Okay, so you’ve read my posting on the 10 Worst Seinfeld episodes. Now, it’s time for me to list the best Seinfeld episodes. Enjoy!

10. The Fire (Season 5, Episode 9).

Overview: Elaine is annoyed by Kramer’s girlfriend, Toby, who also happens to be her coworker. Jerry is working his act to impress a critic, while George is dating a woman with a son. Toby heckles Jerry during his set with the critic, so he heckles her at her job, resulting her pinky toe being severed. Meanwhile, George goes to his girlfriend’s son’s birthday party. After seeing smoke, George yells “Fire!” and knocks over children and elderly women to get out of the apartment.
 
Reasoning: Seeing George not only trample women and children to get out of the apartment fire, but to actually get out and close the door, trapping the others was priceless. No matter how many times I see that scene, it always makes me laugh. Jerry heckling Toby was pretty funny, but the resulting accident is also a classic scene. Kramer’s description of the bus ride to the hospital, complete with slapstick comedy is really funny. And, George’s proclamation of, “You’re Batman” has me in tears. Interesting cameo: Jon Favreau as the clown. (It’s hard to tell its him.)

9. The Race (Season 6, Episode 10).

Overview: Jerry is dating a woman named Lois. She works for an old rival of Jerry’s, Duncan Meyer. Duncan thinks Jerry cheated in a race in high school and wants to challenge him to a race to prove once and for all that he is a cheater. Elaine dates a communist and gets blacklisted from a Chinese restaurant. Kramer becomes a communist. And, George answers a personal ad from a communist, resulting in the Yankees thinking George is a communist sympathizer.

Reasoning: I really like that Jerry’s comical obsession with Superman is front and center in this episode. Also, his repeated use of, “I choose not to run.” was very funny. After the race, when he knocks Elaine out of the way to get to Lois, had me in tears. Kramer and Mickey’s interaction over being a communist is also quite funny. This episode has lots of laughs, and the race was classic.

8. The Junior Mint (Season 4, Episode 21).

Overview: Jerry is trying to figure out the name of the woman he is dating. Elaine visits her ex-boyfriend, Roy,  who has lost a lot of weight, in hospital. She considers getting back with him, since he lost weight. He needs to have a splenectomy, which Kramer and Jerry attend. Kramer drops a Junior Mint into Roy, resulting in his miraculous recovery.
 
Reasoning: Jerry and George’s guessing of names that rhyme with a female body part was very funny. Mulva is classic. Jerry’s antics with the yo-yo when the doctor is discussing Roy’s prognosis is also laugh-out-loud funny. I really liked that Kramer treated the operation like a movie, bringing Junior Mints, and then asking the doc to move over so he could see. But, the best moment in this episode is when Jerry says, “All right. All right… Just let me finish my coffee. Then we’ll watch them go slice this fat bastard up.” Classic.

7. The Pick (Season 4, Episode 13).

Overview: Elaine’s Christmas photo card, taken by Kramer, accidently reveals her nipple to everyone she knows. Jerry’s girlfriend, a model he met on the plane in “The Airport,” dumps him after she witnesses him picking (scratching) his nose. Kramer thinks Calvin Klein stole his idea for a perfume he invented in “The Pez Dispenser.”
 
Reasoning: This episode was full of laughs, particularly when Elaine puts George’s head in her chest after George complains about not getting a Christmas card. Jerry’s insistence that he didn’t pick his nose was also funny. But the reason this episode really made the list is because it is the first episode of Seinfeld I saw. From this show on, I was hooked and have since seen every single episode.
 
6. The Merv Griffin Show (Season 9, Episode 6).

Overview: Kramer finds the set of the Merv Griffin Show in a dumpster and sets it up in his apartment. George hits pigeons with his car, with upsets his girlfriend. In an attempt to avoid hitting a pigeon, he swerves and hits a squirrel. The squirrel requires surgery. Jerry drugs his girlfriend to play with a toy collection she inherited from her father. Elaine deals with a “sidler.”

Reasoning: Kramer’s pretend talk show is funny, particularly the others’ reaction to his fake commercial breaks and studio audience. George’s dealing with the pigeons is funny as well, especially when he tramples a couple in the park. I also like when Kramer takes a short commercial break, eats some chips and drinks a soda. Then, he burps and says, “Okay, We’re back.” If you look at George, you can see him start to laugh. Priceless. This would have been higher if there weren’t so many other good ones.

5. The Soup Nazi (Season 7, Episode 6).

Overview: Kramer introduces the gang to a soup stand that features the best soup in the city. People line up to order the soup. But, the owner is a little eccentric. He has strict rules for ordering and will banish people from the restaurant by yelling, “No soup for you!” Elaine and George have trouble ordering the soup. And, the soup almost causes Jerry and his girlfriend Sheila to break up. Elaine gets an armoire, but can’t move it into the building. Kramer agrees to sit out with it overnight. Homosexual “street toughs” take the armoire under Kramer’s watch.
 
Reasoning: The Soup Nazi was a classic character. His “real life” version was also featured on the local news in NY, when this episode aired. The “Soup Nazi” character made this episode for me. He was very funny, and how he treated George and Elaine was very funny. Newman’s delivery of the line, “Jambalaya,” was perfect. George and Elaine’s annoyance with Jerry and Sheila’s public affection was also funny. And, Boy and Ray, the street toughs, were funny too. “We’re taking this armoire and that’s all there is to it. Okay?”
 
4. The Little Kicks (Season 8, Episode 4).

Overview: George and Elaine attend the J. Peterman company party. George hits on Anna, one of Elaine’s employees. Elaine dances, horribly. Jerry gets tickets to a sneak peak at a movie. Kramer invites his friend, Brody, a bootlegger. Brody falls ill forcing Jerry to finish bootlegging the movie. Brody is so impressed with Jerry’s work that he wants him to bootleg an art film. Elaine, thinking George will hurt her reputation at work, tries to stop Anna from seeing him.
 
Reasoning: This episode is funny for so many reasons. First, Jerry’s transformation from reluctant bootlegger to the “temperamental artist” bootlegger is very comical. Second, George’s attempts to be a bad boy because Anna is attracted to bad boys. Also, at the end when Frank and Elaine fight, that’s a really funny scene. But, what makes this episode really funny is Elaine’s dancing, which George describes as “a full body dry heave, set to music.” That’s too funny.

3. The Frogger (Season 9, Episode 18).

Overview: Jerry and George go to an old high school hangout, a pizza joint that is closing. George sees he still has the high score on the Frogger game and decides to buy it. Elaine, tired of the forced socialization at work, isolates herself, and then misses daily cake she used to get at the office parties. So, she eats Peterman’s cake from the 1937 wedding of King Edward VIII. Jerry dates Elaine’s friend who annoys him. He tries to break up with her, but gets back with her when he thinks a man he sees is the “Lopper,” a serial killer in the Riverside Park area that is killing people who look like Jerry.

Reasoning: I really like this episode. George’s story was very funny, and the obstacles he had to overcome in order to preserve his high score. I like George’s reaction when Jerry mentions that unplugging the machine will erase George’s score. Jerry’s break up attempt with Lisi is funny, too. I also like Entenmann’s cakes. But, the best part of the show, obviously, when George tries to cross the street with the Frogger machine, like in the game. That was classic.

2. The Chicken Roasters (Season 8, Episode 8).

Overview: Kenny Rogers Roasters opens across from Kramer’s apartment. The eatery has a giant glowing chicken on the roof and the light shines through Kramer’s shades. Jerry runs into a college friend named Seth. Seth blows off a business meeting to catch up with Jerry, resulting in Seth being fired. Seth ends up working at the Kenny Rogers Roasters. Elaine abuses her power as J. Peterman president, buying personal items and putting on the business account. She buys George an $8,000 hat. George leaves it behind in an attempt to get a date with a woman. When the accounting department at J. Peterman finds out about Elaine’s spending they request going over the items, including the hat, which is missing.

Reasoning: This episode was really funny. First, Jerry and Kramer switched personalities after switching apartments. That was funny, though Jerry’s Kramer was better than Kramer’s Jerry. Elaine: “you look a little stressed.” Jerry: “Oh, I’m stressed.” That was priceless. I also like George saying “Co-Stanza” like “By Mennen.” And, the look on George’s face when he informed Elaine that he stole Heather’s clock. Funny. I also like Newman’s reaction to eating broccoli. “Vile Weed!” This episode always makes me want roasted chicken. It makes it look so good.
 
1. The Pothole (Season 8, Episode 16).

Overview: George’s keys fall into a pothole, which is then filled in by a road crew. Jerry drops his girlfriend, Jenna’s toothbrush in the toilet and doesn’t tell her before she uses it. She then puts something of his in the toilet, which results in him throwing most of his stuff away. Kramer adopts part of a highway and takes care of it, resulting in chaos. Elaine pretends to live in a building across the street so she can order flounder from a Chinese restaurant that doesn’t deliver to her side of the street.

Reasoning: This episode is the one I’ve seen the least out of all of them. It was also the last one I saw (I saw it for the first time after the finale.) It’s is by far the funniest because of the ways the characters’ stories all intertwine. It was really funny when Jerry told Jenna: “I was drinking a Celray, and I brought it up too fast and I banged it into my lip, and then I knocked your toothbrush into the toilet and I wasn’t able to tell you before you could use it.” Classic. I also like when he finds out that she put the toilet brush in his toilet and he says, “Toilet brush. Ohhh! All right, I can replace that.” Also classic. Elaine’s attempts to get the flounder were also humorous. George hitting the water main was also funny. The best scene, however, was when Kramer spilled the paint thinner, and Elaine dropped the old sewing machine. Then Newman, who had his mail truck loaded with fish, hit the sewing machine and dragged it through the paint thinner, which made his truck burst into flames. That was too funny. “Oh the humanity!”

You’re welcome to disagree with any of my choices here, but these are the top episodes to me. So many others could have made this list, but I had to make these the top 10. They’re the funniest episodes to me.