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The Big Salad

‘The Big Salad’

Season 6, Episode 2 -  Aired September 29, 1994

Jerry can't get over the fact the woman he's going out with once dated Newman. George is offended when his girlfriend takes credit for buying Elaine a "big salad". Kramer worries he caused a former baseball start to commit homicide.

Quote from Kramer

Kramer: Turn on the TV.
Jerry: What?
Kramer: Put it on! Put it on!
Newscaster: [on TV] Neither the district attorney's office and the police department have answered any questions as yet. To repeat, in case you're just joining us, former baseball star Steve Gendarson, has been taken to Police headquarters for questioning the murder of Bobby Pinkus, the owner of Royal Dry Cleaners at 2759 Amsterdam Avenue. According to Pinkus' wife, Gendason had been involved in a dispute with the cleaner about a stain on a pair of gray Sans-A-Belt slacks. We also have a report that earlier in the day a groundskeeper at Van Cortland's Golf Course reportedly saw an irate Gendason leaving the clubhouse in a huff. Whether there is a possible connection between the two is something we'll just have to wait and find out.
Kramer: Jerry!
Jerry: Well, it had nothing to do with you.
Kramer: Yeah, but maybe he was so mad from the penalty stroke that he murdered the dry cleaner.
Jerry: Well, generally speaking you don't need any extra incentive to murder a dry cleaner. I wouldn't worry about that.

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Quote from Jerry

Jerry: Kramer played golf with him. And Kramer thinks a penalty stroke may have driven him to it.
Margaret: Well, they haven't even arrested him yet. Come on, let's go out.
Jerry: Ah, no, I don't think so.
Margaret: Why not?
Jerry: We don't need a bunch of people staring at us.
Margaret: Who is staring?
Jerry: Oh, they're staring. They know we're on a date. They're making fun. Come on. It's embarrassing.

Quote from Jerry

Jerry: You went out with Newman?
Margaret: Just a few times.
Jerry: Why?
Margaret: I liked him.
Jerry: You liked, Newman?
Margaret: Look, I'm a little uncomfortable talking about this okay?
Jerry: No, I'm sorry. I'm just a little curious. I mean why did you stop seeing him.
Margaret: He ended it.
Jerry: He ended it?
Margaret: Yes. Yes. It was a couple of years ago. Why does it matter?
Jerry: No. No, of course not.

Quote from Kramer

Kramer: Jerry. Jerry they found a tee.
Jerry: What tee?
Kramer: A golf tee. In the dry cleaner.

Quote from Kramer

Kramer: Listen to this, "If a player cleans his ball during the play of a hole accept on the putting green he shall incur a penalty of one stroke." That's a rule, Jerry.
Jerry: But it's just a friendly game. Why do you always have to be such a stickler?
Kramer: Because that's the way I was raised. You know, when I was growing up, I had to be in bed every night by nine o'clock. And if I wasn't... Well, I don't have to tell you what happened.

Quote from Kramer

Kramer: You know he talked about Pinkus on the course?
Jerry: He did?
Kramer: Oh yeah, he said he brought a pair of pants into Pinkus' and they came back stained with some kind of dry-cleaning fluid. And Pinkus denied responsibility. You see, he was very upset with Pinkus.
Jerry: So it had nothing to do with you.
Kramer: Yeah, but maybe I pushed him over the edge.
Jerry: No, I don't think so.
Kramer: Poor Pinkus. Poor little Pinkus.

Quote from Jerry

Jerry: Hey, let me ask you a question. You met Margaret. Do you think Margaret's good looking?
Kramer: Um, she's a natural beauty. No makeup? I like that.
Jerry: Yeah, and the curls. You like the curls?
Kramer: Oh, I love curls.
Jerry: Yeah, me too.

Quote from Elaine

Elaine: It's just that my boss is very demanding and he needed the pencil right away.
Stationer: Well, why did you tell me to order it if you knew you were going to get one someplace else?
Elaine: No, no, no. I didn't know. I'm sorry.
Stationer: I went all the way down to the warehouse. It took me three hours. I had a big fight with the foreman.
Elaine: Really? A fight with the foreman?
Stationer: Yes.
Elaine: Well, again, I'm just awfully sorry.
Stationer: Yeah? Well, then how about going out with me tonight?
Elaine: Okay.

Quote from Jerry

Margaret: I mean, they found a tee and he played golf that day. Nobody walks into a dry cleaner's with a tee. The circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.
Jerry: You had how many dates with him? Three?
Margaret: Around three. I don't know.
Jerry: And...
Margaret: I told you. He stopped calling me. I moved on. I'm not hung up on him. What are you looking at?
Jerry: What? I'm not looking. Nothing.
Margaret: Why are you looking at my face?
Jerry: Where am I going to look?
Margaret: Kiss me.
Jerry: . . . I can't.

Quote from Elaine

Jerry: Newman ruined it for me. All I could think of was when I was looking at her face was, "Newman found this unacceptable".
Elaine: Well, I'm going out with the stationery store guy.
Jerry: You're going out with the stationery store guy?
Elaine: I felt so guilty about the pencil I couldn't say no.

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