Seinfeld: The Trip | Episode 41 Recap Podcast

Listen to the Podcast: Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur continue their journey to watch every Seinfeld episode as they discuss Season 4, Episode 1, “The Trip”. Rob Cesternino’s trip to New York is over, but he and Akiva Wienerkur are buckled in and ready for their trip through Seinfeld’s season four. This week, they’ll talk about the two part season premiere, “The Trip”, which first aired August 12 and 19, 1992, and was written by Larry Charles. Akiva shared that the early start to the seasonwas due to NBC running the summer Olympics in Barcelona, and needed to have some big premieres directly after it to capitalize on advertising. There were two bits of current news in the Seinfeld universe. First, Roger McDowell, the alleged second spitter in “The Boyfriend”, recently told a reporter he still gets a check for $13.52 every time the episode airs. Also, the rights to Seinfeld are being shopped to Yahoo, Amazon and Hulu, and the bidding is rumored to be north of 90 million dollars. Jerry’s opening standup is a bit about people moving across the country. The episode opens with Jerry and George at the coffee shop where George reveals that he knew Kramer was going to Los Angeles, but actually kept it a secret. Jerry invites George to LA with him when he goes for his The Tonight Show appearance, thinking they can track down Kramer while there. Rob noted that George’s complicated preparation process for the trip was a bit broad and unlike George. Kramer is in LA, and we see him mentoring a group of young actors when a security guard promptly throws him off the set for loitering. He heads back to his rundown apartment and has a conversation with his washed up actress neighbor, who wants to go have frozen yogurt with him sometime. In the next scene, some LA police officers are investigating a murder scene. Akiva pointed out that one of the cops would later go on to play Jake Jarmel in “The Opposite”. At the airport, Jerry and George have trouble getting through the security line, with Jerry repeatedly setting off the metal detectors and George carrying a big bottle of moisturizer. There is another Jerry standup, this time a bit about how the people riding in the carts at the airport are the closest thing this country has to royalty. In the next scene, Kramer is at an audition, where they are casting for four different jobs, a horror movie, an infomercial, a rock video and an exercise tape. Kramer meets a woman named Chelsea at this audition and they go out to coffee, where he shows her the treatment he wrote called “The Keys”, hoping she can pass it along to her manager. While at the coffee shop he notices Fred Savage, and has an awkward interaction that prompts Fred to run out of the place to avoid further conversation. Akiva shared a fun fact that the woman playing Chelsea now runs a celebrity Pilates class. Jerry and George are in their hotel room in LA, with Jerry on the phone trying to track down Kramer. Rob wondered who Jerry was talking to, whether it was the Murphy Brown production staff or the police. Meanwhile, George is having a long conversation with Lupe the chambermaid about making sure the bed sheets are not tucked. Jerry asks her if she noticed a crumpled piece of paper on the night stand, since he crafted one of his jokes for The Tonight Show on it, but she had thrown it away. After she leaves, George defends Lupe when Jerry gets upset about her throwing the paper away. Akiva felt Lupe couldn’t possibly know to keep a crumpled up piece of paper when her job is to clean the room. In the next scene, the cops are investigating another murder, and we see that it’s Kramer’s new friend Chelsea. While searching the scene, one of the officers finds Kramer’s “The Keys” treatment “on her person”. At The Tonight Show,