The Ex-Girlfriend
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| Seinfeld episode | |
| "The Ex-Girlfriend" | |
 Jerry and Marlene make out. |
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| Episode no. | 6 |
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| Airdate | January 23, 1991 |
| Writer(s) | Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld |
| Director | Tom Cherones |
| IMDb profile | |
| Seinfeld - Season 2 January - June 1991 |
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| List of all Seinfeld episodes | |
The Ex-Girlfriend is the sixth episode of Seinfeld. The episode was the first episode for the show's second season. It aired on January 23, 1991.
[edit] Plot
Jerry begins seeing George's ex-girlfriend, Marlene, whom George finds altogether annoying. Jerry wants to break up with Marlene but can't because she has a "psychosexual hold" on him. Marlene then breaks up with Jerry after seeing his comedy act. George is angry over a huge chiropractor bill, which he argues that he shouldn't have to pay for.
Marlene's get-out-of-the-relationship speech at the end of the episode forms an ironic commencement to the first full season of the show. She describes it as "just so much fluff" and that it "didn't make it for me". The famed premise of Seinfeld is, of course, a "show about nothing" and parts of this episode keenly emphasise this premise. Elaine recounts her issues with a past acquaintance who appears to have snubbed her, but this is merely discussed and never seen. Kramer's main business in the episode is to comment upon the quality of Jerry's canteloupe. A discussion between George and Jerry in Monk's Cafe is terminated as George thinks he has swallowed a fly and panics. Further episode time and action is wasted on Jerry's wrong-number dialing. Throughout the episode, the main thread (Jerry's nascent relationship with Marlene and its ending) is supported by non-sequential events and conversations which are, in Marlene's words, "just so much fluff". Jerry's response is that he has "other stuff", as indeed he does, this being just the start of the series proper.
[edit] Goofs
- In this episode George mentions that he said "I love you " to his girlfriend, but in the episode The Face Painter he says that he has only said "I love you" to a dog.
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