Elaine most selfish?

Aug 29, 199616 posts by 15 posters
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Kathryn Dudley

Is Elaine the most selfish? All other characters help each other: Jerry, probably the most helpful: ~helped Elaine by pretending to be her boyfriend in The Junior Mint ~helped George get switch the answering-machine tape; ~helped George get a marbled rye after George's parents took theirs away from Susan's parents George ~helps Jerry scheme Kramer (even though his involvement usually guarantees disaster): ~has said I like to help the humans ~guarded Elaine's armoire ~moved George's car

Elaine? Has she ever done anything for anyone? I can't think of a thing. kAThrYN

Well, off the top of my head I can think of three instances:

1. Helping Kramer by pretending to be his wife, so he could take that jacket back from the man who used to date Babs (Kramer's mom).

2. Helping her gay friend by pretending to be his date (anyone sensing a theme here?).

  • Helping George & Jerry by distracting Russell with her cleavage.

Oh wait, here's a fourth from the same episode:

4. Agreeing to give Kramer's girlfriend her shoes, just so that the cook would agree to let Jerry know when Russell was dining at her restaurant.

Something else that might be considered "helping out:" In the episode "The Pony," Elaine MUST have been doing Jerry a favor by agreeing to go to that dinner-from-hell with him. Why else would she agree? Not for the fascinating conversation or food, right?

I'm sure there are more, but sadly my mind is quite fuzzy. Anyone else?

LEGGGStigee

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Guarded Elaines Armoir???....he let it by two "banditos" who werent even armed...who weren't even dangerous....But he did volunteer to try,, gotta give him that.... ( but he did steal Jerry's Cushion... ) And he did get the Soup Nazi's Armoir...but he didnt guard the original very well.

Just a thought....

Lisa.. who happend to like the Chinese Restaurant Episode...

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In article , Ro London wrote:

I agree, but I think the one where Jerry & Elain are on the plane, with Jerry in First Class and Elaine in coach is also a good one. Notice that all that are listed here are the ones where there wasn't one scene in Jerry's apartment?

She did volunteer to spend time with the "goiter lady" who had an affair with Gandhi.

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Kathryn Dudley wrote:

Well, she was spoon-feeding her mimbo in the hospital. (Or do I have that mixed up with something else)

She did lend George $20 in the movie theatre.

She lied to Jerry about the pack of wild teenagers to get George off the hook for bad driving. (Or her off the hook for moving the mirror.)

And hey, she *did* give Jerry one more chance at bringing her to orgasm. (Did he finally succeed after they ate the mango?)

Anyway, I agree she is more vindictive then the rest, but at least she's not totally selfish.

Dave

Elaine helped George get a job as a proof reader at Pendant publishing which Georgie boy screwed up by having sex on his desk with the cleaning woman

[email] writes:

What about the time she helped George at her gym? He got busted urinating in the club's shower by the guy she was scheming on. Elaine was supposed to talk to him.

In article , Laura wrote:

jacket

She only did that after the guy rejected her.

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She agreed to talk to the guy before he rejected her though. It just gave her more incentive after he did that:)

Another instance of Elaine helping:

She helped George on two occasions when he was with a woman. She lied to the guy who never said God Bless You to his wife. George was sleeping with the wife.

And she lied to Susan when George was out with Marisa Tomei.

Shelley

Ooh that's right, and also--she helped George by taking his IQ test for him twice. And for that matter, she also helped him with his plot to slip a "mickey" in his ex-boss's drink (when he was fired from his real estate job).

George apparently needs a lot of help! Which comes as no surprise, of course...

What about Elaine asking Russel if he had a "ketchup secret" so that Jerry and George could catch him in a cleavage peek

"If you dont like your job you don't strike! You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way! - Homer Simpson

Yeah, I can think of at least one time Elaine has helped someone: She stayed with Kramer's car when he had to do something with pigeons. That made her late for dinner with her Dad and Jerry and George. Also, she had a baby shower for some friend; She had to find the mogul (spelling?) for a baby briss (sp?) There's probably more. Marcie

debbieMarcie

[email] (Marcie) wrote:

Mr. Peterman asked her to go to the auction for him and bit on JFK's golf clubs for him and she agreed. Elaine: "I don't know how you guys walk around with those things"
Lady H.debbie

going to Atlantic City with George and Jerry to buy Mr Pitt's sox.