My thoughts on 4-9 Seinfeld

S09E17 The BookstoreliveApr 10, 1998the next day3 posts by 3 posters
😐 Mixed

Mixed reaction to "The Bookstore" episode; poster finds the Elaine storyline unconvincing but enjoys the Uncle Leo shoplifter subplot and notes the show improving on rewatches.

3 posts
Jennifer M. Blaske

Frankly, I am enjoying the episodes more these days just because I know they're the last ones ...

Last night's show was okay, not great. The whole Elaine thing didn't make any sense to me. She has to sit with some puking guy so she won't look bad at work. Okay, whatever.

It's kind of funny that the book kept being flagged, but I wondered what the big deal was about a book being in a bathroom. Growing up, we had books in the bathroom all the time!

The Uncle Leo thing was pretty funny. Reminded me of Sideshow Bob. The whole "Swarm!" thing was pretty good, too.

Lately I've been watching the season with "The Little Kicks" and am enjoying it more than the first time around. Maybe this one will improve with age too.

-Jen

redhead1 wrote in article ...

It wasn't that he took the book in the bathroom; it was that he tried to return it to the shelf after he was done. The episode was making fun of the fact that people are so hyper-conscious about bathroom germs...