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* AccidentalMisnaming: In the dream sequence, one of the FBI agents insists on calling Jerry "Steinfeld".

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: At the baby shower, Jerry runs into Mary, a disgruntled ex who Jerry never spoke to again after one date:
-->'''Mary''': Jerry?! Remember me? Mary Contardi! No? Doesn't ring a bell, Jerry? We had a date three years ago! You took me to one of your shows! Told me you had a great time! Said you'd call the next day.
-->'''Jerry''': Well, I'm sure I meant to call.. I probably just lost your...
-->'''Mary''': [[SuddenlyShouting LIAR! LIAR!]] You were never going to call me! You thought you could waltz through the rest of your life and never bump into me again! But you were wrong, Jerry! You were wrong! What do you think, I'm some sort of poor, pathetic wretch?
-->'''Jerry''': No, I don't think that...
-->'''Mary''': Some person who could be dismissed and ignored?! Some insignificant piece of dust?! Some person who doesn't deserve your respect and your attention?! You're the one that doesn't deserve my respect and my attention! You're the insignificant piece of dust!

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* QuirkyWork:[[invoked]]
-->'''Jerry:''' ''(During his nightmare.)'' Wait a minute. Wait a minute, hold on! We're just patsies. We're just a couple of users... We never sold the stuff. What about the Russian guy? The Russian guy is the guy you want! ''(Cue Anatoly stepping out of the bedroom dressed as the other agents and speaking without accent.)''



* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs:[[invoked]]
-->'''Jerry:''' ''(During his nightmare.)'' Wait a minute. Wait a minute, hold on! We're just patsies. We're just a couple of users... We never sold the stuff. What about the Russian guy? The Russian guy is the guy you want! ''(Cue Anatoly stepping out of the bedroom dressed as the other agents and speaking without accent.)''

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-->'''Jerry:''' ''(During his nightmare.)'' Wait a minute. Wait a minute, hold on! We're just patsies. We're just a couple of users... We never sold the stuff. What about the Russian guy? The Russian guy is the guy you want! ''(Cue Anatoly stepping out of the bedroom dressed as the other agents and speaking without accent.)''

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-->'''Jerry:''' ''(During his nightmare.)'' Wait a minute. Wait a minute, hold on! We're just patsies. We're just a couple of users... We never sold the stuff. What about the Russian guy? The Russian guy is the guy you want! ''(Cue Anatoly stepping out of the bedroom dressed as the other agents and speaking without accent.)'')''
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* ForbiddenFruit: Kramer's [[RuleOfThree third attempt to have Jerry install pirate cable - which suceeds]] - is about the former tempting the latter with 75 Mets games on cable.

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* ForbiddenFruit: Kramer's [[RuleOfThree third attempt to have Jerry install pirate cable - which suceeds]] succeeds]] - is about the former tempting the latter with 75 Mets games on cable.
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** Kramer states -- albeit with a positive spin -- that Anatoly also slows down gas meters and sells [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(coin) slugs]] for the subway.

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** Kramer states -- albeit with a positive spin -- that Anatoly Anatoly, who is installing the cable, also slows down gas meters and sells [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(coin) slugs]] for the subway.
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* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Kramer refers to Anatoly as the "Sakharov of cable guys", mentioning that he escaped from TheGulag. After Kramer tells Jerry about Anatoly's gas meter and slug businesses, Jerry retorts by calling Anatoly [[SarcasmMode sarcastically]] "a real human rights nut".

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* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Kramer refers to Anatoly as the "Sakharov of cable guys", mentioning that he escaped from TheGulag. After Kramer tells Jerry about Anatoly's gas meter and slug businesses, Jerry retorts by calling Anatoly [[SarcasmMode sarcastically]] calling Anatoly "a real human rights nut".

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** Kramer states -- albeit with a positive spin -- that Anatoly also slows down gas meters and sells [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(coin) slugs]] for the subway.



* ForbiddenFruit: Kramer's [[RuleOfThree third attempt to have Jerry install pirate cable - which suceeds]] - is about the former tempting the latter with 75 Mets games on cable.



* InsaneTrollLogic: After Kramer's lie about pirate cable being legal failing, he tries to convince Jerry with:
-->Man, it's UsefulNotes/TheNineties ''(shakes his body)'', it's [[Music/MCHammer Hammertime]]!



** Before the nightmare, Jerry mentions:
--->Every time I turn on the [=TV=], sirens are gonna go on, they're gonna track me down like a dog, I know it...



* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Kramer refers to Anatoly as the "Sakharov of cable guys".

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* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Kramer refers to Anatoly as the "Sakharov of cable guys".guys", mentioning that he escaped from TheGulag. After Kramer tells Jerry about Anatoly's gas meter and slug businesses, Jerry retorts by calling Anatoly [[SarcasmMode sarcastically]] "a real human rights nut".

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Elaine wants to perform a baby shower for her friend Leslie at Jerry's house while he's due to perform in Buffalo, and he grants her permission for doing so. However, he's convinced by Kramer to install illegal cable after he can't watch the Mets at home due to a cable carrier dispute. Both events collide. At the same time, George wants revenge on Leslie due to a bad date, and Mary Contardi, one of Leslie's friends at the baby shower, wants revenge on Jerry for the same reason.

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Elaine wants to perform a baby shower for her friend Leslie at Jerry's house while he's due to perform in Buffalo, and he grants her permission for doing so. However, he's convinced by Kramer to install illegal pirate cable after he can't watch the Mets at home due to a cable carrier dispute. Both events collide. At the same time, George wants revenge on Leslie due to a bad date, and Mary Contardi, one of Leslie's friends at the baby shower, wants revenge on Jerry for the same reason.


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* BlatantLies: When Jerry states that pirate cable is illegal, Kramer responds that it isn't, to which Jerry retorts that [[ShapedLikeItself "it's against the law"]], which Kramer shruggs off with a "yeah, but...".
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* NightmareFuel:[[invoked]] A literal one with the thought of Jerry falling to an [=FBI=] sting operation with Anatoly being really undercover "Agent Stone". It ended with a shooting where Jerry ends up dead.

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* NightmareFuel:[[invoked]] A literal one with the thought of Jerry falling to an [=FBI=] sting operation with in which Anatoly being really is actually undercover "Agent Stone".Stone" (and speaks in a perfect American accent instead of his "fake" Russian one). It ended with a shooting where Jerry ends up dead.
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* ArcSymbol: George's red shirt, dirty with ketchup. Jerry noticing it hints at George's ulterior motives in really wanting to take Jerry back to his house when the latter had originally wanted to go the former's.

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* ArcSymbol: George's red shirt, dirty with ketchup.chocolate syrup. Jerry noticing it hints at George's ulterior motives in really wanting to take Jerry back to his house when the latter had originally wanted to go the former's.



* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Jerry originally recuses to install illegal cable on his house because it's illegal, but then is convinced by Kramer. He then doesn't go through with it because of its nightmare.
* EmasculatedCuckold: George once had a date with Leslie, watching her performance -- where she threw ketchup at his red shirt, which he still can't take out. She ends up leaving with another man without saying anything to him. Now that she's married ''and'' pregnant, he plans to extract sweet revenge on her. But, he relents at last minute, and carries around her gifts as if he were a submissive boyfriend. He ends up complaining:

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* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Jerry originally recuses refuses to install illegal cable on his house because it's illegal, but then is convinced by Kramer. He then doesn't go through with it because of its his nightmare.
* EmasculatedCuckold: George once had a date with Leslie, watching her performance -- where she threw ketchup chocolate syrup at his red shirt, which he still can't take out. She ends up leaving with another man without saying anything to him. Now that she's married ''and'' pregnant, he plans to extract sweet revenge on her. But, he relents at the last minute, and carries around her gifts as if he were a submissive boyfriend. He ends up complaining:



* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: During the beginning, Leslie's husband is mentioned by Elaine to 3rd cousin by marriage to the Kennedys. At the end, Elaine complains about not dating a Kennedy herself.

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* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: During the beginning, Leslie's husband is mentioned by Elaine to 3rd cousin by marriage to the Kennedys. At the end, Elaine complains about not dating a Kennedy herself.herself and the fact she saw John Jr. on the street while she was on a bus.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Kramer has Anatoly Tabachnick and his assistant come by Jerry's to install cable right during the middle of Elaine's baby shower. George has Jerry -- who can't perform due to a blizzard -- come by his house in order for the former to get back at Leslie. And, Mary Contardi also has her revenge plans at Jerry.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: Kramer has Anatoly Tabachnick and his assistant come by Jerry's to install cable right during the middle of Elaine's baby shower. George has Jerry -- who can't perform due to a blizzard -- come by his house in order for the former to get back at Leslie. And, Mary Contardi also has her own revenge plans plans, directed at Jerry.
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** Contrast that with Mary Contardi, who ''did'' get her sweet revenge against Jerry, no barrels held.
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* SequelEpisode: Has one of sorts in "[[Recap/SeinfeldS4E11TheContest The Contest]]", where Elaine finally catches the eyes of a Kennedy (in this case, John F. Kennedy, Jr.).

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* SequelEpisode: Has one of sorts in "[[Recap/SeinfeldS4E11TheContest The Contest]]", [[Recap/SeinfeldS4E11TheContest "The Contest"]], where Elaine finally catches the eyes of a Kennedy (in this case, John F. Kennedy, Jr.).
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* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: During the beginning, Leslie's husband is mentioned by Elaine to 3rd cousin by marriage to the Kennedys. At the end, Elaine complains about not dating a Kennedy herself.


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* NoodleIncident: At the end of the baby shower, Leslie tells Elaine that she was just like in college. How is never revealed.


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* SequelEpisode: Has one of sorts in "[[Recap/SeinfeldS4E11TheContest The Contest]]", where Elaine finally catches the eyes of a Kennedy (in this case, John F. Kennedy, Jr.).
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Kramer has Anatoly Tabachnick and his assistant come by Jerry's to install cable right during the middle of Elaine's baby shower. George has Jerry -- who can't perform due to a blizzard -- come by his house in order for the former to get back at Leslie. And, Mary Contardi also has her revenge plans at George.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: Kramer has Anatoly Tabachnick and his assistant come by Jerry's to install cable right during the middle of Elaine's baby shower. George has Jerry -- who can't perform due to a blizzard -- come by his house in order for the former to get back at Leslie. And, Mary Contardi also has her revenge plans at George.Jerry.
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-->'''Jerry:''' Wait a minute. Wait a minute, hold on! We're just patsies. We're just a couple of users... We never sold the stuff. What about the Russian guy? The Russian guy is the guy you want! ''(Cue Anatoly stepping out of the bedroom dressed as the other agents and speaking without accent.)''

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-->'''Jerry:''' ''(During his nightmare.)'' Wait a minute. Wait a minute, hold on! We're just patsies. We're just a couple of users... We never sold the stuff. What about the Russian guy? The Russian guy is the guy you want! ''(Cue Anatoly stepping out of the bedroom dressed as the other agents and speaking without accent.)''
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-->'''Kramer:''' Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, there are many differences between American and Soviet cultures that you're not aware of. See, in Russia, the cable guy, they got the whole run of the house. Yeah, that's tradition.

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-->'''Kramer:''' Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, there are many differences between American and Soviet cultures that you're not aware of. See, in Russia, the cable guy, they they've got the whole run of the house. Yeah, that's tradition.
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* BigEater: Anatoly is first seen eating a cake so fast it leaves his face full of white crumbs. Later, at the baby shower, he eats a whole plate of sandwiches and a whole sliceable cake by himself. Elaine complains about him eating all the food, but Kramer dismisses it as a CultureClash:
-->'''Kramer:''' Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, there are many differences between American and Soviet cultures that you're not aware of. See, in Russia, the cable guy, they got the whole run of the house. Yeah, that's tradition.

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* UninvitedToTheParty: Kramer, Anatoly and his assistant, interrupting the party for installing cable.

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* UninvitedToTheParty: UninvitedToTheParty:
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Kramer, Anatoly and his assistant, interrupting the party for installing cable.cable.
** Jerry, back from the performance he didn't give because of the blizzard.
** George, plotting -- and failing -- to get back at Leslie for her dumping him on a date.

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Elaine wants to perform a baby shower for her friend Leslie at Jerry's house while he's performing in Buffalo, and he grants her permission for doing so. However, he's convinced by Kramer to install illegal cable after he can't watch the Mets at home due to a cable carrier dispute. Both events collide.

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Elaine wants to perform a baby shower for her friend Leslie at Jerry's house while he's performing due to perform in Buffalo, and he grants her permission for doing so. However, he's convinced by Kramer to install illegal cable after he can't watch the Mets at home due to a cable carrier dispute. Both events collide.
collide. At the same time, George wants revenge on Leslie due to a bad date, and Mary Contardi, one of Leslie's friends at the baby shower, wants revenge on Jerry for the same reason.



* ContrivedCoincidence: Kramer has Anatoly Tabachnick and his assistant come by Jerry's to install cable right during the middle of Elaine's baby shower.

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* ArcSymbol: George's red shirt, dirty with ketchup. Jerry noticing it hints at George's ulterior motives in really wanting to take Jerry back to his house when the latter had originally wanted to go the former's.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Kramer has Anatoly Tabachnick and his assistant come by Jerry's to install cable right during the middle of Elaine's baby shower. George has Jerry -- who can't perform due to a blizzard -- come by his house in order for the former to get back at Leslie. And, Mary Contardi also has her revenge plans at George.


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* EmasculatedCuckold: George once had a date with Leslie, watching her performance -- where she threw ketchup at his red shirt, which he still can't take out. She ends up leaving with another man without saying anything to him. Now that she's married ''and'' pregnant, he plans to extract sweet revenge on her. But, he relents at last minute, and carries around her gifts as if he were a submissive boyfriend. He ends up complaining:
-->'''George:''' Every woman on the face of the earth has complete control of my life. And yet, I want them all... is that irony?
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* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Kramer refers to Anatoly as the "Sakharov of cable guys".

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* NightmareFuel:[[invoked]] A literal one with the thought of Jerry falling to an [=FBI=] sting operation with Anatoly being really undercover "Agent Stone". It ended with a shooting where Jerry ends up dead.
-->'''Kramer:''' No! Jerry! ''(The FBI agents open fire. Jerry's gunned down by a hailstorm of bullets. Kramer leans next to a fallen Jerry, cupping Jerry's head in his hands.)'' Cable boy, cable boy... What have you done to my little cable boy?



* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs:

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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs:WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs:[[invoked]]
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* NightmareFuel: A literal one with the thought of Jerry falling to an [=FBI=] sting operation with Anatoly being really undercover "Agent Stone". It ended with a shooting where Jerry ends up dead.
-->'''Kramer:''' No! Jerry! ''(The FBI agents open fire. Jerry's gunned down by a hailstorm of bullets. Kramer leans next to a fallen Jerry, cupping Jerry's head in his hands.)'' Cable boy, cable boy... What have you done to my little cable boy?
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* 24HourPartyPeople: Leslie and her friends, whom we only see and hear of in this episode.

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* 24HourPartyPeople: TwentyFourHourPartyPeople: Leslie and her friends, whom we only see and hear of in this episode.
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Elaine wants to perform a baby shower for her friend Leslie at Jerry's house while he's performing in Buffalo, and he grants her permission for doing so. However, he's convinced by Kramer to install illegal cable after he can't watch the Mets at home due to a cable carrier dispute. Both events collide.

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* 24HourPartyPeople: Leslie and her friends, whom we only see and hear of in this episode.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Kramer has Anatoly Tabachnick and his assistant come by Jerry's to install cable right during the middle of Elaine's baby shower.
* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Jerry originally recuses to install illegal cable on his house because it's illegal, but then is convinced by Kramer. He then doesn't go through with it because of its nightmare.
* EvilDebtCollector: After Jerry relents and refuses to pay (both because he doesn't want illegal cable, and because he refuses to pay $400 when Kramer had promised it would be done for $150), Anatoly's assistant punches his TV set so hard its screen gets all shattered.
* NightmareFuel: A literal one with the thought of Jerry falling to an [=FBI=] sting operation with Anatoly being really undercover "Agent Stone". It ended with a shooting where Jerry ends up dead.
-->'''Kramer:''' No! Jerry! ''(The FBI agents open fire. Jerry's gunned down by a hailstorm of bullets. Kramer leans next to a fallen Jerry, cupping Jerry's head in his hands.)'' Cable boy, cable boy... What have you done to my little cable boy?
* UninvitedToTheParty: Kramer, Anatoly and his assistant, interrupting the party for installing cable.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs:
-->'''Jerry:''' Wait a minute. Wait a minute, hold on! We're just patsies. We're just a couple of users... We never sold the stuff. What about the Russian guy? The Russian guy is the guy you want! ''(Cue Anatoly stepping out of the bedroom dressed as the other agents and speaking without accent.)''

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