The Fix-Up

"The Fix-Up"

"The Fix-Up" is the thirty-fourth episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. It is the 16th episode of the show's third season. It aired on February 5, 1992. The episode won the award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series at the 1992 Emmy Awards. The writers of the episode were Larry Charles and Elaine Pope.

Plot

George says that he would never sink to fix-ups, saying that a fix up is one step away from prostitution or personal ads (however, in "The Race" he replies to such an ad). At first, George resists the efforts of Jerry and Elaine to set George up with Elaine's friend Cynthia (Maggie Wheeler, credited as Maggie Jakobson) absent certainty she meets his (low) intellectual and (high) attractiveness standards. (George: Is there a pinkish hue? Jerry: A pinkish hue? George: Yes, a rosy glow. Jerry: There's a hue. She's got great eyebrows, women kill to have her eyebrows. George: Who cares about eyebrows? Is she sweet? I like sweet. But not too sweet, you could throw up from that.) They hit it off and have sex in George's kitchen but he is horrified to discover that Kramer has given him a defective condom. Cynthia says she misses her period but ends up having it at the end of the episode.

The end of the episode sees George, Elaine, Jerry and Cynthia sitting down for dinner at a restaurant (at a table closest to the kitchen) when George begins to eat his appetizer in a way that seems to disgust Cynthia in a means that did not seem possible for as long as he was potentially the father of her unborn child.