The Alternate Side

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“The Alternate Side”
Seinfeld episode
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 28
Written by Larry David and Bill Masters
Directed by Tom Cherones
Original airdate December 4, 1991
Season 3 episodes
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 Fix-Up"
  17. "The Boyfriend, Part 1"
  18. "The Boyfriend, Part 2"
  19. "The Limo"
  20. "The Good Samaritan"
  21. "The Letter"
  22. "The Parking Space"
  23. "The Keys"
List of Seinfeld episodes

"The Alternate Side" was the twenty-eighth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the eleventh episode of the show's third season. It aired on December 4, 1991.

The episode was written by Larry David and Bill Masters, it was directed by Tom Cherones.

[edit] Plot

Jerry's car is stolen and he has a conversation with the car-jacker (voiced by Larry David) on the car phone. George takes a job moving cars from one side of the street to the other, to comply with alternate side parking regulations, and does a very shoddy job by crashing cars and causing traffic jams. Elaine cares for her 66-year-old boyfriend who has had a stroke just before she was about to break up with him. Kramer gets a line in a Woody Allen film, popularizing the expression, "These pretzels are making me thirsty!" He accidentally injures Woody Allen during the shooting and gets fired from the set.

George then causes a major accident and traffic jam, making it longer for the ambulance to reach Elaine's boyfriend, and because of this, the movie is canceled and Woody Allen says that he may never shoot a movie in Manhattan ever again.

[edit] Trivia

  • Larry David provided the voice of the car-jacker.
  • Elaine mentions to her boyfriend that she has to take two subways, one of the lines mentioned is "Double R". The RR had ceased to exist for about seven years by that point, as the MTA eliminated all double-letter trains in 1986.
  • While Kramer almost had a single line in a Woody Allen film, Julia Louis-Dreyfus had only a single line in Hannah and Her Sisters. Louis-Dreyfus also had a lead role in the 1997 Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry.
  • The idea for the Woody Allen story came from David's experience in the world of Allen, with whom he briefly appeared in New York Stories, 1989.
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