S6E24 · The Understudy

Jerry begins to date a girl who is an understudy for Bette Midler in her new Broadway musical, Rochelle, Rochelle. Jerry, George and Kramer all play on the Improv softball team and happen to be playing against the cast and crew of Rochelle, Rochelle. Kramer fawns over Bette and Jerry's girlfriend cries about her frankfurter falling on the ground but not about her grandmother dying.

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The comedy club softball team plays for charity against the cast of Bette Midler 's new musical. George, cheered on by Jerry, blindly rams Midler in a home run sprint. Midler is hospitalized, and her understudy, Jerry's girlfriend Gennice, gratefully assumes Jerry and George sabotaged her. The whole city turns against the trio, including Kramer, who is starstruck by Midler and waits on her hand and foot. Frank Costanza helps Elaine translate what her Korean manicurists are saying about her, and reveals an untold chapter of his life in Korea. Elaine runs into J. Peterman, and gets hired for her proficiency with the worldly prose of his catalog.

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