"This first scene originally opened with more interaction between Jerry and Elaine about shopping." "Following this, Jerry notices the salesman walking right behind him and says, "Back off, back off." "You're tailgating."" "The deleted material is included as a special feature on this disc." "Frantz Turner (salesman) has worked on many television shows including The King of Queens, Moonlighting and Hill Street Blues." "Ryan Stiles (later of The Drew Carey Show) also auditioned for the role of the salesman." "According to the script, the title of the book Elaine is carrying is Kings Road." "Coincidentally, Jerry lived on Kings Road in Hollywood at the time this episode was being filmed." "Another piece of deleted material ended the scene." "It had Jerry handing the jacket to the salesperson and saying:" ""In the immortal words of Gary Gilmore, 'L et's do it." '" "Gilmore was the first person to be executed under controversial new death penalty laws that were reinstated in 197 6." ""Let's do it" were his final words before being shot to death by a firing squad." "The table read for "The Jacket" was held on November 28, 1990 at 10:30 a.m." "KRAMER ENTRANCE COUNTER: #19" "The car scene was pre-recorded on December 3." "Pre-records are scenes that require more time or space than is available in front of an audience." "As a result, they are filmed a day before the rest of the show." "The bulk of "The Jacket" was filmed on December 4, 1990." "Karma is a Buddhist religious teaching that means:" ""For every event, there will follow another event whose existence was caused by the first." "The second event will be pleasant or unpleasant depending on the nature of the first."" ""Master of the House" is a song from the hit 1980s musical Les Misérables." "Les Misérables opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theater in March 1987 and ran for 16 years." "This is among the longest runs in Broadway history." "Jason Alexander has performed on Broadway several times." "Credits include the musicals Merrily We Roll Along and The Rink and the plays Broadway Bound and The Accomplice." "He won a Tony Award for his performance in the musical Jerome Robbins' Broadway." "Bud Abbott is half of the classic film and TV double act Abbott and Costello." "According to Jerry, George's middle name "Louis" comes from Louis Costello." "Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was a German composer and pianist during the Romantic Period." "He suffered from imagining the note A perpetually sounding in his ear." "He also heard voices in his head." "In 1854, Schumann attempted suicide by jumping into the Rhine River." "He died in an insane asylum two years later." "Now on with the comedy." "Jason Alexander told the Calgary Herald that Jerry and George were practically blood brothers." ""If they both wouldn't faint at the sight of blood they probably would do that ritual."" "Alexander liked that there was no predicting what would go on in the show." ""We aren't heading anywhere specific." "There is no, 'W e're going to develop this relationship." '" "KRAMER ENTRANCE COUNTER: #20" "There is a Westbury Hotel at Madison Avenue and 69th Street in Manhattan." "Lawrence Tierney was born in 1919." "He was one of the top tough-guys in movies and TV during the 1940s and 50s." "He starred as John Dillinger in the 1945 film Dillinger." "He also starred in films including The Hoodlum, Shakedown Bodyguard and the colorfully titled Born to Kill." "In the 80s, Tierney was a member of the cast of Hill Street Blues." "He played Sergeant Jenkins." "One of his most memorable recent roles was as Joe Cabot in the Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs." "Tierney's tough-guy demeanor wasn't an act." "The cast recalls him as an intimidating presence on the set." "At one point during the week that "The Jacket" was filmed the cast spotted Tierney taking knives off the set of Jerry's apartment." "Alton Benes never appeared again in the show." "WHERE'S NORMAN?" "There he goes, out the revolving door wearing the colorful jacket." "When the camera crew assembled to block these hotel lobby scenes they laughed at several of Alton Benes' lines." "Unfortunately, the laughter did not amuse Lawrence Tierney who was unaccustomed to people laughing at anything he did." "The tension decreased a little when it was explained to Tierney that this was the intended effect of a situation comedy." "Surprisingly, his appearance as Alton Benes was one of Tierney's only comedy roles." "Lawrence Tierney died in February 2002." "The main storyline of "The Jacket" is based on Larry David's personal experiences." "A woman he was dating named Monica Yates had an intimidating father who was a novelist." "Richard Yates was a respected novelist who died in 1992." "His novels include Revolutionary Road  Disturbing the Peace and A Good School." "But not Fair Game." "The Korean War lasted from 1950 to 1953." ""Moe" is Moe Howard, self-proclaimed top dog of the Three Stooges comedy team." "The Stooges starred in over 200 comedy short films between the 1930s and 1960s." "Moe was indeed fond of conking together the heads of his fellow stooges." ""Crabs" refers to the infestation of pubic hair by crab lice." "Crab lice are tiny wingless insects that look like crabs when seen with a microscope." "Crabs are commonly associated with those who have sex with particularly promiscuous female partners, such as prostitutes." "Jerry has "made his own people" twice since the series ended." "Daughter Sascha was born in 2000." "Son Julian Kal was born in 2003." "Larry David once gave his opinion about how the fiction and reality of Jerry Seinfeld diverge." ""I would say that Jerry's life is duller than the one depicted on the show." "The life of a comic is really about sitting around doing nothing much but thinking." "Funny things don't happen, they occur to you."" ""Castro" is Communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who took power in 1959." "During the Eisenhower administration in 1953 the CIA helped to overthrow the elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz Guzman." "Kramer's experience taking care of the magician's birds is referred to four episodes later in "The Stranded."" "Julia shared more of her thoughts on the four Seinfeld characters in an interview with TV Guide, "They're a pretty pathetic bunch." "Elaine really doesn't know what she wants out of life." "I think she likes Jerry because he's pretty calm and she's not as together as she pretends." "She has a like-hate relationship with George."" ""For Kramer, I think she has an objective compassion like she would for a tall, furry animal at the zoo."" "Kramer's thousands of dollars in back tickets is a main motivation in his story in the third season episode "The Subway."" "In that show, we learn he has tickets for speeding, running a red light no license, no registration, no plates, no brake lights no rear view mirror and no doors." "Julia Louis-Dreyfus wanted Mary Tyler Moore to play Elaine's mother but the character was never introduced into the series." "This is the first time Elaine's job at Pendant Publishing is mentioned." "She would continue working at the publishing company until the end of the fifth season." "In early pre-production drafts from the first season Elaine's occupation was an optician." "Suede is a type of leather in which the flesh and hair side has been buffed smooth by an abrading machine to give it a soft, burnished effect." "You can remove small water marks from suede by brushing them with a suede brush or by lightly rubbing the area with an emery board and steaming it over a boiling kettle." "This is the same problem Larry David encountered during his disastrous meeting with his girlfriend's novelist father." "Larry's true story ends the same way Jerry's fictional one does." "A scene was filmed of a despondent Jerry returning home with a soaked suede jacket." "He hangs it up and we see a close-up of water dripping from the sleeve." "It was cut prior to broadcast." "KRAMER ENTRANCE COUNTER: #21" "Elaine originally said her dad didn't like George due to the singing." "He also didn't approve of the "flossing" George did while he was singing." "Kramer was originally supposed to have a dove on his shoulder when he entered in this scene." "Elaine's father lives in Maryland." "In the third season episode "The Letter" it's revealed that Elaine is from Towson, Maryland." "Larry David attended the University of Maryland which is about an hour away from Towson." "He graduated in 1970 with a degree in history which may explain why so many obscure historical references are thrown into Seinfeld scripts." ""The Jacket" originally aired on NBC on February 6, 1991." "It scored a Nielsen rating of 10.4 and an audience share of 16." "Seinfeld' s timeslot competitors in season two included the second half of CBS crime drama Jake and the Fatman." "Jake and the Fatman routinely beat the struggling sitcom." "Jerry believed people turned the channel to see the second half because that's the part of the show where the Fatman has to run."