The Couch (Seinfeld)
episode of Seinfeld (S6 E5)
"The Couch" is the 91st episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the fifth episode for the sixth season. It aired on October 27, 1994. In this episode, Kramer goes into the restaurant business with Poppie, George barges into a stranger's movie night to get out of his book club reading, Jerry makes Elaine confront people on abortion rights, and Poppie leaves a puddle on Jerry's new couch.
Plot
Jerry gets a new couch delivered, and Elaine scores both his old couch and a date with Carl, a hunky furniture mover. Kramer has revived his idea for a pizza parlor where customers do all the cooking, thanks to a partnership with Poppie, whose restaurant has bounced back from the earlier sanitation violations. Kramer and Elaine reprimand Jerry for failing to offer the movers anything to drink.
Kramer sends Jerry and Elaine to try the duck at Poppie's, by special order. Jerry finds out that Elaine is boycotting another restaurant owned by an anti-abortion political donor, and decides to have Elaine confront Poppie's views as well. Bitter over his late mother's forced abortion in a gulag, Poppie is totally opposed, and Jerry's rabble-rousing makes not just Elaine but many other customers walk out.
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