S9.E17

The Bookstore

Name: The Bookstore
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1998-04-09
Duration: 23 min
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards

Episode aired Apr 9, 1998
TV-PG
23m

IMDb RATING

8.1/10

3.4K

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Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards in Seinfeld (1989)

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George is forced to buy a book he took with him into the bathroom. Jerry finds out that his Uncle Leo is a shoplifter. Elaine doesn't want to be known as the office skank. Kramer and Newman ... Read allGeorge is forced to buy a book he took with him into the bathroom. Jerry finds out that his Uncle Leo is a shoplifter. Elaine doesn't want to be known as the office skank. Kramer and Newman start a Hong Kong rickshaw business.George is forced to buy a book he took with him into the bathroom. Jerry finds out that his Uncle Leo is a shoplifter. Elaine doesn't want to be known as the office skank. Kramer and Newman start a Hong Kong rickshaw business.

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IMDb RATING

8.1/10

3.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Jon Gries plays Rusty, the homeless man who steals the Rickshaw. He previously played a homeless man in The Beard (1995). Kramer gives him Chinese food leftovers in some Tupperware and then later he refuses to give the container back.

Goofs
White Los Angeles taxi is seen in the background.

Quotes
Jerry Seinfeld: Leo, I saw you in Berntano's
Uncle Leo: Why didn't you saw "hello"?
Jerry Seinfeld: Because you were too busy stealing a book!
Uncle Leo: You still say "hello"!

Crazy credits
[End Credits]: SLOPPY JOE as Hobo Joe

Connections
Featured in Best of the Worst: Twin Dragon Encounter, American Rickshaw, and Infested (2020)

Soundtracks
Shining Star
(uncredited)
Performed by Earth Wind & Fire

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Featured review

8/10

Absurdity Goes On and On

Like so many of these episodes, short on plot, there were some choice moments. George is at a high end bookstore, takes an expensive art book into the bathroom, and then is force to pay a hundred bucks for it. He spends the whole episode trying to get his money back. Elaine gets drunk and makes out with a guy at an office party and is afraid of her reputation. Newman and Kramer decide that what New York needs is a chain of rickshaws pulled by homeless people. The premise is pretty funny, but we don't need a genius to tell us it isn't going to work. Jerry deals with Uncle Leo's shoplifting and his parents' cavalier attitude about theft by old people.