Elaine and Jerry are nervous about the religious duties they must do when they agree to become godparents to a couple's newborn; George nabs a great parking spot.Elaine and Jerry are nervous about the religious duties they must do when they agree to become godparents to a couple's newborn; George nabs a great parking spot.Elaine and Jerry are nervous about the religious duties they must do when they agree to become godparents to a couple's newborn; George nabs a great parking spot.
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- TriviaThis is the final episode to include the audience's applause whenever Kramer (Michael Richards) makes his first entrance. Larry David asked the studio audience to stop the applause as it was throwing the actors' timing off.
- GoofsWhen Stan (Tom Alan Robbins) and Myra (Jeannie Elias) explain to Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) what's expected of them regarding the Bris and refer to the baby by name. According to Jewish law, however, a baby is named at his bris after being circumcised.
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Cosmo Kramer: Don't ever question my instincts, because my instincts are honed. Look at that.
[Kramer shows newspaper]
Jerry Seinfeld: What now?
[Jerry reads newspaper]
Jerry Seinfeld: Hospital receives grant to conduct DNA research. Government funds genetic research at area hospital... Yeah, so?
Cosmo Kramer: Pigman, baby. Pigman.
Elaine Benes: Oh, if I hear about this pigman one more time...
Cosmo Kramer: I'm tellin ya the pigman is alive. The governments been experimenting with pigmen since the fifties.
Jerry Seinfeld: Will you stop it. Just because a hospital gets a grant to study DNA doesn't mean they are creating a race of mutant pigmen.
Cosmo Kramer: Oh. Jerry wake up to reality. It's a military thing. They're probably creating a whole army of pig warriors.
George Costanza: I wish there were pigmen. You get a few of these pigmen walking around I'm looking a whole lot better. Then if somebody wants to fix me up at least they could say, Hey he's no pig-man!
Jerry Seinfeld: Believe me, there'd be plenty of women going for the pigmen. No matter what the deformity you'll find some group of perverts attracted to it. Ooo that little tail turns me on.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Pastor Mike Online: Man of Steel Coming to a Church Near You! (2013)
The first half is actually good. We get the good old social commentaries with Jerry and Elaine being asked to be the godparents of a friend couple and we get George issue with his car. The one story I'm split about is Kramer's with his pig-man. Larry Charles is known to be the most absurd of the writers and sometimes that can be good (The Limo, The Subway) and sometimes it can come out as out of place (The Keys, The Trip and this storyline). Actually everything about Kramer in this episode feels out of place: the presence of a pig-man and I can't go on without mentioning the ending. That ending just buried this episode. Maybe in the latter seasons it would've fit nicely but on this season it just felt absurdly weird.
So, Kramer's story is kind of funny and kind of out of place, but what really kills this episode is the second half. Right from when George have his conversation with the hospital administrator (which is remarkably dull and unfunny for some reason). Then we get the bris scene, which has some nice dialogues (level-jumping friendship and George conversation with the cardiologist), but as soon as the mohel arrives everything crumbles. Apparently, every reviewer here on IMDb liked the mohel character, but I personally couldn't find him more annoying. He enters the room and starts shouting left and right with these never-ending monologues that really drags the story down. I don't know, I couldn't even giggle at him. And in the end Charles tries to tied everything together in the most forced way possible: George's car gets stolen by the pig-man for some miraculous reason, the parents ask Kramer to be the new godfather of the baby (with that ending) and the episode just ends flat.
As I said, some good moments here and there but an underwhelming episode in general.
- juanmaffeo
- Jul 25, 2016
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