![]() ![]() Feresten told his girlfriend about the voice and that they were making an entire Seinfeld episode around it, and she became offended and walked out on him. The writers recognized that the talking butt/stomach joke didn't make sense and intended the humor to come out of Jerry and his friends' enthusiasm for the joke rather than the joke itself, feeling that most people could relate to enjoying a joke that doesn't make sense to anyone outside their circle of friends. After the writing staff incorporated it into an episode, Jerry Seinfeld decided to change it to her belly button talking to him, so that it wouldn't appear to be a cheap joke. He recounted the idea to his fellow writers on Seinfeld, where the butt's "voice" became an inside joke. The basis of the talking stomach was Seinfeld writer Spike Feresten's real life experience of imagining his girlfriend's butt talking to him while she slept. This episode was originally going to be titled "The Backslide," and the production script was titled "The Bladder System". The incident makes "the voice" popular among Jerry's friends again. Darin takes the blame for dropping the oil ball on Claire and goes to prison. He tries to warn her by shouting "Hello!" but she thinks he is doing "the voice" again and does not listen.Ĭlaire files a lawsuit which drives Play Now into bankruptcy, leaving George unemployed and without severance pay. As Kramer and Darin push the ball of oil out a window, Jerry notices Claire waiting for him just below. In retaliation, George suggests that Kramer test his bladder system at Play Now's offices using one of their rubber balls as the bladder. When he refuses, they open his private bathroom to other employees. ![]() Play Now offers to buy George out of his contract for six months' pay. However, Darin returns on his own because he believes in Kramerica Industries. The university cancels Darin's internship when they find that Kramerica Industries is not a real business and Darin is performing personal tasks for Kramer. He gets an intern named Darin from New York University to assist him with his corporation, "Kramerica Industries," leaving him free to develop ideas such as a rubber bladder to prevent oil tanker spills. Kramer contends that day-to-day incidental tasks are preventing him from realizing all his big ideas. Finally Elaine tells Puddy that she's realized they are meant to be together and should stop the on-off pattern of their relationship, but he wants to break up. Elaine and Jerry agree to a double or nothing bet, but she continues to slide back to Puddy. However, after Puddy comments on how much he prefers their casual sex arrangement to dating her, Elaine officially renews their relationship to spite him. Elaine insists she is not in a relationship with Puddy, even after she admits that she both dined out and had sex with him. The next day, Jerry notices Elaine is still wearing the same clothes. Jerry tells Elaine that because of this "bump-into," she is destined to backslide into her relationship with Puddy. He talks to Claire and agrees to stop doing the voice.Īt Monk's Café, David Puddy passes by and exchanges greetings with Elaine. However, all his friends say they have grown tired of the voice. Jerry agonizes and decides he prefers the voice. She says they can only get back together if he agrees to never do the voice again. Behind her back, Jerry jokes that her stomach has a voice, which he lampoons by saying "Helloooo!" Jerry tells Claire about "the voice." Offended, she leaves him. When George turns down his boss's request that he quit, he tries to drive George out by moving him into a derelict office, spiking his food, and even barricading his office door, but George continues to show up to work each day. George's employer, Play Now, wants to get rid of him after finding out he isn't really disabled, but cannot fire him because he has a one-year contract. Meanwhile, a chance encounter with David Puddy leads to Elaine renewing their relationship, George sticks with a job where his co-workers all hate him because he has a one-year contract with the company, and Kramer hires an intern and works with him on creating an oil bladder system. The episode's title refers to a joke Jerry and his friends share about his girlfriend's stomach having a voice, which ends up coming between Jerry and his girlfriend. This was the second episode for the ninth and final season. " The Voice" is the 158th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. ![]() Ruth Cohen as Ruthie Cohen (uncredited).2nd episode of the 9th season of Seinfeld " The Voice" ![]()
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