“The Note” was the eighteenth episode of Seinfeld to air, and the Season Three premiere. Written by Larry David and directed by Tom Cherones, it aired on September 18, 1991.
Plot
Jerry, Elaine, and George obained notes from Jerry's dentist, Roy, for free therapy massages. The therapist believes that Jerry is insane when he jokingly remarks about a kidnapped boy. George, on the other hand, begins to doubt his sexual orientation when he found that his penis "moved" when his masseur, Raymond, massaged him. This is seen when he states an opinion about Evander Holyfield at Roy's urging; he says that he doesn't "like" him despite being a good fighter and nice overall.
Roy gets in trouble for giving out fake notes, and Kramer claims he saw Joe DiMaggio in Dinky's Donuts; however, the rest of the four understandably disbelieve him. He presses that Joe is very focused on his eating.
The end shows the gang at Monk's while watching the faceless Joe DiMaggio dunking donuts. While George refers to him as handsome, much to the surprise of Jerry and Elaine, Kramer attempts to break DeMaggio's concentration through largely conventional means of shouting and noisemaking.
Notability of the episode
- This episode was the only one besides the Pilot in which the theme song was of a different version. Two other episodes were originally to have this same theme; however, the change was received negatively and the episodes were redone.
- This episode was the first with the new Seinfeld logo.
- The dentist, Roy, was originally named Lloyd. However, the gentleman who portrayed Roy was credited as Lloyd due to someone forgetting to change “Lloyd” to “Roy” in the end credits.