The Smelly Car

"The Smelly Car" is the sixty-first episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the 21st episode for the 4th season. It aired on April 15, 1993.

Plot

Jerry and Elaine, after having dinner, a strong body odor of a valet is left in Jerry's BMW 5 Series. After a relentless drive home, Elaine's boyfriend Nick Bakay is troubled by the odor coming from Elaine assumes their relationship is at an end. George cannot believe it when he spots his ex-girlfriend, Susan, as a lesbian, and he is turned on by her new outlook on life. Elaine loses her current boyfriend because the odor from the car got stuck in her hair, and he could not stand to be near her. Jerry immediately blames the restaurant he went to the other night, and although the Maître d' initially refuses to pay for car cleaning, he eventually agrees after Jerry had put him inside the car, refusing to let him out unless he pays for half of the price ($250). Susan's girlfriend Mona is swayed to heterosexuality by Kramer, which Jerry Elaine and George, cannot understand why, being that Susan's girlfriend has never been with a man. This angers Susan, (due to her not liking Kramer) and George who is still convinced that he drove Susan to lesbianism. After a complete "de-ionizing" of the car, Jerry, anticipates that the smell is gone, smells it again, and discovers it has not. Meanwhile Elaine decides to go to a hair salon to "wash" the smell out of her hair, despite already taken a thorough shower, and, believing that the smell has gone away, tries the relationship with Carl again. He however smells the car stench again and tells her that She still smells. Elaine is at a loss for what to do, as well as Jerry. Jerry then tries to sell the car because the odor has taken a life of its own and permeated everything, but the dealer claims he cannot sell such a car. Kramer's relationship with Mona ends when she smells the odor on Kramer, even though Kramer was never in the car, he borrowed Jerry's jacket. The same one he was wareing in the car. When it cannot be sold, Jerry winds up abandoning the car and its keys out on the street just to get rid of it, even going so far as to encouraging a man on the streets to steal his car, however the same man ends up being disgusted by the smell.