Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Seinfeld: The Robbery Review

The Robbery is an interesting one in the short first season of Seinfeld. It sort of is based on some stuff that did happened to Jerry. Unfortunately, it's somewhat of a weak episode, but still holds on to some funny moments. It is also one of the few times that George's job as a real estate agent is used in the early days of its run.

Jerry goes to Minneapolis to do some stand up. He has Elaine in charge of watching his apartment with a set of demands. When he gets back however, a number of his items are stolen, all thanks to Kramer leaving his door open. Questions arise before and after the robbery about Jerry and the possibility of finding a new apartment due to problems with the building. Luckily, George has the keys and with badgering from him and Elaine, Jerry decides to look at the apartment.

For the rest of the episode, it becomes a fight between Jerry and George for whoever wants the apartment after Jerry decides he's going to move in. It's stuff that children would do. The ending for it is not one of its strong points, but it does shows the idea of what the characters could have had or not had. Honestly, I don't have much to say for it. It's a straight forward episode with a focus on one thing and that's it. Jerry's story is the apartment with George and Elaine in the mix.

George is basically doing his job for his friend and gets a bit jealous and envious of what Jerry is going to get. That's the stuff that makes the character great. Elaine doesn't have much other than wanting to get out of her own apartment because of her roommate. It won't be the last time she has issues with her. She has a few funny moments for this episode.  Kramer's scenes are explaining what happened that led to the robbery and about a neighbor who he thinks robbed Jerry. His stuff isn't too funny.

It feels like a different approach compared to the other episodes, but you can see how much more they were trying to get Elaine in a number of scenes alongside Jerry and George. The second half feels like filler with the stand up, which is very funny in itself. It was probably hard to write any humor considering how straight forward it was. Like I said, it has its moments, but overall, the weakest of Season 1

Score: 6 out of 10

Next week, Jerry and George invest in stock.

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