffee on it at the Pakistani restaurant (which George explains away to his girlfriend by telling her he "climbed out the window to go get some coffee"). In the meantime, Kramer tries to keep his mother's ex-boyfriend's jacket because he believes it attracts women. However, the ex-boyfriend believes the same thing, and he's intent on getting his jacket back. In the end, the Pakistani restaurant fails and Apu blames Jerry. George gets caught handing his IQ test out the window to Elaine…

Episode 25 (The Tape): George is excited about a new potential baldness cure manufactured in China. But when he calls on the phone, the person who answers only speaks Chinese, so George enlists the services of the Chinese delivery man to talk for him. Much to Jerry's chagrin, the delivery man kicks back on his sofa and starts running up a long-distance phone bill. Meanwhile, Jerry is enamored with the tape he made of his previous night's performance. It seems that while he was on stage, a mysterious woman left a range of dirty messages on his recorder. Kramer, George, and Jerry are anxious to meet the woman. George becomes attracted to Elaine when reveals to him the secret that she is the mysterious woman. She later drives George crazy when she pretends to be making a porn video with him while goofing around for Kramer's brand new video camera. Eventually, Kramer and Jerry find out that Elaine is the voice on the tape, and they chase after her too…

Episode 26 (The Nose Job): Jerry debates whether or not to break off his relationship with woman with whom the sex is great but he has nothing else in common. In one memorable scene, Jerry brain plays chess with his penis. Meanwhile, George is dating a woman with a large nose. George wants to suggest a nose job, but doesn't know how to bring it up. When Kramer meets her, he immediately tells her to get a nose job. This makes George happy until complications arise with the surgery. In the end, the woman's nose is fixed and she's beautiful - but she wants nothing to do with George…

Episode 27 (The Stranded): Jerry and Elaine attend George's office party in the suburbs, where they concoct a series of signals to help bail each other out of horrible conversations. When George hits it off with a co-worker, he leaves Jerry and Elaine in order to drive the woman home. Kramer is hours late in coming to pick up Jerry and Elaine, and the hosts of the party begin to get angry that Jerry and Elaine are still in their living room. Jerry apologizes and tells the husband that he's welcome to drop by anytime. The man takes him literally and shows up at Jerry's apartment within a week. Jerry's on his way out, but he feels guilty, so he leaves the guy in his apartment where he and Kramer proceed to party all night with a prostitute. George later quits his job because he's uncomfortable following the interlude with his co-worker. He's later arrested when he tries to shoplift at a drugstore that he thinks ripped him off ten dollars…

Episode 28 (The Alternate Side): Jerry's car is stolen when the building parking attendant leaves the keys inside. To find out who has his car, Jerry calls his car phone and car thief answers. He says he's going to keep the car, but promises to mail Kramer the gloves he left in the glove compartment. When the parking attendant needs to go out of town, George agrees to take over his job for him. All he has to do is move the cars from one side of the street to the other, but George finds a way to mess it up. Meanwhile, Kramer gets the opportunity to perform in a Woddy Allen film, dispensing the famous line "these pretzels are making me thirsty". Elaine is about to break off her relationship with her 66-year-old boyfriend when he has a stroke in Jerry's apartment. But the ambulance is delayed in its arrival because of a traffic accident caused by George's incompetence in moving the cars…

Episode 29 (The Red Dot): Jerry and George attend the office party at publishing house where Elaine works. At the party Jerry hands Elaine's boyfriend (a recovering alcoholic) the wrong drink, causing him to fall off the wagon (or is that on the wagon?) Also while there, George informs Elaine's boss of his wonderful resume which includes reading Mike Lupica and Venetian Blinds. Elaine gets George a job, so he decides to buy her a present. He ends up getting an $85 cashmere sweater (on sale because it has a near-invisible little red dot on it). Elaine soon finds out and gives it back to George. Working late one night, George has sex on his desk with the cleaning woman. He gives her the cashmere sweater, but she tells about their escapade when she discovers the red dot for herself. As a result, George gets fired…

Episode 30 (The Subway): Everyone experiences something unique while going their separate ways on the subway. George is on his way to a job interview and pretends to be reading the financial pages when he strikes up a conversation with a beautiful woman. She convinces him to skip his appointment and go back to her hotel room. While there, she ties him to the bed and steals his wallet. Jerry falls asleep while riding the subway and awakes to find a fat naked man sitting across from him (while the rest of the passengers are huddled far away) The man tells Jerry, "I'm not ashamed of my nakedness" to which Jerry replies, "You should try sitting over here. Because you should be". Jerry and the naked end up having a great conversation about the New York Mets and Coney Island, eventually spending the day together at Coney Island. Meanwhile, Elaine grows agitated when her train breaks down in route to a lesbian wedding where she is slated to be the best man. Kramer overhears a hot tip on a horse while on his way to pay $600 in traffic violations. When he strikes it big at the off-track betting parlor, a mugger steals the money, only to be foiled by an uncover cop sitting on the subway…

Episode 31 (The Pez Dispenser): While attending the piano recital of George's girlfriend, Jerry places a Tweety Bird pez dispenser on Elaine's leg, causing her to burst out in laughter. When the girlfriend finds out that George's friends were responsible for the laugh, she threatens to break up with George. Kramer suggest that George issue a preemptive breakup in order to gain "upper hand" in the relationship (Jerry agrees saying, "a man with no hand is no man at all) Meanwhile, Kramer has a million dollar idea for a cologne that smells like the beach…

Episode 32 (The Suicide): Elaine needs to fast before an x-ray, so she stuffs herself for three days prior. Following his neighbor Martin's failed suicide (why'd he quit after he failed? If anything, that's just one more thing that he's bad at…), Martin's girlfriend Gina hits on Jerry at the hospital. A psychic warns George to cancel his vacation to the Cayman Islands, but can never tell George why. He goes crazy wondering if the plane's going to go down. Jerry becomes worried when Newman (a friend of Martin's) sees him with Gina. Elaine starts hallucinating from hunger. In the end, George gives his Cayman Island vacation to Kramer who encounters nude supermodels on the beach and spends the week with them…

Episode 33 (The Fix-Up): Jerry and Elaine agree to set up George with one of Elaine's friends. But before the fix-up, they make a pact to keep each other informed of what they two friends say about the date. Kramer can his hands on several boxes of condoms and tries to hand them out to Jerry and George. George takes one and uses it. Jerry and Elaine keep probing each other for information, but neither one wants to be the first to tell the other their secrets. When Elaine's friend is late, and Kramer warns George that the condom was defective, the news prompts George to declare "My boys can swim!"…

Episode 34 (The Boyfriend 1): George and Jerry run into former Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez in the gym locker room, and it turns out that Keith is a fan of Jerry's. The two make an appointment to hang out. Meanwhile, George's unemployment is running out and he's determined to get a thirteen week extension. He tells the woman in the unemployment office that he was considered for a position with Vandelay Industries (they're in latex), and he provides Jerry's apartment as the address. Kramer and Newman visit Jerry's apartment in an attempt to confront Keith Hernandez on an incident from several years earlier. The two of them were heckling the Mets bullpen, and following the game, they made a sarcastic comment to Keith Hernandez. Immediately afterward, they were spit on, and they blame Keith. But Jerry outlines his "second-spitter theory," and Keith later confirms that a teammate was hiding in the bushes from whence the spit came. Later, Keith asks Jerry about Elaine's status. Keith makes a date with Elaine and breaks a date with Jerry. This makes Jerry jealous…

Episode 35 (The Boyfriend 2): His Vandelay Industries scheme exposed as a fraud, George makes a date with the daughter of the woman in the unemployment office. Kramer and Jerry go to visit a former neighbor's baby (of "you've got to see the baby" fame). Jerry tells Keith he thinks their relationship is moving too fast when Keith asks Jerry to help him move ("going all the way" in a male relationship). Meanwhile, Elaine and Keith are really hitting it off until he pulls out a cigarette. When George's date doesn't work out, he promises the woman at the unemployment office (who's a Mets fan) that he's a personal friend of Keith Hernandez. Jerry and Elaine both break up with Keith…

Episode 36 (The Limo): For fun, Jerry and George tell a limo driver that they're the passengers he's waiting for (because Jerry knew the real passenger had missed his flight). The driver tells them they're going to Madison Square Garden (where George and Jerry believe the Knicks are playing the Bulls), so they call Elaine and Kramer and tell them to meet them on a nearby corner. Meanwhile, the driver picks up two new passengers who reveal their belief that George is the leader of the Aryan Nation. They expect him to deliver a speech at Madison Square Garden, which flanked by a mob of protestors…

Episode 37 (The Good Samaritan): Jerry tracks down a hit-and-run driver only to find out that he wants to date her. After dating her, he finds out she hit another woman he's always wanted to date. He contemplates turning in the first woman in order to get to the second. Meanwhile, George has an affair with Elaine's friend, and Mary Hart's voice has a strange influence on Kramer…

Episode 38 (The Letter): Jerry begins dating a painter who Kramer ends up posing for. The painting is sold to an elderly couple who is fascinated with the main subject. Meanwhile, George feels obligated to buy a painting when he visits the art studio of Jerry's girlfriend. The girlfriend's father is a top accountant with the Yankees, and he gives them prime seats for the Yankees-Orioles game. Elaine (who is from Maryland) attends the game wearing an Orioles hat and refuses to remove it. The elderly couple with the Kramer painting invites Kramer to dinner. Jerry hears on television the words that his girlfriend wrote in a letter. After making a big scene at her last Yankees game, Mr. Lippman (Elaine's boss) invites Elaine to attend the Yankees game (with owner's box seats courtesy of the same Yankees accountant) as his guest of honor…

Episode 39 (The Parking Space): Kramer lets Jerry know that their friend Mike called him "a phony". Elaine borrows Jerry's car, but comes up with a wild story after the car starts making strange noises. Jerry, George, Kramer, and Mike are getting together to watch a championship fight, when George tries to back into a parking space that Mike is trying to pull into. The two have never met each, and the conflict prompts a protracted debate about parking etiquette that involves several police officers and the entire street...

Episode 40 (The Keys): Entrusted with the spare keys to Jerry's apartment, Kramer oversteps his bounds and violates the "covenant of the keys". Jerry revokes Kramer's spare key privileges, prompting Kramer's decision to move to Hollywood and pursue an acting career. Jerry gives his spare keys to Elaine who has entrusted hers with George. When Jerry needs to get his spare keys, but can't get a hold of Elaine, George uses his keys to Elaine's apartment to let Jerry in to hunt for his keys. While there, the two uncover a manuscript for the television show Murphy Brown that Elaine has been working on. Elaine catches them and revokes George's spare key privileges. In the closing scene, Kramer lands a part on Murphy Brown as Murphy's new secretary…

Britt Gillette

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Posted on 21 November 2004