George Takes A Book Into The Bathroom | The Bookstore | Seinfeld

"They're selling coffee, bran muffins... you're surrounded by reading material. It's entrapment!"
From Seinfeld Season 9 Episode 17 The Bookstore: George is forced to buy a book he took with him into the bathroom. Jerry finds out that his Uncle Leo is a shoplifter. Elaine doesn't want to be known as the office skank. Kramer and Newman start a Hong Kong rickshaw business.
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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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[@nikiyen6]

Love how he tries to charge Elaine more than what he paid for it

[@zzizahacallar]

Yeah that's funny

[@mckinleywebb5910]

George the Profiteer. I guess he had to get a little pay pack for all the trouble he went through 😂

[@arielbanks5557]

I believe it's part of his "big salad" conundrum.

[@annie20232]

Well that's George for you

[@jsrabin]

He asks the homeless shelter for DOUBLE the cost!!!

[@BrokenFistX]

“What do you want to hear?” Is a favorite retort of mine thanks to this

[@TheSixthSLoT]

His delivery was perfect on that.

[@TheStuport]

"They're selling coffee, bran muffins, you're surrounded by reading material....It's Entrapment!" 🤣🤣 George actually makes a great point!

[@Areaninetyone]

They're

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

Come on, it’s basic decency that you don’t take other people’s property into the bathroom with you, at least without their prior consent!

[@Maxfr8]

Without shame, I, too, have besoiled a weighty tome in such a way.

[@sustainfem]

@@Maxfr8 Besoiled 😄

[@nickgoldring1446]

@TheStuport. "Great"? Actually, "Good" covers it.

[@steverogers7601]

I love how the Brentano’s employee moves the book away with her ruler 😂

[@lonelyheroine]

It always makes me laugh when she tells George her name: Rebecca De Mornay . Not quite. lol

[@championkathryn9936]

Yes! 📏🤦🏿‍♀️🤣🤣

[@BrokenCDprodux]

@@lonelyheroineThat's not even the woman he's talking about...

[@patricklilly4387]

She plays Deekins wife on king of queens when he first tries to return the book. !

[@arielbanks5557]

​@@patricklilly4387Deacon*

[@10RRASK]

I love how everyone in the Seinfeld universe calls him “Uncle Leo”, and he even signs his checks “Uncle Leo”.

[@SashGirl34]

Also in the episode 'The Package' where Uncle Leo signs his name. And Newman tries to get Jerry...and the signature says 'Uncle Leo' LOl

[@jordanwhite8099]

"I cant sell the book. Its been marked. It certainly has" Hilarious

[@Catinbox123-ne4le]

"It's been in the bathroom" /

[@Ashamed.Loser69]

@WhiteMichaelJordan The best witty line.👌🏼

[@alexshank1414]

“That guy! Swarm! Swarm!”😂 I use this line frequently in my life.

[@jibbsautomations]

🤣🤣

[@sarahairey9294]

What do you read in the bathroom?" "I don't read in the bathroom" " *Well* *aren't* *you* *something* " 😂

[@sarahairey9294]

I actually think of this line anytime someone says good about themselves in their eyes😅

[@nthgth]

Lmao it's a great line with just the right amount of sarcasm 😄

[@woodson21]

I, too, have used this line many times in life. Thanks George for such perfect delivery.

[@KeyboardBuster]

Yeah. PUNCH!

[@AcidFink666]

I just realized that when George says "I find the soothing, pastoral images very conducive..." he sounded exactly like Frank 😂

[@unknownunknowns]

Like father, like son.

[@stephentroup1478]

You're right! Now I can ONLY hear that line in Frank's voice.

[@ru40342]

Love to see George always tries to argue, even when he's clearly wrong.

[@Dad_of_War]

Even the bookstore people call him Uncle Leo lol

[@Catinbox123-ne4le]

the weird, weird world of Seinfeld.......

[@xavierharding8938]

I remember when Jerry said to Kramer Leo and Kramer was like who ? Uncle Leo ! Oh ya UNCLE ..... Leo.

[@kandoo1316]

The "Well aren't you something" line from George at 2:57 is perfect.🤣

[@hristopopov7345]

I've watched this maybe a hundred times, but I just now find out what it says on the wall😂😂 - a bathroom, not a bookroom". Makes this even funnier 😂

[@jamessteel9016]

😆The funniest part is when George tries to give it to the Charity shop

[@beani24329]

It’s about $200 Miss DaMooney

[@CT-pi2gl]

"Here I come."

[@greghale717]

@@beani24329 It's De Mornay . . .Rebecca De Mornay, LOLOLOL

[@bossfan49]

I still use "Well, aren't you SOMEthing!" whenever I can.

[@TheStuport]

🤣🤣🤣 And you have to say it just like George does!

[@davidcaunter5346]

The line was actually written by Jerry’s pal, the late Gary Shandling.

[@75aces97]

Me too. 😂😊

[@joshuagraham8063]

I love how George's twisted mind tries to find a way to profit off the book by selling to Elaine for $125 when he paid $100 2:19

[@beani24329]

And Rebecca DeMornay $200

[@machoman1016]

Tbf she did order the BIG salad 🥗.

[@KeyboardBuster]

Hes jewish

[@markellis6887]

George trying to make a profit off Elaine and charity 😂

[@BobSince1981]

Kelly Palmer from King Of Queens works at that book store. Worlds are colliding.

[@CaptOrbit]

She was also Kitty Kenarban from Malcolm in the Middle

[@MarvelFan1995]

She had left two shows and returned to be a wife again

[@charlessummers8041]

She also was on Alias

[@jeremytung1632]

My favorite George plot.

[@benjamintribe4652]

Damn Jerry ratted on poor George!!😆😂🤣

[@EdwardCurrent]

"Biohazard coming through!" I love how every character is equally disgusted by the book.

[@kylewinward8847]

00:21, I saw the sign: "Bathroom Not Bookroom". 😅

[@kxmode]

At George's sentencing, the judge actually threw the book at him.

[@75aces97]

That's good. BECAUSE HE LOVES TO READ!

[@kxmode]

@@75aces97... in the bathroom. Shameful!

[@Catinbox123-ne4le]

even the small details in the show down to a science. Just brilliant!

[@kandoo1316]

Rebecca DeMornay was a great character.🤣

[@Starless2012]

RIP

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

She was also in the Muffin-top Episode seems like shes there to refuse stuff only

[@Cormac-jd2kx]

Yeah and the other one is disgusting

[@charlesyoung9980]

I can understand taking a magazine into the bathroom, but a thick hardcover book? That's kooky talk!!

[@tomcripps7229]

Maybe it was a big project.

[@maggieb369]

The charity shop woman is a great character 😊

[@jewdavid5627]

But you can't punch someone in the brain.

[@u47mkbg]

RIP

[@marmichaux7520]

Her line about punching him in the brain still cracks me up. This was a quote that should've been popular, & was the pre-throat punch quote.

[@jerryt4053]

Kramer & Newman trying to strap a homeless man to a Rickshaw , Elaine gives muffin stomps to the same lady haha

[@MatrixDiscovery]

Just imagine cell phones. Every single one has been to the bathroom.

[@WavyFBaby]

“Jerry simmer down….SIMMER.” 😂😂😂

[@arielbanks5557]

Poor George?? More like, Poor book; it had to sit with George while he went to the bathroom! 🤢🤮

[@Rogue_07]

Good for Jerry, helping out Uncle Leo like that.

[@QuitterKiller]

That guy! Swarm! Swarm!

[@michaelweston2285]

HELLOOOO!!!

[@innag6888]

Yeah, I was quite impressed how he sacrificed his childhood/longterm friend for his uncle.

[@Catinbox123-ne4le]

an ADONISSSSSSSSSSS Jerry called him hahaha, said he could become

[@nobots27]

@@innag6888 He sacrificed his best friend for an uncle that he doesnt even like. Thats what they mean when they say blood is thicker than water. :))))

[@DevotedDisciple-x]

The book starts out at $100. It gets to Elaine and is now at $125. Once it reaches a charity for the homeless, $200. Welcome to George's schemes and mathematics 😂

[@christopherb501]

Amazing he didn't get in on the recycling scam

[@go4thmultiply349]

He is Jewish

[@Y_hass]

3:33 That’s Kramer and Newman lmao

[@championkathryn9936]

Yes, the crazy nuts trying to use homeless guys and a rickshaw 😂

[@LB14745]

Potato salad!

[@talithakoum3922]

Well, most homeless rickshaw businesses fold in the first three weeks.

[@jerryt4053]

And the Muffin Stomps Were are the top of the muffins ??? Lol

[@joshfactor1]

dude, seriously, de mornay was one of the most underrated characters in the entire series

[@redacted2275]

One of the most quoted characters on the show... not uNdErRaTeD...

[@sortofanoakyafterbirth3661]

🤜 🧠 lol

[@nthgth]

"...and punch you in the brain" lmao

[@boootsyyy2133]

the stumps ep gets me everytime

[@sidstorch2615]

@@nthgth Such a cliched line from black life. Could Larry David have been poking fun at the sainted jigs?

[@smnoy23]

“Do we have a deal?” “Yeah, and here it is!”

[@FabianSanchez-dh1lk]

Rebecca Demornay, threatening to punch George in the brain is priceless 😂😂😂😂

[@shirleyandrews1152]

Every time I take my book into the (my) bathroom I think of this show. Programs like this influence our behavior 😂🤣😂🤣

[@abhijitsen7749]

The girl at the library counter is Deacon's wife from King of Queens.

[@yeahyeahwowman8099]

George scenario can usually be beaten by talking faster than normal and pretending like they agree with you. Scenario of, "you can't put it back, you took it to the bathroom." "Can't understand that policy either, thats crazy, well thanks for understanding man." You just walk out, leaving them confused.

[@Dom79217]

Technically he isn't stealing unless he leaves the premises without paying

[@Tallahassee21]

The fact that he took it into the bathroom like nothing means hes done it before with other books or maybe even the same one. Plus his additional attempts to profit from both elaine and the 2nd hand store, yeah i cant back George either.

[@redacted2275]

The same one? That's real commitment to literature right there... way to go, Costanza, finishing a book one sitting at a time...

[@davidl570]

Once a bathroom book reader, ALWAYS a bathroom book reader.

[@learnenglishwithclyde1166]

Ah, life in the bathroom before smartphones.

[@JanetStarChild]

Every smartphone is a bio-hazard.

[@yellowblanka6058]

@@JanetStarChildIn more ways than one…

[@Cactus7810]

I love how the woman at the charity store references Kramer and Newman’s homeless rickshaw antics.

[@My.IMMACULATE.Conception.8]

"No Soup for you" "Get a good look Costanza;!?"

[@LB14745]

Got a good book Costanza?

[@doct0rnic]

He never should have let his daughter dress like that

[@admirosmanovic1368]

So Jerry would snitch on his best friend to save "uncle Leo"...smh

[@MrMegaGamerMan]

I'm reading in the bathroom right now

[@agent_47_47]

Hey George, the Book store called, and they are running out of Encyclopedias!

[@arielbanks5557]

Here's another; Hey George, the bookstore has a special book mailed in for you, *Encyclopedia Brown* . 🤣

[@FOXZILLA5734]

George's plan at the end of the episode makes no sense and would never work😂

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

I’m glad George got his proper comeuppance! Taking other people’s property into the bathroom with you is just wrong on so many levels.

[@MrBradfordchild]

You're gonna love the library!

[@SashGirl34]

It's one of the few times he DOES get proper comeuppance. It's so rare for these Seinfeld characters until the finale.

[@youtubedj9298]

I was at my local library, which has a coffee shop and a woman was walking around, reaching into her pant to scratch herself then touching a bunch of books. Good lord.

[@fakename6658]

Yowsers! Was she hot??

[@SashGirl34]

I mean Kramer for example got one when he took the lobsters when they went to the Hamptsons. And he had to pick up trash and such.

[@marcmckenna190]

Well you just lost alot of business because I love to read 😂

[@12classics39]

“Here I come.” She doesn’t actually move a muscle after saying that, yet sends George running for his life. She’s a badass. 👏🏻

[@12Blueace]

George was a spineless coward. It’s just like with the VanBeruan Boys, George thinks he’s high and mighty because he decides who gets a college scholarship, but when he’s threatened for taking it away out of pettiness, he runs away screaming.

[@woodybear8298]

The book guy looks like the cartoon character in Dire Straights, 'Money For Nothing.'

[@nfnc1312]

Finally a comment about the book guy😂

[@jareddemarzo8196]

*Straits

[@jasonl8720]

"Oh yeah? Well the bookstore called, and they're running outta YOU!!"

[@zackstark24601]

4:56 THAT GUY SWARM SWARM

[@weeniehutjunior]

Rebecca DeMornay! 🤣🤣🤣

[@blynch2117]

I love how the bookstore has an LP team....these days you're lucky if it's one guy🤔🤔

[@DragnBoi65]

If the book helps him go, why doesn't George just keep it in his own bathroom and look at it while doing his business? lol

[@Actionfan19]

It's the principal of the matter.

[@jacksrandomadventures2769]

"Jerry... simmer down.."

[@innag6888]

he should have left the book in the bathroom and then left the store

[@god0fgames100]

And let's face it, the store would put it right back onto the shelf.

[@innag6888]

@@god0fgames100 lol so true

[@pfdfiremedic3252]

The cashier at the bookstore is the same one that played Deacon's wife Kelly on The King Of Queens.

[@marichiarra8495]

Kind of a b….

[@artboy_shelly]

And Stevie’s mom in Malcom in the Middle

[@frimmbits]

0:32 I got the Timmy's "double dipping" vibe 😂

[@tomy23able]

‘They can put it anywhere they want, no one’s meeting anybody..’ CLASSIC 😂

[@jussikankinen9409]

Every iphone been used in bathroom without washing hand

[@unknownunknowns]

It’s theirs, at least, whereas that book wasn’t George’s.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

That’s disgusting

[@ZesPak]

iPhone users don't wash their hands?

[@lazo3251]

People take their phones into the bathroom all the time and nobody bats an eye 😂

[@unknownunknowns]

Perhaps because it’s theirs? What George did was bring someone’s else property into an unsanitary room, and then he tried to put it back next to the more sanitary books. That’s why it was a big deal.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

That’s disgusting

[@thejoshman3843]

nice to find scenes & episodes of seinfeld i still havent seen yet in 30 years of syndication.

[@POPLSEV7]

George is the best🤣💯👍

[@adamhoward4775]

Walter White: your honor that book was in the bathroom

[@fatboyslim6272]

One of my fav episodes! 😂

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

4:22 he's goin' in!

[@sustainfem]

"Do we have a deal?" Yeah, and here it is . . ." Love Rebecca DeMornay (this one anyway)!

[@IamGenoBlack]

Second comment like this, now I need to google the real one

[@xenon8117]

Big deal then about a book in the bathrooom, now most of us take our phones with us.

[@themeparkamusement2214]

George is so pathetic. "Not underpants" "Bio Hazard coming through" LOL!

[@miketsangarakis7237]

I spent many hours at barnes and noble reading up on national parks before a road trip back in the day!!!

[@jorgegaray7614]

I'm a Barnes and Noble best customer where I buy my books and I'm curious if I take a book into the bathroom, will it be flagged and I have to buy it?

[@steverogers7601]

4:54 George thinking he’s fooling anyone looking like that lmao

[@Bajso84]

George and bathroom related incidents... He should be glad he atleast remembered putting his shirt back on.

[@johngonzalez4298]

Oh George 😂

[@elipotter369]

I had a colleague tell me she hated Seinfeld. (It was at the height of popularity at the time). Why? I asked. "Because all the people are so horrible". She said. "That's why it's funny" i said!

[@C.O.SBurpees]

The cashier is the same woman Kelly from king of queens

[@nextrevsonoma]

I wonder if this is when Deacon met Kelly.

[@SkiKoala]

SWARM! SWARM!

[@mckinleywebb5910]

Swarm! Swarm! 😂

[@yellowblanka6058]

They cut out the best bit at the end where the book starts to drop out of his coat and he says “GuH….JERRY!” Hahaha

[@careditor]

The Zone...

[@heartheater8315]

That’s like $185 in today’s money

[@MrBaladaum]

2:53 just noticed steven seagal looks a lot like george

[@baileyantonengpei7860]

George. The Bane of existence

[@l.a.3479]

🤣

[@perrystone879]

Swarm SWARM!

[@artdonkersloot1611]

I'm going to give more of my business to Brentano's 😄

[@jonathanmyers2867]

Crichton: Excuse me, sir, what are you doing? George: I'm all set. Crichton: Did you take that book with you into the bathroom? George: What do you want to hear?

[@Darule514]

😂

[@steverogers7601]

“What do you want to hear?” I appreciate that George has accepted the circumstances but is still trying to weasel his way out lmao

[@Darule514]

@@steverogers7601 It kinda seems George doesn't give a damn lol

[@steverogers7601]

@@Darule514 that fact that he didn’t do much work on the Penski file confirms he doesn’t give a damn.

[@dms79]

​@@steverogers7601 George wasn't Penske material.

[@DiverHoly1]

1:24 Is this before she met Deacon?

[@cya2139]

It was during the time she left him to “find herself “

[@bernardthomas6232]

That's the lady from Curb who told Larry he couldn't bring water into the theater!

[@pm110978]

Poor George 😂

[@shazbot10]

I never understood reading in the bathroom. I do my business and get out asap

[@davidl570]

Well, aren't you SOMETHING!

[@rj9617]

​@@davidl570😅😂 good one!

[@davidl570]

@@rj9617 Thanks! I try.

[@greghale717]

"here I come"! LOL

[@stephentroup1478]

So many lines from this episode I try to use IRL when I can: "Bio-Hazard coming thru!" "Well aren't YOU something." "What do you want to hear?" "Swarm, Swarm, SWARM!"

[@bjornalm9950]

- Yes...Uncle Leo😂 This episode is loaded with great lines❤

[@mariopalos9238]

Maybe the tallest bit player I've ever seen @4:29

[@hikingelevated]

"May I ask, what do you read in the bathroom?" "I don't read in the bathroom." "Well, aren't you something?" Lol

[@imperialwalker]

George thinks they wouldn’t be suspicious of a book that hadn’t been purchased. After he already knows they flag and keep records of their books

[@Pww642]

The bookstore lady turns up again in Curb in the Judy doll episode - she’s at the theater door and stops Larry from bringing in a bottle of water.

[@alvinomartin]

Crazy how nowadays we take cellphones to the bathroom and its normal lol

[@amydong2586]

that episode made me laughed so hard...I never get tired of this episode!!!

[@damongrimes6096]

It would've been hilarious if George tried to throw away the book and the garbage men refused to take it! 😂

[@KeyboardBuster]

That would have been good! It sucks they didnt think of that. But too late, its head cannon for me now, forever.

[@damongrimes6096]

@@KeyboardBuster "Please take it home, we don't want it near the other trash."

[@jehudavis5422]

"What do you want to hear" george!