The Smelly Car

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“The Smelly Car”
Seinfeld episode
Episode no. Season 4
Episode 61
Written by Larry David and Peter Mehlman
Directed by Tom Cherones
Guest stars Nick Bakay & Taylor Negron
Original airdate April 15, 1993
Season 4 episodes
Seinfeld - Season 4
August 1992 - May 1993
  1. "The Trip, Part 1"
  2. "The Trip, Part 2"
  3. "The Pitch"
  4. "The Ticket"
  5. "The Wallet"
  6. "The Watch"
  7. "The Bubble Boy"
  8. "The Cheever Letters"
  9. "The Opera"
  10. "The Virgin"
  11. "The Contest"
  12. "The Airport"
  13. "The Pick"
  14. "The Movie"
  15. "The Visa"
  16. "The Shoes"
  17. "The Outing"
  18. "The Old Man"
  19. "The Implant"
  20. "The Junior Mint"
  21. "The Smelly Car"
  22. "The Handicap Spot"
  23. "The Pilot, Part 1"
  24. "The Pilot, Part 2"
List of Seinfeld episodes

"The Smelly Car" is the sixty-first episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the 21st episode for the 4th season. It aired on April 15, 1993.

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[edit] Plot

The strong body odor of a valet is left in Jerry's BMW 5 Series. George can't believe it when he spots Susan holding hands with another woman. Elaine loses her current boyfriend and Jerry is forced to try to sell the car, because the odor has taken a life of its own and permeated everything. George is turned on by Susan's new outlook on life. Susan's friend is swayed to heterosexuality by Kramer, though later turned back off by a whiff of a jacket that Kramer borrowed from Jerry. When the car can't be sold, Jerry winds up leaving it and the keys out on the street.

[edit] Quotes

  • *Jerry  :"Do you smell something?."
  • Elaine :"What am I, hard of smelling?"


  • George : *After hearing Susan's girlfriend left her for Kramer - "Amazing...I drive them to Lesbianism...and he brings them back!"


  • Elaine : "Kramer, this woman has never been with a man in her life..."
  • Kramer : *Grinning* "I'm Kramer!"

[edit] Trivia

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  • While George is consoling Susan about the loss of her girlfriend (Mona), it is implied George's ex-girlfriend from "The Outing" also became a lesbian after dating George.
  • Just as Kramer briefly turned a lesbian into a heterosexual, Elaine later tries to get a homosexual man to "switch teams" in the season 6 episode "The Beard." She sleeps with him, but he quickly changes back to his team of origin.
  • Halfway through the episode, Elaine asks Jerry what it means if you're with a guy and he says he has to get up early the next morning. Jerry then replies by saying that he's lying as the man obviously doesn't want to be with you. The irony of this is that prior to this episode, in episode 4-10 "The Virgin", Elaine clearly already knows this manly trick as she is teaching Marla the virgin the exact same thing about men leaving after sex, though she never implies that they're lying when she teaches this to Marla.
  • Kramer makes a reference to George Steinbrenner in this episode. He would soon later become a recurring character on the show starting in the episode The Opposite.
  • "Rochelle, Rochelle," the film, is mentioned when George meets Susan in the video store. It is the movie he has rented and is going to return. It is here that he mentions that the film has "sidal" nudity.
  • Contrasting the handsome, athletic men she usually dates, Elaine is uncharacteristically dating a heavyset man in this episode.
  • The possibility of a stench that is impossible to get rid of was tested in a Mythbusters episode with the same name as this episode.

[edit] Superman reference

  • Jerry: You don't understand what I'm up against. This is a force more powerful than anything you can imagine! Even Superman would be helpless against this kind of stench!
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