- Against their better judgment, Jerry and Elaine decide to play matchmaker for the jobless, dateless and possibly hopeless George, setting him up with a single friend of Elaine's.
- George is convinced he is fated never to have a relationship with an attractive, interesting woman. Similarly, Elaine's friend Cynthia is convinced all of the good men are either taken or know they're good and so not available to her. Jerry and Elaine decide to arrange an introduction for the two of them and agree to share everything they hear after their date. It turns out that they have quite a story, one that is made more interesting when the condoms Kramer got from a friend turns out to have been defective.—garykmcd
- George is very nervous around beautiful women and has trouble striking a conversation with them. George has gotten to the point where he is flirting with operators on the phone. Meanwhile Elaine is having dinner with her friend Cynthia. Cynthia is lonely and wants a man who appreciates just being with her. A man who has nothing and is so desperate that he simply appreciates having a woman in his life. Elaine and Jerry meet the next day and talk about George and Cynthia and how they both have given up on finding potential partners. Elaine says that Cynthia is too good for George. Jerry sticks up and defends George. Jerry says that Cynthia's eyebrows are weird. Jerry says that George can bait a hook, run really fast and lift a 100 pounds right above his head.
George says that he would never sink to fix-ups, and so resists the efforts of Jerry and Elaine to set him up with Elaine's friend Cynthia (Maggie Wheeler, credited as Maggie Jakobson). George says a fix-up is one step away from personal ads and then prostitutes. Jerry & Elaine convince George of absolute certainty that she meets his (low) intellectual and (high) attractiveness standards. George wants a good looking, good body, a flowing head of hair, nice skin with a pinkish hue, sweet but not too sweet kind of person for dating.
Elaine tells Cynthia that George is bald and out of work (when he tried to poison his boss), but really sells him hard by highlighting his good side, but also not lying at the same time. Elaine is clear that George did try to poison his boss and is going balding. Kramer's friend has opened a new condom factory and gives him a bag full of samples. Kramer distributes them to his friends and George also picks one.
George and Cynthia hit it off and have sex in George's kitchen, which Cynthia finds painful and uncomfortable, which is why she later is not returning his phone calls.
Elaine and Jerry have a "Pact" beforehand that they will share all stories they hear from each with the other, while they promise the dating couple, they will hold their private stories secret. Thus, Cynthia tells Elaine about the kitchen discomfort, but Elaine does not tell it to Jerry. Later, Jerry suspects that Elaine has not told him all from Cynthia and they get into a physical fight during which Kramer is forced to separate them.
A few days later, Cynthia tells Elaine she has missed her period. At the same time, George hears from Kramer that the condoms he gave him were defective. When Elaine adds that Cynthia missed her period, George is overjoyed to find out that he is able to get a woman pregnant and runs to Cynthia to promise to help with the kid in any way he can. She tells him she already got her period. But due to his actions, they make up and become a couple.
The end of the episode sees George, Elaine, Jerry and Cynthia sitting down for dinner at a restaurant, George and Cynthia as a couple, but at the end Cynthia seems disgusted by George's poor table manners.
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