The Dinner Party (Seinfeld episode)
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| Seinfeld episode | |
| "The Dinner Party" | |
 Jerry and Elaine in line for a babka. | |
| Episode no. | 77 |
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| Airdate | February 3, 1994 |
| Writer(s) | Larry David |
| Director | Tom Cherones |
| Seinfeld - Season 5 September 1993 - May 1994 | |
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| List of all Seinfeld episodes | |
The Dinner Party is the 77th episode of NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 13th episode for the 5th season. It aired on February 3, 1994.
[edit] Plot
This episode focuses on the four principal characters' attempts to find gifts for a dinner party. Jerry and Elaine stop at a bakery to purchase a chocolate babka. However, they forget to take a number at the counter. As a result, David and Barbara Benedict, a couple on their way to the same dinner party, get ahead of Jerry and Elaine in line and purchase the last chocolate babka. Jerry and Elaine resort to purchasing a cinnamon babka. Upon hearing Elaine refer to their cake as "a lesser babka" in comparison to the Benedicts' chocolate cake, Jerry proudly claims that "cinnamon takes a back seat to no babka!". Adding to their misfortune, Jerry and Elaine find that the babka has a hair on it, and they are forced to wait in line again in order to purchase a new cake. While they wait, Jerry eats a black-and-white cookie (a cookie with chocolate and vanilla icing on it), on which he claims to base philosophical theories on race relations. One of the funnier moments in the episodes, Jerry raises his cookie and gives a nod to a black man across the bakery. The man is also eating a black-and-white cookie, and he raises his cookie and returns the nod. However, the cookie causes Jerry to throw up, ending his non-vomit streak, which he had held since June 29, 1980. They eventually exchange their babka for one that the saleswoman coughs on.
Kramer and George go to purchase wine but must change a $100 bill and then wait for a double parker to return to his car. It turns out the double parker is Saddam Hussein (or a British look-alike).
[edit] Trivia
- Jerry's vomit streak was also talked about in The Masseuse.
