The Label Maker

"The Label Maker"
Seinfeld episode
Episode no. Season 6
Episode 12
Directed by Andy Ackerman
Written by Alec Berg & Jeff Schaffer
Production code 611
Original air date January 19, 1995
Guest appearance(s)

"The Label Maker" is the 98th episode of NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 12th episode for the sixth season. It aired on January 19, 1995.

Plot

Jerry has two tickets to the Super Bowl but he cannot attend due to "the Drake's" wedding. Jerry gives the tickets to Dr. Tim Whatley (Bryan Cranston). Elaine and Jerry suspect that Whatley is a "re-gifter" after Jerry receives the same label maker that Elaine gave Tim for Christmas. Kramer and Newman play an extended game of Risk. They leave the board at Jerry's apartment so that neither one can tamper with the game.

George is enthralled by the apartment of his new girlfriend, Bonnie (Jessica Tuck), including a velvet couch. However, he becomes jealous of her roommate, Scott, who looks just like him. Kramer informs Jerry that the Drakes' wedding has been postponed because of the Super Bowl. George suggests Jerry "de-gift" Whatley the tickets. Newman stops by Jerry's apartment and tells him he will go to the Super Bowl with one of Whatley's tickets, which upsets Jerry.

Elaine dates Whatley in order to find out whether or not he really re-gifted her label maker. Whatley takes away Newman's ticket and gives it to Elaine. Jerry and George suspect that, due to Elaine's behavior, Whatley invited her purely with the intent of seducing her.

Newman and Kramer continue their game in Jerry's apartment. As they play, Jerry, while talking to Whatley outside, notices that Kramer's car is being towed. Kramer runs out of the apartment and after the tow truck, taking the board with him so Newman won't cheat; Newman chases after Kramer to make sure he doesn't cheat. Continuing their game on the subway en route to the impound, Kramer taunts Newman over the fact that most of his remaining troops are in the "weak" nation of Ukraine. A Ukrainian man standing next to them hears Kramer, is offended, and upsets the board.

Upon learning that Elaine does not intend to have sex with him on the Super Bowl trip, Whatley breaks up with her and gives her ticket back to Jerry. George wheedles Bonnie into getting Scott to move out. Using Jerry's label maker to help Bonnie box up Scott's things, George discovers that all the things he liked about the apartment, including the velvet couch and the television, belonged to Scott.

Elaine confronts Whatley about his re-gifting the label maker; he angrily tells her it was defective because the label adhesive wasn't strong enough. Elaine, upset, reveals she developed feelings for him because of the dental work he had done on her, and they kiss passionately. The labels on Scott's boxes peel off on the mail truck, and become property of the post office, much to Newman's delight.

Now in love with Elaine, Whatley gives up his remaining ticket, resulting in Jerry and Newman sitting together at the Super Bowl. George asks Bonnie if she is interested in ménage à trois, hoping she will be disgusted and dump him. Instead, she and Scott are eager to have a ménage à trois with George.

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