"The Ex-Girlfriend" is the sixth episode of NBC's sitcom Seinfeld, and the first episode of the show's second season. The episode was first broadcast on NBC in the United States on January 23, 1991, after being postponed for one week due to the commencement of the First Gulf War. During the course of the show, George Costanza (Jason Alexander) breaks up with his girlfriend Marlene (Tracy Kolis). Later, he remembers that he left some books in her ...
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"The Ex-Girlfriend" is the sixth episode of NBC's sitcom Seinfeld, and the first episode of the show's second season. The episode was first broadcast on NBC in the United States on January 23, 1991, after being postponed for one week due to the commencement of the First Gulf War. During the course of the show, George Costanza (Jason Alexander) breaks up with his girlfriend Marlene (Tracy Kolis). Later, he remembers that he left some books in her apartment and persuades his friend Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), the show's protagonist, to retrieve them. Jerry starts dating Marlene, but, after Marlene starts to annoy him as much as she did George, he finds himself unable to break up with her because she has a "psycho-sexual" hold on him.
The episode was written by series co-creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, and was inspired by one of Larry David's personal experiences. Directed by Tom Cherones, "The Ex-Girlfriend" was the first episode of the show filmed at CBS Studio Center in Studio...
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