Seinfeld (TV Series) The Junior Mint (1993) User Reviews

Rhymes with a female body part...

[ThunderKing6 · 9/10 · 12 November 2021]

Story: Elaine is dating a fat guy named Roy and doesn't like him. Jerry and Kramer go to Roy's surgery and a candy falls into his body during the operation. George buys his art in anticipation of his death from surgery.

Jerry tries to figure out his new girlfriend's name that rhymes with a female body part.

Highlight: Candy dropping and.....

MULVA!!!

OH WAIT DELORES!!!

Funny meter: 8.

Villain: ELAINE AKA Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine

Boring: Elaine being superficial.

Overall: a fun, exciting, mind thinking episode. All thansk to Kramer, Jerry and George. Their story arks were funny.

Those who have missed this one have missed a lot.

[zfiany · 9/10 · 1 July 2009]

First, this was the first episode Elaine got applause on her entrance. In this episode, Jerry can't remember his girlfriend name and the only tip he has is that it rhymes with a female organ. You can imagine the comedy now. God, just tell me who would have thought of something like this to write for a sitcom, only geniuses like Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and of course genius actors like Jason, Richards, and Dreyfus. Elaine visits an old boyfriend in the hospital who was fat and after the surgery slimmed down, that she wants to get back with him and George, my Georgi decides to buy his art after he learns that he got some kind of infection. Why? of course not because he wants to encourage him. This is not our George. Our George thinks that if the artist die, his art will be sold for high prices. Of course the doctor later says that the patient was saved by something from above (referring to Godly intervention) that cleaned the infection. We all know though that it's the junior mint which fell from Kramer and Jerry while they were watching the surgery. Oh my God, if I keep watching this work of art until the end of my days, I tell you I can never get bored.

Oh no

[bevo-13678 · 10/10 · 19 June 2020]

I like the bit where the junior mint landed inside the patient.

"Oh... You!"

[juanmaffeo · 8/10 · 18 July 2016]

The Junior Mint has a lot going for. You got Jerry and Mulva, Elaine and Roy, George and Macaulay Culkin and Kramer and his apartment redecoration.

The Jerry storyline is by far the best. The mere idea of a guy not remembering his date's name gives way to comedic gold when he would try to find it out. And Seinfeld's performance is one of his best in the season. The Elaine story is more boring and certainly shorter. George makes one of his most restrained performances as he only cries over Home Alone and buys Roy's art. And Kramer is fantastic in his quest for gloves and Junior Mint.

Nevertheless, being the funny episode The Junior Mint is, it does feel somewhat disjointed. That's maybe ironic given that all the stories revolve around Roy, but that's not entirely true or entirely justified. Jerry's link with Roy is that Elaine asked him to pretend to be his boyfriend again and that's it. His story develops outside this zone. Well, Elaine's story is all about her and Roy. Kramer is linked to Roy by mere chance as he was looking for gloves and George's explanation for him being tied to this storyline is kind of weak. His part of the episode is easily the most detached from the rest.

That being said, The Junior Mint is a very entertaining episode with strong stories.

Cosmo Kramer: Who's gonna turn down a Junior Mint? It's chocolate, it's peppermint, it's delicious.

[bombersflyup · 9/10 · 1 February 2018]

The Junior Mint is about Jerry trying to find out the name of the woman he's dating and the miracle from above, during an operation which Jerry and Kramer attend and partake.

Takes a while to get into this one, the only thing happening is George is watching Home Alone at Jerry's apartment. There's no sound from the movie and the group are all talking next to the television, how could a movie be watched like this?

Elaine's ex-boyfriend Roy's in hospital for surgery and the gang minus George in the room before the operation. The doctor comes in and Jerry's doing yo-yo tricks, Kramer's asking procedure questions and the doctor's responding to them like they're Roy's mates. It's amusing. Jerry and Kramer are then in the operating room above and Kramer forces a Junior Mint upon Jerry, he doesn't want it and pushes Kramer's hand back releasing the mint into the air and falling into the open wound of Roy. George buys some of Roy's art because Elaine says things aren't looking good, and he knows about the mint. Jerry's girlfriend's over, he looks through her purse for identification while she's in the bathroom and gets caught, but says he's looking for candy, she responds "Oh, I have Junior Mints". Jerry throws the purse back at her in shock response and yells NO!. :) George and Kramer both come to the door at separate times and introduce themselves to her, but she just says "Nice to meet you." It's a solid episode that only really gets going in the second half.

Jerry: What are you doing, are you crying? George: No... Jerry: You're crying from "Home Alone"? George: The old man got to me.

Doctor: I have no medical evidence to back me up but something happened during the operation that staved off that infection. Something beyond science. Something perhaps... from above.

Jerry: Gipple?

The Operation

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 6 September 2022]

Elaine and the gang stop off at a hospital where an old boyfriend is having an operation. He is a bad artist who used to be quite fat (and will be again). But he has lost a lot of weight and Elaine is again attracted to him. Because of Kramer's nosiness and ideas about surgical tools, the doctor invites them to view the operation in a theater for medical students. While there, we have the great Junior Mint event. Kramer keeps pushing Jerry to eat a Junior mint, and one of them falls into the patient. The second, once again sexist plot line, is Jerry making time with a gorgeous woman; but he never bothered to find out her name. We only know it rhymes with a female body part. The whole thing episode is non-stop hilarity.

Mints

[safenoe · 7/10 · 19 April 2024]

I was reflecting on The Junior Mint, an episode from Seinfeld's fourth season, and I was reflecting on it after watching the Seinfeld clip show "The Chronicle" which screened before the much maligned Seinfeld finale. Anyway, the mulva moment is one for the ages, although I don't think many people immediately got the joke about Dolores but the internet helped out a lot.

Sherman Howard plays Roy, and I remember Sherman playing the father of Parker Lewis in the pilot episode of one of the most underrated sitcoms from the 1990s, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, which is one my favorite sitcoms of all time.