The Apartment (Seinfeld)

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rdf:langString List of Seinfeld episodes

rdf:langString * Glenn Shadix as Harold * Tony Plana as Manny * Jeanine Jackson as Roxanne * Leslie Neale as Rita * Theresa Randle as Janice * Patricia Ayame Thomson as Susie * David Blackwood as Stan * Mel Ryane as Joanne

rdf:langString " Seinfeld was the only show in which you came up with your own storylines or you were gone. There was no 'writers' room'. You wrote and rewrote your own scripts before kissing them off to Larry David and Jerry so they could dose it with magic."

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rdf:langString Mehlman about the Seinfeld writing process.

rdf:langString "The Apartment" is the fifth episode of the second season of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld and the show's tenth episode overall. In the episode, protagonist Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld) gets his ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) an apartment above his, but regrets this after realizing it might be uncomfortable living so close together. Meanwhile, Jerry's friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander) wears a wedding ring to a party to see what effect it will have on women. The episode was written by Peter Mehlman and directed by Tom Cherones. Series co-creators Seinfeld and Larry David asked Mehlman to write an episode for the show after they read a few articles he wrote for newspapers and magazines. Mehlman originally had the idea of Elaine moving away from Jerry, but David and Seinfeld felt it would be funnier if Elaine moved closer to Jerry instead. "The Apartment" was first broadcast in the United States on April 4, 1991, on NBC (and was the first new episode of the series after the underwhelming reception of the previous episode, "The Phone Message" caused it to go on a two-month hiatus), and was watched in 15.7 million homes, making it the ninth most-watched program of the week it was broadcast. The episode gained mostly positive responses from critics.