The Busboy (Ep. 203)

While having dinner at a restaraunt, Jerry, Elaine, and George witness a menu that a busboy left too close to a candle catch on fire. George and Elaine make half joking comments to the owner that they'll never eat there again. Afterwards, the busboy gets fired right in front of them, making them wonder if it was their fault. George wants to do something about it, so Elaine manages to get the busboy's address, and George and Kramer go to see him.
Elaine has a boyfriend, Ed, coming in to stay a week with her from Seattle, but by the end of the week she is dying to get rid of him. "It's not him, he's a nice guy, I just hate his guts." In the process of going to see the busboy and apologize, Kramer leaves the busboy's apartment door open and his cat, Pequita, gets out. George and Kramer then attempt to help the busboy find Pequita, but to no avail.
In the end, Elaine fails to get Ed to the airport on time and the busboy comes to see George at Jerry's apartment to thank him because his former place of business blew up in a gas fire, he found Pequita, and he got a better job. The busboy and Ed then run into each other in the hall getting into a fight and injuring themselves, causing George and Elaine to have to take care of each of them.

Interesting facts: First time that Seinfeld had storylines collide (literally) like that. First and only time that George apparently did anything to help someone other than himself. Jerry really had no storyline in his own show in this episode, something that confused and disappointed studio executives; it worked, it was a great episode.

Interesting quote: "They say no one's ever beaten the Van Wyck, but gentlemen I tell you this: I came as close as anyone has. And if it hadn't been for that five-car pileup on Rockaway Blvd. that numbskull would be on a plane for Seattle right now instead of looking for a parking space downstairs." - Elaine

Grade: A (The scene with Elaine trying to get her boyfriend, Ed, out of the apartment alone are worth the "A" grade)