Seinfeld (TV Series) The Rye (1996) User Reviews

That's Perverse!

[Samuel-Shovel · 9/10 · 20 June 2018]

In "The Rye", George has a group dinner with his parents and his in-laws. After a disastrous meal, Frank steals back the rye bread they'd brought, causing problems between the households. Kramer buys too much food from a wholesale grocer and has to figure out how to eat it all. Elaine is dating a saxophonist who won't perform oral on her. Jerry creates problems in Elaine's relationship when he mentions to a mutual friend that Elaine and the musician are getting "hot & heavy". Jerry and George scheme a way to stash the rye loaf back in the in-laws' house before anyone notices. Kramer temps as a horse buggy driver.

Any episode featuring Frank Costanza will always get an extra star from me! His reneging on a dinner gift is classic Frank antics. That entire dinner scene is wonderful.

The rest of the subplots are pretty solid too. Jerry doesn't really have his own arc in this one interestingly enough. Half the episode he spends messing up Elaine's relationship and helping Kramer with his groceries. The other half he spends helping George with their plan and stealing bread from Happy Gilmore's grandma.

Anyways, a solid episode that ranks up with the season's bests!

A Larry David classic

[cemturc · 10/10 · 1 December 2021]

This episode is a perfect example for Larry's art.

His talent is to write many sub-stories and connect them somehow each other extraordinarily. Pure magic.

"That's perverse!"

[juanmaffeo · 9/10 · 12 August 2016]

The Rye is without a doubt one of the highlights of Season 7. Everything about it clicks.

Like many great single-plot episodes (The Limo, The Contest), The Rye has a killer story. Although it does have another story, the one that dictates the episode is George's. This is one of the best stories concerning the season's arc: George's engagement. Here we get a crucial element in the long term relationship and that is the parents of the couple meeting. This leads to one of the best acted scenes of the season: the dinner scene. We get perfect chemistry from Susan's parents, hilarious dialogue from Frank and Stelle and George just dying. But it doesn't end there. George later tries to replace the bread Frank stole from the house and the plan the gang comes up for this is both hilarious in execution and resolution.

The other story is about Elaine dating a jazz musician. It's not bad by any means but it feels disjointed with the rest of the story. So that's mainly what keeps this episode from being perfect.

Nevertheless, this story doesn't hurt the enjoyment of the episode, so this remains one of the best of the season

Beeferino.

[Sirus_the_Virus · 10/10 · 11 October 2009]

The Plot: When George's parents and Susan's parents meet, The Costanza's take the rye that they brought back. So George hires Kramer, who is taking care of a horse ride business for a weekend, to take Susan's parents away for a while so he can get back the rye. George sends Jerry to but the rye, but an old woman buys it before he does. Elaine starts dating a very cool performer, but he is soon under the impression that they are hot and heavy.

The Rye is yet another classic episode. I don't think I haven't laughed at one Seinfeld episode yet. They are all fantastic, and will be classics forever. I own every season on DVD, and really enjoy watching The Rye a lot.

The Rye

[DKosty123 · 8/10 · 10 July 2007]

A lot of season 7 episodes are funny. This one is no exception. Elaine is seeing a jazz saxophonist & everything is going OK, until Jerry gets word to him that he & Elaine are "hot & heavy." Cosmo Kramer over buys stuff at a warehouse club store. Then while trying to lug a bunch of stuff to his apartment, another tenant of the building offers him a chance to run his handsome cab while he is on vacation. Giddy-up says Cosmo.

George takes his parents to Susan's to meet Susan's parents for dinner. On the way they get a Snitzer Rye bread to take. This causes a ridiculous team of George, Jerry & Kramer after George's dad takes the rye bread home to put another one in Susan's parents house. Imagine combining these three, a gassy horse, fishing line, & Jerry mugging an old lady together? Funny & yet delightful comedy.

Oh my - the marble rye mugging - with ongoing repercussions!

[kathysdogs · 10/10 · 3 September 2020]

Wonderful episode! Best part was Jerry's encounter with the late Frances Bavier as 90ish Mabel Choate! That bit of mugging the poor woman for the bread (to cover up for the loaf Frank took back from Susan's parents when they failed to put it out for dinner, she bought the last loaf & she wouldn't resell to Jerry even for $50) really bit Jerry & his family in the rear as time went on. First in "The Cadillac" it turns out she changed her crucial vote to impeach Morty as president of the condo association in FL (she recalled Jerry's "shut up you old bag!" line whilst he mugged her - that line was verbatim super bully Biff Tannen from the original "Back to the Future" film BTW). Then in "The Finale Part II" this act causes her to be one of many character - or lack of - witnesses the prosecution calls up to testify during the trial. Actually I'd think $6 would be a tad high to pay for marble rye - even in NYC in the late 1990's. Flash forward to 2020 just outside of Philly: fresh marble rye usually is no more than $3 - doubt it would be $6 in NYC or LA even today. One thing's for sure: whenever I see marble rye (which I enjoy) I remember this episode. Liked the word play of Kramer's Beefarino - an obvious spoof of Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee's Beefaroni.

Marble Rye

[bdhowell-78605 · 10/10 · 9 April 2021]

I like how Jerry mugs an old lady for a loaf of bread.

There Was No Cake

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 10 February 2023]

What a masterful episode. George and his parents are invited to the parents of his fiancee. It is a total train wreck. George's father is an absolute madman. But what sets everything in motion is the bread brought to the dinner was not used (it was simply forgotten about). Meanwhile, Kramer has gone to Costco-type place and bought enormous quantities of food. His car is filled with it, including some macaroni stuff in enormous cans. His neighbor, who does carriage rides in Central Park, is going on a vacation and Kramer is taking over the route. I won't go any farther other to say that the macaroni stuff gives the horse gas, and George, having no common sense, tries to pull off an amazing switcheroo. Don't miss this!

Horse

[bevo-13678 · 10/10 · 23 June 2020]

I like the bit where they take back the bread that they bought to dinner

So tacky yet enjoyable

[ThunderKing6 · 10/10 · 28 May 2022]

A tacky, enjoyable episode about 3 (4) people living in the Big Apple.

George Story: He wanted to impress his fiancé (Susan) and her parents by having dinner with both their parents at Susan's "apartment". Obviously it was an annoying disaster. George's Papa takes the rye home that they brought for them, since they did not eat any of it. Unknowingly he takes the rye back because he felt disrespected for them not sharing any of it.

George had a bright idea to return the rye... stay tuned to Jerry's and Kramers story to find out what happened.

Kramer's story: Long Story short... His story was kind of "cringe". A random tenant asks him to look after his horse while he goes on vacation. Kramer agrees and lands himself a new job as a horse rider in the NYC. Kramer feeds the horse beans. Long story short, he takes Susan's parents on a ride on the horse, so George can return the rye. After the horse ate beans, it started to pass intense gas and Kramer had to return Susan's parents back home after a very short ride.

Jerry Story: Jerry decides to help out George return a rye. Long story short, he jumps an "old hag" for the last rye and scurries off to return it to George who is currently at Susan's "apartment".

Long story short, the failed to get the rye up after a few attempts. George then finds a fishing rod, and they attach the rye to the line. George zips it up, and after he turns around fumbling with the fishing rod, he is spotted by Susan and her parents, and they weren't impressed.

George has a chance out of the marriage, but acts beta and agrees to marry Susan.

Elaine Story: I forget

Overall, a very comical story. I've watched this episode over hundreds of times. Good episode minus Kramers "cringe" storyline.

Should you watch this? Yes. Just to see Jerry jump an old lady and George act a fool.

In Memory of Jerry's in show mother (actor) and George's in show mother (actor).

The musician

[alhaddadein_salah · 1 May 2018]

What was wrong with the musician .. what does it mean when Elaine said he don't go through it he is not doing it all ? And what happened with him at last when he didn't know how to play music ?

Elaine's special touch

[safenoe · 8/10 · 19 February 2024]

Elaine displays her special touch with her jazz musician boyfriend, John Germaine, played by Jeff Yagher, who is famous for playing Officer Tom Hanson in the pilot of 21 Jump Street, only to be replaced by an up-and-coming actor by the name of Johnny Depp.

Anyway, John's jazz repertoire is temporarily (or even permanently I'm afraid) disabled by another repertoire that he engages in with Elaine just prior to his jazz performance and all.

This episode is one of the few that doesn't feature Jerry's comedic monologue, as it features John playing the jazz. Anyway, it's hard to believe I first saw this episode nearly 30 years ago, and I'm now enjoying re-watching some of the Seinfeld episodes.