IMDB Rating of this episode: 7.9/10 stars http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697664/?ref_=ttep_ep12
This episode aired June 26, 1991, more than one month after the previous episode. This episode is also out of order on the dvd's which has this as episode 3. This is also the final episode of the season. The dvd's have 13 episodes for season 2, but one of the episodes actually aired in season 3. Not sure on the logic with the dvd episode ordering, but wish they just put them in order.
Jerry's storyline: Jerry has no real storyline. He's just hanging out cracking jokes.
Favorite Jerry part(s): After George is worried that he got the busboy in trouble for mentioning he put the menu too close to the candle, and Elaine is also worried for sarcastically declaring that she will never eat there again, Jerry of course has to point out, "I didn't say anything." The busboy gets fired and George and Elaine are both upset that they may have caused the firing, Jerry adds: "He's probably going to kill his family over this." George then becomes worried that the busboy will be waiting for him outside and Jerry says, "A lot of ex-cons become busboys. They seem to gravitate towards it."
There is also something about the very last scene that makes me laugh. Jerry remains unconcerned about the misfortunes of his friends. Elaine has to leave to go feed her visitor who still cannot leave to go back home because he was injured in a fight with the busboy at the end. George has to go feed the busboy's cat. Jerry stays at the café drinking a milkshake and eating a sandwich without a care in the world. A busboy comes to clear off the table and Jerry with a smile looks up at him and says, "How ya doin'?" Jerry's no-care attitude while others suffer is very funny.
George's storyline: George unwittingly gets a busboy fired when he puts out a fire at a restaurant and mentions to the owner that the busboy leaned the menu up against the candle. Turns out the busboy's life is saved because the guy who replaces him at the restaurant dies in a gas main explosion.
Favorite George part(s): George's concern of what Kramer will say or do during the visit with the busboy is comical.
Kramer's storyline: Kramer goes with George to the busboy's apartment because George wants to apologize. They accidentally leave the door open and the busboy's cat escapes and is lost.
Favorite Kramer part(s): As George is in the middle of apologizing to the busboy, Kramer out of nowhere says in way crappy Spanish, "Hablo Espanol?" Then says a sentence in Spanish that ends with him saying "waterbed" in English.
Kramer also breaks the busboy's lamp. He carefully puts the broken piece back on the lamp, slowly pulls his hands away, and looks back at the busboy and says, "Yeah?"
Elaine's storyline: A guy Elaine had met comes to stay with Elaine for a week and Elaine can't wait for him to leave.
Favorite Elaine part(s): Elaine's best moment is when she wakes up late and frantically tries to pack and dress the guy so they can get to the airport. He asks about his brown sweater and she starts running in place in a panic and ends up shoving one of her own brown sweaters into his suitcase.
Elaine also has a great re-telling of her drive to the airport: "They say nobody has ever beaten the Van Wyck..."
Supporting characters in this episode: No recurring characters. Just the busboy and Elaine's out-of-town visitor.
Favorite character in this episode: Each character is decent, but I like Jerry in this one. He is almost always at his best when he is off to the side making sarcastic comments and lighthearted good ones while the others have some crisis to deal with.
Final thoughts:
This is the episode where George's knowledge of toilets is first mentioned. He tells Jerry to say anywhere in the city and George will tell him the best public toilet in the area.
I recollect hearing from somewhere that this is the episode where Larry David realized how great it is to have multiple storylines intertwine at the end. This happens at the very end when the busboy gets into an altercation in the hallway outside Jerry's apartment with Elaine's visitor. It's obviously not the best intertwining in Seinfeld history, but it was the beginning of what the show excelled in, the intertwining storylines. It's a decent episode, and Jerry makes me laugh enough for me to give it 8-stars.
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