Seinfeld is and always will be a classic Sitcom - but this particular episode really does bring out the various Neurosis of each character. the 'magic' of Seinfeld is fully dependent on each characters fixation on any particular subject and the stand out in this episode is George (Jason Alexander). It is pointed out early in the show that his (Georges) new girlfriend looks very much like Jerry (Seinfeld).By the way Jerry is the only cast member who uses his actual real name in the show. At first George is in complete denial but as the show progresses George dwells on it to the point where he becomes worried that the reason he is going out with this girl is that he may be secretly in love with Jerry. This assumption is based on a mention by Kramer who says "just because you are going out with a girl who looks Jerry doesn't mean you are secretly in love with him". Meanwhile Elaine is trying to work out the comedic value of a Cartoon in the new Yorker and confronts the editor to find out exactly what it means. The editor admits he doesn't know either so Elaine sends in a cartoon of her own which in fact she plagiarizes from Ziggy. Kramer decides he is never going to speak again after his inadvertent comment to George but as one can imagine this is one thing that Kramer could never do. This episode has to be up there among the best of all Seinfeld episodes - although its hard to choose from so many great ones. The Frogger machine episode (George again) comes immediately to mind. Larry David deserves much praise for his talent at creating what will forever remain a re-run worthy show!
11 Reviews
Not Quite There This Time
Hitchcoc16 June 2023
The premise is that Jerry's new girlfriend du jour looks like him is the central focus of this episode. She really doesn't but when she talks and acts, she has taken on many of his mannerisms. The whole "twins" thing carries through the episode. Kramer can't keeps his mouth shut and alienates people, including an aspiring actress, and vows an oath of silence. Much of the comedy here involves his trying to remain quiet. As this is happening, Elaine finds a New Yorker cartoon that makes no sense to her. She ultimately gets a job in the New Yorker comics department. It is funny to a point but then begins to fizzle. There are some funny things, but it is disjointed.
Carrot top variant
ThunderKing626 March 2023
Not talking is easy. People make it sound difficult. No pun intended.
This review was completed on the month of March that is the third month of the year of number day 26th of so-called year 2023rd in the 21st century.
What is this episode about?: George dates a Jerry Seinfeld variant.
Elaine draws an unfunny cartoon.
Kramer is speechless.
Jerry feuds with a carrot top variant.
The Story and the production overview: An alright episode. Elaine's boring unfunny story brings the show down a bit.
Everyone else did very well.
Highlight: Nothing worth mentioning.
Girlfriend attractiveness level: I will not say.
Laugh meter: 4
What can we learn?: Learn to be funny
Verdict: an ok episode.
This review was completed on the month of March that is the third month of the year of number day 26th of so-called year 2023rd in the 21st century.
What is this episode about?: George dates a Jerry Seinfeld variant.
Elaine draws an unfunny cartoon.
Kramer is speechless.
Jerry feuds with a carrot top variant.
The Story and the production overview: An alright episode. Elaine's boring unfunny story brings the show down a bit.
Everyone else did very well.
Highlight: Nothing worth mentioning.
Girlfriend attractiveness level: I will not say.
Laugh meter: 4
What can we learn?: Learn to be funny
Verdict: an ok episode.
The most under-rated Seinfeld episode of them all.
deaeight12 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This has me in fits from just one single line. "Man love for the She-Jerry." Absolute genius. Michael Richards as Kramer is miraculous. Imagine for one second reading the script and having to be Kramer in the scene in which the above line features. He brings Kramer to life in a way that I truly believe no other human, living or dead, could better. God Bless Michael Richards and Larry David and to a lesser extent, Jerry Seinfeld (harsh but fair. He is not on David or Richards' level),
Sally
bevo-1367823 June 2020
A show that's about something
safenoe15 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Kathy Griffin returns as Sally Weaver in this season nine episode. I first watched Seinfeld when it debuted in the 1990s, and I'm enjoying re-watching and reflecting upon Seinfeld, especially as we reach the end of the series again and again and again thanks to the repeats where Seinfeld lives on and on.
Newman's line about Weaver's show being "a show that's about something" was hilarious and an amazing rejoinder to Seinfeld being a show about nothing, although we know really that it is really about something. Wayne Knight, who plays Newman, became a huge star after co-starring with Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, with Michael Douglas in a supporting role.
Newman's line about Weaver's show being "a show that's about something" was hilarious and an amazing rejoinder to Seinfeld being a show about nothing, although we know really that it is really about something. Wayne Knight, who plays Newman, became a huge star after co-starring with Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, with Michael Douglas in a supporting role.
Kathy Griffin is awfully unfunny
gabrielrjensen22 October 2020
One of the Worst Ones
Samuel-Shovel25 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
In "The Cartoon", Elaine can't figure out why a New Yorker cartoon is funny and must get to the bottom of it. George starts dating a woman with an uncanny resemblance to Jerry which leads to a lot of internal conflict. Kramer tried to give up speaking completely. Sally Weaver starts a one-man show making fun of Jerry and calling him the devil. This show becomes insanely popular.
An unfortunate aspect of many old sitcoms is the inclusion of "gay panic" jokes and characteristics of episodes, much to the detriment of modern viewing. Seinfeld avoids this for the most part but here's one episode where it's present. George's lack of comfort with dating someone who vaguely looks like Jerry just doesn't age well and can't have been that funny to begin with.
This episode could have been saved if the other subplots were good but they were all entirely forgettable. I've always found Kathy Griffin pretty annoying and she's VERY annoying here. I realize her character is supposed to be but it's just too grating on the ears to even be humorous. This episode is definitely skippable.
An unfortunate aspect of many old sitcoms is the inclusion of "gay panic" jokes and characteristics of episodes, much to the detriment of modern viewing. Seinfeld avoids this for the most part but here's one episode where it's present. George's lack of comfort with dating someone who vaguely looks like Jerry just doesn't age well and can't have been that funny to begin with.
This episode could have been saved if the other subplots were good but they were all entirely forgettable. I've always found Kathy Griffin pretty annoying and she's VERY annoying here. I realize her character is supposed to be but it's just too grating on the ears to even be humorous. This episode is definitely skippable.
Not the best by any stretch
dominicparis28 February 2020
Any reviewer that says this is one of the best Seinfeld episodes and that Seinfeld series 9 is one of the best DOES NOT have a clue about Seinfeld. This episode is far from being up there with any of the best and most Seinfeld fans will tell you that.
A hilarious episode, and a classic UPN/Warner Bros./WB flagship demonstration of "Bey"-like "c**p TV" at its finest.
robert-macc24 May 2024
And a hard-hittong one. In this one, Jerry and Kathy Griffin are bitter rivals. Jerry is under an understanding that Kathy Griffin will talk good of him and won't belittle him in her stand ups. Kathy called Jerry the devil, and viciously belittles him throughout the episode. Kramer has a very bad opinion of Sally Weaver, as she once again causes trouble for Elaine in this episode and tries to get her in trouble with Peterman. The episode is riotous laugh act as from start to finish. The only real shame about this is that the show was fan of a great station, WWOR (which was this show's original rerun station in NY, before it switched to WNYW), the powerhouse of a popular network like UPN, which stomped The WB, but that unfortunately, Kathy Griffin, who was featured in that special on WWOR, hates Jerry Seinfeld and this show in real life. I don't know who's worse. Her or Matt McCoy. UPN/Warner Bros./WB flagship. And NBC original classic. This also was a classic example of "c**p TV" of the likes of "The Richard Bey Show." Jerry and Kathy acting as enemies against each otehr. This would have been perfect if they had not actually been enemies in real life. WIth Kathy being a "Friends"-watcher.
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