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The Cartoon: Directed by Andy Ackerman. With Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander. Sally Weaver makes fun of Jerry. George's new girlfriend looks just like Jerry. Kramer takes a vow of silence. Elaine gets a job drawing cartoons for the New Yorker.
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- Comedy
- Andy Ackerman
- 1998-01-29
The episode was inspired by comedian Kathy Griffin's ridiculing Jerry Seinfeld during a stand-up comedy performance on HBO's HBO Comedy Half-Hour (airing October 18, 1996) where she stated that he was rude to her during her first appearance on the sitcom, in the episode "The Doll".
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"The Cartoon” is the thirteenth episode of the ninth and final season of Seinfeld, and the 169th episode overall. This episode first aired on January 29, 1998. It was written by Bruce Eric Kaplan and was directed by Andy Ackerman.
Kramer again gets Jerry into trouble, by revealing what he truly thinks of Susan Ross' old college roommate Sally Weaver (Kathy Griffin).
Elaine obsesses over the meaning of a cartoon that appears in The New Yorker. Elaine and later Kramer comments that George's new girlfriend (Tracy Nelson) looks a lot like Jerry. In fact Kramer tells George, "Just because they look alike, that doesn't mean you're secretly in love with Jerry." Jerry confronts Kramer's frankness. Sally claims that Jerry has ruined her life and she's quitting the business. Jerry can't have that on his conscience; he talks her back into the business. Kramer makes an important life decision: the only way to keep his mouth shut is to stop talking. Before he finally stops talking, Kramer's constant references to the looks of George's girlfriend drive George out of Jerry's apartment.
Elaine goes to The New Yorker offices to seek an explanation for the cartoon. She discovers that the editor (Paul Benedict) didn't understand the cartoon either – he simply "liked the kitty". Sally opens her new one-woman show about "Jerry Seinfeld, the Devil". Elaine's complaint gets her the opportunity to do her own cartoon for the magazine. Jerry confronts Sally about the content of her show. Newman is her biggest fan; finally, he can see a "show that is about something". Kramer discovers the disadvantages of not talking. George worries about why he really likes his girlfriend. A clip of Sally's show appears on Channel 9 news; it features Jerry's latest confrontation with her. Jerry calls Sally and the message he leaves on her answering machine appears in her show as well. Later the lawsuit he filed appears in her cable special. Jerry decides to cut off all communication with Sally. Elaine's first comic appears in The New Yorker. J. Peterman thinks it is a great cartoon until he realizes it is a Ziggy.
George and his girlfriend discuss their relationship, until she gets chewing gum in her hair. Sally starts talking to the silent Kramer, until he can't take it anymore. He tells her to shut up, and then he apologizes and says that he hasn't spoken for days. Sally tells him to lay it on her. To remove the gum from her hair, George's girlfriend cuts her hair; her new hairstyle looks exactly like Jerry's. Sally's new cable show is about to come on and Jerry is convinced she'll have nothing to talk about, and is proven wrong because Kramer talked with Sally at Monk's Coffee Shop. George decides to take a few days off from his "relationship" with Jerry.
•The Sally Weaver storyline in this episode was inspired after Kathy Griffin ridiculed Jerry Seinfeld during her HBO stand-up special, alleging that he was rude to her during her appearance in the episode "The Doll". Jerry was so amused by this that he began showing the clip of her stand-up routine during the audience warmup before taping of the show and incorporated it into this episode.
•After Kramer announces that "one of us has to leave", you can see Jerry Seinfeld trying in vain not to laugh.
Learn about the plot, cast, and behind-the-scenes facts of the Seinfeld episode "The Cartoon", where Jerry faces a former girlfriend's revenge and Elaine gets a cartoon published in The New Yorker. Find out how Kathy Griffin's stand-up routine inspired the Sally Weaver storyline and see some funny moments from the episode.
"And she's quite a handsome woman."From Seinfeld Season 9 Episode 13, 'The Cartoon': Jerry is aggravated when a woman uses him as a subject for her show, and...
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"The Cartoon" is the 169th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 13th episode for the ninth and final season. It aired on January 29, 1998.
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Jan 29, 1998 · Summary. Elaine is obsessed with a cartoon in the New Yorker and is determined to prove that it doesn't make sense. George finds himself in "weird trouble" when he realizes that his latest girlfriend looks very similar to Jerry.
