The Subway (Seinfeld episode)

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Seinfeld episode
"The Subway"

The friends all depart on different routes.
Episode no. 30
Airdate January 8, 1992
Writer(s) Larry Charles
Director Tom Cherones
IMDb profile
Seinfeld - Season 3
September 1991 - May 1992
  1. The Note
  2. The Truth
  3. The Pen
  4. The Dog
  5. The Library
  6. The Parking Garage
  7. The Cafe
  8. The Tape
  9. The Nose Job
  10. The Stranded
  11. The Alternate Side
  12. The Red Dot
  13. The Subway
  14. The Pez Dispenser
  15. The Suicide
  16. The Parking Space
  17. The Fix-Up
  18. The Boyfriend, Part 1
  19. The Boyfriend, Part 2
  20. The Limo
  21. The Good Samaritan
  22. The Letter
  23. The Keys
List of all Seinfeld episodes

The Subway is the thirtieth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the 13th episode for the show's third season. It aired on January 8, 1992.

The episode was written by Larry Charles and was directed by Tom Cherones.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Each of the four principal characters has a unique experience during a subway ride. Jerry befriends an overweight nudist on his ride to Coney Island. George meets an enchanting woman who ends up conning him, missing his job interview in the process. Kramer gets a horse racing tip and wins big, helping to pay for his car fines (including "no door"), but is menaced by another bidder. Elaine misses a lesbian wedding she was to attend due to train delays, which make her very nervous along with her apparent claustrophobia.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Trivia

  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus was very visibly pregnant towards the end of the third season's production, and the show went out of its way to conceal her gradually increasing midsection. Throughout this episode, for instance, Elaine is seen carrying a large wedding present in front of her stomach, thus concealing her pregnancy. When Julia finally went on maternity leave at the beginning of Season 4, Elaine's two-episode absence was explained through the other characters mentioning that she was vacationing in Europe.
  • The same subway car set was recycled for all the subway scenes in this episode. The crew merely redecorated it with different posters to differentiate the scenes that featured the set. To create the illusion of a rocking subway ride, several stagehands stood on either side of the car's outside walls and rocked it back and forth slightly with 2x4s. Since it was a borrowed train car, NBC had to make a new one when the car was being returned and the truck carrying it went under an overpass, destroying the original car.
  • The horse that Kramer bets on, Papanick, was named after the show's key grip, Pete Papanickolas.
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