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13 unusual facts about Seinfeld


Alternate-side parking

In the Seinfeld episode "The Alternate Side," George Costanza gets a job moving cars from one side of the street to the other.

Bobby Hebert

Hebert was a topic of conversation on an episode of the American sitcom Seinfeld.

Bruce Jarchow

Additional television guest appearances include recurring roles in Seinfeld, Married... With Children, Weird Science, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The Norm Show, What About Joan, Desperate Housewives and According to Jim.

Chrysler LeBaron

A 1989 Town and Country convertible was also famously featured in various episodes of the sitcom Seinfeld; George Costanza purchased it because he believed it previously had been owned by Jon Voight.

Coney Island Polar Bear Club

The club was mentioned on the season 3 episode of Seinfeld, The Pez Dispenser.

Ecaterina Szabo

On the 92nd episode of Seinfeld, "The Gymnast"" (aired on November 3, 1994) Jerry Seinfeld dated Katya, and mentioned that she is a Romanian gymnast which won the silver medal for gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

HumanLight

Festivus, another December 23 holiday, made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld

Jamie Glaser

He is well known for his guitar work on shows like Seinfeld, Saved By The Bell, Married With Children and many others.

KSHU

KSHU-TV during the weekends air re-runs of popular shows among students like Seinfeld, Family Guy, and Gossip Girl, with a syndication license.

New York City mayoral election, 2001

The election was also notable for two non-politician semi-celebrities running on third-party tickets: Bernhard Goetz, who had achieved fame in 1984 as the "subway vigilante" for shooting four young men who tried to rob him, on the Fusion Party ticket, and Kenny Kramer, who was the inspiration for the character Cosmo Kramer on the TV show Seinfeld, on the Libertarian Party ticket.

Pete's Tavern

Pete's Tavern has appeared in numerous films and television programs, including Seinfeld, Ragtime, Endless Love, Law & Order, Nurse Jackie, "Spin City" and Sex and the City.

Peter McManus Cafe

McManus' has been featured in a number of films and television programs, including Highlander, Radio Days, Keeping the Faith, Seinfeld, Law & Order and Saturday Night Live.

Runyon Canyon Park

The bench overlooking Los Angeles, featured near the end of the 1992 Seinfeld episode #42, titled "The Trip, Part 2", is located in the park; in 1998, singer Rozz Williams' ashes were scattered in the park after his suicide.


Alec Berg

In the Seinfeld episode "The Face Painter", Berg's name is given to an attorney friend of Jerry's who gives Jerry some New York Rangers playoff tickets.

Anne Twomey

She has made guest appearances on The Cosby Show, Magnum, P.I., Seinfeld, Spin City, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and had a featured role in the 1998 television remake of Rear Window starring Christopher Reeve and Daryl Hannah.

Billy Graziadei

In December 2005, Graziadei and Evan Seinfeld performed Biohazard's "Punishment" with Dino Cazares of Fear Factory, Andreas Kisser of Sepultura, Adam Duce of Machine Head and Joey Jordison of Slipknot.

Carnal Knowledge

In the 1992 Seinfeld episode "The Trip", George Costanza and Jerry Seinfeld ponder whether or not Candice Bergen showed her breasts in the film.

Change Everything

The LP can be spotted in the Seinfeld episode "The Old Man" hanging on the wall in the record shop where Kramer and Newman tries to sell old LP's.

Chip Chinery

As an actor, he has guest-starred on over 50 different TV shows and films, including Seinfeld, Friends, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Better Off Ted, and Coyote Ugly.

Clip show

Some examples of shows that have used clip shows in this sense are: Animaniacs, Frasier, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, Friends, Thunderbirds, Everybody Loves Raymond, Stargate SG-1/Atlantis, Cheers, and Avatar: The Last Airbender (though this recap episode had no actual clips).

Comedy Cellar

Much of Jerry Seinfeld's 2002 documentary Comedian was filmed at the club, and it also can be seen in a 2006 Pepsi commercial starring SNL star Jimmy Fallon.

Daniel Hagen

He has had guest appearances on Seinfeld ("The Dealership"), CSI, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and Charmed.

David Owen Trainor

He went on to direct two episodes of the series, "The Secretary" (1994) and "The Comeback" (1997).

Derek Edwards

He has been referred to as "...the funniest man in Canada. Everybody knows that," by Rick Mercer and as an emulation of "...Kramer from Seinfeld...an odd, hysterically funny, brilliant artist," by Mitch Fatel.

Dom Irrera

Irrera was a series regular on the 1998 FOX comedy Damon starring Damon Wayans and his guest-star credits include Seinfeld (he played an annoying prop comic needling Jerry in the memorable episode), Becker, Everybody Loves Raymond and King of Queens.

Elina Löwensohn

Some of her notable roles are Diana Reiter in Schindler's List (1993), "Katya" in the 1994 Seinfeld TV show episode The Gymnast, Iris in Six Ways to Sunday (1997), and Anne Levels in The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998).

Erik Kramer

His other nickname was "Cosmo", which was due to him having the same last name as the character Cosmo Kramer from the popular TV show, Seinfeld.

Gwen Shepherd

In the Seinfeld episode "The Stranded", Shepherd played a cashier who has an altercation with George Costanza after allegedly short-changing him for ten dollars.

I Knew I Loved You

The music video was filmed by director Kevin Bray in August, 1999 on a New York City Subway set that had previously been used on the sitcom Seinfeld.

Jessica Seinfeld

Following the release of her first book Deceptively Delicious, on January 7, 2008, another author, Missy Chase Lapine, sued Seinfeld for copyright and trademark infringement.

Josh Robin

Robin's brother, Andy Robin, is a medical student at Brown University who previously wrote several notable Seinfeld episodes.

Julia Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress most known for her role on the 1990s NBC sitcom Seinfeld

Kim Zimmer

In 1995, Zimmer appeared in an episode of Seinfeld (The Diplomat's Club), as Mr. Pitt's attorney who suspects Elaine & Jerry of trying to kill Mr. Pitt.

Laura Taylor Swain

As a result of comments made by Mr. Seinfeld about the authorship dispute on the Late Show with David Letterman, Lapine included a cause of action for defamation to her suit.

This action was filed by author Missy Chase Lapine against comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his wife, Jessica Seinfeld, asserting that the couple used ideas for Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food from Lapine's book The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals.

Lawrence H. Levy

Lawrence H. Levy is an American writer and producer on Savannah, Fantasy Island, Family Ties, Trapper John, M.D., Saved by the Bell, Who's the Boss?, 7th Heaven, Roseanne, Seinfeld.

Lieutenant Kijé

In the eighth season episode of Seinfeld "The Susie" (episode #149), Elaine Benes inadvertently creates an alter ego named "Susie", whom co-workers believe is real.

Marjorie Gross

She wrote many episodes of Seinfeld, including "The Fusilli Jerry", "The Understudy", "The Shower Head", and "The Secretary".

Michael Marisi Ornstein

Television credits include a recurring role as Detective Bonnaventura on Homicide: Life on the Street, and a two-episode arc on Third Watch, as well as parts in Seinfeld, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Papaya King

In the Seinfeld episode "The Movie", Kramer leaves the movie ticket line, where he was saving spots for Jerry, Elaine, and George, to get a hot dog from Papaya King.

Rena Sofer

Sofer has appeared in several high profile prime time television series in a guest star/supporting cast member roles: Seinfeld, Melrose Place, The Chronicle, Ed, Friends, Spin City, Blind Justice, Ghost Whisperer, 24, NCIS, and Two and a Half Men.

Susan Diol

On November 21, 1991, she appeared in Seinfeld episode no. 26, "The Nose Job", as Audrey (the one who needed the nose job).

Tom Towles

Towles' television credits include appearances in NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, ER, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Dramatis Personae"), Star Trek Voyager, Seinfeld and Firefly.

Tucker Smallwood

On television, he has been a regular and made guest appearances on many series, including Space: Above and Beyond, Millennium, Babylon 5, The X-Files, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Murphy Brown, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Friends, and The Sarah Silverman Program.

Veanne Cox

She has appeared in episodes of many television series, such as Boston Legal, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Seinfeld, and Judging Amy.

Winter swimming

Cosmo Kramer briefly joins a New York polar bears club in the sitcom Seinfeld.