The Serenity Now

"The Serenity Now" is the 159th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the third episode of the ninth and final season. It aired in the U.S. on October 9, 1997.

Frank Costanza is advised to say "serenity now" every time his blood pressure is in danger of going up, but instead of saying the phrase, he shouts it. Jerry's girlfriend gives his Knicks tickets away and comments that she's never seen him get "real mad." George gets Kramer to help him fix his parents' screen door. They remove the old door, which Kramer takes with him. Frank is selling computers in his garage and wants to bring George into his business. Mr. Lippman's son takes advantage of "becoming a man" at his bar mitzvah to French kiss Elaine.

Kramer installs the screen door outside his apartment to provide the "cool evening breezes of Anytown, USA," and turns his hall into a small-town front porch, complete with BBQ grill, lawn chairs, potted plants and American flag. Kramer sits on his porch with "fireworks" (a sparkler).

George's first impulse is to quit but decides it's finally time to take on his arch-rival, Lloyd Braun, whom Frank has also hired to sell computers. When Jerry learns how to get mad, it releases all his other feelings, including caring, and another that results in his proposing to Elaine.

Kramer fights with the neighborhood kids of "Anytown, USA." George tells Elaine she's attractive to the Lippman men because of her "shiksa-appeal." The result gets the 2 Lippman men to want to renounce Judaism in order to be with her.

George hatches a scheme to sell more computers: to buy them himself and return them later for a refund; however, continuous use of the phrase "serenity now" has an adverse effect on his sales.