The Dealership

Template:Infobox Seinfeld episode "The Dealership" is the one-hundred and sixty-seventh episode of Seinfeld. This was the 11th episode of the 9th and final season. It aired on January 8, 1998.

It was the first episode aired after Jerry Seinfeld announced on December 26, 1997 that the show would end in May.

Plot

Template:Spoiler Jerry plans to buy a car with an insider deal from David Puddy, who has been promoted to a car salesman. George warns Jerry to watch out for deceptive car dealers. Kramer takes the car Jerry is planning to buy for a test drive with another salesman. Elaine returns from a lunch with Puddy at Arby's. Puddy offers Jerry a "high five." Kramer misses the turn to go back to the dealership; instead, he plans to give the car a full test of a Kramer daily routine. Hungry, George seeks out something to eat and must settle for a vending-machine candy bar. Only he can't get one from the machine with a crinkled dollar bill so he asks a mechanic (who he knows has a crisp dollar) for assistance and is refused service. Finally, when he gets the correct change, the Twix bar fails to drop, staying in the machine. With his errands run, Kramer's next test is to take the car to the limits of its fuel tank. Irritated, George seeks assistance from a salesman. When they return to the machine, the Twix bar George had hanging and the one behind it are gone. George suspects the mechanic. Elaine and Puddy have a fight and break up. Jerry's insider deal is off. George confronts the mechanic. Jerry wants George to help him get a good deal; however, George is only interested in getting back at the mechanic. The car salesman riding with Kramer really gets into driving below empty. George tries to complain about the mechanic, but gets into a debate about candy bars. In an attempt to get a great deal on his car, Jerry tries to put Elaine and Puddy "in a relationship today." George sets up a candy bar lineup, to implicate the mechanic, only to find his lineup being eaten. Elaine and Puddy get back together and Jerry is going to get his deal, until Puddy says "high five" to Jerry, one time too many. Kramer and the salesman, with the dealership in sight, decide instead to go for it. Just 5 more miles, no turning back!!Template:Spoilerend

Quotes

• George: TWIX!!!
• Rick: No, I am allergic to cocunut.
• George Got any of those donuts that you use to soften people up?
• Elaine (mockingly to Puddy): High five! On the flip side!
• Elaine: Grease monkey.
• Jerry: Puddy thinks I should get the CD player, what do you think?
• Kramer: It's a place I like to call, you'll see.
• Puddy: That chick's wacked.
• George They all have swirling chocolate in the commercial!
  Dad of service window man: Not Skittles.
• Elaine: (Full of pride) My new salesman boyfriend took me out to celebrate his promotion.

Jerry: Ah. Where’d you go?
Elaine: (Obviously embarrassed) Uh, to a restaurant.
Puddy: Arby’s.

• (Jerry walks up to the vending machine. George is on his stomach, reaching under the vending machine for change)

Jerry: (Tapping the door you lift to retrieve your candy on the machine) I think the candy comes out over there.
George: People can drop change down here, Jerry. And they’re too lazy to pick it up.
Jerry: Either that, or they’ve got a little hang-up about lying face-down in filth.

Trivia

• A rare episode in which Jerry's apartment and Monk's coffee shop are not shown. It is the final episode not to do so (though "The Puerto Rican Day" comes close, only showing the apartment for a brief moment.)
• While testing driving the Saab 900, Kramer picks up a large Tweety Bird stuffed animal, which can be seen in the backseat.