No one has brought this up, yet? Maybe I'm not catching these running gags until they've gone on for some time, but...
WHY WON'T ELAINE TAKE OFF HER COAT?!?!?!?!?!
Is JLD pregnant? Is Elaine going to be discovered as pregnant? Does she have a zit visible on her cleavage?
Youth Wants to Know!
Mark McDermott
Park Forest, IL
Where men are too busy to create a signature!In article [email] (Mark Mcdermott) writes:
No, she had her baby.
My take on this is that Elaine (as has been established) just doesn't like to be bossed around. If she feels (even on a whim of the moment) like somebody is trying to control her, then she gets very stubborn. She started out keeping her parka on "just because" -- maybe because she felt comfortable and she was leaving in a minute anyway. Then when it became an "issue," she was more and more determined to stick to her guns -- nobody is going to tell HER what to wear or not to wear! (Shades of having her shoes talked about.) Then when it came up again in a later scene, she was more determined yet; why should she have to take off her parka if she doesn't want to? Like a lot of incidents in the show, it doesn't have any deep significance except as examples of how ornery we can get sometimes just because we feel like it.
It all made perfect sense to me at the time, didn't even feel like a "mystery" -- until I saw it being discussed as one here.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Jon Alan Conrad
I was seriously confused about the coat too. Elaine did say that the chef asked her to take off her coat and she refused. (you know, the "shoe woman"). Maybe it was a "matter of principle"???? doubt it.
In article , @fox.nstn.ns.ca writes:
I really enjoyed the coat bit. This was me and my father. He was always on me to take off my coat, which I often left on because I was still cold after coming in. Many people have a severe problem with people not taking their coat off, which I could never understand but is nevertheless one of those great neuroses to be attacked on Seinfeld. I don't think there's anything to understand, Elaine-wise.
In article sbw@thumper (Susan B. Williams) writes:
Exactly. It's just like the way people will hover over you after you enter their house offering you something to drink. Even if you say no, they won't let it go but keep offering alternatives; they literally will not sit down and relax unless you've said yes to something. And this annoys me so much, I become all the more determined not to take anything! I didn't find Elaine hard to understand at all.
Exactly. Hear, hear.
Jon Alan Conrad
I agree completely!! My mother drives me nuts when she asks if I want a coffee. I say no thanks. Do I want a soft drink? No thanks. Do I want something to eat? NO THANKS!!!
Dave Thompson
It's just the idea of someone telling you what to do...
OR...
Maybe, she was cold?
Spec
IT WAS JUST POINTED OUT TO ME LAST NIGHT THAT EARLIER IN THE EPISODE, BOTH JERRY AND GEORGE MADE A CRACK ABOUT THE SIZE OF ELAINE'S BREASTS...COULD THIS BE THE REASON FOR THE COAT? HOW ABOUT THAT GOITER 2/18/93 !!!!
ULD CK ASILIn article ,
Did anyone else notice in last night's show (2/18) that the first thing Elaine did when she entered the restaurant was take off her coat?
Diggity Dog y'all, brc