The Good Samaritan (Seinfeld episode)

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Seinfeld episode
"The Good Samaritan"
Elaine on the phone.
Episode no.	38
Airdate	March 4, 1992
Writer(s)	Peter Mehlman
Director	Jason Alexander
Guest star(s)	Helen Slater
Seinfeld - Season 3 September 1991 - May 1992
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The Good Samaritan is the thirty-eighth episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the 21st episode for the third season. It aired on March 4, 1992.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Jerry witnesses a hit-and-run driver hitting another car. He is on the car phone with Elaine at the time, who tells him he has to go after the driver. He does, but when the driver steps out he realizes that she is a beautiful woman and decides to date her.

Jerry lies to Elaine saying he went into Queens and intimidated the man with karate moves. After dating Angela (the hit-and-run driver), Jerry finds out she also hit Becky, another woman he's always wanted to date. He tells Becky that he will do something about the damage. Meanwhile, Kramer has convulsions from Mary Hart's voice.

George and Elaine go out to dinner with a married couple. Elaine makes up an elaborate story that she once dated a romantic matador from Spain named "Eduardo Corrochio", making his name up hesitantly on the spot. (Trivia: In reality, there is a famous person by the name of "Eduardo Corrochio"; he was a Spanish tap dancer in the late 1800s.) When the wife sneezes, George casually tells her "God bless you", but her husband doesn't say anything. When George points this out, the husband, Michael, gets mad. His wife, Robin, likes George, and they have an affair. As George and Robin are in bed together, Michael calls Elaine to find out where his wife is. Elaine doesn't know, but soon realizes that Robin used her as an excuse and tries to cover up. Michael doesn't buy it and figures out Robin is with Geroge. He then exclaims into the phone, "He's finished! I'm going to sew his ass to his face! I'm going to twist his neck so hard his lips will be his eyebrows! I'm going to break his joints, and reattach them!"

Meanwhile, Jerry confronts Angela about Becky's car, but unfortunately Elaine walks in at that very moment and figures out that Jerry "lied" about his story. Jerry goes to Becky's house to write out a check for her damage and then ask her out, but Becky falsly accuses him of hitting her car. George manages to escape from Michael by joining Jerry on vacation. Kramer uses the accident as an excuse to talk to Becky and ends up getting a date with her. But when he rings the bell at her apartment and she opens the door, Mary Hart is on the TV and Kramer has another convulsion.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Trivia

Helen Slater, who appears as Becky Gelke, starred in the film Supergirl.
Helen Slater would later appear in Julia Louis-Dreyfus' show, The New Adventures of Old Christine in the episode "Teach Your Children Well."
Kramer's seizures upon hearing Mary Hart's voice are based on an actual case reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.[1]
This is the only episode of "Seinfeld" to be directed by actor Jason Alexander, who played George Costanza.