The Muffin Tops

"The Muffin Tops" is the 155th episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 21st episode of the eighth season. It aired on May 8, 1997.

While George and Jerry are walking down the street, a foreign guy (Reuven Bar-Yotam) asks George to watch a bag of luggage for a minute. When the stranger doesn't return, George starts wearing some of the clothing from the bag, using the rationale that "I'm still watching them." While he walks down the street in the tourist's clothing, looking at a map, a woman who works for the New York Visitor's Center mistakes George for a tourist and introduces herself as Mary Anne (Rena Sofer). George pretends that he's visiting from Little Rock, Arkansas, where he works as a hen supervisor for the Tyler Chicken company.

They go to Monk's Café, where George continues to lie to Mary Anne about himself. George finds her attractive, and she's interested in him, but she doesn't want to get involved, believing he'll be leaving soon. To prolong the relationship, he tells her he's thinking of 'moving' to New York; she replies that the city would "eat him alive."

George is insulted by this and sets out to prove he can get by in New York by showing her his 'new' apartment and his office where he works for the New York Yankees. Then Steinbrenner enters George's office and Mary Anne tells him of George's alleged job with Tyler Chicken. Steinbrenner then tells George that his mind is blown about his moonlighting. Then he phones the CEO of Tyler Chicken named Don Tyler (who, like Steinbrenner, is seen from behind) to announce that he doesn't want to share George while stating that George has been dividing his time between the New York Yankees and Tyler Chicken. Tyler states that he doesn't know who he is and that if he's that important, he's not giving him up that easily. Steinbrenner then comments that Tyler is playing hardball. Tyler then says "How about this: you give me Costanza, I convert your concessions to all chicken, no charge. Instead of hot dogs, chicken dogs. Instead of pretzels, chicken twists. Instead of beer, alcoholic chicken." When Steinbrenner asks how alcoholic chicken is made, Tyler replies "Let if ferment, just like everything else." Impressed with the alcoholic chicken, Steinbrenner agrees to trade George to Tyler by stating that he will have him on the next bus to Arkansas.