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The Muffin Tops

  • Episode aired May 8, 1997
  • PGPG
  • 23m
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8.4/10
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Richard Fancy in Seinfeld (1989)
Comedy
Elaine opens a new bakery that sells only the tops of the muffins.Elaine opens a new bakery that sells only the tops of the muffins.Elaine opens a new bakery that sells only the tops of the muffins.
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    • Andy Ackerman
  • Writers
    • Larry David
    • Jerry Seinfeld
    • Spike Feresten
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    • Jerry Seinfeld
    • Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    • Michael Richards
    • Andy Ackerman
  • Writers
    • Larry David
    • Jerry Seinfeld
    • Spike Feresten
  • Stars
    • Jerry Seinfeld
    • Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    • Michael Richards
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    Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards in Seinfeld (1989)

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    Jerry Seinfeld
    Jerry Seinfeld
    • Jerry Seinfeld
    Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    • Elaine Benes
    Michael Richards
    Michael Richards
    • Cosmo Kramer
    Jason Alexander
    Jason Alexander
    • George Costanza
    Wayne Knight
    Wayne Knight
    • Newman
    John O'Hurley
    John O'Hurley
    • J. Peterman
    Richard Fancy
    Richard Fancy
    • Lippman
    Rena Sofer
    Rena Sofer
    • Mary Anne
    Melinda Clarke
    Melinda Clarke
    • Alex
    Chaim Jeraffi
    Chaim Jeraffi
    • Jiffy Dump Guy
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    • Rebecca DeMornay
    Barry Kramer
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    Elayn J. Taylor
    Elayn J. Taylor
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    Paige Moss
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    • Trivia
      The "Peterman Reality Tour" is a spoof of Kenny Kramer's "Kramer Reality Tour", a New York City bus tour that points out actual locations of events or places featured in Seinfeld. Kenny Kramer was the inspiration for Michael Richards' character.
    • Goofs
      Towards the end when Elaine and Mr. Lipman call Newman who is "The Cleaner", Newman gets the milk glass and takes out the milk bottles but never fills the glass. Somehow milk just appears in the glass when he drinks it.
    • Quotes

      Cosmo Kramer: Well *women do it*. I'll tell you what. I'll pick you up a sundress and a parasol and you can just *sashey* your pretty little self around the town square.

    • Connections
      Featured in Seinfeld: The Chronicle (1998)
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      Seinfeld Theme Song
      Written by Jonathan Wolff

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    2/10
    Worst episode of a great show
    I give this episode a try every now and then, and it still stinks as badly as the first time it aired. Every story was a loser. Jerry shaving his chest hair? It makes no sense that he would do that and then hide it from a woman he will obviously be in bed with, so she will see him naked eventually and see the stubble of new chest hair growing. Kramer has a bus for tours of the city? Nobody would pay $37.50 to see the life of a nobody. Even Peterman himself wasn't that well-known to warrant a tour. And Kramer sure got a lot of paying customers rather quickly. Elaine spends the show trying to dispose of muffin stumps? Lippman wants a Muffin Top shop so he has one up and running the next day. I don't even have to say that it's stupid and impossible that all the dumps near Manhattan would (or could) refuse them as garbage. Kramer could have tossed them on the side of any road he was on. George pretends he's an NYC tourist to get a girlfriend? So preposterous and unfunny, even before he gets traded to a chicken company in Little Rock, Arkansas for some fermented chicken drink. Ugh. The whole thing would be laughable if it wasn't so virtually free of actual laughs.
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      • May 8, 1997 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • 279 Amsterdam Avenue, at 73rd Street, Manhattan, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Shapiro/West Productions
      • Castle Rock Entertainment
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    • 23 minutes
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