The Raincoats

This episode has a set of events, each funny, without much of a plot. First of all, Jerry is horny but his parents are staying with him. So eventually they go to see "Schindler's List" and make out through the whole movie. Unfortunately, Newman sees them and reputations go out the window. Jerry's father comes to realize that some old coats he developed may be worth some money. George brings his father's clothes to a discount store and the guy burns them because they are beset by moths. Now there is a bit where George lies about going to Paris to get out of being a Big Brother to an obnoxious kid. Several funny scenes, especially at the discount store.

Unlike Seinfeld who as part of the comedy act says he would never wear used clothing because he's a germophobe, I wore thrift clothes for a good part of my life....including from "Rudy's."

Only Jewish writers would write an episode of making out during Schindler's List. Instead of going to a nice hotel since Jerry can afford a Cadillac for his father, to have intimacy with his one Jewish girlfriend during the run of the show....

Not my kind of joke....but okay, I tolerate it, otherwise I"m with Helen and Morty's outrage.

And the girl's father.

Never really accepted the Irish American actor playing Morty as a Jewish father, but he can be funny.

There have been numerous shows about Irish American families. Any of them cast Jews as Irishmen? The late Theodore Bikel? Jackie Mason?

I"m with Sarah Silverman. On this.

Yeah, I love this episode. The whole business of selling Frank's cabana wear at Rudy's.

To read my review, look at the last episode. This is a continuation of the sale of the clothes, the Paris trip, the battle of the parents, and so on. Reasonably entertaining with Kramer going over the top with his reactions. George continues to be cheap and manipulative, deciding since the parents' plans were ruined, he would take the tickets and bring that kid to see his father in Paris. Judge Reinhold does a great job as a strange boyfriend of Elaine's. He is a person that gets too close to people when he talks to them. He also takes a shine to Jerry's folks and begins taking them places. It drives Elaine crazy.

Every single character in this epsiode is extemely annoying. But then, thats what this show has always been about-how annoying can a person be and just how much can the audience take of it...Kramer is not, is never, funny....the doof is an embarrasement to human beings...the late jerry stiller makes one cringe, and jerry's parents make one choose to be chased thru a pit of crocodiles by three pit bulls rather than listen to their obnoxious prattle....

Season 5, Episode 18, "The Raincoats"

All too often neglected when listing the best Seinfeld episodes, the double episode "The Raincoats" is one of my favorites, it's one of the show's most intricate and ambitious episodes, and it's probably my favorite one from the excellent season 5.

The four separate story lines have rarely interacted with each other as well as they did on "The Raincoats". Jerry's parents are the main catalysts among which everything else happens, and they're hilarious, proving just how great a pair of actors they are. It's their interactions with each of the four main cast members that makes the episode go round, as well as with Close-Talker Aaron, one of Elaine's most memorable boyfriends-of-the-week, played hilariously by Judge Reinhold. The Costanzas also drop by for some memorable scenes, as does Newman in one of his finest moments. Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer are all hilarious, but for once it's the writing and the episode's construction that truly shine, and make it a true landmark episode.