Seinfeld: Season 8
Season 8 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Seinfeld Season 7.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 8 Progress Shield
The Foundation
Sep 19, 1996 · 22 min
Susan's parents act to preserve her memory; Kramer gives Elaine a confidence boost after Peterman puts her in charge.
The Soul Mate
Sep 26, 1996 · 22 min
Kramer falls for the woman Jerry's seeing; George suspects he's suspected of foul play.
The Bizarro Jerry
Oct 3, 1996 · 23 min
Elaine hangs out with men who are opposites of Jerry, George and Kramer; Kramer stumbles into a white-collar job; Jerry finds a flaw in Elaine's beautiful friend.
The Little Kicks
Oct 10, 1996 · 22 min
Elaine's staff loses respect for her after seeing her dance; George benefits socially when Elaine labels him a "bad seed"; Kramer's friend forces Jerry into crime.
The Package
Oct 17, 1996 · 22 min
Elaine regrets peeking at her medical chart; George takes dating advice from Kramer, who also hatches a scheme to improve Jerry's stereo.
The Fatigues
Oct 31, 1996 · 22 min
An employee's military bent scares Elaine; Kramer cooks for a Jewish singles night; Jerry finds fault with his girlfriend's mentor.
The Checks
Nov 7, 1996 · 22 min
Jerry's popularity in Japan brings new friends to Kramer, and maybe new life to Jerry's TV pilot; Elaine's new beau won't share "his song" with her.
The Chicken Roaster
Nov 14, 1996 · 23 min
George loses an expensive hat Elaine charged to her business account; a neon sign prompts Kramer and Jerry to swap apartments.
The Abstinence
Nov 21, 1996 · 22 min
George's intellect thrives when thoughts of sex are shut out; Elaine wants her intern to become a doctor--stat; Jerry is bumped from a school's Career Day.
The Andrea Doria
Dec 19, 1996 · 22 min
Jerry tries to help Newman get transferred; George trades tales with a shipwreck survivor to obtain a dream apartment; Kramer coughs like a dog; a minor insult has a major effect o
The Little Jerry
Jan 9, 1997 · 22 min
George finds a new romance--in a women's prison; Kramer buys a chicken, then puts his fowl to foul use; Elaine encourages her shaved-headed beau to grow back his hair.
The Money
Jan 16, 1997 · 23 min
Kramer's girlfriend disrupts his sleep; Jerry's parents think he needs financial aid; George ponders an inheritance.
The Comeback
Jan 30, 1997 · 23 min
Kramer arranges to die with dignity; Jerry learns his tennis consultant is a lousy player; George becomes obsessed with responding to an insult long after the fact; Elaine offends
The Van Buren Boys
Feb 6, 1997 · 23 min
Gang members protest George's handling of a scholarship named for Susan; some find Jerry's new girlfriend objectionable; Peterman wants Kramer's life experiences for his own autobi
The Susie
Feb 13, 1997 · 22 min
Kramer becomes the spokesman for a woman George wants to avoid; Jerry's bookie welches; a co-worker mistakes Elaine for someone else, who's reported as a problem worker.
The Pothole
Feb 20, 1997 · 22 min
Jerry has an accident with his girlfriend's toothbrush; Elaine crams herself into a restaurant's delivery boundary; Kramer alters his "adopted" highway.
The English Patient
Mar 13, 1997 · 22 min
Elaine's review of a film loses her friends; a woman mistakes George for her boyfriend; Jerry visits his parents in Florida.
The Nap
Apr 10, 1997 · 22 min
George crafts a place to nap at work; a new beau gives Elaine a mattress, which Kramer promptly soils; Jerry's kitchen is redesigned against his will.
The Yada Yada
Apr 24, 1997 · 26 min
George adopts his girlfriend's verbal shorthand; Jerry suspects a comic motive behind his dentist's conversion to Judaism; double-daters Kramer and Mickey don't know whose date is
The Millennium
May 1, 1997 · 22 min
The Mets express interest in George; an inattentive saleswoman irks Elaine; Kramer prepares for his millennium party; Jerry jockeys for position on his girlfriend's speed dial.
The Muffin Tops
May 8, 1997 · 23 min
George pretends he's a tourist to bond with a tourism worker; Elaine's former boss steals her million-dollar idea, while Kramer promotes a bus tour about the life of Elaine's curre
The Summer of George
May 15, 1997 · 22 min
Kramer's job at the Tony Awards leads to a meeting with Raquel Welch; George helps Jerry date a high-maintenance woman; Elaine is labeled catty after making a comment about a co-wo