| | [3.23] the Keys | |
Premiered: 05/06/92
Writer(s): Larry Charles
Director: Tom Cherones | 4.428 | | Jerry makes Kramer return his spare keys after he breaks "the covenant of the keys," to wit: You don't use them to party in the bedroom with a girl called Goochi. This sets off a round-robin of key exchanges, with everyone making and breaking alliances like a clique of junior high school girls. Kramer realizes he has been using Jerry's apartment as a way of avoiding his own squalid reality. So he decides to follow his passion - acting - and head west. "You're not really going to California, are you?" asks George. "Up here," responds Kramer, pointing to his head, "I'm already gone." He ends up on Murphy Brown as Candice Bergen's latest catastrophic secretary. | | - Seinfeld Forever |
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Kramer sneask into Jerry's apartment late at night to get his popcorn maker while watching Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | Seinfeld Self-Reference
Kramer mentions he got the acting bug from his role in a Woody Allen movie that took place in [3.11] the Alternate Side |
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5.000 / 4.428 (3) | I don't think this is generally acknowledged as a Sein-Classic, but fear not, it's a good-un. Jerry takes Kramer's spare keys away from him after 1) finding him in his apartment kitchen at night borrowing his popper 2) finding him in his bathtub taking a bath and 3) finding him come out of his bedroom with a girl! There's an amazing exchange between Kramer and George at Monk's. Funny little running-joke about 'I thought I heard something.' And the season-ending Stephen Snell typing away on Murphy Brown is great.
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 | Stanus
4.000 / 4.428 (3) | A lot of swapping in this show and it ain't all good. Kramer leaves his friends in New York due to a tiff over keys. He lands a spot on normal, tv sitcom Murphy Brown in sunny Los Angeles - thus instantly making it not normal anymore. In turn, an aura of "routine sitcom" surrounds the other cast members, as if taking the place of Kramer. Elaine, Jerry and George fall into mundane confusing-speech jokes and muttered-under-breath jokes multiple times during the episode. Still, even the lapses into normalcy can't stop this one - as the Seinfeldian obsession over minutiae really shines in the Keys.
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| | Quotes | George: (looking for Jerry's keys) Alright, what do they look like?
Jerry: Like keys. They look like keys, George. They look exactly like keys.
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| George: I like to get the Daily News.
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| Jerry: (responding to knocking) Who's there?
Kramer: Kramer. (sees Elaine with Jerry's spare keys) Hey, oh, hi ... oh, you got the ...
Elaine: No, I am not ...
Kramer: No, no it's okay. I don't care about the keys. It's my fault. No, I gave the keys away with my stupidity. I broke the covenant of the keys.
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| Honored | | 9th Museum of Television and Radio Festival included a special Seinfeld night. | | added by Stanus |
| Honored | | The third season of Seinfeld earned the Television Critic Association Award for Outstanding Series. | | added by Stanus |
| Honored | | Jerry won the American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Performer in a TV series for his third season work. | | added by Stanus |
| Honored | | Jason Alexander won the American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male Character for his third season work. | | added by Stanus |
| Honored | | Julia Louis Dreyfus won Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the Viewers for Quality Telivision Awards for her performance in the third season. | | added by Stanus |
| That's a Wrap | | The third season wrap party took place in the Museum of Flying at Santa Monica Airport. | | added by Stanus |
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