Fans discuss Jerry's real-life cleanliness phobia and obsession with bathroom hygiene, noting parallels to the episode's character details and debating whether the pie-based hiring plot was contrived.
I was amused that this episode made fun of Jerry's real life paranoia about cleanliness. According to Spy Magazine, Jerry won't let visiting friends do number 2 in his toilet. Only number 1. Poppy must have been his worst nightmare.
I also must add the whole "Join us and eat pie or we won't hire you" was pretty stupid.
dave
[email] (David A Crotty) writes:
Now how do you go about ensuring such a requirement. I don't read Spy, but maybe I should look for this article. I mean, what do you say to people visiting you for the first time. "Hello, welcome to my home. Don't shit in my toilets, thank you. If you really have to go, the Phillips station down the street has a fairly clean rest room. Come on in, dinner's almost ready."
In [email] (Warren Edward Kenyon) writes:
Actually, a year or two or three or four or so ago, when Seinfeld the show was catching on, Barbara Walters went to interview Jerry in his brand new house. The house was built with many different bathrooms. There was a guest bathroom, a ladies only bathroom, and then there was JERRY'S BATHROOM, which I assume is the one he allows no other poopers to enter.
Poopers. I just said poopers. I cant believe I just said poopers....
Does he have different spatulas for different people then??
:-)
Since when do people stick spatulas up their ass?
And since when is feces found on the back of something?
<your senseless joking eludes me far past dictionary elusion>
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[email] (David A Crotty) writes:
It's often very hard to tell when Spy is making stuff up.
Spy is/was generally good with fact checking, God knows they've been sued enough times. The article in question was their yearly top 100 most annoying people places and things, which I believe Jerry was number 1 (they liked him at first but now were tired of the hype I guess). They mentioned his teenage robust girlfriend as well as the toilet info, so I don't think they were making it up. Others have attributed similar stories to a Barbara Walters interview.
dave