The Wink
- Episode aired Oct 12, 1995
- TV-PG
- 23m
Jerry squirts grapefruit into George's eye at breakfast, and for the rest of the day George is misinterpreted because everyone thinks he is winking at them.Jerry squirts grapefruit into George's eye at breakfast, and for the rest of the day George is misinterpreted because everyone thinks he is winking at them.Jerry squirts grapefruit into George's eye at breakfast, and for the rest of the day George is misinterpreted because everyone thinks he is winking at them.
- George Steinbrenner
- (uncredited)
- Ruthie Cohen
- (uncredited)
- George Steinbrenner
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaDuring the closing scene, George Steinbrenner (Larry David) runs through the names of Yankee managers he had let go. Steinbrenner ended by naming Buck Showalter, adding "...but you didn't hear that from me." Showalter indeed would be let go as Yankees manager by Steinbrenner (George M. Steinbrenner III) two weeks after the episode's original airing then years later Showalter would become manager of the Baltimore Orioles.
- GoofsGeorge tells Paul O'Neill that he must catch a fly ball in his hat. This is actually against MLB rules. While he can technically catch the ball in his hat, it would not be an out. It would credit the batter with a hit and all the base runners would be awarded 3 bases, effectively scoring everyone and hurting The Yankees.
- Quotes
Jerry Seinfeld: I still can't believe, you're going out on a blind date.
Elaine Benes: I'm not worried. It sounds like he's really good looking.
Jerry Seinfeld: You're going by sound? What are we, whales?
Elaine Benes: I think I can tell.
Jerry Seinfeld: Elaine, what percentage of people would you say are good looking?
Elaine Benes: 25 percent.
Jerry Seinfeld: 25 percent, you say? No way! It's like 4 to 6 percent. It's a 20 to 1 shot.
Elaine Benes: You're way off.
Jerry Seinfeld: Way off? Have you been to the motor vehicle bureau? It's like a leper colony down there.
Elaine Benes: So what you are saying is that 90 to 95 percent of the population is undateable?
Jerry Seinfeld: UNDATEABLE!
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Written by Jonathan Wolff
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).
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- Aug 7, 2016
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