"The Chinese Restaurant" is the eleventh episode of the sitcom Seinfeld's second season on NBC, and is the show's sixteenth episode overall. The episode revolves around protagonist Jerry and his friends Elaine Benes and George Costanza waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant, on their way to see Plan 9 from Outer Space. Unable to get a table, they loiter and talk, while George tries to use the phone that is constantly being used by another customer and Jerry sees a woman he recognizes.

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  • "The Chinese Restaurant" is the eleventh episode of the sitcom Seinfeld's second season on NBC, and is the show's sixteenth episode overall. The episode revolves around protagonist Jerry and his friends Elaine Benes and George Costanza waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant, on their way to see Plan 9 from Outer Space. Unable to get a table, they loiter and talk, while George tries to use the phone that is constantly being used by another customer and Jerry sees a woman he recognizes. Co-written by the series' creators Seinfeld and head writer Larry David, the episode was the first in which Jerry's neighbor Cosmo Kramer did not appear, much to Richards' disappointment. Due to the episode's lack of storyline, NBC executives objected to its broadcast, thinking audiences would be uninterested. It was not until David threatened to quit if the network forced any major changes upon the script that NBC allowed the episode to be produced, although it did not air until near the end of season two. First broadcast in the United States on May 23, 1991, the episode gained a Nielsen rating of 11.7/21. Television critics reacted positively to "The Chinese Restaurant", which became one of the show's first classic episodes. In 1998, a South Florida Sun-Sentinel critic wrote that the episode, along with season four's "The Contest", "[... ] broke new sitcom ground and expanded the lexicon of the '90s."
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  • *James Hong as the maître d' *David Tress as Mr. Cohen *Judy Kain as Lorraine Catalano *Michael Mitz as man on phone
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  • "Chinese Restaurant was the point where the network said, 'You know, we really don't understand what you're trying to do with this show , and we think it's wrong. But we're going to air it anyway.' I was thrilled that NBC took that attitude. We had done enough good things at that point that they were willing to trust us."
  • "The anti-sitcom: no contrived plots, in fact no plots at all: these people can be funny just waiting to be seated."
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  • Seinfeld on NBC's reaction
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  • "The Chinese Restaurant" is the eleventh episode of the sitcom Seinfeld's second season on NBC, and is the show's sixteenth episode overall. The episode revolves around protagonist Jerry and his friends Elaine Benes and George Costanza waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant, on their way to see Plan 9 from Outer Space. Unable to get a table, they loiter and talk, while George tries to use the phone that is constantly being used by another customer and Jerry sees a woman he recognizes.
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