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* CollectorOfTheStrange: Frank Costanza collects TV Guides.



* CollectorOfTheStrange: Frank Costanza collects TV Guides.
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* YouAreGrounded: While his parents are away, George has sex with the woman who works at the furniture in his parents' bed. Later on when they return, they find out when they find a condom wrapper in their bed. Frank promptly grounds George despite the fact he's in his 30s.
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* RunninGag: One of the main cast briefly stopping on the subway to get a gyro only to fail to return to the train in time and getting the hand with the gyro stuck in the door, which is promptly swiped by one of the passengers.

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* RunninGag: RunningGag: One of the main cast briefly stopping on the subway to get a gyro only to fail to return to the train in time and getting the hand with the gyro stuck in the door, which is promptly swiped by one of the passengers.
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* RunninGag: One of the main cast briefly stopping on the subway to get a gyro only to fail to return to the train in time and getting the hand with the gyro stuck in the door, which is promptly swiped by one of the passengers.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: During his second date with Winona, Jerry (who's trying to prove he's not racist) suggests that they eat at a popular restaurant nearby. He asks a mailman for directions--"You must know where this Chinese restaurant is." His intention is that a mailman would know the local area...but then the mailman reveals that he's a Chinese-American man. And then, just to rub salt in the wound, Kramer--who now has the titular statue after Elaine regifted it to him-- rides by in a taxi at ''just that moment'' screaming "HEY, JERRY! LOOK WHAT I GOT!" and repeating the offensive "war cry" that Jerry did earlier.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: During his second date with Winona, Jerry (who's trying to prove he's not racist) suggests that they eat at a popular restaurant nearby. He asks a mailman for directions--"You must know where this Chinese restaurant is." His intention is that a mailman would know the local area...but then the mailman reveals that he's a Chinese-American man. And then, just to rub salt in the wound, Kramer--who now has the titular statue after Elaine regifted it to him-- rides by in a taxi at ''just that moment'' screaming "HEY, JERRY! LOOK WHAT I GOT!" and repeating the offensive "war cry" that Jerry did earlier. GOT!", followed by stereotypical yooping/hollering.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: During his second date with Winona, Jerry (who's trying to prove he's not racist) suggests that they eat at a popular restaurant nearby. He asks a mailman for directions--"You must know where this Chinese restaurant is." His intention is that a mailman would know the local area...but then the mailman reveals that he's a Chinese-American man. And then, just to rub salt in the wound, Kramer--who now has the titular statue after Elaine regifted it to him-- rides by in a taxi at ''just that moment'' screaming "HEY, JERRY! LOOK WHAT I GOT!" and repeating the offensive "war cry" that Jerry did earlier.

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Jerry tries to woo a Native American friend of Elaine, but ends up offending her at every turn. George hooks up with an antique shop employee by pretending his parents house is his own. Elaine borrows a Magazine/TVGuide from Frank Costanza, which leads to trouble when it turns out he collects them. Kramer tries to pitch his idea for a coffe table book about coffee tables.

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Jerry tries to woo a Native American friend of Elaine, but ends up offending her at every turn. George hooks up with an antique shop employee by pretending his parents house is his own. Elaine borrows a Magazine/TVGuide from Frank Costanza, which leads to trouble when it turns out he collects them. Kramer tries to pitch his idea for a coffe coffee table book about coffee tables.


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* CollectorOfTheStrange: Frank Costanza collects TV Guides.

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* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: During his final standup performance, Jerry mentions that TV Guide has a phone number on its back where, for $0.95 a minute, one can call in and ask for help with the CrosswordPuzzle.



* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: During his final standup performance, Jerry mentions that TV Guide has a phone number on its back where, for $0.95 a minute, one can call in and ask for help with the CrosswordPuzzle.
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Consider this something of a "quasi-trope". It's technically not a trope, but in some cases — where it is plot-important — it assumes the properties of one — like in this episode.

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* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: During his final standup performance, Jerry mentions that TV Guide has a phone number on its back where, for $0.95 a minute, one can call in and ask for help with the CrosswordPuzzle.
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Useful Notes page, not a trope.


* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: During his final standup performance, Jerry mentions that TV Guide has a phone number on its back where, for $0.95 a minute, one can call in and ask for help with the CrosswordPuzzle.

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Jerry tries to woo a Native American friend of Elaine, but ends up offending her at every turn. George hooks up with an antique shop employee by pretending his parents house is his own. Elaine borrows a TV guide from Frank Costanza, which leads to trouble when it turns out he collects them. Kramer tries to pitch his idea for a coffe table book about coffee tables.

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Jerry tries to woo a Native American friend of Elaine, but ends up offending her at every turn. George hooks up with an antique shop employee by pretending his parents house is his own. Elaine borrows a TV guide Magazine/TVGuide from Frank Costanza, which leads to trouble when it turns out he collects them. Kramer tries to pitch his idea for a coffe table book about coffee tables.



* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: During his final standup performance, Jerry mentions that TV Guide has a phone number on its back where, for $0.95 a minute, one can call in and ask for help with the CrosswordPuzzle.



* StalkerWithACrush: The creepy guy on the subway becomes interested in Elaine and personally shows up to deliver a paper bouquet he made of her TV guide.

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* StalkerWithACrush: The creepy guy on the subway becomes interested in Elaine and personally shows up to deliver a paper bouquet he made of her TV guide.Guide.
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Jerry tries to woo a Native American friend of Elaine, but ends up offending her at every turn. George hooks up with an antique shop employee by pretending his parents house is his own. Elaine borrows a TV guide from Frank Costanza, which leads to trouble when it turns out he collects them. Kramer tries to pitch his idea for a coffe table book about coffee tables.

!!This episode features examples of the following:
* AsHimself: Creator/AlRoker shows up in the final scene and flirts with Elaine.
* EverythingIsRacist: After being given a second chance with Winona, Jerry starts to overcompensate and can't even use the word "reservation" around her.
* MistakenForRacist: While most of the Jerry's insensitive comments about Native Americans were genuinely tactless, him asking a mailman where the nearest Chinese restaurant is, only for the man to turn around and reveal that he's Asian-American, was just bad luck.
* StalkerWithACrush: The creepy guy on the subway becomes interested in Elaine and personally shows up to deliver a paper bouquet he made of her TV guide.
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