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Recap / Seinfeld S3 E20 "The Good Samaritan"

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Jerry witnesses a hit-and-run incident and when he confronts the driver, it turns out to be a beautiful redhead and they start a relationship, while he tries to get her to pay for the damages. On a dinner date, George inadvertently offends the husband after say "God bless you" to his wife after she sneezes and has an affair with her. Kramer gets seizures after hearing Mary Hart's voice on Entertainment Tonight.


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  • Based on a True Story: Kramer's seizures whenever he hears Mary Hart's voice was based on a real-life incident that happened with a woman. This is referred to in the show.
  • Convulsive Seizures: Happens to Kramer whenever he hears Mary Hart on three occasions: off-screen, when Jerry and Elaine were watching TV, and when he was getting ready to go out on a date with Becky.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: Robin's husband, Michael, who gets offended at George saying "God bless you" and when he learns of the affair, he, in his words, want to "sew his ass to his face".
  • Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Two in a row!
    • When Michael learns of the affair:
    Michael: He's finished! I'm going to sew his ass to his face! I'm going to twist his neck so hard his lips will be his eyebrows! I'm going to break his joints, and reattach them!
    • And followed by that, when Jerry tries to get Angela to pay for the damages:
    Angela: Now you listen to me, suck face! You tell anybody, anything, and I will carve my initials in your brain tissue!
    Jerry: Let me rephra-
    Angela: I'll bash your skull into a vegematic like a bad cabbage, and I'll have a party on your head! (Elaine walks in)
    Jerry: Hi Elaine, this is Angela.
    Angela: I'll pluck all your body hairs out with my teeth!
    Jerry: Well I think I get the gist of it.
  • Fiery Redhead: Angela. Boy howdy.
  • Forced Meme: Instead of saying "God bless you" after a sneeze, say "You're so good-looking". Word of God says this was an attempt at a meme, but it didn't catch on.
  • Karma Houdini: Angela does not get a comeuppance despite being responsible for the hit-and-run and threatening Jerry.
  • Kindness Ball: George is genuinely a Nice Guy in the episode, he gives a polite ‘God-bless you’ to Robin and even feels bad when he and Robin end up having an affair.
  • The Scapegoat: After Angela refuses to take part in paying the hit-and-run, Jerry pays Becky for the damage and when he asks her out, she is disgusted, thinking Jerry was the hit-and-run driver.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: George decides to join Jerry on a three week comedy tour to avoid Michael's wrath, assuming that his anger will have fizzled by the time he returns (or he'll have given up on trying to find him).
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Robin told Michael that she was at Elaine's when she was sleeping with George, except she didn't include her on the plan, and when Michael calls Elaine, she was unaware of the plan, inadvertently giving away the affair.

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