To me, this is the funniest episode in the series, and it has the greatest finishing scene of them all. I saw it a few hours ago and wanted to provide a good review for any IMDBers not familiar with this episode.
The plot is quite complicated. Jerry runs into an old friend from college, Diane, who seems quite interested in learning how George is doing. Because George had just told Jerry all about a TV show involving marine biologists, and because Jerry doesn't want to admit that George is unemployed and living with his parents, he tells Diane that George IS a marine biologist. A bit later, George questions why Jerry didn't tell her he was an architect, saying, "I always wanted to pretend to be an architect." On a couple of occasions he shows that marine biology might not be his things because he keeps referring to whales as "fish." When corrected, he says, "Whatever." Meanwhile, Elaine has a chance to work with a famous Russian author. Just before going to pick him up at the airport, with her boss, Jerry and Kramer accidentally sabotage her chances of making a good impression. Jerry does it by getting her to believe a joke story about the novel War and Peace. Kramer by giving her an electronic organizer that has an alarm, that Elaine only partially gets to use before picking up the author.
In the limo, right after Elaine embarrasses herself with the story about the novel, her organizer goes off. The Russian is driven, instantly, nuts by the noise and when Elaine can't turn it off, he flings it out the window.
Since this is Seinfeld, you know it doesn't just drop on the ground. It hits a woman in the head. She finds Jerry's name in a list of contacts. Jerry meets her, and, of course, wants to date her, and promises to help find out who's organizer it is. He soon figures it out and he and Elaine go see the Russian with Jerry secretly trying to record the author admitting he threw the machine out of the window.
Kramer has already asked the others if they'd like to join him in hitting a bucket of golf balls into the ocean. When nobody else is interested, he goes out alone and finds himself mostly swinging and missing.
The next day, George is walking with Diane along the beach when they encounter a crowd of people standing around. They learn that there is a beached whale that seems to be in distress. A voice calls out, "Is anyone here a marine biologist?" We don't see what happens next, but know George will get into trouble no matter how he reacts to that question.
The final scene has the gang in Monk's as George captivates everyone with his story about how he was the hero of the day. I won't report the finish, figuring you either don't want it spoiled or you well remember how hilarious it was. The DVD extra reports that the laughter at the end was as long as any in the entire series. I will provide one line from George's story: "The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli." This produced hilariously puzzled looks from his friends and great laughter from the audience.
All the segments were tremendously funny and I even think the behaviors of each of the group were more logical than usual, which makes for less to criticize. This is a 10 on my list because I don't give anything a higher score.
The plot is quite complicated. Jerry runs into an old friend from college, Diane, who seems quite interested in learning how George is doing. Because George had just told Jerry all about a TV show involving marine biologists, and because Jerry doesn't want to admit that George is unemployed and living with his parents, he tells Diane that George IS a marine biologist. A bit later, George questions why Jerry didn't tell her he was an architect, saying, "I always wanted to pretend to be an architect." On a couple of occasions he shows that marine biology might not be his things because he keeps referring to whales as "fish." When corrected, he says, "Whatever." Meanwhile, Elaine has a chance to work with a famous Russian author. Just before going to pick him up at the airport, with her boss, Jerry and Kramer accidentally sabotage her chances of making a good impression. Jerry does it by getting her to believe a joke story about the novel War and Peace. Kramer by giving her an electronic organizer that has an alarm, that Elaine only partially gets to use before picking up the author.
In the limo, right after Elaine embarrasses herself with the story about the novel, her organizer goes off. The Russian is driven, instantly, nuts by the noise and when Elaine can't turn it off, he flings it out the window.
Since this is Seinfeld, you know it doesn't just drop on the ground. It hits a woman in the head. She finds Jerry's name in a list of contacts. Jerry meets her, and, of course, wants to date her, and promises to help find out who's organizer it is. He soon figures it out and he and Elaine go see the Russian with Jerry secretly trying to record the author admitting he threw the machine out of the window.
Kramer has already asked the others if they'd like to join him in hitting a bucket of golf balls into the ocean. When nobody else is interested, he goes out alone and finds himself mostly swinging and missing.
The next day, George is walking with Diane along the beach when they encounter a crowd of people standing around. They learn that there is a beached whale that seems to be in distress. A voice calls out, "Is anyone here a marine biologist?" We don't see what happens next, but know George will get into trouble no matter how he reacts to that question.
The final scene has the gang in Monk's as George captivates everyone with his story about how he was the hero of the day. I won't report the finish, figuring you either don't want it spoiled or you well remember how hilarious it was. The DVD extra reports that the laughter at the end was as long as any in the entire series. I will provide one line from George's story: "The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli." This produced hilariously puzzled looks from his friends and great laughter from the audience.
All the segments were tremendously funny and I even think the behaviors of each of the group were more logical than usual, which makes for less to criticize. This is a 10 on my list because I don't give anything a higher score.