"The Chinese Restaurant" is the eleventh episode of the second season of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld and the show's seventeenth episode overall. The episode revolves around protagonist Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and his friends Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and George Costanza (Jason Alexander) waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant, on their way to see Plan 9 from Outer Space. Unable to get a table they hang around and talk, while George tries...
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"The Chinese Restaurant" is the eleventh episode of the second season of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld and the show's seventeenth episode overall. The episode revolves around protagonist Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and his friends Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and George Costanza (Jason Alexander) waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant, on their way to see Plan 9 from Outer Space. Unable to get a table they hang around and talk, while George tries to use the phone that is constantly occupied and Jerry sees a woman he recognizes.
Written by Seinfeld and series co-creator Larry David, the episode was the first in which Jerry's neighbour Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards) did not appear, much to Richard's dissapointment. Due to "The Chinese Restaurant"'s lack of storyline, NBC executives objected to the broadcast of the episode, thinking audiences would be uninterested. It was not until David treathened to quit if the network forced any major changes upon the script, that NBC allowed the...
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