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* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: Kramer uses Jerry's phone to call a 976 number (the local version of this trope), even though Jerry told Kramer not to call those. Cue [[IntimateTelecommunications the sexy voice of "Erica" talking to "Andre" (Kramer)]] when Elaine picks up the phone to talk to her boyfriend.

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* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: Kramer uses Jerry's phone to call a 976 number (the local version of this trope), even though Jerry told Kramer not to call those. Cue [[IntimateTelecommunications the sexy voice of "Erica" talking to "Andre" (Kramer)]] when Elaine picks up the phone to talk to call her boyfriend.
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* CallBack: Jane is briefly seen giving Jerry a massage, to which Jerry comments, "I've been waiting so long for this." A nod to "The Masseuse" a few episodes prior.

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Elaine has a hostile encounter with a woman in the bathroom who refuses to lend her toilet paper. Jerry struggles to prevent the two women from recognizing each other when he realizes the woman is his new girlfriend. Kramer regularly calls to a phone sex line, to a woman named "Erica"... which also turns out to be Jerry's new girlfriend. George befriends and starts idolizing Elaine's cool boyfriend, who invites him and Kramer on a rock climbing-trip.

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Elaine has a hostile encounter with a woman in the bathroom who refuses to lend her toilet paper. Jerry struggles to prevent the two women from recognizing each other when he realizes the woman is his new girlfriend. Kramer regularly calls to a phone sex line, to a woman named "Erica"... which also turns out to be Jerry's new girlfriend. George befriends and starts idolizing Elaine's cool boyfriend, who invites him and Kramer on a rock climbing-trip.
climbing trip.



* PlotThreads: Jane's interactions with Jerry, Kramer and Elaine vs. George's mancrush on Tony.

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* PlotThreads: Jane's interactions with Jerry, Kramer and Elaine vs. George's mancrush on Tony.Tony (and Kramer going on their rock climbing trip).


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* ThirdWheel: Kramer acts like a platonic version of this when he essentially invites himself to George's and Tony's rock climbing trip.

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Elaine has a hostile encounter with a woman in the bathroom who refuses to lend her toilet paper. Jerry struggles to prevent the two women from recognizing each other when he realizes the woman is his new girlfriend. George befriends and starts idolizing Elaine's cool boyfriend, who invites him and Kramer on a rock climbing-trip.

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Elaine has a hostile encounter with a woman in the bathroom who refuses to lend her toilet paper. Jerry struggles to prevent the two women from recognizing each other when he realizes the woman is his new girlfriend. Kramer regularly calls to a phone sex line, to a woman named "Erica"... which also turns out to be Jerry's new girlfriend. George befriends and starts idolizing Elaine's cool boyfriend, who invites him and Kramer on a rock climbing-trip.



* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: Kramer uses Jerry's phone to call a 976 number (the local version of this trope), even though Jerry told Kramer not to call those. Cue [[IntimateTelecommunications the sexy voice of "Erica" talking to "Andre" (Kramer)]] when Elaine picks up the phone to talk to her boyfriend.



* ContrivedCoincidence: Jane being both "Erica" and the woman who refused to hand out toilet paper to Elaine.



* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: Kramer uses Jerry's phone to call a 976 number (the local version of this trope), even though Jerry told Kramer not to call those. Cue [[IntimateTelecommunications the sexy voice of "Erica" talking to "Andre" (Kramer)]] when Elaine picks up the phone to talk to her boyfriend.


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* PlotThreads: Jane's interactions with Jerry, Kramer and Elaine vs. George's mancrush on Tony.
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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: Kramer uses Jerry's phone to call a 976 number (the local version of this trope), even though Jerry told Kramer not to call those. Cue [[IntimateTelecommunications the sexy voice of "Erica" talking to "Andre" (Kramer)]] when Elaine picks up the phone to talk to her boyfriend.
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Useful Notes page, not a trope.


* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: Kramer uses Jerry's phone to call a 976 number (the local version of this trope), even though Jerry told Kramer not to call those. Cue [[IntimateTelecommunications the sexy voice of "Erica" talking to "Andre" (Kramer)]] when Elaine picks up the phone to talk to her boyfriend.
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** At the last second it turns out Jane really ''was'' "Erica" after all. (Kramer started suspecting Jane's voice when he answered Jerry's phone, and then his suspicions got stronger when he first saw - and heard - her in person.)

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** At the last second it turns out Jane really ''was'' "Erica" after all. (Kramer started suspecting Jane's voice when he answered Jerry's phone, and then his suspicions got stronger when he first saw - and heard - her in person. Jane, for one, also suspected Kramer was "Andre".)
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** At the last second it turns out Jane really ''was'' "Erica" after all.

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** At the last second it turns out Jane really ''was'' "Erica" after all. (Kramer started suspecting Jane's voice when he answered Jerry's phone, and then his suspicions got stronger when he first saw - and heard - her in person.)

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* HoistByHerOwnPetard: By the end of the episode, it's Jane who doesn't have toilet paper and Elaine who refuses to lend her some... because she purposely took out the roll and then brought it with her and then dumped it on Jerry. Jane ends it all with both Jerry and Kramer.



** After both of them come out of the bathroom and are seated to watch the movie, we see that Jane is the woman who refused to lend Elaine toilet paper.

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** After both of them come out of the bathroom and are seated to watch the movie, we see that Jane is the woman who refused to lend Elaine toilet paper. (Elaine realizes this by the end of the show.)

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* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: Kramer uses Jerry's phone to call a 976 number (the local version of this trope), even though Jerry told Kramer not to call those. Cue [[IntimateTelecommunications a sexy voice talking to "Andre" (Kramer)]] when Elaine picks up the phone to talk to her boyfriend.

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* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: Kramer uses Jerry's phone to call a 976 number (the local version of this trope), even though Jerry told Kramer not to call those. Cue [[IntimateTelecommunications a the sexy voice of "Erica" talking to "Andre" (Kramer)]] when Elaine picks up the phone to talk to her boyfriend.



* TheReveal: At the last second it turns out Jane really ''was'' "Erica" after all.

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* TheReveal: PlaygroundSong/NinetyNineBottlesOfBeer: Kramer mentions to Jerry and Elaine that he sang this song to Tony while he was being driven to the hospital on the ambulance.
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** After both of them come out of the bathroom and are seated to watch the movie, we see that Jane is the woman who refused to lend Elaine toilet paper.
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At the last second it turns out Jane really ''was'' "Erica" after all.

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* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: Kramer uses Jerry's phone to call a 976 number (the local version of this trope), even though Jerry told Kramer not to call those. Cue [[IntimateTelecommunications a sexy voice talking to "Andre" (Kramer)]] when Elaine picks up the phone to talk to her boyfriend.




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* ValleyGirl: [[SpearCounterpart Other than being, well, a guy]], Tony fits this stereotype to a tee.
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Elaine has a hostile encounter with a woman in the bathroom who refuses to lend her toilet paper. Jerry struggles to prevent the two women from recognizing each other when he realizes the woman is his new girlfriend. George befriends and starts idolizing Elaine's cool boyfriend, who invites him and Kramer on a rock climbing-trip.

!!This episode features examples of the following:
* BandagedFace: George and Kramer accidentally drop Tony during while rock climbing, leaving him bandaged. Suddenly, Elaine's statement that she's not dating Tony for his looks is put to the test.
* BrainlessBeauty: Jerry refers to Tony a male bimbo, or a "mimbo".
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: George has a blatant mancrush on Tony, and Jerry is convinced that Elaine is only dating him for his "hunky" looks.
* TheReveal: At the last second it turns out Jane really ''was'' "Erica" after all.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Elaine and Tony's relationship is never resolved, as the episode ends before the bandages come off. A DeletedScene that was was supposed to end the episode reveals that his face healed, [[MinorFlawMajorBreakup but then he dumps Elaine after noticing a pimple on her face]].

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