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The Visa

‘The Visa’

Season 4, Episode 15 -  Aired January 27, 1993

When George dates a lawyer who thinks he's hilarious, he worries that she might find his friends funnier than him. Meanwhile, Jerry promises to help Babu Bhatt with an immigration issue.

Quote from Jerry

Jerry: Hey, is that Babu? It is! Hey, Babu!
Babu: Jerry!
Jerry: Look at you, you got the job.
Babu: Yes. Yes, they give me job thanks to you.
Jerry: Oh, I didn't do anything.
Babu: Yes, you do everything. Get me job, you get me a place to live in your building.
Jerry: Come on.
Babu: You very, very good man. You do everything for me. My family and I can never thank you enough for everything you do.

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Quote from Jerry

Jerry: Remember Babu Bhatt?
George: Who's he?
Jerry: Remember that guy who opened the restaurant across the street from the building last year, and he wasn't doing so well, and I told him he should make it into all Pakistani and that drove him right out of business?

Quote from George

Jerry: [to Elaine] Can you bring my mail then?
George: What mail?
Elaine: I picked up his mail while he was on the road.
George: Why didn't Kramer pick it up?
Jerry: 'cause he's at that baseball fantasy camp in Florida.
George: Oh yeah, right. When's he coming back?
Jerry: Monday, I think.
George: Kramer goes to a fantasy camp. His whole life is a fantasy camp. People should plunk down two-thousand dollars to live like him for a week. Do nothing, fall ass-backwards into money, mooch food off your neighbors and have sex without dating. That's a fantasy camp.

Quote from George

George: [sips wine] Excellent. Like I really know what I'm talking about.
Cheryl: [laughs]
George: Toasting makes me uncomfortable. But toast, I love. Never start the day without a good piece of toast. In fact, let's toast to toast.

Quote from George

Jerry: I mean, so what if I'm funny? Who cares?
Elaine: He thinks that if a woman sees a guy put on a better show, she'll walk out on his show, go see the other show.
Jerry: Well, should we leave?
George: Maybe you don't have to be so funny. I mean, would it kill you not to be so funny all the time? That's all I'm asking. This woman thinks I'm very funny. Now you're gonna be funny, so what am I gonna be? I'm gonna be a short bald guy with glasses who suddenly doesn't seem so funny.

Quote from George

George: What do you need her for? There's a million lawyers.
Jerry: Yeah, but you said this is one of the things that her firm does.
George: All right, all right. But no funny business. Same deal as last night.
Jerry: Ah, will you stop it already?
George: Jerry, please?
Jerry: How long is this gonna go on?
George: Till I'm comfortable.
Jerry: Well, when is that gonna be?
George: After consummation.
Jerry: Consummation? I don't think you have enough material.

Quote from Jerry

Cheryl: I actually have a friend in the Immigration Department who owes me a big favor. You're very lucky.
Jerry: [somber] That's wonderful news. Thank you.
Cheryl: You're a very serious person, aren't you?
Jerry: Well, with so many people in the world deprived and unhappy, it doesn't seem like it would be fair to be cheerful. [squats a fly with a newspaper]
Cheryl: I understand. [Jerry reaches for the milk] I think that's curdled.
Jerry: I don't care.
Cheryl: Do you ever laugh?
Jerry: Not really. Sometimes, when I'm in the tub.
Cheryl: That's so sad. What do you do?
Jerry: I'm a comedian.

Quote from Jerry

Babu: The problem is I never got my visa renewal form in the mail. I was expecting it.
Jerry: Yes. Well, see, here's the thing, Babu. Um, what happened was I was away for a couple of weeks doing some comedy shows.
Babu: Comedy shows! You're a very funny man.
Jerry: And, well, Elaine here was picking up my mail while I was away, because you know that little box can get very full.
Babu: Oh, yes. Yes, of course. TV Guide, magazines, everything. You know, I would have picked up your mail, your box is right next to mine.
Jerry: Oh, I don't want to bother you.
Babu: No bother! You get me job, you get me apartment. You very very good man.

Quote from George

George: Jerry?
Cheryl: I'm very attracted to him.
George: You think the person you were talking to is him? That's not even close to him. He's funny, Jerry's funny.
Cheryl: He never said anything funny.
George: He can't not be funny.
Cheryl: No, no, no. He's dark. And disturbed.
George: Dark and disturbed? His whole life revolves around Superman and cereal.

Quote from Kramer

Kramer: Well, I just came back from Mickey Mantle's restaurant.
Jerry: How could you go in there?
Kramer: Well, I had to. I had to apologize. I mean, I punched Mickey Mantle, my idol. It was eating me up inside!
Jerry: Well, what happened?
Kramer: I got down in my knees and went, "Go ahead, Mickey. Hit me. I'm begging you, Mickey, please hit me. C'mon, hit me. I love you, Mickey, I love you!"
Elaine: So, what did he do?
Kramer: Well, the four of them, they picked me up by my pants and they threw me outside, right into a horse.

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