- When Lloyd Braun comes back from the psychiatric hospital, Kramer takes him under his wing and convinces Jerry to buy gum from him and wear glasses that don't belong to him to prove that Lloyd isn't crazy. George tries to prove to his old neighbor Deena that he isn't crazy after a cashier short-changes him.—Jim
- George is unhappy that Lloyd Braun - the son his mother wishes she had - is back. He takes delight in spreading the news that Lloyd had a breakdown after managing an unsuccessful political campaign. George's attempts to discredit Lloyd lead others to think George is the one who's a bit off. Elaine and Jerry try to avoid Lloyd: Elaine, because they used to date; and Jerry, because Lloyd keeps attempting to get him to try a new gum. Meanwhile, George has trouble with his car after a former neighbor fiddles with the engine; and Kramer gets involved with the restoration of an old theater.—garykmcd
- Kramer is active in the re-opening of the Alex movie theater. George's nemesis Lloyd Braun (Matt McCoy), who had a nervous breakdown after messing up David Dinkins' re-election campaign in "The Non-Fat Yogurt", has a pack of Chinese chewing gum that Kramer insists everyone try. Lloyd is helping Kramer get the theatre heritage building status, using his connections at the Mayor's office. George leaves, stating that he doesn't chew gum. Since Lloyd is helping Kramer, Kramer is very sensitive to anyone calling Lloyd insane or mentally ill.
At the theater, Elaine doesn't want to sit near Braun, so she invents the story that she has to sit with Jerry close to the screen because he supposedly forgot his glasses. While watching the movie, Elaine's ivory button falls off, and she accidentally "reveals herself" to Lloyd and Kramer. Lloyd thinks Elaine has the hots for him. Elaine complains to a policeman (Vito D'Ambrosio) about a florist's (Lionel Mark Smith) washing the sidewalk with a hose, and her exposed blouse convinces the policeman to tell the florist to disconnect the hose.
George visits a friend, Deena (Mary Jo Keenen), and her father, "Pop," (Sandy Ward) who had a mental breakdown. Pop starts tinkering with George's car's engine and smashes it with a tool out of frustration. Deena later meets George at a park and tells him that he has all the early signs of a nervous breakdown. George thinks a cashier at Monk's kept a 20-dollar bill of his that he doodled on. He pursues her and has to buy a pack of gum to look inside the register, much to the surprise of Lloyd, who thought George didn't chew gum. While he is confronting the cashier in her car on the street, George's "Jon Voight Car" catches fire due to the damage caused by Pop, and the fire can't be extinguished by the hose because the florist had to disconnect it.
Jerry must wear glasses while around Lloyd to keep with Elaine's excuse. He exchanges glasses when the ones he got from the lost and found were discovered to belong to Geoffrey Haarwood (Eric Christmas) (or, as Kramer says it, "Harharwood"), a former Hollywood costumer who runs the "The Institute for the Preservation of Motion Picture Costumes and Wardrobes" (also known as the IPMPCW). The new glasses Jerry wears make it impossible to see clearly, and he inadvertently gives Lloyd a $100 bill to buy the Chinese gum. Lloyd buys a carton full of gum for Jerry, which he doesn't even like.
Lloyd tries to purchase a visibly old hot dog from the vendor, and the vendor asks Lloyd if he is insane, because the hot dog is "from the Silent era"; when Kramer hears this, he insists on eating the hot dog in an effort to show that Lloyd is not insane, which then makes him sick. Kramer throws up on the sidewalk, and the florist brings his hose back out to clean it. Elaine confronts him about this, giving away the fact that she was the one who spoke to the police about stopping him spraying the sidewalk with the hose, and he accidentally sprays her when distracted by someone calling his attention. When she comes to the Alex in a wet shirt, Lloyd once again believes that Elaine is trying to get his attention, while Kramer reprimands her because "the Alex is a family theater and not one of her swing joints."
George's friend Deena thinks he is showing signs of mental illness when he tries to explain the true situation, which sounds increasingly ridiculous to her. George wears a Henry VIII costume for Kramer's premiere at the Alex (Kramer calls in a favor to make George wear the costume. Kramer believes that it will help promote the theatre and George was the only person who could fit into it), and discovers he had the $20 bill all along, but Deena sees him in the costume and thinks he has gone insane as he yells that he got the costume at "the Institute." Elaine sees the ivory button on Haarwood's ascot (Haarwood had found Elaine's button in the theatre's lost and found) and tries to undo it, making Lloyd and Kramer think she's flirting with him. Lloyd later comments that Elaine really needs to find a boyfriend.
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