For a show about "nothing," Seinfeld really did create a mixed bag of absurd and realistic storylines for the show's quartet. The combined personalities of Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer, as well as their individual daily circumstances, meant that anything they did was additionally threefold its original chaos ratio or influenced by the others in some way or another.
The quartet led mostly ordinary lives, yet they constantly found themselves caught in escalating circumstances. Sometimes the solution is easier said than done, and getting swept into chaos is unavoidable.
Jerry's Suede Jacket
During the second-season episode "The Jacket," Jerry purchases a suede jacket, making an exception to a price he usually wouldn't think to pay. The inner lining of the brown jacket is striped pink and white. When Jerry and George meet Elaine and her father Alton for dinner, Alton suggests they walk to the restaurant. The problem? It's snowing.
Jerry turns his suede jacket inside out, now wearing the candy stripe lining on the outside. Alton makes a comment that Jerry isn't walking his daughter down the street wearing that jacket. So, Jerry walks in the snow and ruins his new expensive jacket. Jerry easily could have chosen to wear the lining side out anyway or chosen to walk separately and meet them at the restaurant.
The Strongbox
Kramer needs to hide the key to his strongbox and chooses to put it in Jerry's apartment, finally electing to hide it in one of Jerry's pockets. But, when none of the places work, he abandons Jerry's apartment for Phil's, only he put it inside Phil's bird's food dish.
Jerry and Kramer go to Fredo the bird's resting place and dig him up but are caught by Phil and his wife. Kramer could have taken the strongbox to be opened by a professional or checked to see if there were any other way to open it without the key, as the box was already unlocked, before resulting to graverobbing.
The Marble Rye
Most situations can be resolved with an honest explanation. In the season seven episode "The Rye," George and Susan's families come together for dinner only for the Constanza's to take home the rye they brought over.
Why? Because the Rosses forgot to serve it, but Frank and Estelle took offense. Instead of itting to taking the bread, George goes to great lengths to sneak another Rye into the kitchen to replace the original dinner favor.
Jerry The Pharmacist
The quartet's separate lives always come together in the end with their situations intertwining comedically. Unfortunately for Elaine, the season six episode "The Diplomat's Club," leads to a fateful interaction between her boss and Jerry. Around the same time Elaine suggests to Mr. Pitt that he check with a pharmacist before mixing anything with his heart medication, Mr. Pitts mistakes Jerry for a pharmacist and inquires about mixing his medications.
Although it's possible Jerry thought he was being asked as a person and not a professional, he did give advice without any expert knowledge or advice to seek help from a worker at the pharmacy. Mr. Pitts ends up collapsing and recognizes Jerry and his connection to Elaine, consequently firing Elaine, believing he was poisoned just as he put her in his will.
The Phil Rizzuto Keychain
The season eight episode "The Pothole" saw George gifted with a keychain by Steinbrenner in honor of "Phil Rizzuto induction into the Hall of Fame." But, in pure George luck, he lost the keychain.
George ed he dropped them into a pothole only to see the pothole is filled by the time he gets there. He calls down a team of road workers but refuses to pay and does the job himself. His inexperience causes him to hit a water pipe, although he does free his keychain.
Elaine & Susie
In season eight episode 15 "The Susie," Elaine is forced to take up a persona after a conversation with her co-worker Peggy. Things escalate and Elaine, Peggy, and "Susie" are all called in for a meeting with their boss Mr. Peterman.
Elaine makes it through the meeting using names, an empty seat, and no names to her advantage, Susie "dies" by taking her own life, a funeral is held, Jerry is accused of Susie's murder, and Elaine is made to work on a foundation in Susie's honor. Elaine found herself too deep when a simple correction at the beginning could have saved her all the hassle down the road.
The Nap
In the season eight episode "The Nap," George alters his desk into a prime napping spot for sleeping on the job. The problem? He's trapped when Steinbrenner enters his office while he's asleep and stays there for three hours waiting for George so he can ask about a song.
Steinbrenner's grandchildren eventually enter the picture, and George calls Jerry to make a bomb threat so everyone will evacuate his office. They go under his desk instead. Steinbrenner thinks George knew about the bomb beforehand. Jerry's demands give George more work. George's ticking alarm clock inside his desk makes Steinbrenner call the bomb squad and George's desk is destroyed, with Steinbrenner getting rid of desks completely.
George The Tourist
Season eight's episode "The Muffin Top," had George living another life that ultimately destroyed the life he actually built. George wears someone else's clothes and is mistaken for a tourist. He latches onto his newfound identity to get a date with Mary Anne from the New York Visitor's Centre.
He boxes up his apartment for his "move" and even lies about a job at Tyler Chicken, which Steinbrenner thinks is real. As he goes to tell the truth, Steinbrenner praises him for his work ethic. Steinbrenner calls the CEO of Tyler Chicken to get George full-time, but he ultimately exchanges George for chicken stands.
The Limo
In season three's episode "The Limo," George arrives at the airport to pick up Jerry, but his car breaks down. When Jerry tells George O'Brien, a name on a chauffer's card, isn't going to need the limo, the two decide to use the ride to their advantage.
What if Jerry and George didn't pretend to be people they weren't and use a limo that wasn't theirs? Ah, but that would be too easy a solution and wouldn't lead to a crazy scenario that drags all four characters into the world of O’Brien and a tale of high stakes.
The Good Samaritan Law
"A crime to ignore another fellow human being in trouble." It is in the finale that the four main characters of Seinfeld were held able for their history of "selfishness, self-absorption, immaturity, and greed." Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine could have avoided breaking The Good Samaritan Law if they had only helped the victim who was attacked in front of them.
Instead, they mocked the victim while Kramer recorded the crime. Even though the attacker had a weapon that may have prevented any physical action on the four's behalf, they didn't even attempt to call the police—somethinghad their characters not been called into question; the characters viewers witnessed commit nine seasons worth of actions that came back to bite them in the end.