The Shoes

If you're not happy with this, I don't know what you're after. Day to day life humour, genius!

When George gets caught looking at Denise Richard's chest (22 year old Richards trying to play a 15 year old daughter of NBC's President) Jerry points out looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun: you don't stare at it, it's too risky. You get a sense of it then look away! That can be tough since, as Jerry points out, men love cleavage (and women love shoes). They decide to tempt the NBC President by having Elaine parade nearby with a low cut top and push up bra. Julia-Louis Dreyfus showcases her chest in a manner more humorous than sexy. This was when shows were written honestly to our baser instincts... ie funny. Fortunately there are reruns and the Seinfeld and occasionally new episodes of Larry David's show (Seinfeld's creator). Larry David show doesn't bend to the whims of SJW's, either, as his life regularly goes wrong in each episode. If you liked 80's and 90's comedies you'll like this episode. If shows that aren't PC trigger you, you may want to skip this one.

When Jerry & George arrive at Russell's apartment, Russell says he feels ill & suspects there was something wrong with the pasta primavera he had at Pheiffers. George says his cousin works at Bouchards & they use the bouillabaisse as a toilet. Russell asks "What are you saying?" George replies "You didn't hear it from me but . . . If you go in there stick to the Consommé." Later Jerry, George, & Elaine are in Pheiffers & Elaine says she's going out with Russell. George asks "Where's he taking you." Elaine says "Bouchards." George chokes & Jerry says "I think he's saying 'Get the bouillabaisse.'"

If you look at all Seinfeld's part you find genius everywhere. Haven't you always wondered why this episode was called this and not that? Like for instance, why was this episode called the shoes and not the cleavage? I am kidding but Jerry says in this one: "Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away." Well, you should watch this scene where George and Jerry are supposed to meet with Russel in NBC to discuss to discuss the script for the pilot and they see his daughter denise richards' cleavage and Russell catches them looking. There's a funny dialogue between George and Jerry that you really don't want to miss. There's also this scene where they're trying to write the script, you don't want to miss this one either. In this scene they try to write some lines for Elaine and both surrender saying that they can't write for women hence the reason why Elaine wasn't in the pilot episode.

Easily one of the weakest episodes in Season 4, the quality drop from The Movie to this is dramatic.

It seems that this episode propels the pilot arc further but in the end it is in the same place that it was before. All the things that happen in the episode are corrected by the end of it and it is all back to where it was.

Apart from that, the humor is not good. Taking some of George's phrases out of the way, nothing else rings funny. Gail isn't really good, Elaine's story with the shoes isn't entertaining and when they used her as an object of distraction Elaine lost a lot of her character.