New York Municipal Edition 255 counts

The Social Crimes Blotter

Petty grievances, etiquette felonies, George lies, Kramer schemes, and other offenses against society.

255 documented offenses
3 worst single episode
9 seasons under review

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Season 1

6 counts
Decaf coffee prank by waitress
S01E01 The Seinfeld Chronicles

Jerry and George spend an entire evening analyzing whether a woman wants to sleep with him. She's engaged.

Staking out someone's workplace instead of asking for their number
S01E02 The Stake Out

Jerry stakes out an office building to ambush a woman he met at a party. George invents Art Vandelay.

Kramer leaving Jerry's front door wide open to borrow a spatula
S01E03 The Robbery

Kramer borrows a spatula and forgets to close the door. Jerry gets robbed.

Breaking up with a friend
S01E04 Male Unbonding

Jerry tries to break up with a childhood friend using the line "it's not you, it's me." The friend cries and Jerry folds immediately.

George saying 'I like you' to his girlfriend
S01E04 Male Unbonding

Jerry tries to break up with a childhood friend using the line "it's not you, it's me." The friend cries and Jerry folds immediately.

Dating a cat owner when you're allergic
S01E05 The Stock Tip

George convinces Jerry to invest in a stock tip. The tipper gets hospitalized before saying when to sell.

Season 2

13 counts
Insulting someone's childhood pony at their anniversary dinner
S02E02 The Pony Remark

Jerry insults anyone who grew up with a pony at a family dinner. Cousin Manya had one in Poland and dies the next day.

Wearing garish striped jacket lining in public
S02E03 The Jacket

Jerry buys a suede jacket to meet Elaine's father. Her father makes them walk five blocks in a snowstorm.

Taking a coffee invitation literally
S02E04 The Phone Message

George leaves an angry message on a woman's answering machine. He and Jerry stage an elaborate heist to swap the tape before she hears it.

Breaking into someone's apartment to swap tapes
S02E04 The Phone Message

George leaves an angry message on a woman's answering machine. He and Jerry stage an elaborate heist to swap the tape before she hears it.

Sabotaging your friend's housing opportunity to preserve personal space
S02E05 The Apartment

Jerry gets Elaine an apartment upstairs for four hundred dollars a month. Every date will now be in her earshot.

Stealing from an apartment you're paid to clean
S02E06 The Statue

A statue goes missing after Jerry's apartment gets cleaned. Kramer impersonates a detective to get it back and George drops it again.

Using the boss's private bathroom
S02E07 The Revenge

George quits his job in a rage, shows up Monday pretending nothing happened, then plots to spike his boss with a Mickey.

Spiking someone's drink
S02E07 The Revenge

George quits his job in a rage, shows up Monday pretending nothing happened, then plots to spike his boss with a Mickey.

Giving cash as a birthday present
S02E09 The Deal

Jerry and Elaine establish rules for sleeping together without drama. Kramer gives her a bench and a Yeats poem for her birthday.

Ruining someone's shirt and never apologizing
S02E10 The Baby Shower

George rehearses an explosive confrontation with the woman who ruined his shirt years ago. He approaches her and bootlicks instead.

Hogging the payphone
S02E11 The Chinese Restaurant

They wait for a table at a Chinese restaurant. The maitre d' seats everyone but them, and they leave just as he calls their name.

Offering money to strangers for their egg roll
S02E11 The Chinese Restaurant

They wait for a table at a Chinese restaurant. The maitre d' seats everyone but them, and they leave just as he calls their name.

Getting someone fired over a burning menu
S02E12 The Busboy

George gets a busboy fired, loses his cat, breaks his lamp, then discovers the firing saved him from a gas explosion.

Season 3

31 counts
Getting insurance-covered massages through fraudulent doctor's notes
S03E01 The Note

Three people commit insurance fraud for free massages. George gets assigned a male masseur and spends the week questioning his sexuality.

Telling your girlfriend the brutal truth when she demands it
S03E02 The Truth

George tells his girlfriend the truth about why he's breaking up. She checks into a depression clinic with Jerry's tax records.

Accepting a neighbor's prized possession after aggressive insistence
S03E03 The Pen

Jerry accepts an astronaut pen in a retirement community. It triggers a fistfight at the condo president's honor ceremony.

Guilting a stranger into caring for your hostile dog indefinitely
S03E04 The Dog

A stranger on a plane guilt-trips Jerry into dog-sitting. The dog is hostile enough to cancel all of Jerry's plans for days.

Keeping a library book for twenty years
S03E05 The Library

A library cop hunts Jerry down over a twenty-year-old book. The book is with George's homeless former gym teacher.

Urinating in a public parking garage
S03E06 The Parking Garage

Four people try to find their car in a parking garage. That's the whole episode.

Giving unsolicited business advice that bankrupts a struggling restaurateur
S03E07 The Café

George recruits Elaine to take an IQ test for him through a restaurant window. She scores 151 on the second try and 85 on the first.

Recording an anonymous sexual message on someone's tape as a prank
S03E08 The Tape

Elaine leaves a sexual message on Jerry's tape recorder as a prank. All three men end up fighting over the tape.

Bluntly suggesting a nose job to someone's face
S03E09 The Nose Job

George can't look past his girlfriend's nose. Kramer suggests surgery to her face.

Inviting someone to drop by anytime
S03E10 The Stranded

George ditches Jerry and Elaine at a Long Island party to sleep with a coworker. The host later gets Jerry arrested for solicitation.

Calling an escort service from someone else's apartment
S03E10 The Stranded

George ditches Jerry and Elaine at a Long Island party to sleep with a coworker. The host later gets Jerry arrested for solicitation.

Shoplifting to compensate for being shortchanged
S03E10 The Stranded

George ditches Jerry and Elaine at a Long Island party to sleep with a coworker. The host later gets Jerry arrested for solicitation.

Breaking up with someone while they're paralyzed from a stroke
S03E11 The Alternate Side

George takes over the neighborhood's alternate-side parking job. He causes a gridlock that delays an ambulance and shuts down a Woody Allen film shoot.

Having sex with the office cleaning lady on your desk
S03E12 The Red Dot

George buys Elaine a cashmere sweater with a tiny red dot. Every single person who touches it spots the defect.

Accidentally triggering someone's relapse from sobriety
S03E12 The Red Dot

George buys Elaine a cashmere sweater with a tiny red dot. Every single person who touches it spots the defect.

Loudly denying you're a lesbian at a lesbian wedding
S03E13 The Subway

The group splits up on the subway and each has a terrible day. Kramer wins big at the track and pays for dinner.

Causing uncontrollable laughter at a piano recital with a Pez dispenser
S03E14 The Pez Dispenser

Jerry places a Pez dispenser on Elaine's knee during a piano recital. Her uncontrollable laughter ruins the performance and George's relationship.

Dating your comatose neighbor's ex-girlfriend
S03E15 The Suicide

Jerry dates his neighbor's girlfriend after the neighbor attempts suicide. George consults a psychic who goes into labor before finishing her warning.

Sharing inside information about your friends' sex lives
S03E16 The Fix-Up

Jerry and Elaine set up George with Elaine's desperate friend. Kramer distributes free condoms that turn out to be defective.

Handing out defective condoms
S03E16 The Fix-Up

Jerry and Elaine set up George with Elaine's desperate friend. Kramer distributes free condoms that turn out to be defective.

Committing unemployment fraud
S03E17 The Boyfriend (1)

Jerry meets Keith Hernandez and develops what amounts to a man-crush. George invents a job at Vandelay Industries as a latex salesman.

Helping someone move when you barely know them
S03E18 The Boyfriend (2)

George's unemployment fraud collapses when Kramer answers the phone honestly. He faceplants out of the bathroom with his pants down.

Impersonating a stranger to steal their limousine
S03E19 The Limo

George impersonates a passenger to steal a free limo ride. He's assumed the identity of a neo-Nazi leader on his way to give a speech.

Dating a hit-and-run driver
S03E20 The Good Samaritan

Jerry witnesses a hit-and-run and dates the driver. George sleeps with a married woman because her husband never says God bless you.

Adultery over a 'God bless you' dispute
S03E20 The Good Samaritan

Jerry witnesses a hit-and-run and dates the driver. George sleeps with a married woman because her husband never says God bless you.

Refusing to remove your opposing team's hat in the owner's box
S03E21 The Letter

Jerry's girlfriend sends him a passionate love letter. It's word-for-word from the Neil Simon film Chapter Two.

Plagiarizing a love letter from a movie script
S03E21 The Letter

Jerry's girlfriend sends him a passionate love letter. It's word-for-word from the Neil Simon film Chapter Two.

Forward parallel parking
S03E22 The Parking Space

George and Kramer's friend both claim the same parking space. The standoff lasts into the night with the entire neighborhood taking sides.

Backing into a space someone else is pulling into
S03E22 The Parking Space

George and Kramer's friend both claim the same parking space. The standoff lasts into the night with the entire neighborhood taking sides.

Taking back someone's spare keys
S03E23 The Keys

Jerry takes back his spare keys from Kramer. The broken covenant of the keys sends Kramer to Los Angeles where he ends up on Murphy Brown.

Using someone's apartment when they're not home
S03E23 The Keys

Jerry takes back his spare keys from Kramer. The broken covenant of the keys sends Kramer to Los Angeles where he ends up on Murphy Brown.

Season 4

28 counts
Using someone else's name to call 911
S04E01 The Trip (1)

Jerry and George fly to L.A. for The Tonight Show. Kramer gets arrested as a serial killer.

Letting a handcuffed carjacker escape from an unlocked police car
S04E02 The Trip (2)

Kramer returns from Los Angeles without explanation. The real killer was in the back seat all along.

Walking out of a business meeting to preserve artistic integrity
S04E03 The Pitch

NBC wants Jerry to pitch a TV show. George walks out of the meeting defending his artistic integrity.

Perjuring yourself in traffic court
S04E04 The Ticket

Kramer gets kicked in the head and shows up half-shaved saying "Yo-Yo Ma." NBC offers them a pilot anyway.

Throwing away a gift from your parents
S04E05 The Wallet

Uncle Leo fishes Jerry's watch out of the trash twice. George bluffs his way into a worse deal.

Barging into NBC president's apartment during dinner to beg for a deal
S04E06 The Watch

George begs his way into the NBC president's apartment and accepts less money just to leave. Jerry's girlfriend has a laugh like Elmer Fudd sitting on a juicer.

Fighting a boy in a bubble over a Trivial Pursuit misprint
S04E07 The Bubble Boy

They visit a boy in a bubble. George fights him over whether it's "Moors" or "Moops."

Blurting 'the panties your mother laid out for you' during dirty talk
S04E08 The Cheever Letters

The cabin burns down. Letters in the ruins reveal Susan's father had an affair with John Cheever.

Scalping tickets outside the opera
S04E09 The Opera

Crazy Joe Davola dresses as a clown and buys the seat behind them at the opera. Kramer has always been afraid of clowns.

Giving away your TV then freeloading off someone else's
S04E10 The Virgin

Jerry and George have one day to write their NBC pilot. A delivery boy crashes his bike and nobody has any food.

Betting on masturbation habits
S04E11 The Contest

George's mother catches him with her Glamour magazine. The contest begins.

Taking first class and sending your friend to coach
S04E12 The Airport

Jerry rides first class while Elaine suffers in coach on the same flight. George taunts a handcuffed convict over the last copy of Time.

Taunting a handcuffed prisoner
S04E12 The Airport

Jerry rides first class while Elaine suffers in coach on the same flight. George taunts a handcuffed convict over the last copy of Time.

Picking your nose in public
S04E13 The Pick

Elaine's Christmas card exposes her nipple to everyone she knows. Jerry defends nose-picking by quoting The Merchant of Venice.

Mailing nipple-exposed Christmas card to everyone you know
S04E13 The Pick

Elaine's Christmas card exposes her nipple to everyone she knows. Jerry defends nose-picking by quoting The Merchant of Venice.

Talking loudly during movie trailers
S04E14 The Movie

Four people spend an entire evening trying to see the same movie. Nobody can break a twenty.

Leaving friends to find the theater alone
S04E14 The Movie

Four people spend an entire evening trying to see the same movie. Nobody can break a twenty.

Sitting on someone's visa renewal until they get deported
S04E15 The Visa

Jerry pretends to be suicidally depressed so George looks funny by comparison. Babu Bhatt gets deported to Pakistan.

Staring at a fifteen-year-old's cleavage
S04E16 The Shoes

George gets caught staring at a teenager's cleavage and the pilot is canceled. Elaine wears a low-cut dress to save the deal.

Sneezing on food that gets served to customers
S04E16 The Shoes

George gets caught staring at a teenager's cleavage and the pilot is canceled. Elaine wears a low-cut dress to save the deal.

Eavesdropping on someone's conversation for a news story
S04E17 The Outing

A journalism student overhears Elaine's prank and publishes a story outing Jerry and George as a couple. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Destroying old man's false teeth in the garbage disposal
S04E18 The Old Man

The group volunteers to visit the elderly. George gets his false teeth pulverized in a garbage disposal.

Getting an old man lost while volunteering
S04E18 The Old Man

The group volunteers to visit the elderly. George gets his false teeth pulverized in a garbage disposal.

Double-dipping a chip at a funeral wake
S04E19 The Implant

Elaine investigates whether Jerry's girlfriend has breast implants by grabbing them in a sauna. They're real and spectacular.

Dropping candy into open body cavity during surgery
S04E20 The Junior Mint

Kramer drops a Junior Mint into a patient during surgery. The doctors call it a miracle from above.

Keeping a late-fee video another day instead of rewinding it
S04E21 The Smelly Car

A valet leaves body odor in Jerry's car so powerful it survives professional detailing. They try tomato sauce on Elaine's hair as a last resort.

Parking in a handicap spot
S04E22 The Handicap Spot

George parks in a handicap spot and a mob destroys his father's car. He becomes Frank's butler to pay it back.

Hiring only waitresses with large breasts
S04E23 The Pilot (1)

The Jerry pilot goes into production. A depressing bald man in sweatpants plays George.

Season 5

32 counts
Faking all orgasms with a partner
S05E01 The Mango

Elaine confesses she faked every orgasm with Jerry. He demands a rematch to save their friendship.

Getting banned from a fruit stand and sending a proxy
S05E01 The Mango

Elaine confesses she faked every orgasm with Jerry. He demands a rematch to save their friendship.

Agreeing to something you couldn't hear
S05E02 The Puffy Shirt

Jerry agrees to wear a shirt on national television. He didn't hear the terms.

Buying women's glasses by accident
S05E03 The Glasses

George's glasses get stolen so he wears prescription swim goggles. His credibility collapses when he bites into an onion thinking it's an apple.

Feeling a stranger's material without asking
S05E04 The Sniffing Accountant

The accountant keeps sniffing so they assume he's on cocaine. Elaine breaks up with her boyfriend over a missing exclamation point.

Not using exclamation points for exciting news
S05E04 The Sniffing Accountant

The accountant keeps sniffing so they assume he's on cocaine. Elaine breaks up with her boyfriend over a missing exclamation point.

Being unenthusiastic godparents
S05E05 The Bris

The mohel is so high-strung he accidentally circumcises Jerry's finger. Kramer is convinced the hospital is creating pig-men.

Faking deafness
S05E06 The Lip Reader

Jerry dates a deaf lineswoman and uses her lip-reading to spy on George's ex. Kramer's rusty sign language turns everything into gibberish.

George's messy eating broadcast on national TV
S05E06 The Lip Reader

Jerry dates a deaf lineswoman and uses her lip-reading to spy on George's ex. Kramer's rusty sign language turns everything into gibberish.

Suggesting a terrible mayoral campaign idea
S05E07 The Non-Fat Yogurt

The non-fat yogurt contains fat. This accidentally helps Rudy Giuliani win the mayoral election.

Cheating on your barber of twelve years
S05E08 The Barber

George can't tell if he was hired so he just shows up and starts working. Jerry cheats on his barber of twelve years.

Showing up to work without being hired
S05E08 The Barber

George can't tell if he was hired so he just shows up and starts working. Jerry cheats on his barber of twelve years.

Forcing someone to give you a massage nonconsensually
S05E09 The Masseuse

Jerry's masseuse girlfriend refuses to give him a massage. George becomes obsessed with being liked by a woman who hates him.

Performing tribal chants in front of Native American
S05E10 The Cigar Store Indian

Jerry buys a cigar store Indian as an apology gift, then performs a tribal chant in front of Elaine's Native American friend.

Leaving condom wrapper on parents' bed
S05E10 The Cigar Store Indian

Jerry buys a cigar store Indian as an apology gift, then performs a tribal chant in front of Elaine's Native American friend.

Converting to a religion just to keep dating someone
S05E11 The Conversion

George converts to Latvian Orthodoxy to keep dating his girlfriend. She moves to Latvia for a year.

Refusing to spare toilet paper to desperate person in next stall
S05E12 The Stall

Jerry's girlfriend refuses to spare Elaine a square of toilet paper. This launches a war of attrition.

Double parking for hours
S05E13 The Dinner Party

They go to pick up wine and cake before a dinner party. The double parker who traps them turns out to be a dead ringer for Saddam Hussein.

Breaking fourteen-year vomit-free streak
S05E13 The Dinner Party

They go to pick up wine and cake before a dinner party. The double parker who traps them turns out to be a dead ringer for Saddam Hussein.

Not washing hands after using bathroom before handling food
S05E15 The Pie

Jerry watches Poppie knead pizza dough without washing his hands after using the bathroom. When the pizza arrives, Jerry refuses to eat.

Refusing to try pie with no explanation
S05E15 The Pie

Jerry watches Poppie knead pizza dough without washing his hands after using the bathroom. When the pizza arrives, Jerry refuses to eat.

Wearing lifts as a little person stand-in
S05E16 The Stand-In

Jerry's hospitalized friend is so morose no joke lands. Round two goes so well the friend dies of laughter.

Urinating in the shower at health club
S05E17 The Wife

Jerry and his girlfriend pretend to be married for a dry cleaning discount. She finds another woman's laundry in his hamper.

Selling father's clothes and saying he's dead for extra money
S05E18 The Raincoats (1)

Elaine's close-talking boyfriend keeps whisking Jerry's parents away on romantic outings. George sells his father's clothes and eulogizes him for twenty-five extra dollars.

Making out during Schindler's List
S05E19 The Raincoats (2)

Newman catches Jerry making out during Schindler's List and tattles to both sets of parents. The house gets robbed through the window Jack smashed.

Trampling women, children, elderly, and clown to escape small fire
S05E20 The Fire

George tramples women, children, the elderly, and a clown to escape a fire. Kramer fights off a gunman while driving a runaway bus to save someone's severed toe.

Heckling at standup show
S05E20 The Fire

George tramples women, children, the elderly, and a clown to escape a fire. Kramer fights off a gunman while driving a runaway bus to save someone's severed toe.

Laughing at shrinkage
S05E21 The Hamptons

George's girlfriend walks in on him after a swim and laughs at his shrinkage. She tells everyone.

Stealing commercial lobster trap
S05E21 The Hamptons

George's girlfriend walks in on him after a swim and laughs at his shrinkage. She tells everyone.

Buying candy before visiting hospitalized friend
S05E22 The Opposite

George does the opposite of every instinct he's ever had. It all works.

Eating candy at hospital bedside
S05E22 The Opposite

George does the opposite of every instinct he's ever had. It all works.

Season 6

47 counts
Drowning someone's talent act doves the night before their pageant
S06E01 The Chaperone

Jerry dumps ice water on trained doves the night before a pageant. They were his date's talent act.

Taking credit for food someone else paid for
S06E02 The Big Salad

George pays for a big salad but someone else hands it over. He cannot let this go.

Penalizing a golfer for cleaning his ball
S06E02 The Big Salad

George pays for a big salad but someone else hands it over. He cannot let this go.

Not cashing birthday checks from your grandmother
S06E03 The Pledge Drive

Jerry cashes his grandmother's birthday checks and overdraws her bank account. Mr. Pitt eats a Snickers with a knife and fork.

Eating candy bars with utensils
S06E03 The Pledge Drive

Jerry cashes his grandmother's birthday checks and overdraws her bank account. Mr. Pitt eats a Snickers with a knife and fork.

Exploiting ethnic name stereotypes for credibility
S06E04 The Chinese Woman

A woman named Donna Chang gives Confucian wisdom over the phone. She's white.

Deliberately meddling in friends' relationships
S06E04 The Chinese Woman

A woman named Donna Chang gives Confucian wisdom over the phone. She's white.

Instigating political confrontations at restaurants
S06E05 The Couch

Poppie sits on Jerry's new couch and has an accident. It's day one.

Presumptuously making yourself at home at a stranger's house
S06E05 The Couch

Poppie sits on Jerry's new couch and has an accident. It's day one.

Eating food out of the trash
S06E06 The Gymnast

Jerry dates an Olympic gymnast expecting acrobatic rewards. She considers flexibility only useful in gymnastics.

Going shirtless in the bathroom
S06E06 The Gymnast

Jerry dates an Olympic gymnast expecting acrobatic rewards. She considers flexibility only useful in gymnastics.

Exiting a bathroom shirtless at a party
S06E06 The Gymnast

Jerry dates an Olympic gymnast expecting acrobatic rewards. She considers flexibility only useful in gymnastics.

Giving a gift with strings attached
S06E07 The Soup

Bania gives Jerry a suit, then holds him hostage for dinner. Soup doesn't count as a meal.

Declaring soup doesn't count as a meal
S06E07 The Soup

Bania gives Jerry a suit, then holds him hostage for dinner. Soup doesn't count as a meal.

Getting banned from your regular diner
S06E07 The Soup

Bania gives Jerry a suit, then holds him hostage for dinner. Soup doesn't count as a meal.

Sleeping with your secretary
S06E09 The Secretary

George hires a plain secretary to avoid temptation. He sleeps with her immediately.

Promising a raise during sex
S06E09 The Secretary

George hires a plain secretary to avoid temptation. He sleeps with her immediately.

Protecting a fraudulent high school race victory for twenty years
S06E10 The Race

Jerry won a high school race because of an accidental head start. Twenty years later, he gets another one.

Spreading communist propaganda as Santa
S06E10 The Race

Jerry won a high school race because of an accidental head start. Twenty years later, he gets another one.

Proposing a menage a trois as a breakup strategy
S06E11 The Switch

Jerry proposes a menage a trois to switch roommates. Both women say yes.

Barging into a women's bathroom
S06E11 The Switch

Jerry proposes a menage a trois to switch roommates. Both women say yes.

Re-gifting a Christmas present
S06E12 The Label Maker

Super Bowl tickets get gifted, de-gifted, and re-gifted. Jerry ends up sitting next to Newman.

De-gifting tickets you already gave away
S06E12 The Label Maker

Super Bowl tickets get gifted, de-gifted, and re-gifted. Jerry ends up sitting next to Newman.

Calling Ukraine weak in front of a Ukrainian
S06E12 The Label Maker

Super Bowl tickets get gifted, de-gifted, and re-gifted. Jerry ends up sitting next to Newman.

Faking cancer to get sympathy
S06E13 The Scofflaw

Gary fakes cancer, gets a toupee from the sympathy, uses it to meet women. Jerry rips it off his head.

Pretending not to have said hi when you did
S06E13 The Scofflaw

Gary fakes cancer, gets a toupee from the sympathy, uses it to meet women. Jerry rips it off his head.

Lying about watching Melrose Place
S06E16 The Beard

George goes on a blind date with a bald woman. She dumps him for being shallow.

Getting rejected by a bald woman when you're bald yourself
S06E16 The Beard

George goes on a blind date with a bald woman. She dumps him for being shallow.

Forcing everyone in the building to kiss hello
S06E17 The Kiss Hello

Kramer posts everyone's photo in the building lobby. Jerry gets ostracized for refusing to kiss hello.

Charging for a missed appointment during a family emergency
S06E17 The Kiss Hello

Kramer posts everyone's photo in the building lobby. Jerry gets ostracized for refusing to kiss hello.

Won't drive a friend home due to one-way streets
S06E17 The Kiss Hello

Kramer posts everyone's photo in the building lobby. Jerry gets ostracized for refusing to kiss hello.

Abandoning your doorman post
S06E18 The Doorman

A hostile doorman guilts Jerry into covering his post. A couch gets stolen on his watch.

Simulating a robbery in front of German tourists
S06E18 The Doorman

A hostile doorman guilts Jerry into covering his post. A couch gets stolen on his watch.

Being sexually violated by your dentist under anesthesia
S06E19 The Jimmy

Jimmy talks in the third person. Everyone starts doing it.

Swapping dental hygienists for fun
S06E19 The Jimmy

Jimmy talks in the third person. Everyone starts doing it.

Spitting out food someone gave you from their mouth
S06E20 The Doodle

George finds a doodle his girlfriend drew. It makes him look hideous.

Refusing to use someone's toothbrush
S06E20 The Doodle

George finds a doodle his girlfriend drew. It makes him look hideous.

Charging $100 massages and pay-per-view to a job interview hotel suite
S06E20 The Doodle

George finds a doodle his girlfriend drew. It makes him look hideous.

Stealing someone's signature sex move
S06E21 The Fusilli Jerry

Elaine's boyfriend uses Jerry's signature move in bed. Jerry revokes the license.

Writing sex instructions on your hand
S06E21 The Fusilli Jerry

Elaine's boyfriend uses Jerry's signature move in bed. Jerry revokes the license.

Being mistaken for a pharmacist and approving a dangerous drug combination
S06E22 The Diplomat's Club

Jerry approves a dangerous drug combination while pretending to be a pharmacist. Mr. Pitt ends up in the hospital.

Bringing an exterminator to dinner to prove you have a Black friend
S06E22 The Diplomat's Club

Jerry approves a dangerous drug combination while pretending to be a pharmacist. Mr. Pitt ends up in the hospital.

Painting your face for hockey games
S06E23 The Face Painter

Puddy paints his face for a playoff game. A priest thinks he's seen the devil.

Refusing to apologize to a chimpanzee on principle
S06E23 The Face Painter

Puddy paints his face for a playoff game. A priest thinks he's seen the devil.

Body-checking Bette Midler at home plate in a charity softball game
S06E24 The Understudy

George body-checks Bette Midler at home plate. Her understudy gets the lead in Rochelle Rochelle.

Stopping short — taboo in Korea
S06E24 The Understudy

George body-checks Bette Midler at home plate. Her understudy gets the lead in Rochelle Rochelle.

Season 7

25 counts
Dognapping a neighbor's pet
S07E01 The Engagement

George and Jerry vow to change their lives. Jerry breaks the pact immediately, George gets engaged, and Kramer gets arrested for dognapping.

Broadcasting private confessions on local access TV
S07E02 The Postponement

George tries to postpone his wedding. He cries instead, and Susan finds it so touching she agrees to the delay.

Demanding to be called by a pretentious title
S07E03 The Maestro

George gives a security guard a rocking chair. The guard sleeps through a robbery.

Calling a baby a bastard
S07E05 The Hot Tub

Jerry obsesses over waking a marathon runner on time. Kramer's hot tub kills the power and every alarm clock in the building.

Violating strict soup-ordering protocol
S07E06 The Soup Nazi

A man opens a soup stand so good people will tolerate anything. No soup for you.

Revealing your ATM code to a dying woman
S07E07 The Secret Code

George reveals his ATM code to a dying woman. She repeats it as her final word, leaving Peterman convinced George murdered his mother.

Letting your worlds collide
S07E08 The Pool Guy

George's worlds are colliding when Susan befriends his friends. Independent George is being killed.

Refusing to wear a charity ribbon
S07E09 The Sponge

Elaine hoards 60 contraceptive sponges and decides which men are sponge-worthy. George dumps a woman for being too good.

Being shortchanged and obsessing over proving it
S07E10 The Gum

Everyone tiptoes around Lloyd Braun's nervous breakdown, forcing Jerry to wear glasses that blind him. George's car catches fire and the florist's hose is disconnected.

Taking back a gift you brought to dinner
S07E11 The Rye

Frank steals back his marble rye after the Rosses don't serve it. Jerry mugs an old woman for bread and George reels it up with a fishing pole.

Mugging an old woman for marble rye
S07E11 The Rye

Frank steals back his marble rye after the Rosses don't serve it. Jerry mugs an old woman for bread and George reels it up with a fishing pole.

Wearing a bra as outerwear in public
S07E12 The Caddy

George locks his keys in his car at work. Steinbrenner thinks he's working around the clock, then declares him dead when the car turns up wrecked and bloody.

Stealing someone's baby name
S07E13 The Seven

George picks the baby name Seven after Mickey Mantle. Susan's cousin steals it for her own child.

Buying your parents a Cadillac when you're condo president
S07E14 The Cadillac (1)

Jerry buys his parents a Cadillac. The condo board assumes embezzlement and impeaches his father.

Installing low-flow showerheads without warning
S07E16 The Shower Head

Low-flow showerheads make showering impossible. Newman finds black market Yugoslavian replacements while Kramer picks an elephant model that blasts him out of the tub.

Ripping the head off someone's collectible doll
S07E17 The Doll

Jerry carries an enormous wedding gift on a plane. It contains a welcome mat the size of a placemat from a FedEx executive.

Stealing a jacket from the Friars Club
S07E18 The Friars Club

Jerry accidentally steals a Friars Club jacket. A magician makes it disappear, and George chases a performer through the street to get the wrong one back.

Using prostitutes in discount parking lot cars
S07E19 The Wig Master

A ponytailed sales clerk strings Elaine along with a fake dress discount. Kramer gets arrested as a pimp after borrowing a technicolor dreamcoat from a Joseph cast member.

Cutting off someone's ponytail
S07E19 The Wig Master

A ponytailed sales clerk strings Elaine along with a fake dress discount. Kramer gets arrested as a pimp after borrowing a technicolor dreamcoat from a Joseph cast member.

Fishing your own tip out of the tip jar
S07E20 The Calzone

George accidentally becomes Steinbrenner's right-hand man by sharing his calzone. He gets banned from the restaurant for appearing to steal from the tip jar.

Bidding against your rival out of spite
S07E21 The Bottle Deposit (1)

Elaine overbids on JFK's golf clubs at Sotheby's. Newman and Kramer's bottle-deposit arbitrage scheme sends them toward Michigan in a mail truck.

Stealing a car
S07E22 The Bottle Deposit (2)

Kramer chases Jerry's stolen car across Ohio, dumping Newman on the highway to go faster. Tony hurls JFK's golf clubs at the truck one by one.

Abandoning your co-conspirator on the highway
S07E22 The Bottle Deposit (2)

Kramer chases Jerry's stolen car across Ohio, dumping Newman on the highway to go faster. Tony hurls JFK's golf clubs at the truck one by one.

Breaking up a couple with an offhand remark
S07E23 The Wait Out

George jokes that a wife could do better than her husband. They break up, and Jerry and Elaine immediately try to date the newly single halves.

Buying the cheapest wedding invitations with toxic glue
S07E24 The Invitations

Susan dies from licking toxic wedding invitation envelopes. Jerry proposes to his exact double and immediately regrets it.

Season 8

30 counts
Celebrating your fiancée's death
S08E01 The Foundation

Susan's parents trap George on the foundation board of the woman he accidentally killed. Jerry learns that widowers are irresistible to women.

Planting a tape recorder to spy on people
S08E02 The Soul Mate

George plants a tape recorder at the Susan Ross Foundation and gets back screams, a thud, and an unconvincing explanation about furniture.

Enlisting your best friend to woo a woman
S08E02 The Soul Mate

George plants a tape recorder at the Susan Ross Foundation and gets back screams, a thud, and an unconvincing explanation about furniture.

Violating Bizarro world politeness with aggressive shove
S08E03 The Bizarro Jerry

Elaine discovers a Bizarro world where everyone is polite and the apartment is backwards. They expel her for shoving.

Dancing so badly you lose all authority
S08E04 The Little Kicks

Elaine dances at her company party and loses all authority. Jerry gets forced into bootlegging at gunpoint.

Mail fraud
S08E05 The Package

Elaine's medical chart labels her difficult and follows her to every doctor in the city. Newman interrogates Jerry for mail fraud in a Basic Instinct parody.

Stealing medical files
S08E05 The Package

Elaine's medical chart labels her difficult and follows her to every doctor in the city. Newman interrogates Jerry for mail fraud in a Basic Instinct parody.

Promoting incompetent employee out of fear
S08E06 The Fatigues

Elaine can't fire a mailroom employee in fatigues so she promotes him twice instead. Frank Costanza's Korean War PTSD gets triggered at Jewish singles night.

Destroying expensive designer furniture with fire ax
S08E07 The Checks

Twelve-cent royalty checks pile up from a Japanese TV show. Kramer spends all his tourists' money because he doesn't know what fifty thousand yen is worth.

Stealing someone's clock as revenge
S08E08 The Chicken Roaster

A neon chicken bathes Kramer's apartment in red light. He swaps apartments with Jerry and immediately gets addicted to the chicken.

Choosing intellect over sex
S08E09 The Abstinence

Sexual abstinence turns George into a genius. It has the opposite effect on Elaine.

Arguing your life is worse than an Andrea Doria survivor's
S08E10 The Andrea Doria

George argues to a tenant board that his life has been worse than an Andrea Doria survivor's. He loses the apartment anyway.

Dating someone solely because they can't pop in unexpectedly
S08E11 The Little Jerry

Kramer enters a rooster named Little Jerry Seinfeld in a cock fight to get Jerry's bounced check taken down. George dates a prison inmate who can't pop in.

Questioning family life expectancy to calculate inheritance
S08E12 The Money

Jerry's parents sell their Cadillac to give him money after he bounced a check. Jerry buys it back from Jack Klompus, who drives it into a swamp.

Flying to Akron to deliver a comeback
S08E13 The Comeback

George flies to Akron to deliver the perfect comeback. It gets immediately topped.

Dating a 15-year-old unknowingly
S08E13 The Comeback

George flies to Akron to deliver the perfect comeback. It gets immediately topped.

Revoking scholarship out of spite
S08E14 The Van Buren Boys

Kramer accidentally flashes a street gang's sign while holding a garlic shaker. Eight fingers for Martin Van Buren, the eighth president.

Never correcting someone's name mistake until it spirals
S08E15 The Susie

A coworker calls Elaine "Susie" and Elaine never corrects her. Susie gets her own assignments, a memorial service, and a foundation.

Not telling girlfriend about toilet toothbrush immediately
S08E16 The Pothole

Jerry knocks his girlfriend's toothbrush into the toilet and she uses it before he can tell her. He eventually throws away everything he owns.

Repainting highway illegally
S08E16 The Pothole

Jerry knocks his girlfriend's toothbrush into the toilet and she uses it before he can tell her. He eventually throws away everything he owns.

Hating universally beloved movie
S08E17 The English Patient

Elaine hates The English Patient so much it gets her sent to live in a cave in Tunisia. George becomes obsessed with a woman's boyfriend because they look alike.

Pulling out someone's IV in hospital
S08E17 The English Patient

Elaine hates The English Patient so much it gets her sent to live in a cave in Tunisia. George becomes obsessed with a woman's boyfriend because they look alike.

Calling in bomb threat to evacuate your boss
S08E18 The Nap

George builds a secret bed inside his desk at work. Jerry calls in a bomb threat to evacuate Steinbrenner from George's office.

Building secret bed at work
S08E18 The Nap

George builds a secret bed inside his desk at work. Jerry calls in a bomb threat to evacuate Steinbrenner from George's office.

Using yada yada to skip over sex with ex
S08E19 The Yada Yada

George's girlfriend uses "yada yada yada" to skip over important parts of stories. His dentist converts to Judaism for the jokes.

Converting to Judaism for the jokes
S08E19 The Yada Yada

George's girlfriend uses "yada yada yada" to skip over important parts of stories. His dentist converts to Judaism for the jokes.

Destroying World Series trophy
S08E20 The Millennium

The Mets secretly recruit George but he needs to get fired first. Every attempt to sabotage himself backfires into praise.

Obsessing over speed dial position
S08E20 The Millennium

The Mets secretly recruit George but he needs to get fired first. Every attempt to sabotage himself backfires into praise.

Shaving chest to pretend you're naturally hairless
S08E21 The Muffin Tops

George wears a tourist's abandoned clothes and gets mistaken for a visitor from Arkansas. Elaine opens a muffin-top-only store but can't get rid of the stumps.

Never leaving apartment for three months
S08E22 The Summer of George

George gets a three-month severance and never leaves his apartment. His legs atrophy so badly he slips on an invitation and ends up in the hospital.

Season 9

43 counts
Faking a disability for workplace benefits
S09E01 The Butter Shave

Kramer shaves with butter and falls asleep in the sun. Newman tries to eat him.

Sabotaging your own comedy set
S09E01 The Butter Shave

Kramer shaves with butter and falls asleep in the sun. Newman tries to eat him.

Refusing to quit when your employer wants you gone
S09E02 The Voice

Jerry chooses doing a talking-stomach voice over keeping his girlfriend. Then his friends get tired of the voice.

Choosing a voice bit over your girlfriend
S09E02 The Voice

Jerry chooses doing a talking-stomach voice over keeping his girlfriend. Then his friends get tired of the voice.

Bottling up rage with a calming phrase
S09E03 The Serenity Now

Frank Costanza screams "Serenity now!" to manage his anger. Jerry expresses an emotion for the first time and proposes to Elaine.

Being French kissed by your ex-boss's 13-year-old bar mitzvah boy
S09E03 The Serenity Now

Frank Costanza screams "Serenity now!" to manage his anger. Jerry expresses an emotion for the first time and proposes to Elaine.

Eating during sex
S09E04 The Blood

George integrates a pastrami sandwich into his sex life. He ends up watching TV at the same time.

Storing blood in a neighbor's refrigerator
S09E04 The Blood

George integrates a pastrami sandwich into his sex life. He ends up watching TV at the same time.

Trying to make out with your cousin
S09E05 The Junk Mail

Kramer bricks up his mailbox to stop junk mail. The Postmaster General has him abducted.

Canceling your mail delivery
S09E05 The Junk Mail

Kramer bricks up his mailbox to stop junk mail. The Postmaster General has him abducted.

Stealing half the credit by sneaking up behind coworkers
S09E06 The Merv Griffin Show

Kramer finds a talk show set in a dumpster. He starts hosting.

Mocking dermatology as a profession
S09E07 The Slicer

George spots himself in a beach photo on his new boss's wall. From the day he threw their boombox in the ocean.

Doctoring a photo in your boss's office
S09E07 The Slicer

George spots himself in a beach photo on his new boss's wall. From the day he threw their boombox in the ocean.

Sleeping with your best friend's girlfriend
S09E08 The Betrayal

Told entirely in reverse. The gang flies to India for a wedding that collapses when George loudly repeats that Elaine slept with the groom.

Ruining a wedding by revealing the bride slept with the groom years earlier
S09E08 The Betrayal

Told entirely in reverse. The gang flies to India for a wedding that collapses when George loudly repeats that Elaine slept with the groom.

Demanding an apology for sweater-neck stretching incident
S09E09 The Apology

Jerry's girlfriend walks around naked in nonsexual contexts. This is great until she coughs.

Cooking dinner in the shower
S09E09 The Apology

Jerry's girlfriend walks around naked in nonsexual contexts. This is great until she coughs.

Creating a fake charity
S09E10 The Strike

Frank Costanza invents a holiday. It involves an aluminum pole.

Going back on strike after 12 years
S09E10 The Strike

Frank Costanza invents a holiday. It involves an aluminum pole.

Refusing to give a high five
S09E11 The Dealership

Jerry tries to buy a car through Puddy's insider deal. Elaine and Puddy's breakup turns his discount into full markup.

Setting up a ten-candy-bar taste test lineup
S09E11 The Dealership

Jerry tries to buy a car through Puddy's insider deal. Elaine and Puddy's breakup turns his discount into full markup.

Reversing your peephole without permission
S09E12 The Reverse Peephole

Kramer and Newman reverse their peepholes to spot ambushes inside their apartments. The super attacks Joe Mayo with a sock full of pennies.

Throwing someone's coat out a window
S09E12 The Reverse Peephole

Kramer and Newman reverse their peepholes to spot ambushes inside their apartments. The super attacks Joe Mayo with a sock full of pennies.

Dating someone who looks like your best friend
S09E13 The Cartoon

Sally Weaver turns Jerry's private criticism into a sold-out one-woman show. Every cease-and-desist becomes fresh material.

Subconsciously plagiarizing Ziggy
S09E13 The Cartoon

Sally Weaver turns Jerry's private criticism into a sold-out one-woman show. Every cease-and-desist becomes fresh material.

Refusing to accept a breakup
S09E14 The Strongbox

George tries to cheat on his girlfriend to force a breakup. Both women agree to share him.

Trying to get caught cheating on purpose
S09E14 The Strongbox

George tries to cheat on his girlfriend to force a breakup. Both women agree to share him.

Lying about buying a house and driving people all the way to the Hamptons
S09E15 The Wizard

George lies about buying a house in the Hamptons. Neither side will admit he's lying, so he drives them all the way to the tip of Long Island.

Breaking up with someone while they're going to Hell
S09E16 The Burning

Elaine discovers Puddy is religious but doesn't care that she's going to Hell. A priest informs them they're both going to Hell for premarital sex.

Taking credit for someone else's medical condition
S09E16 The Burning

Elaine discovers Puddy is religious but doesn't care that she's going to Hell. A priest informs them they're both going to Hell for premarital sex.

Taking a book into the bookstore bathroom
S09E17 The Bookstore

Jerry catches Uncle Leo shoplifting at a bookstore. Turns out Leo has a prior conviction.

Ratting out Uncle Leo to security
S09E17 The Bookstore

Jerry catches Uncle Leo shoplifting at a bookstore. Turns out Leo has a prior conviction.

Making out with a coworker
S09E17 The Bookstore

Jerry catches Uncle Leo shoplifting at a bookstore. Turns out Leo has a prior conviction.

Eating a $29,000 historical artifact
S09E18 The Frogger

George finds his legendary Frogger high score still exists in the machine at a closing pizza place. He has to keep it plugged in during the move or lose everything.

Refusing to break up because a serial killer is in the neighborhood
S09E18 The Frogger

George finds his legendary Frogger high score still exists in the machine at a closing pizza place. He has to keep it plugged in during the move or lose everything.

Sleeping with your maid then not paying her
S09E19 The Maid

Jerry sleeps with his maid. She stops cleaning but keeps taking the money.

Campaigning for a nickname at work
S09E19 The Maid

Jerry sleeps with his maid. She stops cleaning but keeps taking the money.

Setting a Puerto Rican flag on fire
S09E20 The Puerto Rican Day

The gang gets stuck in Puerto Rican Day Parade traffic. Kramer accidentally sets a flag on fire.

Taunting a driver then getting stuck behind them
S09E20 The Puerto Rican Day

The gang gets stuck in Puerto Rican Day Parade traffic. Kramer accidentally sets a flag on fire.

Watching a carjacking and making jokes instead of helping
S09E23 The Finale (1)

NBC gives them a pilot. They celebrate with a private jet to Paris, the plane crashes, and they watch a man get carjacked while cracking jokes instead of helping.

Videotaping a crime and not intervening
S09E23 The Finale (1)

NBC gives them a pilot. They celebrate with a private jet to Paris, the plane crashes, and they watch a man get carjacked while cracking jokes instead of helping.

Nine seasons worth of them, all paraded in court
S09E24 The Finale (2)

The trial becomes a parade of every person the gang wronged. The jury convicts them.