I have noticed that they are making Jerry into a germ-obsessed type (ala Howard Hughes) during the latter part of last season and so far this season.
Unless I missed something in the past episodes, he wasnt (as much) like this.
Also, as others on this newsgroup have pointed out, they seem to be taking Elaine from being a likeable, off-key working girl with three zany friends to being a bossy bitchy mean type.
I think that's an hysterical idea to keep going thru the series. We knew he was finicky about toothbrushes, letting Newman use his toilet, and Kramer borrowing his swim trunks. So far this year I've noticed the shoelace, then the belt. Have I missed any others?
Didn't he find some tube of medicine in a girl's medicine cabinet and wonder if she had some kind of nasty disease? It turned out it was for her dog, and Jerry had stolen the tube to learn more about it.
Hey, I'm not an old timer and I don't tape them, but I still know this! :) It was a fungal medicine and he was very upset because he thought his girlfriend might have a fungus. He gave it to Elaine so her doctor-boyfriend could tell what the medicine was for (I think it was the podiatrist). In the meantime, his girlfriend tells him she's not been getting enough sleep...because her cat is itching like crazy and she can't find his fungal medicine. Then, the doctor-boyfriend finds the fungus medicine in Elaine's purse and the show ends so that you think he's going to break up with her because she might have a fungus.
Anyway, another good example is when Jerry dropped his girlfriend's toothbrush in the toilet, but didn't tell her. He couldn't kiss her and then finally told her. She got back at him by locking him out and saying she dropped something of his down the toilet, and then put it back. But she refuses to tell him what. He ends up throwing away basically anything that could possibly fit down a toilet. She gets the last laugh when she finally tells him, "Yeah, I dropped your toilet brush in the toilet." And he threw all that stuff away for nothing! :)
Did she? I don't remember that. The last scene I remember with her in it was her saying she stayed up all night because the cat was scratchind and was miserable...and Jerry goes "the cat!" or something like that. Was there another scene beyond that that I don't remember?
I haven't seen the show since the first time it aired, so maybe my recollection is wrong. If someone has the tape, please let us know how it ends. Thanks in advance.