Seinfeld Season 4

1992-'93, Released in 2005/Comedy, Rated-TV-PG, 4 Discs ~11:56:52
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Crew: Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Details: A "show about nothing" with plots concerning themselves not with huge events or comical situations, but instead focused on the minutiae annoyances and petty discussions of real life, such as waiting in line at the movies, going to eat, buying a suit and so on. (Wiki)
Content: Each of the 24 episodes contain Notes About Nothing, a collection of trivia pop-ups.
Disc 1 - Extras ~0:40:12, Total ~3:00:29
- 6 Episodes 2:20:17:
1. (41) The Trip Part 1 - 23:24 8.12.92: When Jerry is asked to appear on The Tonight Show in Los Angeles, George accompanies him to look for Kramer, in a continuation of the season three finale.
2. (42) The Trip Part 2 - 23:24 8.19.92: Kramer is arrested when he is mistaken for a serial killer. After he is exonerated, Jerry, George, and he return to New York.
- Larry Charles Commentary, Deleted Scene 2:06, Inside Look 4:52.
3/4. (43/44) The Pitch/The Ticket Part 1&2 - 46:57 9.16.92: NBC television executives approach Jerry and George to write a pilot for a sitcom. Crazy Joe Davola begins to stalk both Jerry and Kramer. Newman uses Kramer as his witness when the former refuses to pay for a speeding ticket.
- Inside Look 6:44.
5. (45) The Wallet - 23:26 9.23.92: Jerry is asked to explain to his parents why he does not wear the watch they gave him. Morty Seinfeld thinks his wallet has been stolen from him at his doctor's appointment.
- Deleted Scene 2:42.
6. (46) The Watch - 23:06 9.30.92: Jerry tries to buy his watch back from Uncle Leo, who found it in the trash can where Jerry had thrown it away. George tries to resurrect the fledgling NBC deal, while Elaine plans a break up from her psychotherapist with Kramer's help..
- Documentary - The Breakthrough Season 19:09.
- Special Features:
1. Featurette - Regis & Kathy Lee Parody 4:39
Disc 2 - Extras ~1:38:52, Total ~2:55:53
- 5 Episodes 1:57:23:
7. (47) The Bubble Boy - 23:22 10.7.92: Jerry agrees to visit a boy who lives in a plastic bubble on the way to Susan's parents' cabin. Jerry loses his way, though, and George and Susan visit the boy instead.
- Inside Look 4:39.
8. (48) The Cheever Letters - 23:32 10.28.92: Jerry offends Elaine's assistant. Kramer makes a contact for Cuban cigars. A box of letters from John Cheever is all that remains after Susan's father's cabin burns down.
- Commentary with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander & Michael Richards, Deleted Scenes 3:38, Inside Look 4:20.
9. (49) The Opera - 23:32 11.4.92: Elaine realizes her boyfriend is actually Crazy Joe Davola. George, Jerry, and she then endure a night at the opera with a group of clowns.
- Deleted Scenes 3:05, Inside Look 3:23.
10. (50) The Virgin - 23:31 11.11.92: Jerry discovers the woman (guest star Jane Leeves) he is dating is a virgin. Kramer continues to harass Jerry and George when they are trying to write a teleplay for their NBC pilot.
- Deleted Scene :51.
11. (51) The Contest - 23:26 11.18.92: After George is caught masturbating by his mother, the four main characters devise a contest to see who can go the longest without pleasuring him/herself. Marla, Jerry's girlfriend, with whom he has yet to have sex with, learns of the contest and is disgusted. Elaine meets John F. Kennedy, Jr.. George's mother is hospitalized.
- Jerry Seinfeld Commentary, Deleted Scenes 2:02, Inside Look 9:51.
- Special Features
1. Bloopers 21:11
2. Stand-Up Material 8:03
Disc 3 - Extras ~0:30:14, Total ~2:48:22
- 6 Episodes 2:18:08:
12. (52) The Airport - 23:32 11.25.92: Jerry and Elaine experience the differences between traveling in first class and in coach. George and Kramer travel to two different airports after a flight is rerouted.
- Larry Charles Commentary Deleted Scene :29, Alternate Ending :45, Inside Look 4:21.
13. (53) The Pick - 23:31 12.16.92: Jerry is seen ostensibly picking his nose by his new girlfriend, a model, and tries to convince her that he was only scratching around his nose. Elaine mails a Christmas card that is unintentionally revealing.
- Deleted Scenes 1:44, Inside Look 3:27.
15. (55) The Visa - 23:31 1.27.93: Jerry's attempts to keep Babu Bhatt from being deported turn out unsuccessful. Elaine tries to get George's attorney girlfriend to effect the dropping of a lawsuit against Elaine.
- Inside Look 1:41.
14. (54) The Movie - 22:46 1.6.93: The four main characters continually miss each other as they try to attend a film together.
- Deleted Scene 1:48.
17. (57) The Outing - 22:21 2.11.93: Jerry and George are mistaken as homosexuals by a college newspaper reporter and are publicly outed.
- Commentary with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander & Michael Richards, Deleted Scenes 2:28, Inside Look 5:16.
16. (56) The Shoes - 22:27 2.4.93: Jerry and George have their television pilot shelved after each sneaks a look at the cleavage of the daughter of an NBC executive; Elaine tries to ameliorate the problem.
- Special Features:
1. NBC Promos & TV Spots 2:58
2. '92 Olympic Promos 4:14
3. Photo Gallery Slideshow 1:53
Disc 4 - Extras ~0:23:50, Total ~3:04:29
- 7 Episodes 2:40:39:
18. (58) The Old Man - 22:22 2.18.93: Jerry, George, and Elaine volunteer to spend time with senior citizens.
- Deleted Scenes :52, Alternate Ending :54, Inside Look 4:08.
19. (59) The Implant - 22:26 2.25.93: Jerry sends Elaine to find out if his new girlfriend Sidra's (guest star Teri Hatcher) breasts are natural or faux. George "double dips" a chip at a funeral repast, for which he is chastised.
- Peter Mehlmann Commentary, Inside Look 3:49.
22. (62) The Handicap Spot - 22:26 5.13.93: George parks his father's car in a handicap parking spot; after a disabled driver is unable to find a handicap spot and is injured, an angry mob destroys the car. Elaine and Jerry buy a television as a wedding gift for "The Drake", but then the wedding is called off. Frank Costanza appears for the first time as George becomes his butler after his father is ticketed for having had his car in a handicap spot.
- Original (John Randolph or Jerry Stiller) Version with Jason Alexander introduction :35, Inside Look 5:48.
20. (60) The Junior Mint - 22:27 3.18.93: Jerry is puzzled after he cannot remember the name of his girlfriend; he recalls only her observation that it rhymes with a part of the female anatomy. While Kramer and Jerry watch an operation performed on a former boyfriend of Elaine, Kramer drops a Junior Mints candy into the man's open chest cavity, with salutary results.
- Jerry Seinfeld Commentary, Deleted Scene :59, Inside Look 4:47.
21. (61) The Smelly Car - 22:32 4.15.93: A valet with offensive body odor stinks up Jerry's car and anyone who comes in contact with him. George believes he affected Susan's becoming a lesbian.
- Inside Look 3:03.
23/24. (63/64) The Pilot Part 1&2 - 45:26 5.20.93: Jerry and George begin casting for their pilot, Jerry, which is finally ready. George is upset over the casting of his alter ego. NBC executive Russell Dalrimple becomes obsessed with Elaine, who files a complaint when she concludes that Monk's is hiring only large-breasted women. Jerry and George prepare for the taping of Jerry and each of the principal four gives tips to his/her television alter ego. Elaine wears a disguise to hide from Dalrimple.
- Tom Azzari & Tom Cherones Commentary.
Eggs: (DVDTalk, MovieWeb, Eeggs) ~9:39
1. Birthday Greeting (:30): Disc 1, Extras, highlight "Regis & Kathy Lee Parody," press up, and enter on the birthday cake in the upper right corner.
2. Hidden Scene-Kramer on Mad About You (3:44): On Disc 2, Extras, Deleted Scenes, highlight "The Virgin," push right and press enter on the triangle.
3. Julia in Tom Arnold's Parking Spot (5:00): Disc 3, Extras, highlight "Episodes," press up and enter on the napkin falling in the garbage can.
4. Behind the Scenes-Russel's Quest (:25): Disk 4, Episodes, highlight "Extras," press up to highlight a no oil symbol, and press enter.
Factoids: (IMDB, Moviemistakes)
1. Elaine does not appear in either part of "The Trip", and appears only minimally in "The Pitch" and "The Ticket", due to the fact that Julia Louis-Dreyfus was on maternity leave.
2. This Wallet aired the same day as the premiere of Mad About You, which even had a crossover between the two shows that year.
3. The misprinted card joke (in Bubble Boy) is based on an actual error spotted by one of the writers in (according to different sources) either a 1970s home edition of Jeopardy! or in Trivial Pursuit.
4. According to the "Notes About Nothing" feature on the Season 4 DVD, Kramer's memorable "I'm out" scene, in The Contest episode, was the character's one hundredth entrance into Jerry's apartment in the course of the series.
5. Thie Contest episode is the first appearance of George's mother, Estelle Costanza.
6. The Pick episode alludes to Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice in Jerry's monologue defending nose-pickers: "If we pick, do we not bleed?"
7. In the episode The Movie, the fictional film Rochelle, Rochelle ("a young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk") makes its first appearance. George later rents it from the video store in The Smelly Car, and it is turned into a Broadway musical starring Bette Midler in Season 6's The Understudy.
8. The Handicap Spot episode is the first appearance of Frank Costanza, George's father. He was played in this episode not by Jerry Stiller, but by John Randolph. In 1995, the scenes featuring Randolph were re-shot with Stiller for syndication in order to maintain better continuity.
9. While at his parents house (in The Handicap Spot episode), George sits on the couch and reads Glamour Magazine, the magazine that had got him in trouble in The Contest.
10. The slow motion shot of the "Junior Mint" falling out of the sky actually used a York Peppermint Pattie. A Junior Mint was used at first, but deemed too small to use in production, so a Peppermint Pattie was used instead.
11. The two-part season finale episode aired the same day as the finale of Cheers, whose timeslot would be claimed by Seinfeld at the start of the new fall season.
12. The two Greenpeace members on the raft at the end of this episode are played by series co-creator Larry David and writer Larry Charles.
Comments: B- (2.23.07) I borrowed this from a friend and watched at my leisure. With a continuous story arc many-a-plenty stories and jokes criss-crossed all the episodes (and even the season finale) which was ultimately rather enjoyable.