Kramer takes his blood out of the blood bank. This leads to a whole series of unfunny bits. Jerry ends up with a transfusion of the blood because he has his throat cut. The blood ends up in a car radiator. George begins to have issues with sex where he has to eat while doing it. The whole thing is so ludicrous. Elaine ends up babysitting a little psychopath. Kramer and Newman make sausages in Jerry's apartment. Jerry ends up being given a personal trainer by his parents because they think he is out of shape. It turns out to be the guy played by Lloyd Bridges who almost died lifting weights in another episode. Things fade a bit here. Without the blood thing it would have been better.
7 Reviews
Another great episode.
Sirus_the_Virus10 October 2009
Warning: Spoilers
The Plot: After Jerry gets in a little accident, his parents hire Izzy Mandelbaum as his personal trainer. Elaine is offended when her friend doesn't ask her to babysit her son. So she does and realizes that she shouldn't have. George must choose between sex or food. Or something like that.
The blood, like all Seinfeld episodes, is great. This was one of the last things that the great Lloyd Briges did. All of the situations in this episode are funny. I also left out that Kramer donates his blood to Jerry when he gets hurt. That is really a big part of the episode. Also, when Kramer wants something and Jerry refuses, he brings up the blood and holds it against Jerry. The Blood is a great episode, like all of them.
The blood, like all Seinfeld episodes, is great. This was one of the last things that the great Lloyd Briges did. All of the situations in this episode are funny. I also left out that Kramer donates his blood to Jerry when he gets hurt. That is really a big part of the episode. Also, when Kramer wants something and Jerry refuses, he brings up the blood and holds it against Jerry. The Blood is a great episode, like all of them.
Creek
bevo-1367823 June 2020
George's Food Fetish
Samuel-Shovel31 May 2019
Warning: Spoilers
In "The Blood" Elaine tries to prove to a friend that she's responsible enough to be a babysitter, only to regret it when the kid turns out to be an absolute terror. George starts bringing food and television into his sex life, causing him to fetishise his eating habits. Kramer tried to find new places to store his donated blood after the blood bank starts charging too much. Jerry's parents hire Izzy Mandelbaum to train Jerry after they worry he's getting out of shape. A mishap causes Jerry to require Kramer's donated blood.
George's subplot is the real winner here. It seems totally up George's alley. And while the finale might be a bit ridiculous, I don't think it detracts too much from the idea. I could do without the rest of this episode. Most of it is not bad per se but none of it is too great either. The "let's everyone scream at once, wouldn't that be hilarious?" portions of this is downright awful, especially as the finale to the episode.
George's subplot is the real winner here. It seems totally up George's alley. And while the finale might be a bit ridiculous, I don't think it detracts too much from the idea. I could do without the rest of this episode. Most of it is not bad per se but none of it is too great either. The "let's everyone scream at once, wouldn't that be hilarious?" portions of this is downright awful, especially as the finale to the episode.
Definitely one worth skipping
FlushingCaps25 January 2015
Warning: Spoilers
I felt compelled to provide a review of this episode because at present the only review on this site is by the guy who simply says every episode is a "10." Every single episode of a series cannot, by definition, be a "10" anymore than everything Shakespeare ever wrote could be a 10—some of these works are not as good as others.
Kramer's plot gets the title here. He has been donating blood—we never hear how much—and decided to "withdraw" it from the blood bank and store it himself in his apartment. The illogic of how blood stored in his own freezer could somehow be used if he was in an accident and needed a transfusion right away is only part of the problem with this episode.
George dates a woman who lights a vanilla incense stick right before having sex with him. The aroma makes him immediately leave her place to go the coffee shop to wolf down some food. He then gets the idea of combining his two loves—sex and food by eating while in bed with her. We see the two are under the sheet, with George sticking his head out and opening a drawer to pull out a sub and start eating while she, somehow, doesn't notice. That is, she doesn't notice until he gets "greedy" and decides to add a little TV watching to the other two activities.
Elaine visits a friend, who apparently is a single mother—they never say—who asks her who she might recommend as a babysitter. Apparently this woman is wise enough to know Elaine would be a terrible babysitter. But Elaine is so offended by this that she literally accosts Kramer, who has been hired to do the job, right on the woman's front porch and throws him over the side and beats him with a broom so she can babysit. We then see that she has allowed the bratty 7-year-old-or-so kid (he keeps kicking every adult in the shins as soon as he meets them) to run rampant over her, even pouring orange juice into her purse, just so he won't complain about how she treated him.
One night and she wants nothing more to do with him, but her friend now wants her to babysit all the time. Elaine then works to be fired by the friend for being a lousy sitter, but the friend ignores everything she sees except that her boy is now asleep, so Elaine is stuck with the kid.
Jerry is told he is putting on weight—even though he doesn't show it—and so his parents hire Mr. Mandlebaum (Lloyd Bridges) as his personal trainer. He puts him through some old-style gym workouts, then hooks him to a rope attached to the back of Jerry's car as Jerry is to run along and keep up. When the car speeds up (due to reasons I won't spoil) Jerry needs a hospital.
There are a few good lines but NONE of these plots were more than a bit amusing. None of them seemed realistic even in the Seinfeld universe. Kramer storing his own blood and Jerry "needing" a trainer when he is normally shown as working out in a gym regularly were dumb enough. How someone can truly eat a big sandwich while engaging in sex—or why he would want to—is particularly dumb. But perhaps the least logical plot of these four is Elaine's eagerness to be a babysitter when she has never been shown to like kids, then her unwillingness to just tell this friend after the first disastrous try that she can't do it anymore, or that she can't commit to doing it regularly because she has too busy a schedule, is beyond my comprehension. She states that she'd be good at it because she loves bossing people around. But as far as we saw, she never even attempted to boss the kid around because she wanted him to tell his mom how nice the sitter was.
I haven't yet mentioned the un-Seinfeldlike scene where Newman, who recently couldn't stand the thought of Jerry being a guest at his big Millennium party, now has no problem sitting in Jerry's bedroom, presumably on the bed, next to Kramer to watch a movie they rented. There's more weird stuff later but none of it is all that funny. I just cannot give this episode more than a 3.
Kramer's plot gets the title here. He has been donating blood—we never hear how much—and decided to "withdraw" it from the blood bank and store it himself in his apartment. The illogic of how blood stored in his own freezer could somehow be used if he was in an accident and needed a transfusion right away is only part of the problem with this episode.
George dates a woman who lights a vanilla incense stick right before having sex with him. The aroma makes him immediately leave her place to go the coffee shop to wolf down some food. He then gets the idea of combining his two loves—sex and food by eating while in bed with her. We see the two are under the sheet, with George sticking his head out and opening a drawer to pull out a sub and start eating while she, somehow, doesn't notice. That is, she doesn't notice until he gets "greedy" and decides to add a little TV watching to the other two activities.
Elaine visits a friend, who apparently is a single mother—they never say—who asks her who she might recommend as a babysitter. Apparently this woman is wise enough to know Elaine would be a terrible babysitter. But Elaine is so offended by this that she literally accosts Kramer, who has been hired to do the job, right on the woman's front porch and throws him over the side and beats him with a broom so she can babysit. We then see that she has allowed the bratty 7-year-old-or-so kid (he keeps kicking every adult in the shins as soon as he meets them) to run rampant over her, even pouring orange juice into her purse, just so he won't complain about how she treated him.
One night and she wants nothing more to do with him, but her friend now wants her to babysit all the time. Elaine then works to be fired by the friend for being a lousy sitter, but the friend ignores everything she sees except that her boy is now asleep, so Elaine is stuck with the kid.
Jerry is told he is putting on weight—even though he doesn't show it—and so his parents hire Mr. Mandlebaum (Lloyd Bridges) as his personal trainer. He puts him through some old-style gym workouts, then hooks him to a rope attached to the back of Jerry's car as Jerry is to run along and keep up. When the car speeds up (due to reasons I won't spoil) Jerry needs a hospital.
There are a few good lines but NONE of these plots were more than a bit amusing. None of them seemed realistic even in the Seinfeld universe. Kramer storing his own blood and Jerry "needing" a trainer when he is normally shown as working out in a gym regularly were dumb enough. How someone can truly eat a big sandwich while engaging in sex—or why he would want to—is particularly dumb. But perhaps the least logical plot of these four is Elaine's eagerness to be a babysitter when she has never been shown to like kids, then her unwillingness to just tell this friend after the first disastrous try that she can't do it anymore, or that she can't commit to doing it regularly because she has too busy a schedule, is beyond my comprehension. She states that she'd be good at it because she loves bossing people around. But as far as we saw, she never even attempted to boss the kid around because she wanted him to tell his mom how nice the sitter was.
I haven't yet mentioned the un-Seinfeldlike scene where Newman, who recently couldn't stand the thought of Jerry being a guest at his big Millennium party, now has no problem sitting in Jerry's bedroom, presumably on the bed, next to Kramer to watch a movie they rented. There's more weird stuff later but none of it is all that funny. I just cannot give this episode more than a 3.
Hey buddy
ThunderKing69 March 2023
Trash. George is disgusting. Elaine continues her Bword streak.
March 9th 2023.
About: George adds food to his love making.
Elaine is violent and annoying and is desperate to babysit a brat
Jerry...
Kramer hoards blood.
Newman is speechless.
Story and production: Hash stories. Elaine was the worse. It was so boring and tedious.
Overall a hash production
Highlight: Jerry getting knifed in the head. Newman running into Jerry's bedroom like a rat. Other than that this episode was Hash. Felt very hash.
Laugh meter: 1.
Girlfriend attractiveness level: Georges girl was average at a 4.8
Villian: Elaine and Kramer. Kramer because he abused his blood that he gave to Jerry, didn't tell Jerry about the car, he moochies off of Jerry for free for over 10 years and acts like a pirate towards Jerry.
What can be learned? N/A this episode was hash
Verdict: a bloody hash episode.
March 9th 2023.
About: George adds food to his love making.
Elaine is violent and annoying and is desperate to babysit a brat
Jerry...
Kramer hoards blood.
Newman is speechless.
Story and production: Hash stories. Elaine was the worse. It was so boring and tedious.
Overall a hash production
Highlight: Jerry getting knifed in the head. Newman running into Jerry's bedroom like a rat. Other than that this episode was Hash. Felt very hash.
Laugh meter: 1.
Girlfriend attractiveness level: Georges girl was average at a 4.8
Villian: Elaine and Kramer. Kramer because he abused his blood that he gave to Jerry, didn't tell Jerry about the car, he moochies off of Jerry for free for over 10 years and acts like a pirate towards Jerry.
What can be learned? N/A this episode was hash
Verdict: a bloody hash episode.
George is energetic
safenoe8 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Anyway, I'm enjoying reflecting on Seinfeld having first watched it when it debuted back in the 1990s, and I saw The Blood back in 1997 or 1998, and watching it again in 2024 is a revelation because I really didn't enjoy it was much as I would have thought I would, being a Seinfeld fan (I even have two Seinfeld t-shirts). Anyway, here George is very amorous with food as an important accompanying feature. Also, The Blood is the final appearance of Lloyd Bridges as Izzy Mandelbaum. The previous episode was the final appearance of the Lloyd Braun character, so someone similar in a way I guess init.
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