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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 22 |
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| Directed by | Tom Cherones | ||
| Written by | Larry David and Greg Daniels | ||
| Production code | 321 | ||
| Original air date | April 22, 1992 | ||
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"The Parking Space" is the thirty-ninth episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the 22nd episode of the third season. It aired on April 22, 1992.
The story of the parking confrontation was inspired by a similar incident that happened to writer Greg Daniels' father.[1]
Kramer tells Jerry about his friend Mike (Lee Arenberg) calling Jerry a phony. After borrowing Jerry's car, Elaine notices that the car is now making a strange clanking noise; to explain it, she comes up with a wild story involving a pack of teenagers with a gun.
George drives with Elaine to Jerry's to watch a big televised fight with him. He finds a space, and decides to back into it. He spends a good deal of time positioning himself perfectly (bragging to Elaine about his ability to parallel park). When he starts backing into the space, Mike, also there for the fight at Jerry's, enters the same space, front first.
The two argue over who is entitled to the space, all the while blocking traffic. Mike argues that he entered the space first, while George argues that he saw it first and was simply positioning himself, entitling him to the space. People on the street, including a truck driver (played by Michael Costanza, a friend of Jerry Seinfeld's who inspired George Costanza's name) also assess the situation and argue with each other over who should keep the space. To make way for the truck, George and Mike get neutral people to move the cars and position them perfectly after the truck is moved.
Jerry and Kramer also come down to try to settle the problem. Jerry inadvertently tells a little boy named Matthew (John Christian Graas) that his father, who owns the "fat free" yogurt store, is closing the store, and the boy gets upset. Kramer mistakenly thinks the boy's mother is pregnant. Near the end of the episode, two police officers finally arrive to supposedly resolve the situation. However, when one tells Mike to move his car, the other argues against him, and by now, it is nighttime.
At the end of the episode, Jerry is seen dashing back into his apartment, just in time to see the last few seconds of the count for knockout (missing the actual knockout punch).
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