George gets paid to take off work for three months. Elaine deals with a co-worker who does not move her arms when she walks. Kramer becomes a seat filler at the Tony's and gets an award. Jerry dates a woman who lives with a man.
Includes examples of
- As Herself: Raquel Welch.
- Ax-Crazy: Both Elaine's coworker Sam and actress Racquel Welch. Both react violently when told of their inability to swing their arms as they walk. The former leaves threatening messages on Elaine's answering machine and the latter beats her up on the street.
- Laser-Guided Karma: A year after he indirectly caused Susan's death via invitation envelopes of all things, George suffers a traumatic injury due to slipping on an invitation he dropped. While he doesn't die, his summer vacation is ruined and his friends react to the news of his injury with the exact same kind of indifference that George displayed to Susan upon hearing of her death.Elaine: All right, well. You wanna grab some coffee…?
- Modesty Towel: At one point, Jerry picks up his girlfriend, who is in just a towel... Followed by her roommate doing the same. Later, Jerry and his girlfriend are both dressed in towels.
- No Sympathy:
- Nobody cares about how Elaine is being stalked, harassed, and threatened by a co-worker. Or when Raquel Wench actually assaults her in the street. Because to them, it's just a sexy catfight.
- Jerry, Kramer, and Elaine react to the news of George's injury and how he may never walk again with thunderous apathy, and opt to just go to the coffee shop, leaving him to suffer alone in the hospital.
- Police Are Useless: The police don't seem to care much when Elaine describes her co-worker, and when she has the bad luck of imitating her co-worker right when Racquel Welch (who was fired because she doesn't move her arms when she dances) walks by and attacks her, the police just smile and watch.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: George lost his job with the Yankees, but gets a generous severance package that effectively gives him free pay for three months of work. He decides to spend those three months doing whatever he wants, declaring this time the Summer of George. Then at the end of the episode, he slips, falls, suffers tremendous trauma to his legs, and now has to spend the rest of the summer recuperating and learning how to walk again.
