The Pitch (Seinfeld)
episode of Seinfeld (S4 E3)
"The Pitch" is the 43rd episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. It is the third episode of the fourth season. It aired on September 16, 1992. Its original airing was as part of a one-hour episode, with "The Ticket" as the second half. In this episode, Jerry is invited to pitch a TV show to NBC, and George conceives a "show about nothing", kicking off the main story arc of season 4. Jerry has a run-in with "Crazy" Joe Davola, a writer who needs psychiatric treatment, and draws Davola's wrath upon himself and Kramer.
Plot
At a comedy club, NBC executives invite Jerry to pitch a TV show starring himself. George and Kramer spitball haphazard premises set in a gym class, an antique store, and a circus. Kramer trades a radar detector to Newman for a motorcycle helmet, and invites him and Jerry to a party. Jerry warns that Kramer is making a bad trade, but Kramer lets Newman think he came out on top, while hiding that the detector is broken.
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