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S5E17 · The Wife

While Jerry keeps up the pretense of a pretend marriage with new girlfriend, Meryl, so she can share his dry cleaning discount, Elaine tries to decipher whether a guy at the gym likes her and simultaneously tries to keep him from reporting George to the manager for peeing in the shower; and Kramer prepares to meet his girlfriend, Anna's parents.

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Jerry gets a dry-cleaning discount that extends to family members, inspiring him and his girlfriend Meryl ( Courteney Cox ) to amorously roleplay as husband and wife. Elaine is intrigued by mixed romantic signals from a health club member, Greg, but she is caught between her pursuit of Greg and Greg's threat to expel George from the club for urinating in a shower. Kramer gets his quilt dry cleaned, leaving him sleep-deprived and pale just as he needs to meet his black girlfriend's family. Jerry regrets rushing into a pretend marriage too soon, and adulterously gives his discount to another woman.

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