The Raincoats

The Raincoats is the 80th episode of Seinfeld and is one of the rare hour long episodes of the show. It's original broadcast date was April, 28th, 1994 and is part of the show's fifth season. It was written by Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. Tom Cherones was it's director. Judge Reinhold, Melanie Smith, Stephen Pearlman, Mike Haggerty and Dorien Wilson guest star.

Plot:

Jerry's parents are visiting him in New York as they get ready for their Paris vacation.

George is guilt tripped into joining the Big Brother organization and learns the kid he is helping has a father living in Paris.

Elaine is dating a close talker named Aaron , who goes out of his way to show Morty and Helen Seinfeld a great time while they are in Manhattan.

Kramer is raving about the vintage clothes shop Rudy's and George ends up selling some of his father's wardrobe to Rudy for some easy cash. Soon after Frank is looking for his missing clothes, so George goes to Rudy to buy them back. Rudy tells George the clothes had moths and he burned them.

Kramer and Morty go in on a business venture selling Morty's vintage raincoats to Rudy for a nice chunk of change. The raincoats are in Florida, so Morty gets Jack Klompus to mail them to him in New York.

George talks Helen and Morty into mailing postcards back to New York for him while they are in Paris. He invites them over to Frank and Estelle's for a paella dinner. The Seinfelds don't care much for the Costanzas, so they make up a lie to get out of going. George later finds out they lied and he tells Frank and Estelle about it. The Costanzas are furious and now hate the Seinfelds.

Jerry and his girlfriend Rachel give into temptation and make out during Schindler's List. Newman witnesses the whole thing and rats them out to Rachel's father. Seinfeld trys to smoothe things over with Rachel's father, but her father is disgusted with him and forbids him from seeing Rachel. Rachel's father lets Jerry know Newman is the one who tattled on him.

The day of his departure for Paris, Morty finally receives his raincoat boxes from Jack Klompas. Kramer and Morty take the raincoats to Rudy, but Rudy refuses to buy any of them because of Frank Costanza's moths. The Seinfelds miss their flight to Paris and head back to Florida, only to find their house has been completely cleaned out by robbers, who had easy access to the place because Jack Klompas broke a window in their garage to get access to Morty's raincoats. George takes the unused tickets off the Seinfelds so he and the boy from the Big Brother organization get to go to Paris. Morty and Helen are so bummed out about their stolen possesions that they go on a cruise to forget their troubles, only to run into their now enemies Frank and Estelle Costanza.

Jerry finally tracks Newman down at Monk's Cafe and lets him know that he knows that Newman ruined his relationship with Rachel. Newman runs away from Jerry in fear of what he will do to him.