The Puerto Rican Day

"The Puerto Rican Day"
Seinfeld episode
Episode no.	Season 9 Episode 20
Directed by	Andy Ackerman
Written by	Alec Berg, Jennifer Crittenden, Spike Feresten, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Gregg Kavet, Steve Koren, David Mandel, Dan O'Keefe, Andy Robin, Jeff Schaffer
Production code	920
Original air date	May 7, 1998
Guest appearance(s)
Mario Joyner as Lamar Dayton Callie as Cabbie James Karen as Mr. Canterman Helen Carey as Mrs. Nyhart Yul Vazquez as Bob John Paragon as Cedric Jenica Bergere as Leslie Monica Allison as Gail Marcelo Tubert as Father Armando Molina as Amigo Tom Agna as Gary Tom Dahlgren as Priest Bert Rosario as Man Raoul N. Rizik as Parade Goer Scott Conte as Sketch Guy Mimi Cozzens as Mrs. Canterman Alison Martin as Lucy Marc Hirschfeld as Ellis Chip Heller as Policeman Jeff Bye as Counter Guy (uncredited) Bob Murphy as Mets Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
Season 9 episodes
September 1997 – May 1998 "The Butter Shave" "The Voice" "The Serenity Now" "The Blood" "The Junk Mail" "The Merv Griffin Show" "The Slicer" "The Betrayal" "The Apology" "The Strike" "The Dealership" "The Reverse Peephole" "The Cartoon" "The Strongbox" "The Wizard" "The Burning" "The Bookstore" "The Frogger" "The Maid" "The Puerto Rican Day" "The Chronicle (Part 1)" "The Chronicle (Part 2)" "The Finale (Part 1)" "The Finale (Part 2)"
List of Seinfeld episodes

"The Puerto Rican Day" is the 176th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. It aired on May 7, 1998, and was the 20th episode of the ninth and final season. It was the show's second-highest-rated episode of all time, with 38.8 million viewers, only behind the series finale. The episode aired one week before the two-part clip show and the two-part series finale aired. Because of controversy surrounding a scene in which Cosmo Kramer accidentally burns and then stomps on the Puerto Rican flag, NBC was forced to apologize and had it banned from airing on the network again. Also, it was not initially part of the syndicated package. In the summer of 2002, the episode started to appear with the flag-burning sequence intact.

This episode of Seinfeld has more writer credits (ten) than any other episode. As co-creator Larry David was returning to write the finale, this was the final episode for the active "after Larry David" writing staff and thus was a group effort.

"The Puerto Rican Day" was a rare late-series return to a "plot about nothing" style, filmed in real-time, more commonly seen in early seasons (such as "The Chinese Restaurant").

The gang are heading back to Manhattan after leaving a Mets game early in order to beat the traffic, but run into trouble with a driver in a maroon Volkswagen Golf. In the car, George boasts about the clever comment ("That's gotta hurt!") he recently made during a pivotal moment in a new film about the Hindenburg disaster titled Blimp.

As they approach Fifth Avenue, traffic is blocked by the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade. They almost find a way out, headed the wrong way down a one-way side street, but are blocked by their nemesis in the maroon Golf, whose driver refuses to let them cross over.

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