Seinfeld/The Bookstore

The Bookstore
Season 9, Episode 17
Airdate	April 9, 1998
Production Number	917
Teleplay by	Spike Feresten
Story by	Spike Feresten and Darin Henry & Marc Jaffe
Directed by	Andy Ackerman
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Seinfeld — Season Nine

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The Bookstore is the seventeenth episode of the ninth season of Seinfeld, and the one hundred seventy-third episode overall.

Starring: Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine Benes), Michael Richards (Cosmo Kramer)

and Jason Alexander (George)

with Wayne Knight (Newman), Barney Martin (Morty), Liz Sheridan (Helen)

Guest Starring: John O'Hurley (J. Peterman), Len Lesser (Uncle Leo) Jonathan Penner (Zach), Ted Rooney (Crichton), Jon Gries (Rusty)

Also Starring: Sonya Eddy (Rebecca DeMornay), Merrin Dungey (Cashier), Kevin Ruf (Security Guard), Heather Morgan (Server), Lauren Bowles (Waitress), Mark Daniel Cade (Walter), Sloppy Joe (Hobo Joe)

Plot Overview

While at Brentano's bookstore, Jerry catches Uncle Leo shoplifting and turns him in, which doesn't sit well with his parents, who have a rather cavalier idea about shoplifting. George has his own problems with the bookstore--he took a coffee table art book into the bathroom to read it, only to get stuck with a 'flagged' book (i.e., a book that's been in a bathroom), and now he can't even give the book away!