Fans discuss the plot of "The Handicap Spot" episode, recalling details about George parking in a handicapped space while shopping for an engagement gift, resulting in a woman getting injured.
Mine was the "Hate the Drake!" episode. They give the Drake a TV set as wedding present, then the wedding is off and they want the TV back. Unfortunately, I have never seen this one again and I'm getting senile in my old age. Can anyone fill in the plot for me. Thanks!
Alan
Basically, it goes like this:
They all go to the mall to buy the big screen TV. George drives his dad's car. They can't find parking, and Kramer talks George into taking the handicapped spot. They go buy the TV, and come back to find an ambulance and an angry mob near the car; apparently a woman in a wheelchair had to park in a regular spot, and she couldn't get up the ramp, resulting in a wheelchair accident, requiring her hospitalization. The mob was waiting for the owner of the car to return so he wouldn't get away with parking in a handicapped spot. None of them let on that the car was theirs (George's) and so they went back to the mall and had coffee for awhile. When they came back the mob was gone, but the car had been trashed completely. . .
Kramer visits the handicapped woman in the hospital and "falls in love with her." He talks George into buying a new wheelchair for her since hers was damaged. They of course end up buying a really cheap one. . .
George's father was in the middle of receiving an award from an organization he worked with helping the handicapped when the cops show up to arrest him for parking in a handicapped spot! . . .
The handicapped woman is briefly shown in her "new" wheelchair from Kramer and George, and of course the brakes go out while she's going down a hill and she ends up injured again. . .
The TV is given to the Drake & fiancee, engagement breaks up, and the Drake let the fiancee keep the TV. She donated it to charity (the same organization George's father worked for). Mr. Costanza makes George and Kramer pick up the donated TV at the Drake's apartment and deliver it to, you guessed it the wheelchair woman!
This is to the best of my knowledge, I might be off a bit here and there. I'm sure there are others who have memorized it chapter and verse. I think this was the first Seinfeld I remember seeing too, oddly enough!
-Kathy
Maybe the wheelchair woman was the intended recipient, but Jerry, George, Elaine, & Kramer take the TV back to the store to get a refund. While looking for a parking place, Kramer suggests they park next to a hydrant.
GR
While shopping for the Drake's engagement present, the Big Screen TV, the gang can't find a parking space, so they park the car (which belongs to George's father cuz its the only one with enuff trunk space to hold the TV) in the handicapped spot because no other spaces are available. While they are buying the TV, a wheelchair bound woman is hurt when her chair turns over and George's father's car is vandalized because an angry mob of shoppers attributes her accident to the handicapped spot being occupied. The gang waits for the mob to disperse before they have the car towed.
Upon visiting the Drake to see the big screen TV, Jerry and Elaine find out that the Drake and the Drakette have broken up. Afterwards, when they ask for the TV back, the Drakette tells Elaine that the TV was donated to charity. It turns out that the charity is for handicapped people.
Kramer, feeling guilty about the accident, visits the handicapped woman in the hospital and begins an affair with her. He agrees to buy another wheelchair for her - the gang all contribute and he and George buy the cheapest one they can find. She breaks up with Kramer and calls him a "hipster dufus!" The brakes on the wheelchair that they bought don't work and the handicapped woman has another accident.
Because Mr. Costanza's insurance doesn't cover vandalism, George agrees to pay for the damages by agreeing to become his father's butler (just like the storyline in the pilot that he and Jerry are writing for NBC). Mr Costanza does volunteer work for the same charity that the Drake donated the TV set to. George's first job as butler is to pick up the very same TV from the Drake's house and he and Kramer pick up the TV (Only the Drakette is there and she apparently never met George and Kramer). The episode ends with the gang going back to the shopping mall to return the TV and trying to find a parking space.
This episode was HILARIOUS. From memory:
Drake is getting married and all four characters are invited to the engagement party. Seinfeld/Elaine/Karmer love "The Drake" while George is so-so on the drake.
George then complains that you have the give a gift for everything. The engagement, the wedding, the babies, the anniversary. Very cheap of George, very correct and funny.
The agree to go in on the "Pitch-in". The all LOVE THE PITCH-IN.
Needing a ride to the mall to purchase the present George agrees to borrow his dad's bigger car in exchange for his as long as his car takes up his dad's spot.
Sorry That's all. I gotta go.
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