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Encyclopedia > The Pen
Seinfeld episode
"The Pen"

Helen, Morty, Elaine and Jerry pose for a picture.
Episode no. 20
Airdate October 2, 1991
Writer(s) Larry David
Director Tom Cherones
IMDb profile
Seinfeld - Season 3
September 1991 - May 1992
  1. The Note
  2. The Truth
  3. The Pen
  4. The Dog
  5. The Library
  6. The Parking Garage
  7. The Cafe
  8. The Tape
  9. The Nose Job
  10. The Stranded
  11. The Alternate Side
  12. The Red Dot
  13. The Subway
  14. The Pez Dispenser
  15. The Suicide
  16. The Fix-Up
  17. The Boyfriend, Part 1
  18. The Boyfriend, Part 2
  19. The Limo
  20. The Good Samaritan
  21. The Letter
  22. The Parking Space
  23. The Keys
List of all Seinfeld episodes

The Pen is the twentieth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the third episode for the show's third season. It aired on October 2, 1991. Seinfeld was an American television situation comedy set in New York City that ran from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Sein_ep305. ... October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Larry in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Smoking Jacket. Larry David (born July 2, 1947) is an American actor, writer, producer, and film director born and raised in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, New York. ... Tom Cherones is a director and producer of several TV series including Seinfeld and The Pitts. ... The Note is the eighteenth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Truth was the 19th episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Dog is the twenty-first episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Library is a third season episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Parking Garage is the twenty-third episode of the situation comedy Seinfeld. ... The Café was the twenty-fourth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Nose Job was the twenty-sixth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Alternate Side was the twenty-eighth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Red Dot was the 30th episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Pez Dispenser is the thirty-first episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Fix-Up is the thirty-fifth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Boyfriend, Part 1 is the thirty-fourth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Boyfriend, Part 2 is the thirty-fifth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Limo was the thirty-sixth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Good Samaritan The Good Samaritan is a famous New Testament parable, that appears only in the Gospel of Luke (10:25-41). ... The Letter is the thirty-eighth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Parking Space is the thirty-ninth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... The Keys is the fortieth episode of the hitcom Seinfeld. ... Seinfeld logo The following is an episode list for the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. ... Seinfeld was an American television situation comedy set in New York City that ran from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998. ... October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Plot synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Jerry and Elaine go to Florida to visit Jerry's parents for the weekend and go scuba diving. Jerry's father is also being honored at a ceremony the next night. Jack Klompus comes over to write Morty a check for a previous night's dinner and Jerry notices Jack's pen. When he asks Jack about it, he tells Jerry that it can write upside down and that astronauts use it in space. Jack offers an interested Jerry the pen. Jerry refuses his offer several times, but Jack persists and Jerry finally gives in. Jerry's mother asks why he took the pen and says he should give it back because rumors will spread around the community that Jerry wanted Jack to give it to him. Jerome (Jerry) Seinfeld is a fictional character on the US television sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), named after, based on, and played by comedian Jerry Seinfeld. ... Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes Elaine Marie Benes is a fictional character on the US television sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The television show Seinfeld was known for featuring many characters, each with their own special characteristics. ... Scuba divers. ... Morty Seinfeld, played by Barney Martin, is a fictional character on the US television sitcom Seinfeld (1989-1998). ... A ballpoint pen A pen is a writing instrument which applies ink to some surface. ... The Space Pen, which term generally refers to those marketed by Fisher Space Pen Co. ... Helen Seinfeld, played by Liz Sheridan, is a fictional character on the US television sitcom Seinfeld (1989-1998). ...


Elaine sleeps on a sofa bed with a bar that sticks up through the mattress and hurts her back. She is extremely uncomfortable and it is not helped by the fact that the air conditioning is turned off. Jerry tries to console her by saying they only have two more days left before they go back to New York. The next morning, Elaine's back is so hurt that she can't go scuba diving with Jerry. Morty suggests she take muscle relaxants. Rumors begin to spread around the community that Jerry wanted Jack to give him the pen. Jerry goes scuba diving without Elaine. When he returns, he has black eyes because the capillaries around his eyes burst when he went underwater and pressure was too tight on his mask. Note: in the broadest sense, air conditioning can refer to any form of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning. ... The word capillary is used to describe any very narrow tube or channel through which a fluid can pass. ...


Jack comes over again and Jerry returns the pen. Morty yells at Jack for "taking Jerry's pen." Elaine decides she wants to take the muscle relaxants, but takes a slight overdose and acts strangely at the ceremony. Jerry has to wear sunglasses because of his black eyes. Jack is the emcee and makes cracks about Morty at the podium. Morty starts arguing with Jack again about taking back the pen and they start fighting. The next day, a chiropractor looks at Elaine's back and tell her she shouldn't go anywhere for at least five days, extending both her and Jerry's stay even longer. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A Master of Ceremonies or MC is the host of a staged event or other performance. ... Chiropractic treatment uses manipulative therapy to correct subluxation, which has been shown to have some efficacy in treating back and neck pain, headache, and other symptoms of spinal-related conditions. ...


Trivia

  • This is the only episode of Seinfeld that George Costanza does not appear in. Kramer does not appear in it either, but he also wasn't in the Season 2 episode, "The Chinese Restaurant." Jason Alexander confesses in the DVD extras that he walked upto Larry David and told him he would quit if he was ever written out of the story line again. This was the second-to-last episode not to feature all four main characters. (Elaine Benes was not seen in Season 4's "The Trip")
  • Despite not appearing in this episode, both Jason Alexander and Michael Richards were still credited in the opening titles.
  • This is the first appearance of Jack Klompus and his pen. He makes five more appearances, in "The Raincoats (1)", "The Raincoats (2)", "The Cadillac (1)," "The Cadillac (2)", and "The Money". The pen would reappear again in "The Raincoats (1)" and "The Money". He would lose the pen in the Season 8 episode "The Money" when he drives Morty's Cadillac into a swamp.

Jason Alexander as George Costanza George Louis Costanza (born April 1959) is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), played by Jason Alexander. ... Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer. ... The Chinese Restaurant was the 16th episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... Jason Alexander (born Jason Scott Greenspan, September 23, 1959, in Newark, New Jersey), is a television, cinema and musical theatre actor. ... Larry in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Smoking Jacket. Larry David (born July 2, 1947) is an American actor, writer, producer, and film director born and raised in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, New York. ... The Trip, Part 1 is the forty-first episode to air on NBCs popular sitcom, Seinfeld. ... Jason Alexander (born Jason Scott Greenspan, September 23, 1959, in Newark, New Jersey), is a television, cinema and musical theatre actor. ... Michael Richards as Kramer from an episode of Seinfeld. ... The Money is the 146th episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... Cadillac is a brand of luxury automobile, part of the General Motors Corporation, produced and mostly sold in the United States and Canada; outside of North America, they have been less successful. ...

Quotes

  • Helen: You're going underwater?
Jerry: Yes. Generally that's where scuba diving is done.
  • Elaine: Oh, man. What is with this bar? It's right in my back. It's killing me.
Jerry: Oh, you wanna switch? I'm sleeping on a love seat. I've got my feet up in the air like I'm in a space capsule.
Elaine: I am never gonna fall asleep.
Jerry: Oh, don't say that. You'll jinx me.
Elaine: How can they not put the air conditioning on?
Jerry: They're nuts with temperature.
Elaine: This bar is right in my back! It's making a dent.
Jerry: How about that guy writing a check for 19.45?
Elaine: I'm sweating here. I'm in bed, sweating.
Jerry: It's one day. Half a day, really. I mean you subtract showers and meals, it's like twenty minutes. It'll go by like that. (snaps his fingers)
  • (after being told by a chiropractor that she will have to stay for at least five more days)
Elaine: (to Jerry) Five more days?
Jerry: Well today's almost over. And weekdays always go by fast. Friday we're leaving. It's like two days really. It's like a cup of coffee. It'll go by like that. (snaps his fingers)
  • Jerry: Elaine, this is my aunt Stella.
Elaine: (a la Marlon Brando) STELLA! STELLA!
Jerry: (to Stella) Her back hurts.
Stella: We saw you on The Tonight Show last week.
Leo: I thought Johnny was very rude to you. He didn't even let you talk.
Jerry: No, no...
Leo: You need some new material. I've heard you do that dog routine three times already.
Elaine: STELLA! STELLA!
Leo: Listen, you should get your cousin Jeffrey to write some material for you.
Morty: What are you talking? Jeffrey works for the parks department!
Leo: You should read the letters he's written. He's funnier than the whole bunch of you! (Jack comes in) Oh, here's Jack. We should sit down.
Stella: (sarcastically) This better be good. I'm missing Golden Girls for this.
Helen: (after Stella walks away) I hate her like poison.
  • (after Morty and Jack start fighting about the pen)
Helen: Jerry, do your act.
Jerry: I can't. Nobody's even listening.
Helen: They're all gonna leave.
Jerry: (to himself) Oh God! (into the mike) huh... Hey! How you folks doing tonight?
Man in Crowd: Who are you?
Jerry: Have you ever noticed how they always give you the peanuts on the planes?
Woman in crowd : Not my Harry. He flies first class.
Jerry: Who ever thought the first thing somebody wants on a plane is a peanut?
Man in crowd (voiced by Larry David) : I'd rather have a bottle of scotch!
Helen: Do the dog routine.

  Results from FactBites:
 
Pen - LoveToKnow 1911 (1113 words)
Steel pens made and sold in London by a certain Wise in 1803 were in the form of a tube or barrel, the edges of which met to form the slit, while the sides were cut away as in the case of an ordinary quill.
Pens of the second class, which have the further advantage of being portable, are heard of under the name of "fountain inkhorns" or "fountain pens" so far back as the beginning of the 18th century, but it was not till a hundred years later that inventors applied themselves seriously to their construction.
In modern fountain pens a feed bar conveys, by capillary action, a fresh supply of ink to replace that which has been left on the paper in the act of writing, means being also provided by which air can pass into the reservoir and fill the space left empty by the outflowing ink.
pen - definition from dictionary.die.net (241 words)
Drawing, or Ruling, pen, a pen for ruling lines having a pair of blades between which the ink is contained.
Pen and ink, or pen-and-ink, executed or done with a pen and ink; as, a pen and ink sketch.
Penning.] To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
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