"Seinfeld" The Wig Master (TV Episode 1996) Poster

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9/10
Kramer is not a pimp
FlushingCaps11 December 2014
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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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7/10
Kramer's Mistaken Identity
Samuel-Shovel20 November 2018
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In "The Wig Master", Susan has a friend in town who manages the wigs for a traveling production. George starts parking his car at a new lot but begins to worry that it's a front for a prostitute ring when he finds a condom in his car. Jerry feels emasculated when, while buying a jacket at a store with Elaine, the salesperson asks her out. The salesman offers her a discount on a dress but she begins to get suspicious he's playing games when he continues to make excuses about its delivery.

Sometimes in the later seasons, I feel like the writers decide "hey, let's put Kramer in a funny situation and work backwards from there." This is one of those examples. "How can we get Kramer to start looking like a pimp, with a pink Cadillac, and arguing with a prostitute?". They start with this premise and then figure it out from there. Not always the best way to right a script... Luckily, this one has enough decent enough jokes to hold it together until the end.
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7/10
Just Very Odd
Hitchcoc24 February 2023
I can't quite put my finger on it, but this episode seems just a bit strange. It starts with some sleazy guys running a parking lot. They charge very little for it, but we find out that they have hookers using the cars while they are in the lot. Also, if you come at the wrong time, you can't get your car back. The other plot is the effort to return the expensive blazer that Jerry was intimidated into buying because Elaine went gaga over the sales clerk. It ends up with Kramer helping by returning a backup of Joseph's Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. Great scene with him walking down the street with the coat on and a hat that just happened to have blown down the street. The episode is way too contrived, even for Seinfeld.
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10/10
Another unique episode.
rodinnyc25 November 2021
Seinfeld the series stands up and this is another off kilter episode.

The whole business about returning the sports jacket for "spite" is one of the funniest scenes with Jerry in the entire series. The humor from ignoring Jerry first at the Andover Shop and then at the outdoor cafe, once with a man and once with Elaine is also another bit of genius. Add to that the parking lot where not only can't one get your car when you need it, "we ask you to bear with us" but doubles as an on going hooker pick up spot is priceless. And I'm not so sure that the far west of Manhattan is a place for such activities in 2021....given the development such as Hudson Yards. I always enjoy this episode when it's repeated.
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10/10
Car
bevo-1367823 June 2020
I like the bit where Kramer looked like a pimp in that silly coat
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7/10
Wigging up
safenoe7 March 2024
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Shashi Bhatia plays the Flower Girl in The Wig Master, and her role is pivotal because she thinks that Elaine and Craig are married, much to the consternation of Jerry, who reminded Craig that he once had a wild relationship with Elaine. Jerry feels very upset when a friend of the Wig Master (played by Patrick Bristow) doesn't think Jerry's paired up with the Wig Master.

British-English actor Harry Van Gorkum plays Craig Stewart. Anyway, the episode's ending was rather a twist and gets Kramer arrested for who knows what. Anyway, this episode is worth watching at least once so you can say you watched it.
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5/10
Painful
Gafaddict7 October 2006
There's something missing from this episode. I'm not sure what it is... this one just seems to miss the cutting-edge Seinfeld humor most episodes usually have. One particular detractor from this is the flamboyantly gay and unbelievably stereotypical wig master who is staying with George and Susan - whose character seems to destroy every scene he's in. None of the four main characters have any particularly great lines in this one - except for Kramer's interaction with the cop at the end of episode. The whole Kramer-as-a-pimp bit was overplayed. Coming from Spike Feresten, I'm surprised he couldn't have handled this episode better.

Case in point, avoid it.
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