The Letter (Seinfeld episode)

“The Letter”
Seinfeld episode
The portrait of Kramer.
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 39
Written by	Larry David
Directed by	Tom Cherones
Guest stars	Catherine Keener
Original airdate	March 25, 1992
Season 3 episodes
Seinfeld - Season 3 September 1991 - May 1992
The Note The Truth The Pen The Dog The Library The Parking Garage The Cafe The Tape The Nose Job The Stranded The Alternate Side The Red Dot The Subway The Pez Dispenser The Suicide The Parking Space The Fix-Up The Boyfriend, Part 1 The Boyfriend, Part 2 The Limo The Good Samaritan The Letter The Keys
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"The Letter" is the thirty-ninth episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the 22nd of the third season. It aired on March 25, 1992. This episode is famous for Kramer's portrait, titled "The Kramer."

Plot

Kramer poses for a portrait by Jerry's girlfriend, Nina (Catherine Keener), which an elderly couple admires. George feels obligated to buy something when he accompanies Jerry to his new girlfriend's art studio. Elaine wears a Baltimore Orioles baseball cap in the owner's box at Yankee Stadium, and refuses to remove it. Jerry finds out his new girlfriend is a plagiarist after he hears the words she wrote in a letter on television (specifically, the film Chapter Two). Elaine gets a chance to return to Yankee Stadium with her boss and is told to wear Baltimore cap. The elderly couple buy "The Kramer" for $5000 and invite Kramer himself over to their house for dinner.

Trivia

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• Despite spending $500 on a painting in this episode (and shortly thereafter trying to sell it to Jerry for $10), George later spends $1900 on triangle art from an ex-boyfriend of Elaine in Season 4's "The Junior Mint."
• The painting "The Kramer" would later be used as a prop in Even Stevens. Interestingly enough, in "The Opposite", Kramer said to Jerry that he was "Even Steven."
• After being hit in the head by a baseball, Kramer refers to Elaine as Carol. The character of Elaine was partly based on Carol Leifer. Likewise, he calls George Mike. George got his last name from a friend of Jerry Seinfeld, Mike Costanza, who would later have a cameo in The Parking Space
• Stock footage of a Cleveland Indians-Yankees game is used for the baseball sequences in Yankee Stadium.