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The Abstinence

‘The Abstinence’

Season 8, Episode 9 -  Aired November 21, 1996

George's intelligence skyrockets when his girlfriend can't have sex for six weeks, while Elaine experiences the opposite effect with her doctor boyfriend. Jerry gets bumped from Career Day at his old school. Kramer launches a smoker's lounge in his apartment.

Quote from Jackie Chiles

Jackie Chiles: Miss Wilkie, your tobacco company has turned this beautiful specimen, into a horrible twisted freak.
Kramer: Who could love me?
Wilkie: I disagree. In fact, I feel Mr. Kramer projects a rugged masculinity.
Jackie Chiles: Rugged? The man's a goblin. He's only been exposed to smoke for four days. By the time this case gets to trial, he'll be nothing more than a shrunken head.
Wilkie: All right, Mr. Chiles. You'll have our offer by tomorrow. Good day, gentlemen. [exits]
Kramer: Yeah, bye-bye. Jackie, you did it. We're rich.
Jackie Chiles: You better believe it. Jackie's cashing in on your wretched disfigurement.

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Quote from George

George: You know, Louise. I think you'll find this amusing. In early Euclidean geometry-
Louise: George, I have to have sex.
George: I used to share that very same outlook. But now, I have so many things to occupy my mind. For instance, the atom.
Louise: Goodbye, George. I hate you. [exits]
George: What a fascinating turn of events.

Quote from George

Jerry: Where have you been? You know, you're on next.
George: I got lost on the way over.
Jerry: Got lost? We went to school here for three years.
George: What are these? [holds test tubes to his head like antennae) Take me to your leader.
Jerry: Oh, my God. You had sex! You had sex with Louise!
George: No, the Portuguese waitress.
Jerry: The Portuguese waitress?
George: I calculated my odds of ever getting together with a Portuguese waitress. Mathematically, I had to do it, Jerry.

Quote from Jackie Chiles

Kramer: That was a great lunch, Jackie. Thanks.
Jackie Chiles: It's a little puzzling we haven't gotten that offer yet.
Kramer: Well, Mrs. Wilkie, from the tobacco company called me. We had a little powwow.
Jackie Chiles: A powwow? Who told you to have a powwow? I didn't tell you to have powwow.
Kramer: She made an offer. I took it.
Jackie Chiles: How much?
Kramer: No, no, no. There was no money.
Jackie Chiles: No money? Then what'd we get?
Kramer: Check it out.
[Kramer features on a cigarette billboard]
Jackie Chiles: This is the most public yet of my many humiliations.

Quote from George

George: Say me, you and Kramer are, uh, flying over the Andes.
Jerry: Why are we flying over the Andes?
George: We got a soccer game in Chile. Anyway, the plane crashes. Who are you gonna eat to survive?
Jerry: Kramer.
George: So fast? What about me?
Jerry: No.
George: Kramer's so stringy. I'm plump, juicy.
Jerry: Kramer's got more muscle, higher protein content. It's better for you.
George: Well, I would eat you.
Jerry: That's very nice, I guess.
George: I still don't see why you wouldn't eat me. I'm your best friend.
Jerry: Look, if other people are having some, I'll try you.
George: Thank you.
Jerry: [about George's snack] Can I have a piece of that?
George: No.

Quote from Jerry

Mrs. Burns: Jerry, it was so nice of you to come down here.
Jerry: I'm on next, right?
Mrs. Burns: Well, unfortunately, Mr. O'Meary from the Bronx zoo...
Jerry: The guy with the lizard.
Mrs. Burns: Yes. Well, he started feedin'git crickets, and the children just love him. And we're out of time. So can you come back tomorrow?
Jerry: I'm getting bumped? You're bumping me from Career Day?

Quote from Kramer

George: Kramer, what are you doing? You can't smoke in here.
Kramer: No, come on.
Larry: Take it outside.
Kramer: Come on, Larry. You know me.
Larry: It bothers people, and it's against the law.
Jerry: You can make all the laws you want. He's still gonna bother people.

Quote from Jerry

Mrs. Burns: Thanks so much for coming back, Jerry. Care for a Graham cracker?
Jerry: No, let's just do it. [fire alarm goes off] What? What is going on? What is that about?
Mrs. Burns: Fire drill. Sorry. Single file everyone!
Jerry: But I was promised this slot.
Mrs. Burns: Single file, Jerry.

Quote from Jerry

Jerry: [answers phone] Hello?
Katie: Jerry.
Jerry: Oh hi, Katie.
Katie: I heard what happened to the junior high. They can't bump you like that. That is so unprofessional.
Jerry: Oh relax, Katie. It's not a problem.
Katie: They bump you in junior high, the next thing you know you're being bumped in high schools, colleges, trade schools. Before you know it, Letterman's not returning your calls.

Quote from George

George: Guys, hitting is not about muscle. It's simple physics. Calculate the velocity, v, in relation to the trajectory, t, in which g, gravity, of course remains a constant. [hits a home run] It's not complicated.
Derek Jeter: Now who are you again?
George: George Costanza, assistant to the traveling secretary.
Bernie Williams: Are you the guy who put us in that Ramada in Milwaukee?
George: Do you wanna talk about hotels, or do you wanna win some ball games?
Derek Jeter: We won the World Series.
George: In six games.

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