Lippman) forgets his handkerchief in her office, Elaine tries to tell him, but cannot speak intelligibly with her mouth full of Jujyfruits. The list of grievances includes putting Canadian quarters into the washing machine and buzzing a jewel thief and a group of Jehovah's Witnesses past security. Enraptured with his success, he comes to regard the Opposite as his personal philosophy.Įlaine finds out that she is being kicked out of her apartment building. Thanks to his date, George gets an interview at the New York Yankees' headquarters, where he also does the opposite of his instincts and criticizes George Steinbrenner about his management practices, thus landing him the job of Assistant to the Traveling Secretary. This leads to his book tour being cancelled by Pendant Publishing, which arranged his tour. After kissing Kathie Lee on the mouth, he is disgusted by taste of the coffee and spits it all over Kathie Lee. The next day, Kramer appears on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee to promote his book. Jake takes extreme exception to her Jujyfruit detour and breaks up with her. Elaine, upon hearing that Jake has been in an accident, buys some Jujyfruits from a theater concession stand before heading to the hospital. He stops shaving, yells at noisy cinema-goers, and declines to come up to her apartment. George continues to do the Opposite on his date with Victoria. This causes Jerry to start noticing how everything always ends up turning out exactly the same for him as originally planned, never losing or gaining. Jerry loses a stand-up gig and five minutes later is asked to perform another one on the same night, for the same pay, prompting Kramer to call him "Even Steven". I'm unemployed and I live with my parents." She is impressed and agrees to date him. He orders the opposite of his normal lunch, and introduces himself to a beautiful woman who happens to order the same lunch, saying, "My name is George. George experiments with doing the complete opposite of what he would do normally. Jerry convinces him that "if every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right". George remarks to Jerry in Monk's Café that every decision he has ever made has been wrong, and that his life is the exact opposite of what it should be. She has also reunited with her boyfriend Jake Jarmel. Andy Ackerman took over as the primary director the following season and held that role until the end of the show's run.Įlaine gets a raise at Pendant Publishing, which is merging with a Japanese conglomerate to avoid bankruptcy, and which is publishing Kramer's coffee table book. This is the last episode Tom Cherones directed. " The Opposite" is the 22nd and final episode of the fifth season of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld and Andy Cowan Go HERE for more detailed information about my work on the Silly Putty series.22nd episode of the 5th season of Seinfeld " The Opposite" I think it goes really well with a Big Salad! Nothing else is Silly Putty and nothing else is Seinfeld. It fits really well into this time period. Of the four packages, it has the most distinctive 90s graphics. It's nice, too, that set people on Seinfeld chose Fluorescent Silly Putty. I've never even seen them for sale on eBay! But now I've seen them on Seinfeld! I have searched the internet for several years and have yet to see them posted anywhere. These packages appear to be extremely rare. I designed and illustrated four blister cards in this series - Classic Silly Putty, Fluorescent Silly Putty, Glow-In-The Dark Silly Putty, and Glitter Silly Putty. To have this particular packaging appear even incidentally in a Seinfeld episode is such a thrill! Silly Putty was my first major toy packaging commission. But this time, Larry David had me sucked into the story and the characters a little too much. I'm always looking at TV and movie scenes for products or odd-ball stuff. I blame this for the reason I never caught the Silly Putty before. The scene (the entire show) is very funny. The clerk, by the way, is very interested in Elaine and she soon finds herself trying to elude his romantic advances. It's high on a shelf right behind the stationery store clerk. So, it was a total shock when watching The Big Salad for the umpteenth time when my wife shouted out, "That's your Silly Putty packaging!" WHAT?! I grabbed the remote, stepped the scene back and sure enough, there it was! All this time, Fluorescent Silly Putty hanging in the stationary store where Elaine had gone to buy a very expensive Rolamech 1000 mechanical pencil for Mr. Let's face it, I'm a fan and have studied this show in minute detail. Since then, I've probably seen this episode countless times - in reruns and in the DVD box set Seinfeld: The Complete Series. I saw it when it first aired on September 29, 1994. I was watching Seinfeld last night with my wife.
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