The Subway (Seinfeld)

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Subway
Series = Seinfeld


Caption = The friends all depart on different routes.
Season = 3
Episode = 30
Airdate = January 8, 1992
Production =
Writer = Larry Charles
Director = Tom Cherones
Guests =
Episode list = List of "Seinfeld" episodes
Season list = Infobox Seinfeld season 3 episode list
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"The Subway" is the thirtieth episode of the sitcom "Seinfeld". The episode was the 13th episode for the show's third season. It aired on January 8, 1992.

The episode was written by Larry Charles and was directed by Tom Cherones.

Plot

Each of the four principal characters has a unique experience during a subway ride. Jerry befriends an overweight nudist on his ride to Coney Island. George meets an enchanting woman who seduces him, then robs him and handcuffs him to a bed, he misses his job interview in the process. Kramer gets a horse racing tip and wins big, helping to pay for his car fines (including "no door"). But on his way back, Kramer is about to be mugged by another bidder, only to be saved by a cop posing as a blind violinist. Elaine misses a lesbian wedding she was to attend due to train delays, which makes her feel claustrophobic.

Trivia

* Julia Louis-Dreyfus was visibly pregnant towards the end of the third season's production, and the show went out of its way to conceal her gradually increasing midsection. Throughout this episode, for instance, Elaine is seen carrying a large wedding present in front of her stomach, thus concealing her pregnancy. When Julia went on maternity leave at the beginning of Season 4, Elaine's two-episode absence was explained through the other characters mentioning that she was vacationing in Europe.
* The same subway car set was recycled for all the subway scenes in this episode. The crew merely redecorated it with different posters to differentiate the scenes that featured the set. To create the illusion of a rocking subway ride, several stagehands stood on either side of the car's outside walls and rocked it back and forth slightly with 2x4s. The set was on loan to NBC from another studio, and on the set's return to its original soundstage, the truck carrying it accidentally destroyed it while traveling under an overpass that wasn't quite high enough.
* The horse that Kramer bets on, Papanick, was named after the show's key grip, Pete Papanickolas.
*Seinfeld writer Peter Mehlman makes a cameo as a subway rider during the scenes in which we hear Elaine's thoughts.
*During Elaine's thoughts, a word is bleeped. This would later be highly used in The Non-Fat Yogurt.
*While Kramer is running through the subway train towards the end of the episode, one train has a sign in the window indicating it's a 1 train going to South Ferry. However, in the next train, there is a sign stating that it's a 4 train headed for Utica Avenue.
*The place where Kramer makes a bet on Papanick, is going to be used again for Elaine in which she gave a number to H&H Bagels.