Seinfeld: The Label Maker | Episode 98 Recap Podcast

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 6, Episode 12, “The Label Maker.” Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur labeled themselves excited to bring you another Post Show Recap of their run through the Seinfeld series. This time they break down “The Label Maker”, which first aired January 19, 1995 as part of season six.  The episode was written by Alec Berg and Jeff Schaffer. News – Rob wanted to remind the listeners to call in to the voicemail line on postshowrecaps.com/voicemail for their own 100th episode retrospective, or the traditional way by emailing [email protected].  Akiva noted that Obama was in Cuba with Seinfeld guest star Derek Jeter for a goodwill baseball game this past week. Jerry’s story – Jerry has to give away his Super Bowl tickets due to the Drake having his wedding the same day.  He eventually gives them to Tim Whatley.  He learns soon after that the Drake’s wedding is off, and is thinking of degifting the tickets, since Whatley was guilty of regifting the label baby.  He later finds out that Tim has invited Newman, then eventually Elaine.  After Tim learns Elaine doesn’t want to share a bed, he offers the ticket back to Jerry, who ends up seated next to Newman at the game. George’s story – George is dating a new woman, Bonnie, and is finally getting to see her apartment.  When he sees Bonnie’s apartment, he is in love with it, especially the velvet couch, except she has a male roommate that looks just like George.  He can’t seem to get over it, eventually inadvertently convincing Bonnie to drop Scott as a roommate.  This ruins everything, since all the great stuff, including the velvet couch in the apartment belonged to Scott. Elaine’s story – Elaine discovers that Tim Whatley may have regifted the label maker to Jerry she gave him for Christmas.  She decides to get to the bottom of it by going out with Tim, then asking to go up to his apartment after to look for it.  This leads Tim to think he is getting to go “downtown” with her, so he invites her to the Super Bowl with him, though the hotel he reserves only has one bed.  Elaine is offended by this, so she calls off the date, admonishing Tim for regifting the label baby. Kramer’s story – Kramer and Newman are involved in a heated game of Risk, so heated that they needed to have Jerry keep an eye on the board while Newman was at work.  Despite many attempts by Newman to disrupt the status of the game, they eventually reconvene.  The game is interrupted again when Kramer’s car gets towed, but he grabs the board to take with him.  While on the subway, a Ukrainian mistakes their game talk for trashing his country, so he promptly smashes the board, ruining their game. Rob and Akiva tangents – Rob and Akiva went on several great tangents throughout the recap.  Akiva shared how he threw a Super Bowl party for the very game in the episode, complete with the six foot party sub. The guys talked about how they both have experience with label makers, both agreeing the labels leave much to be desired.  Rob shared how he had a college friend that went the female roommate route that didn’t go well, while Akiva confirmed he could never be the Scott in that situation.  Akiva wondered why Newman doesn’t evoke the federal offense technique whenever anyone lays a hand on him.  When discussing which character would make the worst world leader, Akiva thought it would be Uncle Leo, but Chester had a whole list, with Steinbrenner, Mr. Lippman, Mr. Peterman and Susan as the greatest potential world leaders.