The Blood (Seinfeld)

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"The Blood (Seinfeld)"

"The Blood" is the 160th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 4th episode for the 9th and final season. It aired on October 16, 1997.

Plot

Jerry's parents are concerned about his lack of exercise and thus Seinfeld, realizing he is out of shape, starts a purification program to improve his diet. Jerry's parents eventually buy him sessions with a personal trainer, Izzy Mandelbaum, who's going to help him work off his spare tire. Elaine visits her friend Vivian and is disappointed when Vivian implies that she isn't responsible enough to watch her son Jimmy. Meanwhile, George decides he needs to add food as a part of his sex life when his girlfriend lights some vanilla-scented incense, whose overpowering scent makes him hungry. His girlfriend only tolerates some food items, detesting "salted cured meats"; George then contrives a way to separate pudding skin from the pudding, creating pudding skin singles and arrives at the decision to add radio to his equation as to make food and sex even better ("the Trifecta"). However, George's girlfriend becomes displeased upon discovering him eating a pastrami sandwich with headphones during foreplay. Kramer has been storing his blood at a blood bank whose rates become leveraged and, retaliating, he decides to store the blood himself. Vivian then decides that Kramer would be a good choice for a baby-sitter; however, Elaine intercepts him en-route and proves her responsibility. Jerry sustains a hobby knife wound which causes him to require a blood transfusion; ultimately, he receives three pints of Kramer's blood and learns that the blood does in fact belong to Kramer. He becomes disturbed, especially when Kramer deems him a blood brother. Elaine hates her new responsibility, so she tries to make herself appear irresponsible; to avoid being responsible she uses George as a "pinch weasel". However, George has most likely found the woman of his dreams. Kramer borrows Jerry's air-conditioned car to return his blood to the bank. The car overheats because the radiator is dry, but not for long. Jerry's last workout with Izzy results in another transfusion of blood; only this time it's not Kramer's, it's Newman's.

Quotes

• Jerry: "Blood over there, sausage over here...I'm living in a slaughterhouse." [1]
• Vivian: "I find the Pastrami to be the most sensual of all the salted cured meats." [2]
• George: "I flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami." [3]
• Elaine: "I think you're getting a little pudding under the skin yourself."
• George: "(During sex) Oh VIVIAN!"
• Kramer: "Well I may have to take it, but I don't have to like it!"
• Kramer: "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go and fill my freezer with my own blood."
• Jerry: "(After mistaking Tomato juice for blood) "Oh what about this, this is blood isn't it!?"
• Kramer: "You got three pints of Kramer in you, buddy!" (Jerry screams loudly, followed by Kramer as they scream in unison).
• Jimmy: "You're dead President Lincoln, you're dead!" (Pretends to shoot Elaine)
• Elaine: (Sarcastically) "I wish I was dead!"
• Jerry: "Sex is between a man and a woman, not a man and a sandwich." [4]
• Izzy Mandelbaum: (After seeing meat in Jerry's house) "What in holy hell?"
• Izzy Mandelbaum: "If you wan't to live in a butcher shop I'm gonna treat you like a piece of meat