Amazing episode. One of the few I started recording on vhs so seen it a lot and for that reason it has always stood out for me.
One thing I've wondered with this show, how is the audience in on the joke about menaje a trois and such when it was probably recorded a few nights previous and not been aired yet? Anyhoo, this is one of the best with all the favourite characters giving us their best.
6 Reviews
Quick Change Artists
Hitchcoc2 January 2023
Yet another episode of wonderful timing. It involves two gifts. A pair of Super Bowl tickets and a label maker. In the middle of it all is that dentist played by Brian Cranston. Those tickets get passed around from character to character while Elaine obsesses over the regifting of a label maker. In the middle of this is some hilarity involving Kramer and Newman. So much of this show involves linguistic chicanery and slight of hand emotions all over the place. There are a series of scenes with a street cop who has been chasing his "white whale," someone who has received a record number of parking tickets. Great stuff.
The Switch part 2
ThunderKing626 March 2023
After Jerry deals with a roommate storyline. George is up and he must do the same but this time he dates a lady who has a male roomate. Uh Oh!!
This review was written up on the date of March the 26th in the year 2023rd in century 21st in a place unknown.
What was this episode about?: Jerry deals with his Super Bowl tickets. All because of the Drake...
George deals with a lady who has a meal roomate.
Kramer battles postal worker Newman in a game of Risk...
Elaine deals with a regifter Tim Whatly.
The story and the production overview: A solid episode . Every story is fun and engaging. Though, George's story was the best of the best.
Highlight: The Drake cancelling a wedding to watch a scripted game. Georges Story with him reacting to the male roommate was funny.
Villain: The Drake. He caused the turmoil between Jerry and Elaine.
Laugh meter: 10
girlfriend attractiveness level: 6
What can be learned?: It's good to hate the Drake
Verdict: use a permanent marker instead.
This review was written up on the date of March the 26th in the year 2023rd in century 21st in a place unknown.
What was this episode about?: Jerry deals with his Super Bowl tickets. All because of the Drake...
George deals with a lady who has a meal roomate.
Kramer battles postal worker Newman in a game of Risk...
Elaine deals with a regifter Tim Whatly.
The story and the production overview: A solid episode . Every story is fun and engaging. Though, George's story was the best of the best.
Highlight: The Drake cancelling a wedding to watch a scripted game. Georges Story with him reacting to the male roommate was funny.
Villain: The Drake. He caused the turmoil between Jerry and Elaine.
Laugh meter: 10
girlfriend attractiveness level: 6
What can be learned?: It's good to hate the Drake
Verdict: use a permanent marker instead.
"He's a re-gifter!"
itamarscomix4 October 2011
Season 6, Episode 12, "The Label Maker"
Three strikes in a row!
The boys managed to follow "The Race" and "The Switch", two of Seinfeld's most iconic episodes, with one that, while it's not as tight, it deals with familiar and realistic social issues like only Seinfeld can, much like they did throughout seasons 4 and 5.
The fantastic Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), who made his first appearance as dentist Tim Whatley in the episode "The Mom and Pop Store", makes a glorious return, and finally lays the framework to how his character would eventually end up. George is hilarious, Jerry and Elaine deliver, and Kramer delivers some of his most hilarious scenes with Newman - scenes that have very little impact on the story, but are unforgettable nevertheless.
Three strikes in a row!
The boys managed to follow "The Race" and "The Switch", two of Seinfeld's most iconic episodes, with one that, while it's not as tight, it deals with familiar and realistic social issues like only Seinfeld can, much like they did throughout seasons 4 and 5.
The fantastic Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), who made his first appearance as dentist Tim Whatley in the episode "The Mom and Pop Store", makes a glorious return, and finally lays the framework to how his character would eventually end up. George is hilarious, Jerry and Elaine deliver, and Kramer delivers some of his most hilarious scenes with Newman - scenes that have very little impact on the story, but are unforgettable nevertheless.
Risk
safenoe23 February 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Bryan Cranston, quite awhile before he became a superstar in Breaking Bad, makes a return appearance as Tim Whatley. Also Kramer and Newman get absorbed by a game of Risk, and they even take their game to the subway and they earn the ire of a passenger who is from the country starting with U at war at the moment, so The Label Maker is very topical for sure, nearly three decades later.
Also the menage a trois motif comes up unexpectedly at the end when George proposes a menage a trois with his girlfriend for ulterior motives, and it kind of backfires on him.
I'm enjoying re-watching some of the Seinfeld episodes that I first watched when it debuted in the 1990s.
Also the menage a trois motif comes up unexpectedly at the end when George proposes a menage a trois with his girlfriend for ulterior motives, and it kind of backfires on him.
I'm enjoying re-watching some of the Seinfeld episodes that I first watched when it debuted in the 1990s.
The Super Bowl Debacle
Samuel-Shovel12 February 2018
Warning: Spoilers
In the "Label Maker", Jerry has tickets to the Super Bowl in Florida but must give them away to attend the wedding of a friend. He sees Tim Watley on the street and offers them to him. As a thank you, Tim gives Jerry a label maker... the same label maker Elaine gave Tim for Christmas. Tim decides to go to the Super Bowl with his mailman Newman. George is dating a girl who has a male roommate and this makes him uncomfortable. Kramer and Newman are obsessed with a game of Risk and store the game at Jerry's so neither of them can cheat.
All of these plotlines are fairly funny to me but none of them stand out as Seinfeld classics. I always enjoy seeing Newman make an appearance and he gets a lot of screentime in this one. Other than this though, nothing significant about the episode besides another appearance from Bryan Cranston.
All of these plotlines are fairly funny to me but none of them stand out as Seinfeld classics. I always enjoy seeing Newman make an appearance and he gets a lot of screentime in this one. Other than this though, nothing significant about the episode besides another appearance from Bryan Cranston.
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