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S4E18 · The Old Man

Elaine gets the gang to volunteer at an old folks' home. She gets freaked out by hers, George gets fired by his guy, and Jerry loses his. Kramer and Newman scheme to sell records to a vintage music store and steal the records from Jerry's old guy.

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Elaine convinces George and Jerry that volunteering to visit the elderly will bring fulfillment, but Jerry is assigned to an antagonistic old man. Kramer and Newman start a side hustle to haul away obsolete vinyl records to resell, but Jerry's kitschy records are not worth selling. Kramer and Newman plunder the old man's unwanted record collection, but accidentally destroy his false teeth. George meets the old man's live-in caretaker from Senegal, believing that women who do not speak English are his last hope. Elaine visits an old lady with an enormous goiter on her neck, but discovers her scandalous history with Mohandas Gandhi.

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