The Dinner Party 

En route to a dinner party, Jerry and Elaine stop off at a bakery and get held up when the bakery runs out of what they want to purchase. Meanwhile, George and Kramer, en route to said ... See full summary »

Director:

Tom Cherones

Writers:

Larry David (created by), Jerry Seinfeld (created by)

Stars:

Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards

Cast

Episode complete credited cast:
Jerry Seinfeld	...	Jerry Seinfeld
Julia Louis-Dreyfus	...	Elaine Benes
Michael Richards	...	Kramer
Jason Alexander	...	George Costanza
Fred Pinkard	...	Newsstand Boy
Frank Novak	...	Clerk
Mark Holton	...	David
Suzy Soro	...	Barbara
Kathryn Kates	...	Counterwoman
S. Marc Jordan	...	Man in Bakery
Langdon Bensing	...	Man on Street
Sayed Badreya	...	Foreign Man
Amjad J. Qaisen	...	Hussein
Roger Eschbacher	...	Man with Cane

Storyline

En route to a dinner party, Jerry and Elaine stop off at a bakery and get held up when the bakery runs out of what they want to purchase. Meanwhile, George and Kramer, en route to said dinner party, stop off at a liquor store to buy a bottle of wine and have a hard time picking one out.

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Plot Keywords:

bakery | double parked | cap with earflaps | reference to saddam hussein | coughing | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 February 1994 (USA)

Filming Locations:

CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Shapiro/West Productions, Castle Rock Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

23 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

4:3

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the Season 3 episode Seinfeld: The Dog (1991), George (Jason Alexander) and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) repeatedly makes fun of the way Jerry throws up. However, in this episode, Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) boasts that he hasn't thrown up in 14 years.

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Goofs

Kramer and George run into trouble by trying to break a $100 for a $12 bottle of wine. Why not just buy a more expensive bottle or buy more wine, as opposed to trying to make change outside the store?

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Quotes

Jerry Seinfeld: Look to the Cookie Elaine, look to the Cookie.

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Connections

Featured in Seinfeld: Highlights of a Hundred (1995)

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Soundtracks

Seinfeld Theme Song
Written by Jonathan Wolff

User Reviews

What Seinfeld is about

It may not be the funniest episode but it sure captures what The Show About Nothing is really about. And what it is really about is taking ordinary social situation and taking them to extremes only to show how ridiculous they are.

On this particular case, the gang is invited to a party and they decide to bring a cake and some wine. You can guess what happens throughout the episode. And it happens so smoothly you don't see it. Just as the episode begins to wrap up you realize how crazy and clever this one is. As I said, it's not filled with gags or memorable scenes, it's just a perfectly rounded episode with a much deeper point of view of how "the fabrics of society works".

Similar to other classic Seinfeld episodes, it proves that they can achieve great things with so little.