Seinfeld: The Wig Master (1996)
Season 7, Episode 18
9/10
Kramer is not a pimp
11 December 2014
Warning: Spoilers
The Wig Master is one of the wildest plots in this series, complete with a picture of Kramer that is almost impossible to forget.

Friends of Susan are in town with the wig master of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat staying at her place along with George. George hates having all these wigs around the place and isn't fond of their house guest. Meanwhile, Jerry decides to buy a jacket with a crest but isn't sure about one he is shown. He decides to lie to the salesman, claiming he wants to bring in a friend to help him decide.

But the salesman's reaction suggest he doesn't believe Jerry. So to prove him wrong—when the salesman was actually correct—Jerry gets Elaine to come to the store with him. She is directed to tell him not to get the jacket. But one look at the pony-tailed salesman and Elaine wants to date him, so she insists Jerry buy the jacket. Typical Elaine—letting down her friend just to score a date with someone.

She is the only one who seems attracted to the guy who promises her a discount on a dress that needs to be ordered. Everyone else figures he is only teasing her with a sale price so she will have sex with him, as she learns later to be the truth.

George is excited to find a parking space where he "only" has to pay $75 a month. Of course, it's so far that he needs a ride to get there. We soon learn the people running the lot are letting people use the cars for prostitution. One funny scene has George investigating by asking an apparent prostitute about using cars for her "business" and offering to pay her for information—right as Susan walks up and sees him.

Jerry spends much of his time being annoyed at others. First, the salesman because he asked Elaine out at a point when Jerry thinks he should have "assumed" she was his girlfriend, and later while sitting at an outdoor café with the wig master, when a gay guy asks him on a date, because Jerry thinks the man should have assumed that the guy was dating Jerry.

Kramer gets a chance to wear one of the Technicolor dreamcoats, while also sporting a fancy walking stick Elaine gave him and a broad-brimmed hat he literally picked up on the street. He struts down the street like a pimp, and then tries to haul a prostitute out of the car he was borrowing, interrupting her business at the parking lot.

A wild, ridiculously funny episode, making it a 9 in my book.
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