Seinfeld: The Hamptons| Episode 85 Recap Podcast

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 5, Episode 21, “The Hamptons.”   Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur gathered once again to bring you a breathtaking Seinfeld recap, and during Festivus week no less. This week they breakdown “The Hamptons”, which first aired May 12, 1994 as the penultimate episode of season five. It was written by Peter Mehlman and Carol Leifer, and was one of only a few episodes that did not take place in Manhattan at all. After disusing how big Festivus still is, even with non Seinfeld watchers, Akiva shared a bit of news. Jerry will entertain President Barack Obama in an episode of his upcoming season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Akiva also shared that he was blocked for the first time on Twitter, and by none other than his own 14 year old sister. Jerry’s part of the episode is minor to the overall plot. His girlfriend Rachael’s father allows her to see Jerry again after the Schindler’s List make out session, so she comes along to The Hamptons as well. He spends much of the time playing damage control, since Rachael walks in on George, seeing him naked after experiencing “shrinkage”. George has a huge role in the storyline this week. He is finally getting his chance to sleep with his new girlfriend Jane. When he learns that the rest of the gang saw Jane topless, he decides it’s only fair for him to see Jerry’s girlfriend naked to make up for it. When Rachael ends up walking in on George, he is incredibly embarrassed because he just got out of the pool and was suffering from “shrinkage”. When Rachael shares the shrinkage news to Jane, Jane decides to head back to the city early, leading George to seek revenge against Rachael. He decides to sneak some of the leftover lobster into some scrambled eggs the next morning, not telling Rachael, who is kosher and can’t eat shellfish. Elaine’s story is also a small one. The baby’s doctor describes her as breathtaking, though when he also calls Michael and Carol’s ugly baby breathtaking, she isn’t sure if he was being nice to her, or being nice about the baby. Kramer has a small part to the plot this week. While rummaging around the beach, he discovers a lobster trap with a bunch of lobsters that he brings back to the beach house for everyone. When the host Michael hears he emptied a commercial trap, he gets upset, since that was how his father had made a living. When a local cop stops by to inquire about the empty trap, Michael rats out Kramer, leading to him having to join a highway clean up crew to pay off the fine. Akiva and Rob had some great tangents this week. First they debated why the baby’s doctor would essentially be a live in physician on their weekend away. Next they talked about how Puff Daddy has changed his name yet again, going from Diddy back to P Diddy. Rob thought it would be a good idea to do a Serial-like podcast about the disgraced CEO Martin Shkreli. Rob felt that if he was hosting guests and one of them was inexplicably cooking, he’d ask where they got the food from. Rob also wondered how bad it would be to trick a kosher person into having shellfish, to which Akiva thought her level of commitment to the religion would determine it, suggesting he might be the wrong person to weigh in since he is kosher himself. In 2015, there wouldn’t be much that was different. Rob thought George could Google “shrinkage”, and Akiva thought they’d have a chance to see the baby on Facebook, but ultimately both thought it was a timeless tale. Akiva decided to rank this iconic episode in the top 9, joining “The Marine Biologist and “The Contest”. Akiva and Rob both thought George’s storyline was a big A+,