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Episode #05-???? -- "The Glasses(?)"
Originally Aired: Thursday, 30 Sep, 1993, 9:00PM
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[title credits]
Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld [as Jerry Seinfeld (no kidding)]
Julia Louis-Dreyfus [as Elaine Benes]
Michael Richards [as Kramer]
and Jason Alexander as George [Costanza]
Supervising Producer ................. Larry Charles
Supervising Producer ................. Tom Cherones
Executive Producer ................... Andrew Sheinman
% Opening monologue.
Jerry: I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night
because I'm Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late.
What about getting up after five hours' sleep?
Oh, that's Morning Guy's problem.
``That's not *my* problem. I'm Night Guy.
I stay up as late as I want.''
So you get up in the morning, the alarm, you're
exhausted, you're groggy, oh you hate that Night Guy!
You see, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy.
There's nothing Morning Guy can do.
The only thing Morning Guy can do is try and oversleep
often enough so that Day Guy loses his job,
and Night Guy has no money to go out any more.
% [Monologue: 33 seconds]
[opening credits]
Created By ................... Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld
Written By ................... Tom Gammill & Max Pross
Directed By .................. Tom Cherones
% Elaine and Jerry look out his apartment window at the people below.
Elaine: Do you ever spit on anybody from here?
Jerry: No. Do you?
Elaine: No.
% Just an idle question.
Elaine: Do you ever think about it?
Jerry: Yeah.
Elaine: Me, too.
% I can believe that.
%
% Kramer comes in, to great fanfare. It's really annoying. Kramer got
% Jerry his air conditioner at a 30 per cent discount because his buddy
% works at an appliance store. Elaine doesn't understand.
Elaine: I thought you hated air conditioning.
You've never had an air conditioner.
Kramer: Yeah, but Amy likes air conditioning.
% Elaine gets one of those mischievous teasing smiles on her face.
% You can tell she really enjoys doing this to Jerry. It's what
% makes her life worth living. Elaine teases Jerry in a sing-song,
% practically baby-talk way.
Elaine: Ohhh, you're getting an air conditioner for *Amy*.
*Amy* doesn't like the temperature up here.
[dancing]
She's a lit-tle ho-o-ot...
% Absolutely fantastic. This woman has gotten teasing down to a science.
% Jerry is not amused. But that's okay. We are, and that's what counts.
%
% George comes in, wearing swimming goggles instead of his glasses. He
% looks like an idiot. Well, more of an idiot than usual.
George: I gotta get out of this city.
Jerry: So you're tunnelling to the centre of the earth?
% George explains that while he was in the pool at the health club, somebody
% stole his glasses. ``Who steals prescription glasses?''
Elaine: You don't have an old pair?
George: I broke 'em playing basketball.
Jerry: [to Elaine] He was running from a bee.
% So he has to wear his prescription swimming goggles. Elaine has helped
% herself to an orange, which she begins peeling.
Elaine: What is there to see in a health club pool?
Jerry: There's a lot of change down there.
% George is determined to find the person who stole his glasses.
Jerry: We're behind you, Aqua Boy. God speed!
% Kramer tells George he should see his friend Dwayne at J & T Optical.
% He'll get a 30 per cent discount by mentioning his name.
Kramer: Retail is for suckers.
% At the optical store, Jerry sits in a chair and spins idly. Elaine
% relunctantly ``helps'' George select a frame. It's clear that she
% and Jerry are bored out of their skull.
George: I have to wear these every day.
I'm deciding on a new face.
Jerry: Come on, George. Pick a face and go with it.
% Elaine gives her opinion on yet another frame and (while George's
% back is turned) gets this anguished expression on her face that
% practically screams, ``Dear God, get me out of here.'' If she were
% a ten-year-old boy, she'd be taking a nap on the floor.
George: Jerry, what do you think?
Jerry: [looking at the photos on the wall]
I think these women would be pretty good looking if they
weren't wearing glasses.
% Jerry may have a point there, but that's because they always give the
% models these ugly Italian frames that are shaped like sports cars.
% I've always had a soft spot for simple, girl-next-door wire frames.
%
% A man walks his dog into the store. Elaine bends over to pet it, but
% the dog bites her. The man, totally unconcerned, walks out of the store.
% Elains is on the floor, tending to her leg. Jerry attends to Elaine.
% George just stands there, still wearing the frames he was trying on.
george: And once again, I'm standing here like a little man.
% With a ``but not this time'', George goes outside to chase down the
% offender.
George: [shouting] Hey, you! Dog-man!
% But George is distracted by something else he sees. He takes off the
% frames and squints, then covers his mouth in horror.
%
% Inside the store, Elaine tries to stop the bleeding on her leg with
% a box of tissues, while Jerry tells George he'll take Elaine to the
% hospital. But George seems reticent, as if he's hiding something.
Jerry: What's the matter?
George: ... Nah...
Jerry: What is it?
George: I can't tell you.
% Elaine is still on the floor.
Elaine: Jerry, Jerry, can we go?
Jerry: Yeah, yeah, just a second.
% Jerry doesn't even look at her; he waves his hand, hitting her in the
% head. ``Poor Elaine'' says everyone in the TV viewing audience.
% Jerry continues to press George for what he's hiding.
Elaine: Jerry, my leg...
Jerry: Yeah, yeah, here ya go...
% Jerry tosses Elaine another tissue. George finally blurts it out.
George: I saw Amy making out with your cousin Jeffrey.
Jerry: Are you sure?
George: Yes, positive!
Jerry: But you can't see. There are no lenses in those frames!
George: I know. I was squinting.
% Elaine is tired of waiting. She hobbles away, clutching her leg.
Elaine: Listen, Jerry, you can just catch up with me.
You can just follow the trail of blood.
% Elaine hobbles to the door, and Jerry leaves shortly thereafter.
% Elaine struggles to open the door and manages to hold it open with
% her free hand. Jerry walks right on through.
Jerry: Thank you.
% Meanwhile, George tries on another pair of frames. He asks Dwayne
% for his opinion.
Dwayne: It's a very exciting new frame.
% George decides to take it. He also says...
George: Kramer.
% George smiles and nods in a ``Know what I mean?'' sort of way.
Dwayne: What?
% Apparently, it didn't take. Let's try it again.
George: Kramer.
% Sorry, no dice.
George: You do know Kramer?
Dwayne: Yes.
George: Well, I'm mentioning his name.
Dwayne: Why?
George: Because... you know...
Dwayne: No, I don't know.
% So much for that.
%
% In the hospital, the doctor bandages Elaine's leg.
Elaine: Cousin Jeffrey? That's not possible!
Jerry: Why not? She likes the park, he works in the parks department...
Elaine: George didn't even have his glasses on.
Jerry: But he was squinting.
Elaine: So what? Squinting doesn't make that much of a difference.
Jerry: Are you kidding? I've seen him squint.
He can squint his way down to like 20-30 vision!
Once we were driving down from the Catskills and he
lost his glasses? He squinted his way from Wertzboro
down the Tappan Zee Bridge!
He was spotting raccoons on the road!
% Elaine's leg has been bandaged. The doctor speaks with a thick
% Indian/Pakistani accent.
Doctor: Okay.
Elaine: Okay? That's it? I don't need a shot?
Doctor: No shot. Dog bite.
Elaine: No no no, I know I wasn't shot. Do I *need* a shot?
Doctor: Not shot. Dog bite. Woof-woof, not bang-bang.
% The doctor leaves.
%
% Jerry has Amy over his apartment. They sit on the couch watching
% television. Jerry is sitting on the wrong side. The cable goes
% out, and Jerry picks up the phone to call and complain. Jerry talks
% in a very pointed manner.
Jerry: I like to them to know that I know what's going on.
That they're not... getting away with anything...
% Jerry gets put on hold. Time for light conversation, Jerry style.
Jerry: So, what'd you do yesterday?
Amy: Yesterday?
Jerry: Yeah. You remember yesterday.
Beautiful day.
Good day to be... out.
Amy: I didn't do anything.
Jerry: [laughing] You must've done *something*.
Amy: No, nothing really.
Jerry: Didn't go out of the house?
Didn't take a walk on... Columbus... Avenue?
Amy: Well, I did go out for a little while.
Jerry: Welllllllllll, your day's getting more interesting already.
% Jerry checks the phone receiver.
Jerry: Hm. See?
They told me they'd be back in a minute, and... *they*... lied.
% Jerry's conversation is so pointed you could sew with it.
Amy: You can't trust anyone.
Jerry: No you can't.
% Okay, enough of this kids stuff. Jerry goes for the jugular.
Jerry: Let's cut the bull, sister!
[rapid-fire] You think I don't know about you swapping spit
with somebody yesterday on Columbus Avenue?
Amy: What are you talking about?
Jerry: [still accusatory] Look, my friend saw you.
Amy: Saw me? With who?
Jerry: You tell me.
Amy: There's nothing to tell.
Jerry: [beginning to realize he's screwed up] There isn't?
Amy: No.
Jerry: Oh.
All right.
[sugary bright] Wanna get some pizza?
% Amy collects her things and heads for the door.
Amy: I knew there had to be another side to you.
Jerry: No no, is no side!
Amy: There *is* a side. An ugly side.
Jerry: No no, no ugly side!
Amy: I think I'm gonna go.
Jerry: Why?
Amy: It's really hot in here.
% Not from where I'm standing.
Amy: When are you getting an air conditioner?
% Jerry shouts down the corridor after her.
Jerry: It's coming.
It's a Commando 8.
12000 BTUs.
It's gonna be like a meat locker in here!
% Definitely a bad day.
%
% Jerry is upset at George, but more upset at himself for believing him.
Jerry: Everything was going so well.
She hadn't seen any flaws in me.
Now she's seen a side!
George: What side?
Jerry: A bad side! An ugly side!
George: So what?
Jerry: So what!?
I wasn't planning on showing that side for another six months!
Now you made me throw off the whole learning curve!
George: You gonna take her word over mine?
I'm your best friend!
Jerry: But you're blind as a bat!
George: I was squinting! [removes goggles]
Remember that drive from Wertzboro?
I was spotting those raccoons!
Jerry: They were mailboxes you idiot, I didn't have the heart to tell you!
% Nevertheless, Jerry, I bet you were making great time.
%
% George spots something across the room.
George: Hey look. A dime.
% He walks across the room and picks up a dime.
%
% Elaine comes in, spooked. There was a dog in front of the building,
% so she was afraid to come in. Nevermind that it was Snowball, a
% squirrel-sized dog. Elaine is now just scared of dogs. I know the
% feeling. And she hasn't gotten a rabies shot, either. Jerry suggests
% Elaine ask Dwayne if he knows the dog's owner.
%
% Kramer comes in, and George tells him that he didn't get any 30% discount.
Kramer: I don't believe this. That guy owes me big time.
I got him off sugar!
% George takes an apple out of Jerry's fridge. Or at least, that's what
% he said he was getting. George takes a healthy bite.
Elaine: You know, George... That's an onion.
% So it is. George tries his best to act like, ``I know. I meant to do
% that.'' But he doesn't do it well.
George: [swallows the bite he took]
Yes, it is.
% With great pain, George takes another bite, trying to maintain the charade.
Elaine: He couldn't tell an apple from an onion,
and he's your eyewitness?
George: I saw them making out; you can believe it.
Jerry: I don't know *what* to believe.
You're eating onions, spotting dimes,
I don't know what the hell is going on!
% At Kramer's suggestion, Jerry will bring Amy with him when he goes to
% Jeffrey's apartment to pick up the Paul Simon tickets he was going to
% surprise her with.
Jerry: When Jeffrey opens the door, it's Howdy-Doody time!
% Um, Jerry, but don't you think Amy would suspect something if she
% knows where Jeffrey lives?
%
% George wipes his eyes with a napkin as he continues to eat the onion.
George: [crying] You'll see. I'm right...
% [End of Act One. Time: 11:55]
%
% The optical store. Kramer, George, and Elaine come in.
Kramer: Hey, Dwayney.
Dwayne: Oh, hello, Kramer.
Kramer: What is going on here?
Dwayne: What are you talking about?
Kramer: I'm talking about the 30 per cent discount.
Elaine: Excuse me, a man came in here, and...
George: Hey, don't interrupt. They're discounting something.
Dwayne: Who said anything about a discount?
Kramer: Oh, how quickly we forget.
You owe me, buddy.
Dwayne: [defensively] For what?
% Okay, time to pull out the big guns. Or, in Kramer's case, the big
% candy bar. Looks like a Baby Ruth, but I'm not sure. He shoves it
% in Dwayne's face. Dwayne immediately gets nervous. He can barely
% look at it.
Kramer: Remember this?
Dwayne: What are you doing?
Kramer: Six months ago, you were eating four of those for breakfast,
and chasing it with a Ring-Ding,
And two Butterfingers on the train.
Sound familiar?
Dwayne: [nervously] Put that away.
Kramer: Remember when I found you at Dinky-Donuts?
YOU WERE ALL HOPPED UP ON CINNAMON SWIRLS.
THEY WOULDN'T SERVE YOU ANY MORE.
YOU WOULDN'T EVEN HAVE ANY TEETH
IF IT WEREN'T FOR ME TAKING YOU OVER TO JOE'S FRUIT STAND AND
*STUFFING* *CANTALOUPE* *DOWN* *YOUR* *THROAT*.
SO MUCH FOR GRATITUDE.
[shoving the candy bar even closer into Dwayne's face]
**YEAH**... **YEAH**... **YEAH**...
Dwayne: ALL RIGHT!!! ALL RIGHT!!!
I'll give him the discount!
Just put that away!!
This squares us!
% It's a fine line between persuasion and harassment.
Elaine: Could I just...
Dwayne: Out!
Kramer: See ya, Dwayne.
% Kramer and George wave a friendly good-bye.
%
% George models his new frames for Jerry. They are very... Well, Dwayne
% called them exciting. Which I guess is optician lingo for "idiotic".
Jerry: I don't know what to tell you, Elton.
% Good call, Jerry. Meanwhile, Elaine consults a medical book. She
% lists the symptoms of rabies.
Elaine: Anxiety? Irritability? I got those. I'm irritable.
% Jerry continues his assessment of George's new glasses.
Jerry: They're *ladies'* glasses.
All you need is that little chain around your neck
so you can wear it while you're playing canasta.
% Always gotta be careful when you're playing full-contact canasta.
George: Well, Elaine was supposed to help me.
% Elaine suddenly snaps. She leaps from her chair and shoves her finger
% in George's face.
Elaine: Hey! I got bit by a dog. I had to go to the hospital.
I was bleeding to death. I can't solve every little
``problem'' you have!
% Jerry intercedes to calm Elaine down. She just as suddenly reverts
% back to her normal, charming---and in this case, apologetic---self.
Elaine: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
% Kramer enters with the Commando 8, ``12000 BTUs of raw cooling power''.
% He places it in the open window.
Kramer: Installed!
% Boy, it's a lot easier than you'd think.
Elaine: I have such a headache.
[checks her book] Oh, that's another symptom!
Kramer: Symptom of what?
Jerry: Rabies.
Kramer: Oh, that's fatal. You don't want *that*.
% Elaine snaps again. This time, she attacks Kramer.
Elaine: I know I don't want it!
I don't need you to tell me what I don't want,
you stupid hipster dufus!
% Again, Jerry returns Elaine to her normal self.
Kramer: I had a friend who had rabies once.
% I would suspect that you can get rabies at most once. George has started
% on a bag of pretzels.
Kramer: May I have one of those, madam?
% Kramer recognizes them as ladies' glasses. They've got Gloria Vanderbilt
% written on the frame. Meanwhile, Elaine claims to have trouble swallowing.
% She rushes to the counter downs a huge mouthful of bottled water, tilts her
% head back, and can't swallow. The water bubbles out of her mouth all over
% her face and clothes.
Kramer: She's foaming at the mouth!
% At the hospital, Elaine is treated by the same doctor. She has removed
% her jacket, exposing her bare arm. I just noticed that Elaine wears lots
% of jackets and blazers. Again, I digress.
%
% The doctor has the shot ready. Ouchie-ouchie, not bang-bang.
Elaine: Is this gonna hurt?
Doctor: Yes, very much.
% He practically stabs her with the needle. Elaine cringes in agony.
%
% The air conditioner is now installed; a flimsy cardboard frame seals
% up the remainder of the window. Elaine stands in front of it; she
% is clearly anxious to cool down. Like she's got a fever or something.
% Maybe she's still got rabies?
Elaine: What if Jeffrey's not home? Did you every think of that?
Jerry: Oh, he'll be home. It's Friday night. That's the big night
on the Nature channel.
Elaine: There is *no* *way* cousin Jeffrey is dating Amy.
He looks like a horse.
Jerry: He does look like a horse.
Elaine: Yeah, he's got a real horse face.
% Okay okay, enough about the horse. Elaine looks out the window...
Elaine: Hey, look at this. It's that guy with the dog.
[shouting]
Hey! You down there! Remember me?
I took a shot because of your stupid dog!
Guy: [o.s.] Hey, who you callin' stupid?
Jerry: Hey, should we spit on him?
% Elaine has a better idea. They head for the door just as Kramer comes
% in, singing about papayas. Kramer slams the door. The Commando 8
% teeters on its perch and falls. Kramer grabs the extension cord and
% tries to pull it back, but of course, it doesn't help.
Kramer: I think it got the dog...
% At the health club, George has gotten out of the shower after a swim.
% A blind man asks George to walk him to his locker. They're about to go,
% but George spots the man who stole his glasses. The two (still in their
% swim trunks) run out into the street, but George loses his quarry when
% he gets on a bus.
George: Those are nice glasses.
Blind man: I don't like 'em. They pinch my nose.
% George and the blind man (now dressed) are back at the optical store.
% Dwayne is chowing down on a candy bar. George asks Dwayne to exchange
% his and the blind man's frames.
George: I'd like a discount.
Dwayne: Why should I give you a discount?
George: You're lucky I'm not asking for a whole refund.
[whispers] You gave me ladies' frames.
Blind man: What's that about ladies' frames?
% You forget, George. Blind people have good hearing.
%
% The man with the dog comes into the optical store. The dog is wearing
% some absurd contraption around its neck. It's like a satellite dish
% or something.
Guy: I'm trying to track down that lady that was in here the other day?
The one who was messing with my dog?
George: Well, she's trying to track *you* down.
Guy: I would love to talk with her.
She lives on 81st Street, right?
George: No, that's Jerry.
Guy: You wouldn't happen to know what apartment he's in, would you?
George: Yeah. 5A.
% Jerry takes Amy to Jeffrey's apartment.
Amy: You're acting very mysteriously.
Jerry: Well, I'm very mysterious by nature.
A lot of women find that attractive.
Amy: I find it annoying.
% But the person who answers the door is not Jeffrey. It's...
Jerry: Uncle Leo!?
% Jeffrey went out and asked Leo to tape the Nature show for him.
% Uncle Leo goes on about how Jeffrey and his botany teacher from
% college are good friends. Uncle Leo goes to fetch the tickets,
% and Amy hugs Jerry in appreciation.
Amy: So *that's* why you've been acting so mysteriously.
Jerry: That, and that alone, is the reason.
Leo: He asked me to give you a message.
He said that uh, ``He's very sorry, and he hopes you forgive him.''
Jerry: Ah-ha!
So it's true, you *were* making out with him!
Amy: What are you talking about?
I don't know Jeffrey.
So *this* is why you brought me here
Jerry: Very convincing, but it's not going to work this time!
Leo: What are you talking about?
All he's saying is that he's sorry because the seats aren't very good.
% Long pause.
Jerry: Oh.
[pause]
[sugary bright] Wanna get some pizza?
% Jerry really needs to work on his error recovery.
%
% George and the blind man leave the optical store, with their frames
% exchanged.
George: [removes the glasses] Boy, these really do pinch the nose.
Blind guy: Tough luck. A deal's a deal.
% George spots something disturbing.
George: Oh my God. It *is* them.
% We get a George's-eye fuzzy view of Amy kissing another man.
% George puts his glasses on for a closer look.
%
% It's a police woman kissing her horse.
%
% George gets one of those ``Oh well, sorry'' expressions and continues on.
%
% At the health club, George and Jerry get dressed in the locker room.
Jerry: I still don't know how you spotted that dime.
I think you planted it.
Plus, I had to pay that vet bill for that stupid dog.
I don't know how *that* guy found me.
% George gets one of those fake ``Yeah, can ya believe that'' expressions.
George: Boy, these really do pinch.
Man, if I ever find the son-of-a-bitch that stole my glasses...
% The two leave, and the camera pans upwards to reveal a pair of glasses
% resting atop the lockers.
[closing credits]
Executive Producer ................... Larry David
Executive Producers .................. George Shapiro & Howard West
% [End of Act Two. Time: 9:21]
%
% Closing monologue.
Jerry: But I want to know,
when did glasses go from being this carefully-crafted
medical apparatus to just this mall impulse item.
``Honey, I'm going out for a yogurt and a pair of trifocals.
You need anything?''
Those ``Glasses in about an hour.''
``How much are they?'' ``75 bucks.'' ``Well, here's 72.
It's about 75.''
What, do you try to coordinate it with the one-hour photo place.
Is that the idea?
``Hurry up, gimme the glasses. My pictures are coming out
right now, I need to see them.''
And then they have those Woolworth glasses. They're like...
They're there. They're there now.
No eye exam, you don't have any idea what's wrong with your eyes.
And the glasses are made up. They are ready and waiting,
you just walk in.
[pretends to take one down from the rack]
``Thank you.'' Turn around, you walk right into a wall.
[pretends to walk into a wall]
% [Monologue: 39 seconds]
[end credits]
Producer ............................. Jerry Seinfeld
Co-Producer .......................... Peter Mehlman
Creative Consultant .................. Bruce Kirschbaum
Program Consultants ................... Ron Hauke
Charlie Rubin
Program Consultants ................... Carol Leifer
Andy Robin
Line Producer ......................... Joan Van Horn
Coordinating Producer ................. Tim Kaiser
Associate Producers ................... Suzy Mamann Greenberg
Nancy Sprow
Guest Starring
Timothy Stack as Dwayne
Anna Gunn as Amy
Tom Towles as Tough Guy
Len Lesser as Uncle Leo
Rance Howard as Blind Man
Michael Saad as Doctor
In memory of our friend, John Oteri
A WEST/SHAPIRO PRODUCTION
in association with
CASTLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT
Copyright (c) 1993 CASTLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT
Castle Rock Entertainment is the author of this program for
the purpose of copyright and other laws.
All Rights Reserved.
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Notes
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Timothy Stack (Dwayne) may be familiar to television audiences as Parker
Lewis's dad (Parker Lewis Can't Lose) and as Christine's dorky near-husband
(Night Court).
George's dime-spotting was inspired by a similar scene in The Great Escape,
in which a character whose vision was failing staged a dime-spotting in an
attempt to prove his vision was still sharp. However, in the movie, the
trick fails. (He ``spots'' a dime which turns out not to be there.)
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Product Placement Watch
Thirteen boxes of cereal on the shelf.
Jerry's fridge:
Dannon Low-Fat Yogurt, Blueberry and Raspberry flavors.
All with the label facing towards the camera.
A carton of Tropicana orange juice (opened).
Two cartons of Sunkist orange juice (unopened).
A carton of milk. (Can't tell if it's been opened.)
George is eating a bag of Rold Gold pretzels. (The company he does
commercials for.)
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Isn't Elaine's last name "Bennett"?
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->% George explains that while he was in the pool at the health club, somebody
->% stole his glasses. ``Who steals prescription glasses?''
->Elaine: You don't have an old pair?
->George: I broke 'em playing basketball.
->Jerry: [to Elaine] He was running from a bee.
Why does the person who makes the capsules replace some of the conversations
with explanations? Why not just leave the actual conversations in the capsule?
Just a question.
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