Seinfeld (TV Series) The Shower Head (1996) User Reviews

Excellent Bait and Switch

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 23 February 2023]

This is a hilarious episode. First of all we have Kramer and his physical comedy, getting a low stream shower head installed by the super. There is not enough pressure for him to get the shampoo out of his hair. This is happening to everyone. Meanwhile the parents of George and Jerry (who hate each other) are dancing around their sons' desire to be together in Florida. What is great is once each family finds out it hits the fan. At this time, Elaine has been invited to go with her boss to Kenya. But she tests positive for opium. Her efforts to get checked out clean are stalled because she has been eating things with poppy seeds. Nicely paced and the actors/parents are so well used.

Dueling Buffer Zones

[Samuel-Shovel · 8/10 · 18 July 2018]

In "The Shower Head", Jerry's parents are in town after being banished from their condo. Jerry tries to find a way to get them back down to Florida, even if that means breaking up Uncle Leo and his girlfriend. New low-pressure shower heads are installed in the apartment building; Kramer, Newman, and Jerry must deal with the bad hair consequences of this. Newman finds a man selling shower heads on the black market. Elaine is planning on going to Africa for work but keeps failing a drug test due to testing positive for opium. It turns out it's due to her eating too many poppy seed muffins. George tries to convince his parents to move to Florida so he can get his own "buffer zone". This causes Jerry's parents to not want to move back.

I'm really starting to think that Season 7 is a bit of an underrated season. There are a lot of gems in here! Take this one for instance. The whole idea of a black market for shower heads for elephants is great. The back and forth between Jerry and George and their parents about moving to Florida is perfect. Moving out of spite might be the most petty thing I've ever heard of but I absolutely love it.

I noticed this time around that nothing is mentioned regarding George getting caught cheating with Marisa Tomei in the previous show. George seems more focused on making his parents move far away from him than he is on repairing his relationship. Regardless, another classic episode!

Not as good as the others

[melakhail · 7/10 · 3 June 2016]

I am not writing this review to give a heads up on the episode, I am just cheeking if any Seinfeld fans noticed when Kramer said that he doesn't take a bath because of the idea of dawning in your own filth or something... But season 5 episode "The Wife" he clearly says that he take baths. I love this show to much that I am writing this review about it in 2016 long after the show has ended. When I was looking for someone that noticed the error before I did and wrote a review about it I couldn't even find any on the episode and I pretty sure that their want be any new reviews about this episode... come on I know that their is no one watching this series after all this years.

Del Boca vista

[bevo-13678 · 10/10 · 23 June 2020]

I liked the bit where he thought she was on drugs but she wasn't

The Buffer Zone of Interest

[safenoe · 10/10 · 27 February 2024]

Here Jerry's parents establish a buffer zone by being apart from George's parents, because it happens George was desperate to create his buffer zone with his parents by enticing them to sunny Florida instead of cold Brooklyn, but things backfire for Jerry when he tries to pump up the ego of Uncle Leo, which was quite hilarious. Jay Leno makes a guest appearance as himself, as the host of his eponymous late show, although that meant Jerry and his parents, and George's parents flew all the way to California, or did I miss that the show was in New York City that week or what. Jerry's reference to one of the European ethnic groups and showers drew a laugh but now that would be outdated because of the tide of history.

"You're an Adonis!"

[juanmaffeo · 6/10 · 2 September 2016]

An entertaining filler, it is nevertheless kind of substanceless.

The parts involving uncle Leo are the best by far and the Costanza's situation is really funny but everything else feels thin and disjointed.

Elaine story had potential but it never reached it, the shower problem was kind of funny and that's it. The Seinfeld's moving in an out of apartments was a mess and we didn't get anything from the season's arc (George's engagement).

Overall, it's not a bad episode but certainly not in the level of Season's 7 classics.

Del Boca vista

[bu-rn_hollywood_bu-rn · 1/10 · 1 November 2020]

I liked the bit where Mrs. Seinfeld is peein' in one of Jerry's cups... It's like the writers pulled that idea right outta their rear-ends...