George ends up buying a book at a bookstore after he takes it into the bathroom with him. Kramer and Newman get a rickshaw and hope to start a transportation business. Elaine fakes a relationship with a guy so she doesn't get known as the office skank, but it backfires when she has to help him get over a drug problem.
Tropes:
- Brick Joke: When calling out Jerry for ratting on Uncle Leo, Jerry's parents admit to regularly stealing things, with batteries being a specific example. Later, when trying to get Uncle Leo off the hook, Jerry says that all old people steal, to which the bookstore manager says he knows and that that's why they stopped selling batteries.
- Clingy MacGuffin: The book George ends up buying. But he can't return it because it's been flagged in the bookstore's systems. He tried to sell it to Elaine, but Jerry tells her about what happened. He even tried to give it away to a charity store, but the associate there used to work at the bookstore and can tell it's been flagged.
- Continuity Nod: The woman who refuses to take George's book for charity previously gave Elaine trouble for trying to pawn off muffin stumps on the homeless.
- Crazy Homeless People: When Kramer and Newman were looking for the right candidate to pull the rickshaw, there were a couple among them, such as Rusty, who steals the rickshaw, and another, who wasn't wearing a shirt and spouted random words like "The government!" and "Potato salad!"
- Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: At the charity store, the clerk Rebecca DeMornay isn't happy with George trying to give away a flagged book (she knows as she used to work at the bookstore) and when George tries to barter with her, she tells him this: "You get your toilet book out of here, and I won't jump over this counter and punch you in the brain!"
- "Eureka!" Moment: When Jerry asks for leniency for Uncle Leo, the bookstore manager tells him that there's been a lot of shoplifting lately and that his boss says someone has to be made an example of. When told anyone caught in the act would do, Jerry recalls George's plan to "get back" at the store for flagging the book and quickly tells the guards where to swarm.
- Fake Relationship: Elaine makes out with Zach at an office party, but decides to fake a relationship with him so she doesn't get known as the office skank.
- Freudian Excuse: Exploited. Mr. Peterman assumes that Zach's (supposed) infidelity was drug-induced and therefore that Elaine should stay in a relationship with him. Conveniently, he never considers the danger of being in a relationship with someone who can't control their actions.
- Get Out!: When Kramer barges into Jerry's bedroom while he's sleeping, he tells him this. But then Newman comes in and talks to Kramer about finding the rickshaw and Jerry has to yell until they leave.
- Going Cold Turkey: Before she has a chance to "break up" with him, Elaine is forced to help Zach to get over a drug problem.
- Hypocrite: Peterman orders Elaine to help Zack detox even though he is responsible for him relapsing—"I gave him the name of some places where he could score". Not to mention that Elaine's personal life is none of his business.
- Make an Example of Them: The bookstore manager tells Jerry that shoplifting has been a regular problem lately and that his boss wants someone to be made an example of to try to stop it. Jerry gets Uncle Leo off the hook by fingering George.
- Noodle Incident: Uncle Leo was apparently once arrested for a "crime of passion".
- Parody: Jerry has a nightmare based off Cape Fear, with Uncle Leo, angry for revenge after Jerry ratted him out, has him exercising with the words "Jerry" and "Hello" tattooed on his hands and angrily saying "Jerry! Hello!"
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Uncle Leo has that attitude when Jerry confronts him about shoplifting at the bookstore.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When pulling Newman up the hill on the rickshaw, a tired out Kramer stops to rest, sending Newman rolling down the hill and hitting Zach (after getting over his addictions). Kramer watches in horror, then slowly walks away before running off.
- Serious Business: Uncle Leo treats the act of saying "hello" like this.
- Bookstore employees react to thievery like policemen, contacting each other with radios and numerical codes.
"Swarm! Swarm!" - Shoplifting:
- Uncle Leo does this. After he gets jailed, Jerry's mother calls him and both her and Morty admit to stealing things like batteries, justifying it by saying it's not stealing if you need it. The bookstore manager implies this is a regular thing with senior citizens and why they stopped selling batteries.
- George attempts to steal a book for revenge for flagging the book for earlier but he gets foiled by Jerry.
- Skewed Priorities: When Jerry tells Uncle Leo he saw him shoplifting at the bookstore, Leo responds "Why didn't ya say hello?"
- The Stool Pigeon: Jerry does this twice at the bookstore. First, when he lets them know about Uncle Leo (to be fair, Jerry just wanted the staff to scare him). The second is when George attempts to steal a book to "get back" at them for flagging a book earlier.
- Subverted Catchphrase: After Jerry throws Kramer and Newman out of his room: "Good night, Jerry." "Good night, Newman."
- Too Much Information: George take a book about French Impressionist paintings to the bathroom with him and apparently helps him go. When conversing to Jerry about this, the latter stops him from diving into it even further.
