Plot

Jerry's girlfriend cries easily. George runs over Bette Midler during a softball game and Kramer gives in to her every demand. Elaine meets a new potential employer.

Jerry dates the ultra-sensitive understudy for Bette Midler in Rochelle, Rochelle: The Musical. When the Improv is scheduled to play Rochelle Rochelle in a softball game, George plows into catcher Bette Midler to score the winning run. Bette is injured because of the incident and is unable to perform in the Broadway premiere. Jerry, George, and the understudy are vilified for the incident, and Kramer goes out of his way to help Bette. Meanwhile, Elaine suspects that a local nail shop is making fun of her in Korean. She learns that George's dad Frank speaks Korean and brings him along to spy on them. Frank recalls his time in the Korean war and how he had an affair with a young Korean woman. Elaine gets kicked out of the nail shop and wanders around aimlessly, and has a chance encounter with catalog magnate J. Peterman, who hires Elaine to work for the catalog.—halo1k

Jerry's new girlfriend Gennice understudies Bette Midler in her upcoming Broadway musical. She very emotional and seems to cry at the drop of a hat. When Jerry's softball team plays the team from Midler's musical, George slides into home plate and knock Midler out cold. Soon everybody is accusing them of arranging for Gennice to have the starring role. Elaine meanwhile enlists the help of Frank Costanza to find out what her Korean manicurist is saying about her. Frank speaks Korean and even had a love affair with a beautiful Korean girl named Kim. Barred from the shop after her deception is found out, Elaine has a life altering meeting with someone on the street.—garykmcd

Jerry begins to date a girl who is an understudy for Bette Midler in her new Broadway musical, Rochelle, Rochelle. Jerry, George and Kramer all play on the Improv softball team and happen to be playing against the cast and crew of Rochelle, Rochelle. Kramer fawns over Bette and Jerry's girlfriend cries about her frankfurter falling on the ground but not about her grandmother dying.—LizC2421

Jerry is dating Gennice (Adelaide Miller), the understudy of stage performer Bette Midler, who bursts into tears for foolish (for instance, when she drops her hot dog at the park) but not expected reasons (like when her grandmother dies). In the opening moments of the episode, Jerry and Gennice are in his apartment watching the film Beaches (starring Midler), and she's sobbing. He can't decide whether to move from his chair to the couch to console her but isn't inclined to.

Kramer is a big fan of Bette Midler. Kramer says that understudies are a shifty bunch. During a softball game held in Central Park, in a parody of the 1994 Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan scandal, George injures Midler, who's playing catcher, while he charges for home plate. While Midler goes to hospital with Kramer, the understudy takes Midler's part in the musical Rochelle Rochelle. Gennice believes George did it all for her, but Kramer (a fan of Midler) is outraged at George, Gennice and Jerry:

"So, my dear, you think you can get to Broadway. Well, let me tell you something. Broadway has no room for people like you. Not the Broadway I know. My Broadway takes people like you and eats them up and spits them out. My Broadway is the Broadway of Merman, and Martin, and Fontaine, and if you think you can build yourself up by knocking other people down... GOOD LUCK!"

Enraged New Yorkers turn against George, Jerry and Gennice, while Kramer nurses Midler back to health, fetching every food and drink she desires. Kramer wont allow Jerry, George and Gennice to apologize to Midler either.

Meanwhile, Elaine brings Frank Costanza (Jerry Stiller) to her favorite beauty shop to translate the jokes being made at her expense by her Korean manicurists. Elaine believes that they are comparing her to a dog. Frank used to business in Korea and hence can speak the language well. Within moments, Frank realizes they're insulting him in Korean, and angrily confronts them. It happens that an old flame, Kim (Amy Hill), is also working there, but Elaine is kicked out of the shop and banned for "spying." Kim says that she dated Frank when she was young, but when Frank visited her house, he refused to take his shoes off and caused a huge scene with her father.

Despondent, she wanders the streets of New York on a rainy night, where she meets J. Peterman (John O'Hurley), and when they find themselves compatible in discussing clothing, she wins a new job. She is the new writer for the J Peterman catalog.

Frank takes Kim out and discuss their future in his car. When he uses his "special move" on her, "stopping short" (see also "The Fusilli Jerry"), she gets angry and never wants to see him again.

At the premiere of the musical, Elaine (as a form of apology) brings along the Korean manicurists; however, when an announcement tells the audience that Midler will not perform (Gennice will perform instead), the manicurists get angry with Elaine and leave, leaving her once again despondent. Just before the show, Gennice receives a telegram that her grandmother died, but she is not sad at that news at all. She tears off the telegram and just moves on. When Gennice finally takes the stage, she has a problem with the laces on her boot and, in an act reminiscent of Harding's bootlace incident, tearfully asks that she be allowed to start over.

In a scene after the credits, Jerry is seen unlocking his front door; he overhears Kramer and Bette singing in his apartment.