George and Susan invite Jerry, his girlfriend Naomi, Elaine and Kramer to spend the weekend at her parents' cabin upstate. Naomi bows out after Jerry makes a comment on her laugh and Kramer has other obligations. After Elaine goads him into it, Jerry agrees to stop off on the way and visit a fan who lives in a plastic bubble enclosed room due to an autoimmune disease. They go in separate cars and George drives so fast that Jerry and Elaine lose them and not having the boy's address end up in a diner. Once Kramer's other obligations fall through, he and Naomi decide to go to the cabin with unfortunate results.
Tropes:
- Accidental Misnaming: A waitress calls Jerry "Gary Seinfield," immediately after Elaine told her his name.
- All for Nothing: The trip was a total bust as the Bubble Boy was a complete Jerkass, they got chased out of town, then Kramer burned the cabin down before they showed up.
- Annoying Laugh: Naomi, the hostess Jerry dates, has a nasal, rapid-fire stutter of a laugh. As a comedian, Jerry isn't sure he can date a woman whose laugh he hates. She ends up dumping him after George repeats his description of her laugh on Jerry's answering machine: "like Elmer Fudd sitting on a juicer".
- Brick Joke: While George and Susan are driving to the Bubble Boy's house, George gives her 10 bucks for the tolls. When the two arrive at the burning cabin, George asks her to reimburse him for the tolls.
- Bubble Boy: The title character.
- Contrived Coincidence: Jerry and Elaine end up stopping in the exact town the Bubble Boy lives in.
- Determinator: George continues to insist the answer is "Moops" even while being strangled.
- Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery: Unlike most examples, the Bubble Boy doesn't even intentionally play up his disability to get people to excuse his behavior. All he does is act like a dick and everyone gives him sympathy anyway.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Twice.
- Bubble Boy strangles George in retaliation for not giving him a point over a typo.
- The group gets chased out of town because Susan accidentally popped the bubble trying to keep Bubble Boy from killing George.
- Drives Like Crazy: George's fast driving is the catalyst to the plot.
- Establishing Character Moment: George and Susan meet up with the title character's family, and the family asks if they could meet him. He's then heard screaming at his mom for food, which proves how much of a Jerkass he is revealed to be. His voice also indicates that he is an adult who is incapable of fending for himself.Bubble Boy: HEY, MA! WHAT THE HELL DO I GOTTA DO TO GET SOME FOOD AROUND HERE?!? I'M STARVING, AND IF IT'S PEANUT BUTTER, I'LL SHOVE IT IN YOUR FACE!!
- Funny Background Event: When George and Bubble Boy are fighting over whether the answer was "Moors" or "Moops", Susan is seen consulting the rulebook.
- Game Night Fight: George and Susan play Trivial Pursuit with the title character. George asks "Who invaded Spain in the 8th century?", to which the Bubble Boy responds with "Moors". George says he's wrong as the answer card says "Moops", with the Bubble Boy pointing out that's a misprint. George sticks to his guns, leading to them arguing between "Moors" and "Moops". The Bubble Boy strangles George, and Susan stops him by popping his bubble.
- Jerkass: The titular Bubble Boy, who is an obnoxious dick to everyone he encounters; he's demanding and petulant to his parents, leers at Susan, gloats over winning a game of Trivial Pursuit and gets so heated up over the "Moors/Moops" argument that he tries to throttle George.
- Long List: George and Jerry team up to unleash a list of pies to confuse Kramer into not inviting himself along on a trip upstate to Susan's family cabin, where he is explicitly not welcome.Kramer: They got any golf courses up there?
George: No, no, no, no. That's pie country. They do a lot of baking up there.
Jerry: They sell them by the side of the road. Blueberry, blackberry.
George: Blackberry, boysenberry.
Jerry: Boysenberry, huckleberry.
George: Huckleberry, raspberry.
Jerry: Raspberry, strawberry.
George: Strawberry, cranberry.
Jerry: Peach. - Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: Ironically averted. Jerry is annoyed with his girlfriend's laugh, but he was actually willing to put up with it. He even says later it was more the fact him being a comedian made him sick of hearing it so much. The girlfriend broke up with Jerry because she found out George insulted her behind his back which Jerry clearly never intended her to hear.
- Misplaced Retribution: George is run out of town by a mob who blame him for trying to kill the Bubble Boy; not only was the Bubble Boy actually trying to kill him, but the one who actually popped the suit was Susan (albeit accidentally in an attempt to stop him throttling George).
- Product Placement: Yoo Hoo is essentially plugged:Mel: My name's Sanger, Mel Sanger. I drive that truck out there.
Jerry: Oh, the Yoo Hoo? I love Yoo Hoo.
Mel: It's a fine product. - Skewed Priorities: George chooses the moment that Susan's father's cabin is burning down to tell her she never paid him back for the tolls they went through.
- Sublime Rhyme: Jerry signs a photo of himself with, "Nothing's finer than being in your diner." Elaine mocks him for it.
- Swiper, No Swiping!: The Bubble Boy's mother tries to stop his murderous anger towards George by...repeatedly snapping her fingers at him.
- Unintentionally Karmic: While the Bubble Boy gets what's coming to him, it was only because Susan accidentally popped his bubble in her effort to save George from being strangled.
- The Voice: We never get to see Bubble Boy at all. We just hear his loud, demanding voice, and his hands when he attempts to strangle George.
