Over the course of nine seasons , NBC’sSeinfeld(1989 - 1998 ) examined the petty grievances of four ally living in New York City . The show could occasionally get dark : Jerry once yanked a loaf of bread of marble rye whiskey from the clench of an aged woman , for model , and the death of George ’s finance Susan was played for joke . But there was at least one instalment that Seinfeld and co - creatorLarry Daviddeemed too morbid to take . The script for the episode , titled “ The Bet , ” was leaked online , though there were interrogation as to its veracity . Now , it ’s been endorse literal by the script ’s author , Larry Charles .
“ I have n’t gone through it page by page but it looks real , including my penciled - in revisions , ” CharlestoldThe Daily Beast . “ I still have my original mesa read copy with the top . From looking at the first few pages it seemed funnier than I recollect . But very hard - stinging . ”
“ The Bet , ” which may have been retitled “ The Gun ” if it had made it to zephyr , is definitely an anomalousness in theSeinfelduniverse . date September 1990 , the script sees Elaine ( Julia Louis - Dreyfus ) worry about an uptick in crime in the urban center and deciding to purchase a firearm . While she instead opts for a miniature gun , she nonetheless create menacing statements to Jerry ( “ One bullet in the brainpan oughta drop your trunk temperature considerably ” ) .
Jerry , meanwhile , greets Elaine ’s ambitiousness with hectoring . ( “ Elaine , if you purchase a gun , you ’re just perpetuate the violence ! You ’re as bad as the malefactor ! ” ) Kramer ( Michael Richards ) and George ( Jason Alexander ) are less concerned with the accelerator pedal than in debating whether Kramer is telling the trueness over having a romance with a flight attender .
The handwriting would have been the ninth episode of the show ever bring about . It made it as far as a tabular array read , at which point it became clear-cut the subject affair was a poor conniption for the serial publication . Charles later sound out he thought he was unsuccessful in get enough levity to the plot , which was inspired by aSeinfeldstaffer named Elaine Pope considering a gun purchase .
“ I ca n’t remember if she was contemplating buying a artillery or whether she had already bought a heavy weapon , ” CharlestoldScreen Crush in 2014 . “ But she felt very justified in buying the gun and would represent that position . And it was also at a time when that was a theme that was finding its way of life into the media : women buying guns . And I thought that was kind of fascinating . And I mean it was as unproblematic as me wondering , ‘ What if Elaine corrupt a gun ? ’ ”
in the end , “ The Bet ” did n’t go over well with the cast or director Tom Cherones , who also parboil at Elaine makingJohn F. Kennedy assassinationjokes . After the read - through , the cast recount Cherones they were n’t comfortable moving forward . To fill the gap , Seinfeld and David write “ The Phone Message , ” where George madly tries to recollect the taping from his girlfriend ’s answering automobile .
It ’s not have a go at it how the script made it out of the show ’s product hub . Charles order The Daily Beast it ’s possible someone swiped his copy from the table read .
Charles ’s note on the script also divulge that there was apparentlyintentto reveal Kramer ’s first name in the episode . While it would finally take until time of year 6 for Kramer ’s name to be unwrap as Cosmo , in “ The Bet ” it ’s “ Konrad . ”
