Seinfeld (TV Series) The Diplomat's Club (1995) User Reviews

"I'm freaking out!"

[itamarscomix · 9/10 · 18 October 2011]

Season 6, Episode 21, "The Diplomat's Club"

"The Diplomat's Club" is an excellent episode, one of my favorites in season 6 which, unlike most of the latter part of the season, relies on excellent writing and acting rather that gags and visual humor. Jerry and Elaine both deliver some of their best scenes; George and Kramer are terrific as well, and surprisingly much more subtle in their performance than anywhere else in the latter seasons.

The episode also features excellent work from a couple of recurring supporting actors. Ian Abercrombie makes his final appearance, and one of his best, as Mr. Pitt; Tom Wright as Mr. Morgan is a great straight-man for George. And That 70's Show's Debra Jo Rupp makes her first appearance as Jerry's overprotective agent. An excellent and underrated episode all around, maybe the last of the original classics.

Kramer Can't Kick the Habit

[Samuel-Shovel · 7/10 · 29 March 2018]

In "The Diplomat's Club", Jerry heads to a Ithaca for a day show with his overbearing manager but must be back in NYC to meet a girl at an airport lounge. George accidentally makes his boss think he's racist. To reverse this, George attempts to make a black friend to show his boss. When Mr. Pitt gets deathly ill and tells Elaine she's being added to his will, Mr. Pitt's lawyer mistakenly believes Elaine & Jerry are plotting to kill him. Kramer gets involved in high-stakes gambling relating to the departure and arrival times of planes at the airport.

Just the idea of someone gambling over plane ETAs is one of the funniest things that Seinfeld's ever come up with. The fact that it is Kramer doing it makes it even better! The Son of Sam bag as collateral, the Ithaca plane, everything about this subplot just works.

Elaine, George's, and Jerry's subplots are a bit more lackluster. Jerry's not the greatest actor so him losing his mind doesn't really work for me. Elaine's unceremonious end of her employment with Mr. Pitt was a big shrug for me and George's story felt underdeveloped.

Still, Kramer's time on screen alone is enough to make this episode worth watching.

Jerry's Pilot

[safenoe · 9/10 · 4 March 2024]

Sugar Ray Leonard features prominently in this episode, The Diplomat's Club, which is close to the end of the sixth season. Anyway, I'm enjoying re-watching many of the Seinfeld episodes I first watched when it debuted back in the 1990s, which was such a long time ago, three decades, yet it lives on for future generations. Anyway, here George gets into hot water for commenting that one of his work colleagues resembles Sugar Ray Leonard, and the punchline at the end gets him off the hook kind off. Anyway, an airline pilot causes consternation to Jerry, but imagine if it was a bus driver who did the same but they don't have the same status.

A Series of Hilarious Events

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 27 January 2023]

There were several funny things here, each separate. First of all, we have George, who is afraid he has been labelled a racist. He is seen running around bothering black men, trying to befriend them. Jerry has a show to do, but his assistant is an insufferable woman who wants to run every minute of his life. Soon she is driving him crazy with her good intentions. Elaine finds that the elderly man she is working for is putting her in his will. One of his staff thinks she is trying to kill him and she finds herself in several situations where it looks like she is doing just that. Kramer is at an airport where he meets a Texan who pushes him into betting on plane arrivals and departures. We find out that he has a gambling problem and can't help himself. Excellent.

Pilot

[bevo-13678 · 10/10 · 23 June 2020]

I like the bit where the pilot stared at him and made him feel uneasy