1 00:00:05,914 --> 00:00:09,654 Seinfeld Explained. Season 3, Episode 19. 2 00:00:10,414 --> 00:00:11,194 The Limo. 3 00:00:12,354 --> 00:00:14,274 George's car dies on the Belt Parkway, 4 00:00:14,434 --> 00:00:15,874 one mile from the exit. 5 00:00:16,434 --> 00:00:18,134 He arrives at JFK carless, 6 00:00:18,134 --> 00:00:20,914 with a 45-minute cab line ahead of him. 7 00:00:21,734 --> 00:00:25,354 Jerry had watched a man named O'Brien get bumped from his overbooked flight, 8 00:00:25,454 --> 00:00:29,874 and there's a chauffeur waiting in the terminal with a sign and nothing to do. 9 00:00:30,394 --> 00:00:32,574 Taking the limo is an obvious call. 10 00:00:33,054 --> 00:00:36,034 The problem is whose name is on the sign: 11 00:00:36,594 --> 00:00:39,994 Donald O'Brien, head of the Aryan Union, 12 00:00:40,414 --> 00:00:44,034 making his first public appearance in New York tonight. 13 00:00:44,914 --> 00:00:46,454 George's car dies on the Belt Parkway, 14 00:00:46,494 --> 00:00:48,874 one mile from the exit, shaking violently, 15 00:00:49,294 --> 00:00:52,494 then stops dead. He arrives at JFK carless. 16 00:00:53,174 --> 00:00:57,154 But Jerry had watched a man named O'Brien get bumped from his overbooked Chicago flight, 17 00:00:57,574 --> 00:01:01,274 and there's a chauffeur waiting in the terminal with a sign and nothing to do. 18 00:01:01,274 --> 00:01:03,974 George's reasoning: O'Brien isn't coming, 19 00:01:04,294 --> 00:01:05,954 there's a 45-minute cab line, 20 00:01:06,194 --> 00:01:07,694 the limo is just sitting there. 21 00:01:08,254 --> 00:01:13,014 Logic essentially airtight. Jerry's objection is what happens if they get caught, 22 00:01:13,494 --> 00:01:16,034 and George's answer is that they can't KILL them. 23 00:01:16,654 --> 00:01:20,474 The alias negotiation: George claims O'Brien, 24 00:01:20,474 --> 00:01:21,694 Jerry wants Dylan Murphy, 25 00:01:22,334 --> 00:01:27,434 George briefly pushes back for Dylan but settles for Colin O'Brien after a small standoff. 26 00:01:28,014 --> 00:01:29,854 They identify themselves to the chauffeur, 27 00:01:30,214 --> 00:01:33,234 bags go in. George's first move once the door closes: 28 00:01:33,874 --> 00:01:36,294 calls his mother to tell her he's in a limo. 29 00:01:36,554 --> 00:01:38,894 Estelle's first question: did someone die? 30 00:01:39,594 --> 00:01:41,534 The call spirals, he won't explain, 31 00:01:41,734 --> 00:01:44,814 she won't drop it, he hangs up mid-argument. 32 00:01:44,814 --> 00:01:46,514 And then, still riding the high, 33 00:01:46,834 --> 00:01:50,634 he tries to quote George Bernard Shaw about dreaming things that never were, 34 00:01:50,994 --> 00:01:53,994 and cannot produce a single coherent sentence of the quote. 35 00:01:53,994 --> 00:01:57,474 He loops the same wrong phrase four or five times, 36 00:01:57,654 --> 00:02:01,014 gives up, and asks Jerry what you're supposed to say when you see something. 37 00:02:01,714 --> 00:02:03,134 Jerry is already on the phone with Elaine. 38 00:02:03,574 --> 00:02:06,174 He cannot land a SINGLE triumphant line. 39 00:02:06,574 --> 00:02:11,994 Tim and Eva. Devoted followers who've memorized O'Brien's newsletter and his book, 40 00:02:12,494 --> 00:02:14,334 The Big Game, epilogue included, 41 00:02:14,854 --> 00:02:16,574 and never seen a photograph of him. 42 00:02:17,234 --> 00:02:19,414 George feigns sleep. When he wakes up, 43 00:02:19,534 --> 00:02:23,894 he introduces himself as O'Brien with the ease of a man who does this professionally. 44 00:02:24,294 --> 00:02:27,674 Eva has the book memorized and opens with brilliant. 45 00:02:28,274 --> 00:02:32,894 George asks for her impressions of work he's never read and is visibly eating up every word. 46 00:02:33,494 --> 00:02:35,474 What does she think the book is actually about? 47 00:02:36,274 --> 00:02:38,654 Something called the game, major players, 48 00:02:39,194 --> 00:02:40,074 fate of the world. 49 00:02:40,834 --> 00:02:43,534 Then the speech: white supremacist content, 50 00:02:44,034 --> 00:02:49,674 Holocaust denial, antisemitism. A flat tire goes bang, Tim exits with a gun, 51 00:02:49,674 --> 00:02:53,814 and while he's gone Eva's word to George is that she'd do anything for him, 52 00:02:53,974 --> 00:02:57,674 even die. Tim returns, just the tire, 53 00:02:58,254 --> 00:03:00,814 opens a briefcase of military handguns; 54 00:03:01,214 --> 00:03:03,574 Jerry's assessment: nice-looking Luger. 55 00:03:04,174 --> 00:03:05,474 Then the news confirms it. 56 00:03:05,554 --> 00:03:07,634 Donald O'Brien. Aryan Union. 57 00:03:08,134 --> 00:03:09,814 David Duke has denounced him. 58 00:03:10,374 --> 00:03:15,834 And George's reaction to all of this is to ask Jerry if Eva was looking at him in a particular way. 59 00:03:16,394 --> 00:03:19,374 Jerry: she's a neo-Nazi. 60 00:03:19,374 --> 00:03:22,594 George: he knows. Kind of a CUTE one, though. 61 00:03:23,114 --> 00:03:24,954 He genuinely cannot close that loop. 62 00:03:25,594 --> 00:03:28,094 What is the exit strategy even supposed to be here? 63 00:03:28,534 --> 00:03:30,334 Wait until the limo rolls past their corner, 64 00:03:30,634 --> 00:03:34,754 then get out. Except George can't run, bad hamstring, 65 00:03:35,014 --> 00:03:39,234 pulled in a hotel room trying to kick out the tightly tucked covers and strained the muscle. 66 00:03:40,014 --> 00:03:41,654 He grabs the phone to call 911. 67 00:03:42,434 --> 00:03:44,114 Tim walks back in before he can finish. 68 00:03:44,114 --> 00:03:47,114 George pivots immediately to performing the speech, 69 00:03:47,514 --> 00:03:50,934 improvising new content, blaming the Jews for Astroturf. 70 00:03:51,414 --> 00:03:52,974 Sounds completely in character. 71 00:03:53,374 --> 00:03:59,354 He's JEWISH. He picked up the phone to escape this exact situation and ended up auditioning for the role. 72 00:03:59,774 --> 00:04:01,614 George does manage to clear the room, 73 00:04:02,054 --> 00:04:03,694 asserting O'Brien's authority over Tim, 74 00:04:04,374 --> 00:04:07,414 asking who's responsible for making fascism popular again, 75 00:04:07,894 --> 00:04:09,994 getting the answer, ordering Tim out. 76 00:04:10,654 --> 00:04:12,294 Tim apologizes and leaves. 77 00:04:12,294 --> 00:04:16,294 ...and turns immediately to Jerry with absolutely NO plan. 78 00:04:16,994 --> 00:04:22,494 Outside, Kramer, who has already fallen into a trash pile demonstrating a Michael Jordan 360 dunk, 79 00:04:23,014 --> 00:04:25,654 has a theory: real comedians are sick, 80 00:04:25,774 --> 00:04:29,734 neurotic people, but Jerry is too clean and organized, too normal, 81 00:04:30,234 --> 00:04:35,094 so he's either secretly the neo-Nazi himself or CIA using comedy as cover. 82 00:04:35,794 --> 00:04:37,754 It escalates to the Kennedy assassination. 83 00:04:38,314 --> 00:04:40,654 Elaine's rebuttal: not a Nazi, just neat. 84 00:04:41,534 --> 00:04:44,314 Perfectly coherent from where he's standing, limo, 85 00:04:44,454 --> 00:04:46,314 fake names, destination, name, 86 00:04:46,714 --> 00:04:48,014 he just got the reason wrong. 87 00:04:48,714 --> 00:04:50,574 Then the limo rolls past their corner. 88 00:04:51,054 --> 00:04:52,414 Kramer sees Jerry through the window, 89 00:04:52,414 --> 00:04:54,434 and the name O'Brien is out of his mouth. 90 00:04:55,214 --> 00:04:56,934 Protesters across the street hear it. 91 00:04:57,274 --> 00:04:58,314 The street starts moving. 92 00:04:58,534 --> 00:04:59,754 All four pile in. 93 00:05:00,254 --> 00:05:02,654 Jerry's story: Kramer is cross-eyed, 94 00:05:02,654 --> 00:05:03,754 was confusing the names. 95 00:05:04,314 --> 00:05:05,394 Elaine backs it up. 96 00:05:05,574 --> 00:05:07,934 Tim isn't persuaded. The phone rings. 97 00:05:08,194 --> 00:05:12,154 Eva picks up. The caller is O'Brien, the real one, from Chicago. 98 00:05:12,894 --> 00:05:13,914 Tim draws his gun. 99 00:05:14,514 --> 00:05:17,834 All four people talk simultaneously, fragments, 100 00:05:17,834 --> 00:05:19,794 contradictions, none of it lining up, 101 00:05:19,794 --> 00:05:24,614 while the crowd outside physically rocks the limo and cameras are rolling at the Paramount. 102 00:05:24,954 --> 00:05:26,354 Elaine spots Dan through the window. 103 00:05:26,734 --> 00:05:27,874 He's there for the protest. 104 00:05:28,194 --> 00:05:29,134 She waves at him. 105 00:05:29,734 --> 00:05:30,994 The Nazis kick them out. 106 00:05:31,214 --> 00:05:36,734 George gets pushed in front of the cameras and the news team identifies him live as Donald O'Brien. 107 00:05:36,734 --> 00:05:40,534 He's screaming he's NOT O'Brien while the crowd closes in. 108 00:05:41,134 --> 00:05:42,554 He went to the airport to pick up Jerry. 109 00:05:42,814 --> 00:05:43,694 That was it. 110 00:05:45,094 --> 00:05:47,074 George never made it to the Knicks game.. 111 00:05:48,414 --> 00:05:52,214 His improvised neo-Nazi content is on the record.. 112 00:05:53,214 --> 00:05:55,234 Zero working vehicles between them.