Season synopsis
Contains spoilers for this season and earlier seasons.
With Susan dead, George’s attempt to move on is interrupted when her parents place him on the board of a foundation in her memory. He hates the obligation but cannot refuse them, and soon worries that the foundation’s lawyer thinks he murdered Susan. Meanwhile, J. Peterman leaves his catalog company during a breakdown, and Elaine takes charge; Kramer’s karate lessons, including his confidence against children, supply a separate running thread.
Elaine’s Peterman job brings fresh problems: she runs up company expenses, ghostwrites Peterman’s autobiography, and later returns to her old position. George interviews students for the foundation’s first scholarship. Jerry calls his new girlfriend perfect, but his friends are unimpressed; Kramer falls for her and asks Newman for advice. Elsewhere, George builds a desk he can sleep in at work, and Kramer adopts a stretch of highway after complaining about a large pothole.
The Mets want George as a head scout but require him to be fired, so he stains Babe Ruth’s uniform, runs through the stadium in a flesh-colored body suit and drags a World Series trophy behind his car. Wilhelm takes the blame and is fired instead, so George does not get the Mets job. The Yankees later fire George and give him three months’ severance; he stays in pajamas and rarely leaves home. Fetching invitations for Jerry’s date Lanette, George slips on one lying on the stairs and falls, leaving him hospitalized. The doctor explains that inactivity has atrophied George’s legs and the fall trauma means he may walk again only with hard work and physiotherapy.