THE TRIP, PART 2

'"The Trip, Part 2"' is a ''Seinfeld'' episode which concludes "The Trip, Part 1". It aired on August 19, 1992. It is the second episode of the fourth season.

Contents

Plot

Trivia

Quotes

Plot

Kramer is arrested when he is mistaken for "The Smog Strangler," a serial killer roaming the streets of Los Angeles. While also in L.A., Jerry and George try to help resolve the accusation. They use a pay phone to call the police and they say they have some important information regarding the stranglings. Two policemen in a police cruiser come to pick them up and take them back to the station. On their way, the officers see a man trying to break into a car. They arrest him and put him in the back with Jerry and George. They have to stop again when they see Kramer and arrest him. Jerry and George want to make sure Kramer is not imprisoned, so they open the door of the car, and, in their hurry, leave the door open. The man who was breaking into the car escapes.
Kramer is taken to the police station and is interrogated by the lieutenant. He has a nervous breakdown in the interrogation room and is reduced to hysterical sobbing, making it seem like he did the stranglings. While he is being questioned, the lieutenant receives a phone call stating that the Smog Strangler has killed another victim, and so Kramer is allowed to leave. After Kramer is exonerated, Jerry and George decide to return to New York, but Kramer opts to remain in Los Angeles. However, by the end of the episode, Kramer has returned to New York and is once again living across the hall from Jerry. He offers no explanation for his return.
It turns out that the Smog Strangler is actually the man that was in the back seat with George and Jerry, the one they accidentally let escape. It is broadcast on a news program that his whereabouts are unknown.

Trivia

★ Clint Howard plays a serial killer named Tobias who is accidentally freed by George and Jerry. His brother Ron Howard would later co-create and executive produce the show ''Arrested Development'', in which a character of similar appearance, also named Tobias, plays a major role. Mitchell Hurwitz has acknowledged his show's debt to ''Seinfeld'' occasionally.[1] Ron and Clint's father, Rance Howard, also appeared on ''Seinfeld'' as a blind man in Season 5's "The Glasses", and again as a farmer in Season 7's "The Bottle Deposit".

★ When George's bed ends up tucked as he disliked, he and Jerry were in the opposite beds as when they were telling the maid which one to tuck and which to untuck in "The Trip, Part 1".

★ When Kramer is confronted by the police at his apartment (about 12 minutes into the episode), Larry David (one of the show's creators and executive producers) can be seen standing in the crowd behind the officers, at the far right of the scene. Also visible in the crowd is writer Larry Charles.

★ The cop riding shotgun is also the character of Jake Jarmel

★ The Hotel/Apartment that Kramer is staying in while in Hollywood is in the same building that was used in Pretty Woman

Quotes

★ 'Jerry:' ''(to the cops, about a shotgun)'' What is that, a 12 gauge?

★ 'Cop:' Yeah.

★ 'Jerry:' Seems to be the most popular gauge.

★ 'George:' Makes the 11 gauge look like a cap pistol.