Episode complete credited cast: | |||
Jerry Seinfeld | ... | Jerry Seinfeld | |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus | ... | Elaine Benes | |
Michael Richards | ... | Cosmo Kramer | |
Jason Alexander | ... | George Costanza | |
Heidi Swedberg | ... | Susan Ross | |
![]() |
Jennifer Guthrie | ... | Lena |
Scott Patterson | ... | Billy | |
John Paragon | ... | Cedric | |
Yul Vazquez | ... | Bob | |
David Byrd | ... | Roger | |
Ileen Getz | ... | Organizer | |
Steven Hack | ... | Walker #1 | |
Wren T. Brown | ... | Walker #2 | |
Patricia Bethune | ... | Walker #3 (as P.B. Hutton) | |
![]() |
Susan Moore | ... | Monica |
Elaine's birth control method of choice is being discontinued and she goes all over New York to find the last remaining case. After she successfully finds it, she then begins the agonizing process of determining whether or not her dates are "sponge-worthy". Kramer participates in an AIDS walk but when he refuses to wear the ribbon, he suffers the consequences. Meanwhile, Jerry meets a woman and doesn't get her phone number. He then gets it from the list of participants in the AIDS walk. He tells George, who proceeds to tell Susan, who then starts a chain reaction of phone calls and ultimately winds up getting back to Jerry, who gets dumped as a result. Written by halo1k
What an entertaining episode. Four great story lines and a swell pace.
Although there are four stories, only three of them interconnect with each other. As you may have guessed, Kramer is the one set apart. Nevertheless his story is quite entertaining even if the good stuff only appears in the end. From the moment he goes to the AIDS walk everything clicks. Bob and Cedric make another stellar appearance and we get a hilarious, though pretty fantastical, scene concerning Kramer and his non-ribbon attitude.
But the great part of this episode is the other three stories. Although they interconnect with each other beautifully, they all are strong individually. Jerry is dating a woman that's too good for him, George is dealing with the no-secret Susan's policy and Elaine is surviving the sponge hiatus. The season's arc gets a key aspect in the long term relationship book and that is no matter what's the topic, you have to share with your wife. Elaine shines in her quest for sponges and the subsequent analysis for using them.
A great episode all in all.