The Pick

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“The Pick”
Seinfeld episode
Episode no. Season 4
Episode 53
Written by Larry David
Directed by Tom Cherones
Original airdate December 16, 1992
Season 4 episodes
Seinfeld - Season 4
August 1992 - May 1993
  1. "The Trip, Part 1"
  2. "The Trip, Part 2"
  3. "The Pitch"
  4. "The Ticket"
  5. "The Wallet"
  6. "The Watch"
  7. "The Bubble Boy"
  8. "The Cheever Letters"
  9. "The Opera"
  10. "The Virgin"
  11. "The Contest"
  12. "The Airport"
  13. "The Pick"
  14. "The Movie"
  15. "The Visa"
  16. "The Shoes"
  17. "The Outing"
  18. "The Old Man"
  19. "The Implant"
  20. "The Junior Mint"
  21. "The Smelly Car"
  22. "The Handicap Spot"
  23. "The Pilot, Part 1"
  24. "The Pilot, Part 2"
List of Seinfeld episodes

"The Pick" is the fifty-third episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. It was the 13th episode of the 4th season. It aired on December 16, 1992.

[edit] Plot

Elaine is humiliated when she accidentally shows a nipple on her Christmas card photo that she has sent out to everyone she knows. Elaine earns the nickname "Nip" at her workplace. Jerry has a date with the model from the plane in "The Airport"; she later dumps Jerry after she catches him picking his nose. Jerry claims that he was only scratching his nose because there wasn't any nasal penetration, which actually was the case. The model may have been at a bad angle to determine whether or not it was a pick or a scratch. George tries to reunite with Susan but realizes it's a mistake and uses "the pick" to escape. Kramer goes to Calvin Klein to complain about "The Ocean", an idea for a fragrance they stole from him, and is asked to pose for a risqué underwear advertisement. An executive at Calvin Klein says that "His buttocks are sublime."

[edit] Trivia

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  • Kramer proposes the idea for a perfume that makes its wearer smell like the beach in the Season 3 episode "The Pez Dispenser." He tells the idea to an executive at Calvin Klein, who is completely dismissive of the suggestion. Fifteen years later scientists from the University of East Anglia discovered that dimethyl sulfide makes the seaside smell like the seaside. [1]
  • The episode alludes to Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice in Jerry's monologue defending nose-pickers: "If we pick, do we not bleed?"
  • The episode also alludes to The Elephant Man (1980), [2] when Jerry proclaims, "I am not an animal!"
  • The episode also alludes to Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel The Scarlet Letter when Elaine blames her boyfriend for condemning her because of the photo on her Christmas card: "Because it is not me that is exposed but you. For I am seeing that nipple on your soul!"
  • When Kramer puts his hand on the wall and falls, you can see the body makeup that Michael Richards had been wearing smudged on the wall.
  • Calvin Klein coincidentally has the same initials of Kramer.

Quotes:

George: Was there any nostril penetration?

Jerry: There may have been some incidental contact.

George: Hey, it's me.

George: I guarantee you Moses was a picker. You wonder through the desert for 40 years with that dry air. You tell me you're not going to have an occasion to clean house a little?

George: I'm in up to my wrist. You should have seen the look on her face.

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