The Pick

"**The Pick**"
"The Pick"
Seinfeld episode
Episode no.	Season 4; Episode 13
Directed by	Tom Cherones
Story by	Larry David and Marc Jaffe
Teleplay by	Larry David
Production code	413
Original air date	December 16, 1992
Guest appearances
	Heidi Swedberg as Susan Ross; Wayne Knight as Newman; Jennifer Campbell as Tia; Nicholas Hormann as Calvin Klein; Gina Hecht as Dana Foley;
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"The Pick" is the 53rd episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. It is the 13th episode of the fourth season, and first aired on December 16, 1992 on NBC.^[1] In this episode, Elaine mistakenly mails out a Christmas card in which her nipple is exposed to all her friends and relatives, Jerry's girlfriend breaks up with him after she sees him seemingly pick his nose, and Kramer is angered when he learns Calvin Klein has put out a new perfume based on his idea for a perfume that smells like the beach.

Plot

George soliloquizes his regret over breaking up with Susan, even with all his complaints about Susan—such as his dread at going up her stairs each time—fresh in Jerry and Elaine's mind. Jerry urges him to see Elaine's therapist, Dana, before hastily reconciling. Jerry has received a Christmas card from Tia, the model he met on a flight. Elaine envies the personalized card with Tia's photo, so Kramer offers to photograph her.

Tia shows Jerry a magazine sample of Calvin Klein's new beach-scented perfume, "Ocean". Jerry catches on that this idea was stolen from Kramer's rejected pitch, but fails to keep Kramer from smelling the sample, which enrages him. George, consulting Dana, becomes engrossed trying to free his stuck jacket zipper.

Elaine sends Christmas cards customized with Kramer's photography to family, colleagues, acquaintances, and Fred, her religious boyfriend. She discovers too late that her photographed outfit exposed a nipple. Newman confirms that the nipple is plain to see, and Jerry and Kramer console Elaine by baring their own chests. After getting carried away grappling with George's zipper, Dana comes to her senses and ends the fruitless session.

In traffic, Tia is appalled when she sees Jerry twiddling with his nose from another car. He fails to explain that he was not picking his nose, and she stops returning his calls. George stands up for nose-pickers, imagining Moses as an example, but still would not date one. Meanwhile, Elaine has become the office pariah and gets judged by Fred over the Christmas cards, while her young nephew has been debauched by the card.

Jerry and Kramer head to Calvin Klein headquarters, to respectively confront Tia and Calvin Klein himself. Tia is cold to Jerry's explanations, so he makes a scene self-righteously defending nose-picking, driving her away as he quotes The Merchant of Venice and The Elephant Man. Elaine, likewise, self-righteously drives Fred away.

George promises Susan that they can overcome their differences—just as, supposedly, Louis Pasteur and his wife did. He wins her back, but his dread returns as he goes up her stairs. He is inspired to get immediately dumped again by picking his nose.

Kramer is mollified when Klein scouts him as an underwear model for his impressive physique, and he strips down to his briefs to the approval of Klein's colleagues. He appears in an ad, but the photo's exposure of his genitals is discovered too late.

Production

A deleted scene shows Kramer confronting the Calvin Klein marketer he met with last season in "The Pez Dispenser".^[2]

References

^ "Seinfeld Season 4 Episodes". TV Guide. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
^ Seinfeld The Complete Series Season 4 (Blu-ray). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. 2024.

External links

"The Pick" at IMDb

[tvguide-1] "Seinfeld Season 4 Episodes". TV Guide. Retrieved December 2, 2021.

[BD-2] Seinfeld The Complete Series Season 4 (Blu-ray). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. 2024.

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v t e Seinfeld episodes
Season 1	"The Seinfeld Chronicles" "The Stake Out" "The Robbery" "Male Unbonding" "The Stock Tip"
Season 2	"The Ex-Girlfriend" "The Pony Remark" "The Jacket" "The Phone Message" "The Apartment" "The Statue" "The Revenge" "The Heart Attack" "The Deal" "The Baby Shower" "The Chinese Restaurant" "The Busboy"
Season 3	"The Note" "The Truth" "The Pen" "The Dog" "The Library" "The Parking Garage" "The Cafe" "The Tape" "The Nose Job" "The Stranded" "The Alternate Side" "The Red Dot" "The Subway" "The Pez Dispenser" "The Suicide" "The Fix-Up" "The Boyfriend"† "The Limo" "The Good Samaritan" "The Letter" "The Parking Space" "The Keys"
Season 4	"The Trip"† "The Pitch" "The Ticket" "The Wallet" "The Watch" "The Bubble Boy" "The Cheever Letters" "The Opera" "The Virgin" "The Contest" "The Airport" "The Pick" "The Movie" "The Visa" "The Shoes" "The Outing" "The Old Man" "The Implant" "The Junior Mint" "The Smelly Car" "The Handicap Spot" "The Pilot"†
Season 5	"The Mango" "The Puffy Shirt" "The Glasses" "The Sniffing Accountant" "The Bris" "The Lip Reader" "The Non-Fat Yogurt" "The Barber" "The Masseuse" "The Cigar Store Indian" "The Conversion" "The Stall" "The Dinner Party" "The Marine Biologist" "The Pie" "The Stand In" "The Wife" "The Raincoats"† "The Fire" "The Hamptons" "The Opposite"
Season 6	"The Chaperone" "The Big Salad" "The Pledge Drive" "The Chinese Woman" "The Couch" "The Gymnast" "The Soup" "The Mom & Pop Store" "The Secretary" "The Race" "The Switch" "The Label Maker" "The Scofflaw" "The Highlights of 100"† "The Beard" "The Kiss Hello" "The Doorman" "The Jimmy" "The Doodle" "The Fusilli Jerry" "The Diplomat's Club" "The Face Painter" "The Understudy"
Season 7	"The Engagement" "The Postponement" "The Maestro" "The Wink" "The Hot Tub" "The Soup Nazi" "The Secret Code" "The Pool Guy" "The Sponge" "The Gum" "The Rye" "The Caddy" "The Seven" "The Cadillac"† "The Shower Head" "The Doll" "The Friar's Club" "The Wig Master" "The Calzone" "The Bottle Deposit"† "The Wait Out" "The Invitations"
Season 8	"The Foundation" "The Soul Mate" "The Bizarro Jerry" "The Little Kicks" "The Package" "The Fatigues" "The Checks" "The Chicken Roaster" "The Abstinence" "The Andrea Doria" "The Little Jerry" "The Money" "The Comeback" "The Van Buren Boys" "The Susie" "The Pothole" "The English Patient" "The Nap" "The Yada Yada" "The Millennium" "The Muffin Tops" "The Summer of George"
Season 9	"The Butter Shave" "The Voice" "The Serenity Now" "The Blood" "The Junk Mail" "The Merv Griffin Show" "The Slicer" "The Betrayal" "The Apology" "The Strike" "The Dealership" "The Reverse Peephole" "The Cartoon" "The Strongbox" "The Wizard" "The Burning" "The Bookstore" "The Frogger" "The Maid" "The Puerto Rican Day" "The Chronicle"† "The Finale"†
† Indicates two-part episode