The Wink

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"The Wink" is the 114th episode of NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the fourth episode in the seventh season. It aired on October 12, 1995.

Plot

Elaine dates the man from her wake-up service. A bit of grapefruit pulp, from Jerry's breakfast, gets into George's eye and causes problems for him when his winks keep getting misinterpreted. Jerry's healthy diet conflicts with his dating of Elaine's cousin, Holly (Stacey Travis) who expects him to eat meat. Kramer promises a sick boy that New York Yankee Paul O'Neill will hit two home runs for him, so he can get back a birthday card that he sold based on George's wink.

Trivia

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• The storyline regarding Kramer's promise to a sick boy in the hospital was a parody of a scene from the 1942 Lou Gehrig biopic The Pride of the Yankees, in which Gehrig promises to hit three home runs in a single game to cheer up a crippled boy whom he visits in the hospital. The event in the 1942 film was a takeoff on something that actually happened to Babe Ruth, not to Gehrig. Also, Babe Ruth only promised one home run and ended up hitting three.
• Thomas Dekker, who played Bobby, played a different role in Season 5's "The Stand In." He also later becomes John Connor on the "Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles."
• At the end of the episode, George Steinbrenner mentions all of the people he fired, with him saying Billy Martin four times. He also mentions then-current manager Buck Showalter, then quickly clams up about it. Though the show meant it as a joke, it turned out to be prophetic. Just weeks after the episode aired, the real life Steinbrenner did not bring back Showalter as Yankees manager and replaced him with Joe Torre.

Quotes

• Holly: "Jerry, I'm thrilled you like my mutton. I was afraid you only ate . . . salad."
• Jerry: "Hey, salad's got nuttin' on this mutton!"
• Elaine: [to Holly as she abruptly leaves] "Thanks for mutton!"