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The Chinese Restaurant

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SYNOPSIS

On their way to a movie, Jerry, George and Elaine stop for dinner at a popular Chinese restaurant. However, when it turns out to be crowded, the three are forced to wait for a table. Although anxious to call his date, Tatiana, George is upset when he finds another patron using the pay phone.

With her appetite growing by the minute, Elaine is angered by other patrons who are being seated ahead of her and her friends. Deciding to put her hunger to the test, Jerry and George offer Elaine $75 to eat some food off of someone else's table. While fretting over not being able to call Tatiana, George confesses to having left her apartment during an intimate moment.

Seeing a woman he recognizes, Jerry is upset to learn she works with an uncle whom he lied to in order to join his friends for an evening out. When Tatiana phones looking for George, the restaurant's host mispronounces George's name and causes him to miss the call. Finally, after Elaine's attempt to bribe the host only manages to lose them $20, the trio leaves just before they are called to be seated.

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This is one of only two episodes not to feature Michael Richards as Kramer.

Hidden away at the end of the season as it was unloved by NBC, the Chinese Restaurant is arguably the first classic episode of Seinfeld.

Jerry mentions in this episode that he has a sister. This sister is never mentioned again in the series.

Larry David's voice can be heard amid the table chatter of the restaurant patrons who Elaine approaches to eat their dinner.

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ELAINE:

"You ever notice how happy people are when they finally get a table? They feel so special that they've been chosen. It's enough to make you sick."

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