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Tom Wright makes his final appearance as Morgan, the colleague of George, and thanks to George's unethical actions, he gets Morgan fired, and I wonder if George ever felt guilty about that, but funny thing is when I watched The Wink for the first time back in the 1990s, I didn't think about that. It's only now upon reflection and re-watching Seinfeld after nearly 30 years, that I start to think about this.

Anyway, putting that aside, George's unintended winking (thanks to a squirt of grapejuice) was hilarious, as was Jerry and Elaine v dogs and napkins. The Wink is worth watching at least once.

Here we have Jerry accidentally squirt grapefruit juice into George's left eye at Monk's. Later, George unknowingly winks, as his eye is still irritated by the grapefruit juice, while talking to his boss, Mr. Wilhelm, about another Yankee employee, a Mr. Morgan. The wink is understood by Wilhelm to mean that George means something quite different than what he is actually saying.

A similar misunderstanding connected with the winking leads Kramer to needing to promise a boy in a hospital that Yankee outfielder Paul O'Neill, who plays himself in one scene, will hit not just one home run for the boy, but two in the next game (thus outdoing the famous story connected with Babe Ruth).

This part of the plot gets resolved except that through George's actions, Mr. Morgan is out of a job with the Yankees and George gets promoted to his job. As Mr. Steinbrenner tells him, it'll be a lot more work, long hours, only a little more money, but it'll be a good thing for George. The boss lists all the managers he's had to fire, including Billy Martin four times. He finishes by naming the current Yankee skipper, then quickly tells George not to mention that last name to anyone.

This was actually the subplot, but it was the funniest part of the episode, by far, because not only was it quite funny, but the rest of this episode was very weak.

The main plot dealt with Jerry's sudden desire, stated to just "eat healthy" but which apparently means he's decided against eating any meat. This causes a problem on his first date with Elaine's cousin, Holly. First, at her favorite steak house, he orders only a salad, but realizes how wimpy he looks. Next, he invites himself to join Elaine for a dinner at Holly's. He is served mutton. He refuses to tell her he has just decided to give up eating meat, so he puts it in his mouth, chews it, and keeps spitting it out into his napkin when nobody else is looking. He stuffs it into the pockets of his jacket. Along with the meat, he stuffs in two of her fancy napkins.

Jerry is surprised as they just finish eating when Elaine wants to leave by herself and insists on taking Jerry's jacket because it's cold outside and she didn't bring a coat. Her negligence means that Jerry has to walk home without a coat. It backfires on Elaine when dogs chase her because they smell the meat. She runs to her new boyfriend's apartment and stays overnight to avoid the dogs. They aren't ready for sex yet so they share the only bed, sleeping "head to toe" which Elaine thinks is quite normal.

The new boyfriend has a job calling people to wake them up, like hotels do for guests. I didn't realize New Yorkers could not afford alarm clocks, but apparently not. Elaine, who surely is overpaid at her job, pays for this service, which is performed by the new boyfriend, who she agreed to date because he "sounded like he was good looking." Because of their weird sleeping arrangement, he is too tired and doesn't call people the next morning and loses business, which keeps alive the ongoing theme of Elaine causing problems for almost everyone she encounters.

Holly then goes to make a nice pork chop meal for Jerry at his apartment and he repeats the procedure of spitting out the food when he can, this time stuffing it under pillows on his couch.

The whole business with Jerry pretending to eat meat in front of his new girlfriend seems to be one of the dumbest things anyone on this show ever did. If he had a great fear of, say, heights, or swimming, he could date her for a long time and hide this. But how in the world do you pretend to love meat with a new girlfriend and keep stuffing it in a pocket or somewhere and not have them find out very, very soon? He wasn't some long time vegetarian, but just someone who decided to, in his words, eat healthy, so it wouldn't have hurt to just eat the meat. Nor would it have hurt to tell her about his new food choices. But to pretend something and begin a relationship based on this type of lie, knowing it would have to come out soon just makes no sense, no even in the Seinfeld world.

It also made no sense that he had handy three fancy napkins at her place, as he stuffed two into his pockets and was seen with a third. Nobody sets a table giving three napkins to one of the people. For that matter, it makes no sense that he needed to stuff two napkins into his pockets. In eating a whole dinner, he would have had to spit out far more than two times. Why stuff the napkin in his pocket on two of the occasions when he spat out food, but not others?

The whole pretending to eat meat for the new girl made the bulk of this episode too stupid to enjoy. The wake-up service guy blowing off his job one morning just because he was tired seemed weak also. For George and Kramer's part of the story, I give this one a four, otherwise it would be no more than a two.

In "The Wink", George gets grapefruit juice squirted in his eye by Jerry, causing problems at work when people begin to think that George is insinuating thinks with his eye twitch. Jerry attempts to eat more healthily but this becomes an issue when he dates a meat-loving woman. Elaine dates the man from her wake-up telephone service but has issues with his dogs. Kramer attempts to retrieve a birthday card for George Steinbrenner that he sold to a memorabilia store without George's permission.

This episode's a bit of a shrug for me. I like George's plot-thread; his character is so against responsibility that he goes out of his way not to get his boss fired because he has no interest in the added tasks. Leave it to Jerry to do something accidentally to George that causes problems.

Jerry's subplot is an eye roller. With a modern eye, I don't find the concept of a man eating a salad comical. The macho-ness of the 90's sitcom had this trope a lot; a male ordering healthy food at a restaurant is no longer the faux pas it once was.

The other two plots involving Elaine & Kramer are extremely forgettable. Have you ever noticed how often Kramer ends up hanging out in hospitals? I never put it together but I feel like it happens at least once or twice a season.

Seriously. They were annoying The lady. Then ripped up the jacket and the dognut was like "it's not the dog's fault"... what?! Apparently, dogs can never be at fault.

This review was typed up on imdb in June of the 4th 2023rd, in century 21st of the Grego Calendar.

What happened on this episode of Seinfeld?: We got to see ugly stank, worthless dogs. XP

Elaine dates a wake-up guy.

Jerry orders a salad.

George winks at people.

Kramer sells a card that has names on it for 200 American dollars.

The story and production overview: The dogs ruined the episode. IT was a 6 but dogs = lose 4 stars.

Why did the guy need 2 worthless mutts? Is not 1 enough? Though, I mean 0 dogs is preferred.

Other than that, It was an ok-good episode.

Highlight: When the dogs were off-screen

Laugh meter: 3. Only George's parts were fun.

Girlfriend attractiveness level: Jerry's girl was a 4.

Villain: The dogs and the dognut.

The dogs tried to maul Elaine. The dogs wrecked Jerry's jacket. Then the dognut had a silly idea to tie napkins around the dog. The napkins were not his. In theory, it was Elaine's jacket therefore Elaine's Napkins, but this guy decides to give the napkins to his stank dogs. Dog people are so rude and out of line.

Every character in Seinfeld who had a dog, they all showed an inconsiderate moment. 1) The guy who stuck his dog with Jerry, 2) Dog barking and keeping Elaine up at night, 3) This episode, 4) The dog coughing in our beautiful air when Kramer takes dog medicine, 5) the stank dog jumping on George who probably drank from the toilet prior.

Anyways...

Overall an ok, alright episode, though it's lacking energy and the feel from previous seasons.

What can be learned? Do not OWN dogs.

Verdict: Dogs are worthless.