Jerry and Elaine come up with signals so they can help one another get out of bad situations at a party. At the party, George strands Jerry and Elaine when he leaves with a woman, forcing them to call Kramer for a ride.
Tropes:
- Bros Before Hoes: Inverted - Jerry allows George to take a woman home from a party, leaving himself and Elaine stranded there for hours until Kramer can come pick them up. When Elaine questions him, he says "There's nothing I could do. It's part of the Code." It then cuts to Jerry doing stand-up explaining this further.Jerry: All plans between men are tentative. If one man should suddenly have an opportunity to pursue a woman, it's like these two guys never met each other ever in life. This is the Male Code. And it doesn't matter how important the arrangements are, I mean, most of the time when they scrub a space shuttle mission it's because one of the astronauts met someone on his way to the launch pad. They hold that countdown. He's leaning against the rocket talking to her, "So listen, when I get back what do you say we get together for some Tang?"
- Hypocrite: Elaine is accused of being one when she criticizes George's girlfriend, Ava, of wearing fur. Ava asks Elaine if she ever eats meat, and Elaine says she occasionally eats fish.Ava: So, you're a hypocrite.
George: Hey, I've eaten frogs, so nobody's perfect. - The Thing That Would Not Leave: The Pocatillos regard Jerry and Elaine as this when they stay at their house hours after the party ended, with the wife in particular growing snippier toward them and telling them to get out in progressively less subtle ways. It's downplayed in that Jerry and Elaine didn't intend or want to stay; they were stuck because George took off with Ava in the only car they brought, and Kramer couldn't find his way to the house.
