Series 8

The Foundation: George is appointed to aboard set up in Susan's memory. Kramer takes up Karate. Jerry tests out break up stories on the waitresses at Monks. Elaine is left in charge of the Peterman catalogue.

Jeannie Steinman, The Invitations, appears in a flashback where she and Jerry unamiously break off their engagement
Dolores' name (Mulva?) was a puzzle to Jerry in The Junior Mint
When Jerry gets a call from Elaine's secretary, "Please hold for Elaine Benes", he says "I don't believe this", just like he did when George's secretary rang him in The Secretary
Susan's Doll Collection from The Doll was worth $2.6 million

The Soul Mate: George believes that his fellow foundation board members think he killed Susan and so tapes them in a meeting. Jerry, Kramer fall for the same woman. Elaine doesn't want to have a baby.

The Bizzaro Jerry: Elaine's new boyfriend Kevin and his friends prove to be the opposite to Jerry and his friends. Kramer gets a job at a company simply by showing up. George passes off a model's picture as his ex-fiancee.

Elaine is still together with Kevin from The Soul Mate
George claims he is at the Brandt-Leland office to see Art Vandelay
Georges uses his engagement story as well that proved to be a sure fire pick up line in The Foundation
Feldman, Gene, and Vargas are 'bizarro' versions of Kramer, George and Newman. Kevin's apartment is pretty much a reverse of Jerry's and includes a Bizarro Superman statue.
Kevin and his friends hang out at Reggies Diner which has been seen before such as in The Soup

The Little Kicks: Elaine's bad dancing makes her an object of ridicule. Jerry becomes a movie bootlegger. George's bad boy reputation gets him the ladies.

George's reaction to Elaine's dancing is "Sweet Fancy Moses"
When Jerry remembers seeing Elaine dance before, about five years ago, Elaine's old hairstyle and wardrobe circa Series 3 is well recreated
It's mentioned that George brought a fancy car when his parents separated

The Package: Difficult Elaine is shunned by the medical community. George tries to pick up a photo-shop employee with provocative photos. Kramer convinces Jerry to try mail fraud.

The Fatigues: Jerry, George and Elaine all get proteges. Kramer helps George's father set up a Jewish singles night.

Jerry's protege is Kenny Bania, last seen in The Soup Nazi
George finds that he can't read books because he's been reading books on tape. From The Couch we know George doesn't like to read books.

The Checks: Kramer puts up a trio of Japanese tourists. Elaine's boyfriend doesn't want to share his song. George doesn't understand why a religious cult doesn't want him.

Kramer thinks Jerry and George's pilot could be shown on Japanese TV [The majority of Series 4 including The Pitch and The Pilot were devoted to the making of this show]

The Chicken Roaster: A new chicken store opens across the road from Kramer. Kramer and Jerry swap apartments and in doing so swap personalities. George uses several encounters to get a date with a woman.

Elanie travels to Burma in pursuit of Peterman, who went there in The Foundation

The Abstinence: Giving up on sex, smartens up George and dumbs down Elaine. Kramer turns his apartment into a smoker's lounge. Jerry has to do a talk at his old high school

Jerry's agent Katie returns. She was last seen in The Diplomat's Club

The Andrea Doria: George battles to be more sympathetic and get a bigger apartment. Elaine dates a bad breaker-upper and learns she has a big head. Jerry helps Newman with his postal rounds in order to get rid of him. Kramer seeks a cure for his cough without going to a doctor.

In his testimony George describes:
- been handcuffed to a bed in his underwear in The Subway
- a woman he thought was attracted to him turned out to be a Nazi in The Limo
- the shrinkage incident after he swam in very cold water at The Hamptons
- being caught using a fishing line to reel in a marble rye in The Rye
- and his finace died after licking toxic envelopes he picked out in The Invitations

The Little Jerry: Kramer buys himself a rooster that he puts into cockfighting. Elaine encourages her bald by choice boyfriend to grow his hair back. George falls for a woman prisioner. Jerry becomes a mail man

George visits the womans prision on behalf of The Foundation
From the events of The Checks and The Pledge Drive, Jerry should know better than using Checks.

The Money: The gang are worried about their moneytary status.

Jerry's parents sell Jack Klompus The Cadillac.
Peterman returns from Burma where he was in The Chicken Roaster after leaving America in The Foundation

The Comeback: George goes to lengths to comeback to a collegue's insult. Jerry finds a tennis pro is a fraud. Kramer makes a will. Elaine selects her videos based on the selections of a mysterious Vincent.

The Van Buren Boys: Jerry dates a woman who is the loser of her group of friends. Elaine is assigned to write Peterman's biography but it boring and so Kramer agrees to sell him his life story. George tries to find a beneificary of a foundation scholarship

Wyck a member of The Foundation board also appeared in other episodes
George likes that Steven his pick for the scholarship wants to be an architect, something George himself wanted to be, see The Stakeout amongst others.
When Jerry is trying to find something wrong with Ellen he asks if it's she's wearing the same dress as yesterday, as he believed his girlfriend in The Seven seemed to.

The Susie: A co-worker who thinks Elaine is someone named Susie complains about Elaine to her. Elaine is forced to kill Susie off. Jerry is believed to be a hit-man.

When Elaine finds out she is in charge of a foundation in Susie's honour (just like George is in charge of the Susan Ross Foundation) there is a twirling overhead shot of her yelling Susie just as George yelled Kahn at the end of The Foundation
Mike thought Jerry was phony in The Parking Space

The Pothole: Jerry's girlfriend uses a toothbrush that fell into a toilet. Elaine becomes a janitor so she can get chinese takeaway. George has to dig up a street to get back a special key ring. Kramer adopts a highway.

The English Patient: Jerry puts the Mandlebaun family in hospital. Elaine's dislike of a movie sets the world against her. George meets a woman who went out with a man like him. Kramer asks Jerry to pick up some Cubans for him.

The friends of Elaine that her boyfriend goes to see the English Patient with include Carol, the mother of the ugly baby: The Boyfriend and The Hamptons, who also appeared in The Soul Mate. When she says "she give up her first born" Elaine comments about the short end of the stick.
Kramer teaches the Dominicans about Communism. Kramer also preached Communism in The Race
Earl Hoffner, an investor in Kramer's cuban plan first appeard in The Diplomat's Club
Elaine says "Sex in a tub, that doesn't work." Jerry told her to use the tub in his apartment if she had to have sex while housesitting in The Robbery

The Nap: George takes naps at work under the desk. Kramer starts a lap swimming craze in the east river. Jerry is annoyed with his carpenter always asking him questions. Elaine wonders what the message is when her boyfriend buys her a new bed.

The Yada Yada: George dates a shoplifter, Elaine ruins a friend's chance to adopt and Jerry suspects his dentist has converted to Judaism so he can tell Jewish jokes. Kramer and Mickey fight over two women.

Tim Whatley last appeared in The Jimmy
Beth last appeared in The Wait Out

The Millennium: Jerry fights with his girlfriend's mother over a speed dial position. Newman and Kramer fight about their plans for end of the century parties. George tries to get himself fired from the Yankees. Elaine seeks revenge on a clothing store where she gets bad service.

Kramer claims to be 'A.G. Pennypacker' a wealthy American with a silver mine. Elaine yells at him you screwed me again Pennypacker. I'm not sure when the Pennypacker alias was first used.
Steinbrenner asks if Wilheim is "popping Pills" and "got the crazy's again?". Wilheim's mental problems were revealed in The Bottle Deposit

The Muffin Tops: George is mistaken for an out of town visitor. Jerry tries out shaving his chest. Elaine gives Lippman a suggestion for a new business.

Mr Lippman was Elaine's boss in the first few series, and last appeared in The Scofflaw.
Elaine asks if Lippman really needs the exclamation point, a point of controversy in The Sniffing Accountant.
Kramer sets up the Peterman Reality tours after Peterman's book containing his stories is published, see The Van Buren Boys. This is also a reference to the real life Kenny Kramer-ran Seinfeld Reality Tour.
The boss of Tyler Chicken is very similar to Steinbrenner, just like Fidel Castro was in The Race.
Elaine describes Newman as someone who makes problems disappear seems to be refering to The Engagement

The Summer of George: Elaine is pegged as a catty shrew when she insults a fellow co-worker. George falls victim to an invitations related accident. Kramer attends an awards ceremony as a seat filler and goes up to collect an award.

The doctor that broke the news about Susan reappears to tell the gang about George's accident in a scene similar to the end of The Invitations. Jerry also tells George not to skimp on invitations this time.

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