""Warming-up" an audience is a comedy term for getting an audience in a laughing mood." "When recording standup material for the show another comic would often warm-up the audience before Jerry would come on-stage." "The warm-up comic would continue to keep the studio audience amused during scene changes and technical problems between takes." "In many of his standup performances Jerry explored topics in far greater detail than shown on NBC." "Time constraints required material to be removed prior to broadcast." "An extended version of this routine is available elsewhere in this DVD." "Cocoon was a 1985 comedy directed by Ron Howard about a group of retired senior citizens who find a swimming pool containing an alien cocoon which has rejuvenating qualities." "The aliens return and offer some of the seniors a trip back to their planet." "Its less successful sequel was released in 1988." "In the original script, Elaine's response to the porno video is:" ""I really don't think film is the penis' medium."" ""Not like the stage," Jerry responds." "Because "The Stake Out" aired before "Male-Unbonding" this is the first mention of Jerry and Elaine's past relationship." "Throughout the first two seasons NBC executives regularly pressured Seinfeld and David to get Jerry and Elaine back together in the show." "The cast first read the script of "The Stake Out" on February 14, 1990." "Most of the scenes for "The Stake Out" were filmed on February 21, 1990." "Its original airdate was May 31, 1990." "It received a Nielsen rating of 16.2 with a 24 audience share." "Though shot third, "The Stakeout" was actually the second episode to air on NBC and the first to air during the show's five week summer run in 1990." "It was moved up in the airing order due to its being a more complete introduction to the Elaine character." "When it was rebroadcast on December 2, 1992 "The Stake Out" was preceded by an introduction by Jerry and Julia who mention how this was "the first episode they ever did."" "This obviously refers to the fact that it was the first Elaine episode to air, not to be shot." "As it was the first of the four-episode first season to be broadcast reviewers paid extra attention to "The Stake Out."" "Reviews were overwhelmingly positive." "Sagman, Bennett, Robbins, Oppenheim and Taff is not a real law firm." "The names are a reference to a handful of Larry David's college buddies." "This scene and the standup material for this episode was shot March 6, 1990." "Due to space and time constraints some scenes would be shot days before or after the rest of the episode." "The actors would reenact those more complex scenes on show nights for the studio audience using minimal props." "The audience laughter would be recorded and inserted into the scene accordingly." "Costs had to be kept very low during the early days of Seinfeld' s production." "The cab in this scene is sitting on the stage with a black background." "Crew members use lighting effect and rock the cab to simulate movement." "This technique is called Poor Man's Process." "Poor Man's Process is the least expensive way to simulate a driving scene." "Jerry had no bedroom in the first five episodes." "He apparently slept on the couch until the second season when a bedroom was added next to the bathroom." "In the script for this episode Jerry's parents are only referred to as "Father" and "Mother."" "In the first draft, Jerry's mom addresses her husband as Leon." "This was changed to Morty by the time the scene was shot." "Veteran actor Philip Sterling was originally cast as Jerry's father but Phil Bruns replaced him prior to shooting." "Beginning with the season two episode, "The Pony Remark" Bruns himself was replaced by veteran character actor Barney Martin, who continued in the role for the rest of the series." "Bruns' other film and TV work includes appearances in:" "Flashdance, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman  The Great Waldo Pepper and Barney Miller." "Jerry's mother is played by Liz Sheridan." "Sheridan auditioned for the role on February 8, 1990." "Sheridan's other TV work includes:" "Moonlighting, Blossom, Remington Steele and most notably as the nosy neighbor Raquel Ochmonek, on NBC's ALF." "In the early 1950s, Liz Sheridan had a romantic relationship with screen icon James Dean." "Loni Anderson is a TV star best known for her role as Jennifer Marlowe the blond-bombshell secretary on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (197 8-1982)." "Barbara Barrie of Barney Miller and Everybody Loves Raymond's Doris Roberts were also considered for the role of Jerry's mom." "But surprisingly, not Loni Anderson." ""The Stake Out" was nominated for a Writers Guild Award in 1991 an impressive distinction for a show that had only aired a handful of times at that point." "Quite a bit of George's character is established in this scene." "It marks the first time George expresses an interest in pretending to be an architect." "It is also marks the first time George refers to Art Vandelay." "And it features the first reference to the job of importer-exporter all of which would resurface later in the series." "A line from the production script was cut in which George tells Jerry that talking about women is 80 percent of his conversation." ""That's why dates are so difficult, because I can never talk to the date about the problems I'm having with women."" "The tall, blond gentleman stepping into the elevator is Norman Brenner." "For nine years, Brenner worked as Michael Richards' stand-in." "Beyond the main cast Brenner has probably appeared in more episodes than anyone else." ""WHERE'S NORMAN?" will be a feature in these notes throughout all nine seasons." "Stand-ins are actors who stand-in for the series regulars during the set lighting process." "They are always the same height as the actor they are standing-in for." "This is necessary due to lighting adjustments that might be needed." "Kramer worked as a stand-in on a soap opera in the fifth season episode "The Stand-In."" "Vanessa returns in "The Stock Tip," the final episode of season one." "JERRY'S GIRLFRIEND COUNTER:" "#2" " Vanessa" "Scrabble was invented in 1931 by Alfred Butts." "For 20 years Butts tried unsuccessfully to market the game under its early names of Lexiko and Criss-Cross Words." "In 1947, Butts sold the rights to the game to James Brunot who after some minor changes, renamed it Scrabble the following year." "By 1952, Macy's began stocking the game." "Today, three million Scrabble sets are sold every year." "KRAMER ENTRANCE COUNTER: #5" "One of the only negative reviews of this classic episode came from USA Today' s Matt Roush." "Roush said, "Lacking much in the way of attitude the show seems obsolete and irrelevant." "What it boils down to is that Seinfeld is a mayonnaise clown in a world that requires a little horseradish."" "Julia Louis-Dreyfus was born on January 13, 1961." "She spent most of her childhood in Washington D.C." "She studied theater at Northwestern University." "John Cougar Mellencamp had several rock hits in the 1980s including:" ""Jack  Diane" and "Hurts So Good."" "The singer-songwriter dropped the "Cougar" part of his name by the mid-1980s." "As a college freshman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus joined an improvisational troupe formed by Brad Hall." "In 1982, during her junior year of college talent scouts recruited Louis-Dreyfus and Hall for NBC's Saturday Night Live." "They joined a cast that at the time also included Eddie Murphy." "After several years at SNL, Louis-Dreyfus and Hall moved to Los Angeles where they married in 1987." "Julia soon landed a supporting role on NBC's short-lived sitcom Day by Day which ran until June 1989." "ELAINE BO YFRIEND COUNTER:" "#1 – Unnamed Stock Broker" "Julia apparently only works on shows where her character's name starts with E." "On Day by Day, she played Eileen." "On Seinfeld, she was Elaine." "And following Seinfeld, she was Ellie on Watching Ellie." "That NBC series, created by Brad Hall, ran two seasons on NBC." "In this episode's table draft, Jerry explained to Elaine that he is afraid to upset her, because she's "a thrower."" "Elaine responds that she only threw something once." ""It was an axe," Jerry replies." "Jerry Seinfeld believes comedy is self-taught." ""No one can help you learn it." "It's like if you wanted to be a surgeon, and they gave you a knife and said start cutting and keep cutting till the patient feels better." "So it's pretty bloody in the beginning.""