The Stakeout
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| Seinfeld episode | |
| "The Stakeout" | |
 Jerry with his parents. |
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| Episode no. | 2 |
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| Airdate | May 30, 1990 |
| Writer(s) | Larry David Jerry Seinfeld |
| Director | Tom Cherones |
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| Seinfeld - Season 1 July 1989 - June 1990 |
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"The Stakeout" is the second episode to air of the NBC comedy Seinfeld. It aired on May 30, 1990.
[edit] Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Jerry invites Elaine to a relative's wedding, and Elaine invites Jerry to a friends' birthday party. At said party, Jerry meets an attractive woman named Vanessa (played by Lynn Clark), but doesn't find out her name, only her workplace: the law firm Sagman, Bennett, Robbins, Oppenheim and Taft. Jerry and George "stake out" the place, hoping to meet her. They do, and Jerry continues to date her until the series' fifth episode, "The Stock Tip."
Spoilers end here.
[edit] Quotations
Playing Scrabble
- Jerry: "Quone"?
- Helen: …30…31…
- Jerry: "Quone"? No, I'm afraid that I'm going to have to challenge that.
(Jerry picks up the dictionary.)
- Helen: …32…
- Kramer: No, you don't have to challenge that. That's a word. That's a definite word.
- Jerry: I am challenging.
- Kramer: Quone. To quone something.
- Jerry: Uh-huh.
(Jerry looks up the word.)
- Helen: I'm not playing with you anymore.
- Morty: Quone's not a word.
- Jerry: No good. Sorry. There it is. Get it off.
- Helen: (to Kramer) Why did you make me put that down?
- Kramer: Nah, we need a medical dictionary! If a patient gets difficult, you quone him.
Manners
- Elaine: Y'know, uh, you could use a little work on your manners.
- Jerry: Why? What did I do?
- Elaine: Well, I just don't appreciate these little "courtesy responses", like I'm selling you aluminum siding.
- Jerry: I was listening!
- Elaine: No! You couldn't wait to get back to your little... "conversation".
- Jerry: No, you were talking about the..the, um, the dream you had.
- Elaine: Uh-huh...
- Jerry: Where you had, uh, wooden teeth.
- Elaine: No! No! You had wooden teeth! You had wooden teeth! I didn't have wooden teeth. You did!
[edit] Trivia
- This was the first episode featuring Elaine to be aired.
- Jerry's father, Morty Seinfeld is played by Phil Bruns in this episode. All further appearances are played by Barney Martin.
- George Costanza's fantasy of being an architect is first introduced.
- George's alias Art Vandelay is introduced. He originally suggests Art Corevelay, but changes it later.
- The first episode to mention the fictional Jerry Seinfeld and Elaine Benes' past relationship.
- The name of Vanessa's law firm (Sagman, Bennett, Robbins, Oppenheim and Taft) were the names of Larry David's college roommates and friends.
