Is Jerry an only child?

Mar 26, 199814 posts by 13 postersalt.tv.seinfeld
Question Never happened

Jerry's sister will appear in the final episode.

Fans discuss whether Jerry has siblings, noting contradictory evidence from the show including a mention of a sister in The Chinese Restaurant that was never developed further.

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Has there ever been any mention of siblings of Jerry?

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Allan Hung ([email]) wrote:

Jerry is an only child. The show has been very consistent about that.

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Allan Hung ([email]) wrote:

Jerry is an only child. The show has been very consistent about that.

Not quite. In "The Chinese Restaurant", Jerry distinctly mentions having a sister. We've never seen her, and there was no follow-up, but Jerry doesn't ad-lib. The line was in the script. [email]

And it turns out that Newman is actually Jerry and Elaine's real father (Newman had major plastic surgery to look 40something).

I hate to say this but nothing happened on Dallas when Lucy and Ray found out they were related. I guess incest was a no-no in the late 70's but sex was okay

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He's an only child I assume....wow that's true though...they've never said he was an only child. You know...That will probably be in the final episode!

Allan Hung wrote:

I don't know if TV Jerry has any siblings, but real life Jerry does indeed have a brother.

In article , Skyler Livezey wrote:

I thought in real life Jerry has a sister named Carolyn. Does he have a brother as well?

You are correct. Father Kal, Mother Betty, Sister Carolyn, no brother. [email] (Hammer nail here--> <-- for a new monitor.)

It's mentioned on the show that he has an older sister, who we have yet to meet in all the time the show's been on the air. (At this stage it's probably too late to introduce her.) He only referred to her in the Chinese Restaurant episode, but that reference remains out there.

That corresponds to Jerry's real-life sister Carolyn, who's a couple years older than him and handles his business and tax affairs for him (she's a CPA). Given Jerry's relatively casual, laid back lifestyle and his ten- dency NOT to throw money around (except on the oc- casional collectible Porsche, which is actually an asset) she probably finds her brother to be one of her easiest clients...

It's not unusual for the main characters to have un- seen siblings. Elaine also refers to a married sister and has a phone conversation with her in one episode (we only see/hear Elaine's half of the dialogue) and George refers twice to a brother we haven't ever seen either. Don't recall Kramer ever mentioning a sibling, and God help the world if Newman has brothers...but there could be some offhand reference in the dialogue of one episode I've missed. We know, however, that three of the four main characters do have one sibling each. Bob Smith, afternoons WXXI-AM 1370, Rochester NY