Season 2

S2E1 · The Ex-Girlfriend

With Jerry's encouragement, George overcomes his girlfriend Marlene's irresistible allure and breaks up. Sent to retrieve George's books from Marlene, Jerry falls for the same irresistible allure. Jerry cannot break up with Marlene despite her dull, aimless phone calls, and worries that George will disapprove. George goes to Jerry's chiropractor, but refuses to pay the bill in full. Elaine is perturbed that a neighbor gradually became less familiar in his greetings. Kramer praises the cheap, delicious cantaloupes he got from a local grocer that accepts returned fruit.

S2E2 · The Pony Remark

Forced to attend elder relative Manya's anniversary dinner with his visiting parents, Jerry acts out by reviling everyone privileged to own a pony growing up. He inadvertently tars Manya with the same brush for her proud rustic upbringing in her native Poland. When Manya suddenly dies afterwards, Jerry considers skipping her funeral for he and George's softball team's championship game, while Jerry's father Marty laments giving up his cheap return airfare. Kramer boasts that he will replace all the furniture in his apartment with staired "levels", and bets Jerry dinner. At the funeral, Elaine vies to take over Manya's rent-controlled apartment.

S2E3 · The Jacket

Jerry is pleased with finding a new suede jacket despite its eye-watering price tag and loud, striped lining, and Kramer gets his old leather jacket as a hand-me-down. Jerry and George get dragged along as social buffers to dinner with Elaine's father Alton, a noted author, and beg off when Kramer asks for a passenger while he is double-parked to pick up a magician's doves. George, with "Master of the House" from Les Misérables stuck in his head, and Jerry are intimidated and belittled by Alton's blunt, humorless, and curt manner, but find no escape as they wait for Elaine to arrive.

S2E4 · The Phone Message

George passes up an invitation upstairs for coffee from his date, Carol, then kicks himself for taking the invitation literally. Convinced that he ruined his chances with her, he improvises a rambling message on her answering machine. Jerry hits it off with his own date, but turns against her because she likes a TV commercial for Dockers pants. After leaving even more disastrous messages, George is inspired by Elaine to take them back by bringing Jerry to Carol's apartment to swap her answering machine tape. Kramer offers an unsolicited joke for Jerry's act.

S2E5 · The Apartment

Jerry invites Elaine to move into the newly-vacated apartment above him for cheap, bowling her over. Jerry realizes too late that he does not want Elaine visiting freely, or to have all his comings and goings within earshot of her. He gets a reprieve when Elaine gets priced out by a competing bid, but Kramer blithely volunteers Jerry to lend Elaine money to match the bid. George learns that wedding bands can attract women, so he wears Kramer's father's wedding band to a party at Elaine's friend's apartment, where he finds this newfound allure a blessing and a curse. Kramer declares that hair mousse has changed his life.

S2E6 · The Statue

As Kramer exhumes Jerry's grandfather's effects from storage, including an old-fashioned trench coat just like Joe Friday's, George recognizes a statue matching one he dropped and broke at home as a child. George plans to use the statue to redeem himself for this disgrace. Rava, a writer, demands Elaine to edit her manuscript and secures a promotion for Elaine, while Rava's boyfriend Ray cleans Jerry's apartment. Jerry is impressed by Ray's impeccable cleaning, but the statue turns up at Ray's home after the cleaning. Ray shrugs off Jerry and George's suspicions, while Elaine tries to stay in Rava's good graces.

S2E7 · The Revenge

George impulsively quits his job and burns bridges with his boss Rick Levitan, without thinking to line up another job. When George tries to go back as though nothing happened, Levitan crows that George cannot win against him. Jerry cannot find $1,500 he hid with the clothes that he took to a laundromat, and the owner takes no responsibility even when Jerry and Kramer accuse him of theft. George plots revenge by spiking Levitan's drink at an office party, with Elaine as accomplice; meanwhile, Kramer plots revenge by dumping cement in a washing machine at the laundromat.

S2E8 · The Heart Attack

George goes to the hospital over a heart attack scare, but it turns out to be anxiety caused by a TV documentary, and Jerry and Elaine have fun at his expense over the false alarm. The attending doctor recommends a tonsillectomy, but he ends up more concerned with flirting with Elaine. Kramer sends George to a shady holistic healer, who charges much less, but his treatment sends George to the hospital again with an allergic attack. Jerry, after jotting down an amusing thought as comedy fodder in the middle of the night, seeks help to decipher his own handwriting.

S2E9 · The Deal

Elaine and Jerry, both sex-deprived, become friends with benefits. Not wanting relationship drama, they make rules to relieve themselves of obligations, but George warns that they cannot have their cake and eat it too. Elaine indeed twists a rule around on Jerry when he tries to go home after sex, putting him on guard as he shops for a birthday present for her. They discover that commitment-free sex is impossible when Jerry's unromantic gift and birthday wishes prove disappointing, while Kramer upstages Jerry with gifts from the heart. Jerry must choose whether to get back together for the sake of saving their friendship.

S2E10 · The Baby Shower

Elaine, seeking her friend Leslie's approval, hosts Leslie's baby shower. This reawakens George's old grudge against Leslie for ruining his shirt without apologizing, and his shame for being too obsequious to stand up to her. Jerry, going to Buffalo, lets the baby shower be held in his apartment, but also relents to Kramer's pressure to get pirated cable hooked up by some Russians, despite his own paranoia. When Jerry's flight is snowed out, George picks him up as an excuse to crash the baby shower and confront Leslie. Leslie is unimpressed with Elaine's ingratiation as everyone converges on Jerry's apartment.

S2E11 · The Chinese Restaurant

Jerry, George, and Elaine go to a Chinese restaurant for dinner before a movie. As they wait for a table, George needs a payphone to call his girlfriend Tatiana, so he can make up for leaving in the middle of sex due to bowel urges, but others will not yield the phone to him. Elaine, who is starving, goes along with increasingly desperate stunts to sate her hunger, like taking a wager to eat from another table. Jerry lied to get out of dinner with his uncle, but this comes back to bite him when his uncle's coworker recognizes him. All the while, the maître d' shrugs off their complaints when others get seated first.

S2E12 · The Busboy

As Jerry, George, and Elaine have dinner, a busboy accidentally lights a menu on fire, and gets fired after George informs the manager. Feeling sorry, George tracks down the ex-busboy, Antonio, to make amends, but makes matters worse when he and Kramer let Antonio's cat out. Elaine is smug that Eddie, an admirer from Seattle, is staying with her for a week, but quickly falls out of love and becomes hellbent on seeing Eddie off to the airport punctually. Despite obsessive planning, Elaine and Eddie oversleep and Elaine maniacally races against time to avoid another day with him.