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S2E11 · The Chinese Restaurant

Jerry, Elaine, and George endure a series of misadventures while waiting the entire episode to get a table at a Chinese restaurant.

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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.

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