Is Elaine Dating A Married Man? | The Strongbox | Seinfeld

"You're the bear claw in the garbage bag of my life."
From Seinfeld Season 9 Episode 14, 'The Strongbox': As Kramer hides the keys for his new strongbox in Jerry's apartment, George and Elaine each look for ways out of their respective romantic relationships.
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Seinfeld stars Jerry Seinfeld as a stand-up comedian whose life in New York City is made even more chaotic by his quirky group of friends who join him in wrestling with life's most perplexing, yet often trivial questions. Often described as "a show about nothing," Seinfeld mines the humor in life's mundane situations like waiting in line, searching for a lost item, or the trials and tribulations of dating. Co-starring are Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Jerry's ex-girlfriend and current platonic pal, Elaine Benes; Jason Alexander as George Costanza, Jerry's neurotic hard-luck best friend; and Michael Richards as Jerry's eccentric neighbor, Kramer.
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[@XFS540]

“You’re the bear claw… in the garbage bag of my life.” 😭 Such a beautiful line.

[@jenniferadams7582]

Every time I see a bear claw in bakery I think of this scene

[@toebeans3985]

⁠@@jenniferadams7582Every time I see a Twix candy bar, George Contanza screaming TWIIIX comes to mind. 😂

[@jenniferadams7582]

@@toebeans3985 similar but when i see a TwixI think of George saying "we all know Twix is the only candy with a cookie crunch"

[@truthhurts3524]

Goes well with Jerry’s “Breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can't do it in one push. You gotta rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over” line.

[@LowLevelNC]

Newman enjoyed a pair of bear claws. Lol

[@moxica93]

"He's the 'Got-No-Green Lantern!'"

[@travisdonaldstanley6420]

Bahhaahhaahaa!

[@stevenlu897]

When Lois Loan met Clark Can't.

[@toebeans3985]

😂😂😂

[@LowLevelNC]

This is worthy of a pin.

[@jocu475]

@@LowLevelNChow? He doesn’t even know the difference between loan and lone

[@nthgth]

Haha nice one! 😄

[@Pepsolman]

Underrated pun.

[@TheTruthKiwi]

When the guy threw out the dishwater and some got in Elaine's eye I lol'd.

[@richardsamuelgustavo]

"What if he's married?" "Kramer?" for some reason that was hilarious

4:54 his apartment has an actual green lantern 😂

[@jenniferadams7582]

Holy crap you're right!

[@rattus3102]

Well spotted! 👏👏

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

no accident

[@MrAntiOrdinary]

Genius

[@AsentrixYT]

bango bince!

[@GaryYork-tk2ow]

"Green suit, power ring!" "I don't care for jewelry on men."

[@josemaria8177]

One of my favourite twists of the show

[@12Blueace]

“You’re poor and married.”

[@leir2005]

@@12BlueaceLooks like it 😂

[@ratgirl13]

I think this is one of the funniest episodes of Seinfeld. This show never got old for me-❤

[@kev3d]

The Got-No-Green Lantern's love nest would rent for about $4000 in New York City. $6000 in Manhattan.

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

Finally. Thank you.

[@danthemankhan]

No wonder he can't afford heat.

[@LegionIscariot]

If you're having an affair do it someplace your SO doesn't have a key 😂

[@fernandesl]

i mean the guy couldnt even afford donuts

[@bish0p2004]

Or just don't have an affair at all

[@lovewhitey4462]

Good luck in 2023 🚨😂💥🕵️‍♀️

[@danthemankhan]

The year is now 2024, and the concept of "monogamy" is considered old-fashioned. Like half the women on dating websites are married in "open relationships". Sickening.

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

“Hey Elaine…. maybe his girlfriend is Lois Loan!” 😁

[@lonelyheroine]

"That's it---I'm chucking the flower." lol

[@GRosa250]

A girl I knew in the late 90’s would volunteer at the homeless shelter and started falling for one of the men there. She kept saying he just needed a break because he was having bad luck in life. After trying to make something of it with him she finally realized that there was no helping him and she gave up.

[@georgedasani9095]

Hate to say it but some people are just born to be losers…

[@shivanshkhare5943]

​@@georgedasani9095 Like you?

[@doctorshutup9817]

Just like a Disney movie.

[@scslre]

​@@georgedasani9095conservative take

[@peterisawesomeplease]

I work out religiously, I volunteer, I am a reliable friend, I go out, I made a bunch of money. But I think that homeless man has gotten more love for a woman than I ever have. I think I need a do everything the opposite moment.

[@nychris2258]

Ironically that apartment on Saint Marks would be like 4,500 bucks a month these days.

[@AndrewReevesArt]

And a quarter of the size 😂

[@nychris2258]

@@AndrewReevesArt No probably that size, just nicely renovated.

[@lonelyheroine]

And unfurnished. With no fireplace.

[@keithbannister9271]

Still, even if it were renovated it is not worth $4,500-$5,000 a month..... that's a mortgage payment for goodness sake!!!

[@nychris2258]

@@keithbannister9271 But it's not a mortgage payment in NYC

[@charlesyoung9980]

He's not married, he's poor. 😂😂

[@QuentrixMovies]

3:58 what a great life hack!

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

He’s living in New York. Of course he’s poor. All of his pay goes to rent.

[@lawrencehawkins7198]

"He's poor." This is a serious DC, NYC, LA thing.

[@cactaceous]

Right, because no poor people live anywhere else.

[@luckynedpepper9030]

George eats out of garbage cans too!

[@Bout_TreeFiddy]

It was above the garbage

[@nthgth]

Trash-adjacent.. is trash.

[@danyoutube7491]

@@Bout_TreeFiddy Well this was even more separated, the slightly passed their best doughnuts were protected from the existing garbage by being inside their very own plastic bag!

[@dms79]

Is he wretchedly poor? Does he wear one of those barrels with the straps?

[@o._c.]

😂. This show’s funny ages so well.

[@lonelyheroine]

Yes, I would imagine. Not to mention Kleenex boxes on his feet for shoes, stuffed with newspapers. Then, for rainy days, there's torn up plastic garbage bags to put over said boxes.

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

“Elaine…. you are the bear claw…. in the garbage bag of my life.” That’s the kind of flowery prose I come up with my girlfriend. She’s told me she’s not impressed! 🤣

[@toebeans3985]

⁠@@eyeyamTGHe said this is the kind of prose he comes up with, not that he used this particular line. Maybe, he will respond with an example.

[@emogolem]

@@eyeyamTG most of what you read online is fake anyways

[@ironleeFPS]

It’s weird watching this when you’re also poor.

[@niiii_niiii]

Do you wear one of those barrels with the straps?

[@redacted2275]

Nah, the character of Elaine is just awful... she had no problem dating him thinking he was married at first. But then again, I'm sure you would never take your date to a back alley to literally eat out of the garbage.

[@TheTruthKiwi]

​@@redacted2275I was surprised she actually ate the bear claw. 😂

[@mostlyends]

Yeah, agree!

[@danthemankhan]

The only difference between that guy's apartment and mine is that my windows don't open.

[@stagna1959]

Ending of the episode is hilarious. George cant get rid of his 2 girlfriends and he decides to buy himself out of this mess George, in Jerry's apartment with Kramer, Jerry, and Elaine: *All right, I'm gonna try givin' them fifty-five dollars each* George, to Elaine: *"What do you think?"* Elaine: *"Give me forty, you'll never see me again."*

[@XFS540]

“It's a big night. I'm, uh, ice skating with one, and going to a staged reading of Godspell with the other.”

[@LowLevelNC]

So this is still not over? No And you? No 😂😂😂

[@Jose-se9pu]

*bites ginger man's head clean off*

[@moviesforrandy]

you know you got the girl when she is eating out the garbage with you.

[@PerryHowell-h9v]

When Elaine wipes the bucket water off her face and keeps eating the garbage.😂

[@eduardo_corrochio]

a Random Seinfeld Connection--- Newman, ordering at the counter in a jovial mood: "Pair of bear claws, please."

[@truthhurts3524]

…does he wear one of those barrels with the straps?

[@christopherbramwell8262]

"I'll vet ya' a cord of wood for your apartment. And a box of bear claws. How 'bout that"?

[@ralphjenkinsak]

John: " you find yourself with a poor boyfriend in the alley, you see donuts in the trashcan and you think to yourself, what the heck, ill just eat some trash with my boyfriend" - jerry seinfeld. what is she george costanza

[@lonelyheroine]

Great mashup of two classic episodes.

[@raulduke6105]

The ain’t got no green lantern 😂

[@YoungGandalf2325]

How much would an apartment like that cost in NYC?

[@dont-want-no-wrench]

if you have to ask...

[@curtisbrown5939]

"How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a Tootsie Pop"?🦉

[@gu9838]

what a great story you think he has a gf or wife and plot twist HES POOR lol

[@joemcguire9988]

If he’s green lantern you’d be Carol Ferris! KEEP UP, ELAINE!

[@TheBehm08]

It’s a bear claw!

[@tristramcoffin926]

At least she wasn't dating a man who wears jewelry.

[@OziBlokeTimG]

In NY city, everyone is poor, even the rich. They just don't realise it.

[@sicknado]

actually everyone is rich and they think they're poor lol

[@phoenixgamer1565]

Lois Loan is a reference to Lois Lane from Superman. The guy's wife played Smallville's Superman's mother, Martha Kent.

[@melanieparker]

Pullin' out the ole check book? Now we know how Dreyfus got the part of Elaine. I wonder how much of daddy's money it cost her? $300? Make it a $1,000.... lol.

[@Bee-r9k]

What kind of pasta lol most pasta's are very heavy and filling Elaine

[@standoughope]

Okay who wrote that opening bit from Elaine? It sounds like something both Jerry and Larry would've said. I'm leaning that Jerry wrote it.

[@giladshulkin1443]

Larry was out of Seinfeld by this point

[@OneLoveRSR]

Dan O'Keefe co-wrote the story with Billy Kimball and wrote the first draft of the script. Jerry was the head writer this season so, even though he didn't write an actual episode the final two seasons, every script went through his rewrite. However, unlike in seasons 1-7 when Jerry & Larry together would rewrite by themselves, Jerry would bring in a select few of the writers to help add a different perspective, so depending on who was in the small group during this script's rewrite session, it could be attributed to anyone if it wasn't in O'Keefe's original draft, including Jerry.

[@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward]

George is getting upset

[@cefinau]

What other episodes were they suspicious of someone, decided they were innocent, then found out the person actually was guilty? The glue sniffing accountant, this guy, any others?

[@12Blueace]

There was the woman from the aids-walk list who seemed too good for Jerry until he learned she was hoarding today sponges.

[@nthgth]

​@@12Blueacethat's kind of the opposite. The twist was she turned out to have a healthy amount of depravity after all, a good thing

[@stanhanley6004]

jerry keeps insisting his gf is cheating on him with his cousin, then says "wanna get some pizza?" when hes wrong

[@tpgeraghty]

What is the Seinfeld episode where Elaine is directing another woman's life decisions?

[@Gamingnstuff131]

Lois Loan 🤣

[@hood_TheJoker]

I wouldn't depend on the green hornet 😆

[@rurudtsafg]

Even poor people got more rizz than me.😭

[@amonralice]

Barrel with straps 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@robertweir5313]

Was the you’re the bear claw in my life the most romantic line? I donut know! Maybe it was just that - sweet!!

[@grinchoi1]

This the same apartment Cole moved into in Martin?

[@moviesforrandy]

Elaine would have been the perfect girl for me.

[@someguy42093]

Anybody else eanna nail the social worker?

[@danthemankhan]

She's a female who weighs less than me, so of course I do.

[@aishwaryadeepak4306]

Now you see, why people like me don't date. It's not me, it's you people. 😂

[@Soul.Is.Willing]

Why did Elaine ask if that was his home, where did she think she was?

[@Cloudancer2024]

His "love nest," or a cheap little place he rented specifically to take his side chicks

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@@Cloudancer2024 Would the French term pieds-à-terre fall into this category? It's basically a second or temporary home, not one's main household.

[@Soul.Is.Willing]

@@Cloudancer2024 Elaine wouldn't of went to that.

[@redacted2275]

​@@Soul.Is.WillingShe thought he was married and questioned being there: *in her head she was there, Sherlock.*

[@DrT0705]

​@@eduardo_corrochio kudos on the profile name! A real Seinfeld deep cut.

[@_679_]

This show makes me wanna Turn into Vladimir Makarov

[@stevenanderson7046]

Wow, there used to be fireplaces in nyc?

[@cactaceous]

Sure. My grandparents had a fireplace. They barely used it though. I knew other people who had fireplaces growing up also. They lived in 3 or 4 story walk ups. Small buildings.

[@danthemankhan]

How do you think they got warm before central heat?

[@QAZ-OMEN]

Chair , hot and spicy Thai maybe Mexican , lethal injection feels like pasta lol That be a difficult choice. Probably something I'm Deadly allergic to , never had , and/or outrageous LOL.

[@c0mputer]

There's no way there's a cord of wood in that apartment. A cord of wood is 4' X 4' X 8'.

[@steelyspielbergo]

that's only 16 square feet stacked to the ceiling.

[@user-qx3lp3ee9t]

was Elaine crying or its the water drops from the bucket...?

[@dorothymead6245]

So funny 🤣🤣.

[@AlchemicSoul]

Ah, so middle class became poor and poor became wretchedly poor.

[@misterhappy5462]

you know...i'm pretty poor myself (living off disability, 1 bedroom apt, etc...) and you'll never catch me eating donuts out of a garbage bag. just sayin...🤷🏽‍♂

[@Dave-ji1yp]

🤣😂

[@Cardio1027]

😅This Is Definitely My Story. I Dated A Guy Who I Found Out Was Poor.

[@cabzxs]

This might go over a lot of people but superheroes were not mainstream at the time. Most people that watched the show would react like Elaine being told about Green Lantern or Bizarro Superman.

[@abcdefgh4404]

Love it 😂😂😂

[@dana.j9062]

I think you are very beautiful.... That will do 😂😂

[@freemason4979]

I wouldnt care if Lainee was poor

[@sreeharivenat8002]

Why don't I remember this guy?

[@planetX15]

Because he was a very forgettable character

[@beezee7691]

Lane

[@jamesdragonforce]

Elain would be blasted in the modern day.

[@lagarde2011]

Trey Clegg from Capitol.

[@Laura-tp8wz]

Yes!!!

[@lemonhead162]

I'm Lois Loan!

[@upland77]

Rich people making fun of the poor is hilarious

[@EbonyCoulter6723]

😂😂😂😂 Eline Eline

[@piehound]

I guess that happens to many men who get married. The wife gets everything and the man ends up poor and / or dead. Is it worth it ??????????????????? If the women at least LOOKED good and were good in bed. But that would be asking WAY WAY WAY too much.

[@cdes68]

All those who watch these re runs are onset probably eh.

[@TheTruthKiwi]

What the f are you talking about?

[@commentandlikedistributor]

Lois Loan

[@nancygowster]

The plotlines became weaker and weaker over time.

[@redacted2275]

Don't worry, Nancy, it's season 9: soon it would be all over! You can be happy again in your life knowing that...

[@syntheticlubricant699]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@TonyEggg]

This crap doesn’t even compare to the first 6-7 seasons

[@katherinelikesstuff]

The Strongbox is literally one of the best episodes...

[@2EKgn16]

I don't agree but, even if this is true, 6-7 out of 9 is great.

[@gallaxian]

The first season was lame.

[@lexkanyima2195]

​@@gallaxianit was a test

[@redacted2275]

​@@2EKgn16No, we really should hold Jerry accountable for such crime against humanity...

[@renaissance18]

garbage man: its a bear claw at 4:06 LOL