- Jerry tries various excuses to avoid meeting with an old friend with whom he no longer shares any interests.
- Jerry desperately wants Joel Hornek, a childhood friend who keeps calling him and wanting to hang out together, to leave him alone. George suggests Jerry tell him the truth and break up with him much as he would with a girl. Joel doesn't take the news very well and Jerry backs off, even giving him George's ticket to an upcoming Knicks game. George meanwhile thinks he's blown it with a new girl after he lets her know he likes her. Kramer comes up with a new business idea--a make-your-own pizza place.—garykmcd
- George tells Jerry that he was out with a girlfriend. They went to see a play, during which he put his hand in his pocket to get some money and accidentally got some dental floss stuck to his hand. George worries that his girlfriend is going to leave him because of it. Jerry says that it is more likely that the girl breaks up with George due to his fanny pack.
Jerry and George have tickets to an upcoming Knicks game. Jerry has problems with a childhood friend, Joel Horneck (Kevin Dunn), who persists in keeping in touch with him. Joel and Jerry lived 3 houses from each other back when they were kids. He had a ping pong table, and they were friends. Jerry has never answered a phone call from Joel in the last 7 years, but this time Kramer picked up the phone and handed it to Jerry. He doesn't like Joel, who pays attention to nothing that Jerry says. Jerry claims that he feels uncomfortable "breaking up with" Joel, so George suggests that he should pretend that Joel is a woman and break up normally. Jerry thus tries to break up with Joel at Monk's Cafe, but when he does, Joel bursts into tears. Joel says that Jerry is one of the few people he can talk to. Deeply uncomfortable, Jerry assures Joel, he didn't mean it, and agrees to take him to see the New York Knicks, although he was supposed to take George.
As George tells Jerry that his girlfriend no longer wants to see him, Jerry tells George that he gave away George's ticket to Joel. George gets very upset, so Jerry offers George his own ticket for the game. George doesn't go to the game because he doesn't know Joel, so Jerry decides to give Joel both tickets, claiming that he can't make the game because he's tutoring his nephew.
Later, when talking to his ex-girlfriend Laney, she tries to provide Jerry with a list of excuses to help him avoid Joel. He later discovers that Joel took Kramer to the game and that Joel is in the building. Turns out Kramer has sold Joel into his Pizza place idea and now both are like best friends. When Joel meets Jerry and Laney, Joel invites them out to another Knicks game. They come up with more unusual excuses in an effort to avoid going out. However, Joel then gets out a newspaper with the schedule for all Knicks games and tries to organize a time when they can all meet, weeks in advance. Jerry realizes that no matter what excuses he comes up with, he can't avoid Joel.
Kramer, working under the name "Kramerica Industries", conceptualizes building "a pizza place where you make your own pizza pie." Jerry and George try to talk Kramer out of the idea, but Kramer is determined to go on with it. This is a place where they give you the dough, you smash it, pound it, fling it in the air, put the sauce, the cheese and slide it into the oven. Kramer's pizza parlor idea reappears in later episodes like "The Puffy Shirt" in Season 5 and "The Couch" in Season 6.
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