The Bris

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Seinfeld episode
"The Bris"

The Mohel (Charles Levin) at the bris.
Episode no. 69
Airdate October 14, 1993
Writer(s) Larry Charles
Director Tom Cherones
IMDb profile
Seinfeld - Season 5
September 1993 - May 1994
  1. The Mango
  2. The Puffy Shirt
  3. The Glasses
  4. The Sniffing Accountant
  5. The Bris
  6. The Lip Reader
  7. The Non-Fat Yogurt
  8. The Barber
  9. The Masseuse
  10. The Cigar Store Indian
  11. The Conversion
  12. The Stall
  13. The Dinner Party
  14. The Marine Biologist
  15. The Pie
  16. The Stand In
  17. The Wife
  18. The Raincoats, Part 1
  19. The Raincoats, Part 2
  20. The Fire
  21. The Hamptons
  22. The Opposite
List of all Seinfeld episodes

The Bris is the sixty-ninth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 5th episode for the fifth season. It aired on October 14, 1993.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The four go to the hospital to meet friends who have just had a baby. At the hospital, George gets a fortunate parking spot right in front of the hospital, which becomes unfortunate when a mental patient at the hospital suicidally jumps from the roof and lands on it. George then attempts to get the hospital to pay for the car's damages. Kramer stumbles into the wrong room at the hospital and becomes convinced that he has seen a "pigman", part of a conspiracy theory concerning the government and genetic mutation, claiming, "The government's been experimenting with pig-men since the fifties!"

Elaine and Jerry become nervous about the religious duties they must perform when they agree to become godparents to the newborn baby, obligated to arrange the bris which involves booking a Mohel and holding the baby during the circumcision. At the bris, Elaine's unstable, shaky Mohel arrives (guest star Charles Levin). Kramer, disturbed by the concept of the bris, attempts to stop it, and the Mohel accidentally circumcizes Jerry's finger. The four go to the hospital, where Jerry's finger is fixed up. Kramer finds the "pigman" (who is actually just a small, deformed mental patient) and "liberates" him from the hospital. The "pigman" steals George's car.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Trivia

  • The incident of discovering a pigman in a hospital bed parodies the British film O Lucky Man!
  • The ending of this episode parodies The Godfather, even using the theme music from the movie.
  • During Jerry's stand-up routine at the end, Jerry's finger is bandaged from the injury he sustained, but it's unlikely that he was actually cut.
  • When George thinks there should be pigmen walking around, Jerry tells George that there is always some "group of perverts that's attracted to it, 'that little tail really turns me on.'" In Shallow Hal Jason Alexander's character has a little tail, and in fact, there is a group of females who are attracted to it.
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