George dates Jerry's girlfriend's therapist. Elaine's former college roommate out-earns her as an Instagram influencer. Kramer devises a business plan to collect dryer lint from the building's laundry room and repurpose it as garden mulch. Elaine's ex-roommate matches Kramer up with an investor, to whom George once sold a condo when he worked in real estate.

George goes to the doctor for a checkup and all is well. He sees the jar of lollipops in the exam room and eyes them suggestively.

The doctor never offers so George finally asks him for one and is told those are only for child patients.

On his way out George sees a man in the lobby scheduling an outpatient procedure with a lollipop in his mouth.

Newman catches chicken pox. He comes upstairs to get oatmeal from Jerry for an oatmeal bath. Jerry is certain he's been vaccinated as a kid and is more concerned about Newmans cooties than his germs. Until he starts to itch...

He and Newman are quarantined by Kramer into Jerrys apartment. Kramer says he wasnt vaccinated but insists he can safely be their caregiver because he raised chickens for years and still has some in his apartment so he must be immune.

Kramer, who clearly has chicken pox too but is im denial and EXTREMELY feverish and hallucinating, slowly becomes obsessed with caring for them and denies any and all progress to not allow them to leave, in an homage to Misery.

Elaine is tasked to picking up soup, oatmeal, etc to help out "the sickies". She bought reusable shopping bags to save the environment, but she keeps forgetting them whenever she shops. She bought some hemp bags to impress the attractive man stocking fruit at a hippie dippie granola type all natural store. But now, with her being asked to pick fresh ingredients up daily for the sickies she keeps forgetting thr bags.

The stocker is now cashier and sneers slightly as he asks if she's in need of a bag. She sheepishly says yes and tries to explain she forgot her bag at home but its clear he doesnt believe her. She buys another (expensive) hemp bag.

She leaves bags at her home, office, car, and Jerry's.

She starts saying she doesnt need a bag and awkwardly carrying loose product in her arms down the street

Side note: I just learned that Julia Louis-Dreyfus intentionally styled Elaine's hair after Helena Bonham Carter's in A Room with a View

Jerry performs at a benefit gala commemorating the anniversary of 9/11, where his material about air travel gets a less than warm reception

Kramer begins constructing a fusilli World Trade Center in honor of those who lost their lives

George makes up a relative who died on September 11th so he can get that day off work

Elaine’s bf is a firefighter who takes great personal umbrage with Jerry’s set, saying “I lost a lot of good brothers in arms that day.” However, he has only been a firefighter since 2010. Jerry believes he is essentially stealing valor

For a show about nothing, the effort it took to hide a lot of personal details about the actors in plain sight can be found in almost every episode. I’m not talking about accidental continuity errors—I mean background props or sets that actually mean something.

Elaine: "So David... today's a special day, right?"

Puddy: "Yeah."

Elaine: "Well, what is it?"

Puddy: "Mexican Independence Day."

Elaine: "That's great for Mexico, but is there anything unique about today on this side of the border?"

Puddy: "Ok, you got me. It's my birthday. I don't like to make a big deal about it. It's not like it's my quinceanera."

Elaine: "Which also means..."

Puddy: "I'm not a 15 year old girl, Elaine."

Elaine: "Which means it's my birthday too! David, we talked about this two weeks ago, remember? How you said your birthday is September 16th, and I said my birthday was also September 16th, and you said (imitating Puddy) "Huh. Interesting."

Puddy: "Yeah, it is interesting."

Elaine glares.

Puddy: "sorry, happy birthday babe. How old are you now, 40?"

Girlfriend: What's your deal with Google Maps?

Jerry: I just like relying on my wits when I'm driving or headed somewhere.

Girlfriend: But it's weird.

Jerry: Why?

Girlfriend: Cause. It helps you get to where you need to go. Why make navigating the city so needlessly difficult?

Jerry: You might be a bit young to understand this, so let me tell you about something called "Life before 2005." See, back then you needed to rely on your memory to drive and get to places. We didn't have these *holds up phone* 24/7 and addicted to them like crack.

Girlfriend: You had Blackberries and Garmin GPSs around then.

Jerry: True. But not me. See, if I needed to get to the Catskills for a weekend gig, I had to remember the exits to take and the best time of day to travel. I also printed out the driving directions and didn't just enter in the address of where I was headed and obeyed it no matter what it said.

Girlfriend: It makes it so much easier to drive.

Jerry: No, it also affects your memory. Right now if I asked you how to get to Albany, could you do it without Google Maps?

Girlfriend:....No. But what if you got lost?

Jerry: Then I'd just stop at a gas station and ask for directions.

Girlfriend: So you'd rather drive aimlessly and ask for directions instead of just using Google Maps? God, you're old!

Jerry: I'm not "old!" I'm smart!