The Masseuse (Seinfeld)

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Masseuse
Series = Seinfeld


Caption = Jerry, in his final attempt to get a massage.
Season = 5
Episode = 73
Airdate = November 18, 1993
Production =
Writer = Larry Charles
Director = Tom Cherones
Guests = Jennifer Coolidge & Lisa Edelstein
Episode list = List of "Seinfeld" episodes
Season list = Infobox Seinfeld season 5 episode list
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"The Masseuse" is the seventy-third episode of the NBC sitcom "Seinfeld". This was the 9th episode for the 5th season. It aired on November 18, 1993.

Plot

Elaine dates a man who shares the name of notorious serial killer Joel Rifkin and tries to convince him to change his name. Jerry's girlfriend, a masseuse (Jennifer Coolidge in an early role), seems unwilling to give Jerry a massage, even as she takes Kramer as a client. Meanwhile, she is not fond of George, leading him incessantly to wonder why, even to his neglect of his own girlfriend (Lisa Edelstein, also in an early role). Eventually, Jerry goes insane and angrily forces his girlfriend to give him the massage.

Trivia

* Jerry says that he hasn't thrown up since June 29, 1980. The streak would be broken four episodes later. However, in season 3's "The Dog", it was discovered that Elaine did not meet Jerry until well into the 80s. However, in that same episode, Elaine and George talk about Jerry vomiting. (It is debated by some that the "vomiting" that Elaine and George mention in "The Dog" was not genuine, as a scene in this episode features Jerry dispelling George's memory of a post-1980 Jerry vomit with "No, that was the dry heaves.")
* Elaine, in an attempt to change her boyfriend's name from one that's shared by a known killer to one that's less controversial, suggests "O. J." Ironically, the episode was aired just seven months before the murder of O. J. Simpson's wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, for which Simpson was charged.
* The football footage used in this episode was from the New York Giants vs. Philadelphia Eagles game from September 9, 1990, which was more than 3 years before this episode actually aired. This is obvious due to the sighting of Eagles defensive end Jerome Brown who wore #99. Brown died in a car accident in the summer of 1992.