The Junk Mail

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Seinfeld episode
"The Junk Mail"
Newman telling the truth about mail
Episode no.	161
Airdate	October 30, 1997
Writer(s)	Spike Feresten
Director	Andy Ackerman
Guest star(s)	Wilford Brimley & Toby Huss
Seinfeld - Season 9 September 1997 - May 1998
The Butter Shave The Voice The Serenity Now The Blood The Junk Mail The Merv Griffin Show The Slicer The Betrayal The Apology The Strike The Dealership The Reverse Peephole The Cartoon The Strong Box The Wizard The Burning The Bookstore The Frogger The Maid The Puerto Rican Day The Clip Show, Part 1 The Clip Show, Part 2 The Finale, Part 1 The Finale, Part 2
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The Junk Mail is the one-hundred and sixty-first episode of Seinfeld. It was the 5th episode for the 9th and final season. The episode aired on October 30, 1997.

[edit] Plot

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Jerry's childhood friend "Fragile" Frankie Merman promises to get Jerry a new car because of a show he did for Frankie's car dealership. George prepares for his weekly call to his parents. Kramer plans his revenge on Pottery Barn because of the over abundance of catalogs they've sent him in the past month. Elaine is back with David Puddy, but meets the man of her dreams at the diner and plans to keep Puddy in reserve until she finds out if the new guy can "handle the workload."

Kramer gets deluged with more catalogs and plans to stop the mail. George's parents cut him short on his weekly phone call. The "car" Jerry gets is a conversion van and not the Saab he'd hoped for. Frankie reminds him of the childhood dream they had where they got a van a toured the country. George pops in on his parents and reminds his parent's they didn't call him back, but they have to leave right away. Kramer bricks up his mailbox, but that doesn't stop his mail from being delivered to Jerry's mailbox.

Jerry plans to sell the van; Kramer helps him out by composing a want ad that cites "interesting trades considered." Kramer goes to the post office to permanently cancel his mail. Newman confesses to him that no one really needs their mail but that there is a greater conspiracy at work.

George demands to know what's going on with his parents; they tell him they are cutting him loose. George isn't ready for abandonment; he plans to date his cousin Rhisa as a means of getting his parents involved in his life. Jerry determines that the appeal Elaine finds in her new boyfriend comes from some old commercial that he appeared in--he's "The Wiz--and nobody beats him!". Kramer wants Jerry's van and offers Anthony Quinn's old tee shirt as an "interesting trade".

Elaine wants Puddy back, but is rejected by him. Kramer uses the van to launch his anti-postal campaign. George's cousin is into their relationship; however, George schemes to have his parents catch him making out with her. Jerry searches Central Park for Frankie, who has gone to dig a hole and sit in it. Meanwhile Geore parks the van there and mistakes Frankie for the "Son of Sam". The Costanzas find the van and begin having sex in it. George, Risa, Jerry, and Frankie open the van and see them "in flagrante delicto".

Kramer is captured and enlightened by the Postmaster General (Wilford Brimley, with the scene a parody of his role in the climactic scene of Absence of Malice). Elaine's new boyfriend gets his second piece of good news in one day, he's "The Wiz" again and she is taking him back. Jerry must sell the van after seeing what they saw.