Seinfeld: 10 Most Memorable Scenes In Monk’s Cafe

Monk’s Cafe was the central location of many of Seinfeld’s long-running plotlines. Here are just some of the most iconic scenes set in the diner.

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The diner shown in Seinfeld is the iconic Monk’s Cafe, run by Larry the Cook. The place is so regularly populated by the four main characters that the cashier, Ruthie Cohen, is seen in nearly every episode of the series and considerably more than any other side-character in the show.

The outside of the cafe is actually the real-life Tom’s Restaurant, found at the intersection of Broadway and West 112th Street in Manhattan, but all the scenes shot inside are staged. Many events of both great and small importance have taken place at Monk’s, but which are the most memorable?

10 Elaine Steals All The Squares

After Jerry’s date, Jane, flat-out rejects Elaine’s plaintive request for some toilet paper (she couldn’t even spare a square), and Elaine is offended to the point of thinking about it constantly.

However, when she discovers the identity of the person, she decides to exact delicious revenge while they’re all having a nice lunch at the cafe. When Jane excuses herself to use the bathroom, Elaine maniacally rushes in after her and empties the entire place of its toilet paper supply.

9 George Returns To True Form

George’s relationship with a bald woman takes a turn when he shows himself as a hypocrite, forcing Elaine to take drastic measures by ripping his toupee off his head and tossing it into the street.

Following this event, George admits to Jerry over a cup of coffee that he feels “like [his] old self again. Totally inadequate, completely insecure, paranoid, neurotic, it’s a pleasure.” His friend is happy to see him back to his old self again, and by the end of it all, George doesn’t seem too dispirited either.

8 “The Sea Was Angry That Day, My Friends.”

George’s stint as a pseudo-marine biologist comes to a crashing halt when he confesses to Diane that he lied about his career, even though he actually saves a whale from choking to death on Kramer’s golf ball.

The story he narrates at Monk’s is one of legend because of his frills, exaggeration and subtext and it is all quite an iconic Costanza thing to do. In the end, when he pulls out the offending golf ball, the studio audience explodes into cheers and laughter.

7 The Bizarro Coffee Shop

While this doesn’t exactly take place within the cafe, the Bizarro Coffee Shop, Reggie’s Diner, plays the perfect antithesis to Monk’s.

It’s where Elaine’s new friends, Kevin, Gene and Feldman hang out for a short time when she actually considers shifting her allegiance from Jerry, George, and Kramer. Almost everything at Reggie’s is the eerie opposite of Monk’s, making it a brilliant reference/spoof of the original joint.

6 Elaine And Her Big Salad

Elaine asks George to get her a “big salad” from Monk’s, at which point they have a pointless debate about whether the coffee shop serves the dish or not.

While they’re there, he resorts to his usual brand of nonsense observational humor, making comments on the pronunciation difference between “Herbert” and “Hebert,” before paying for the salad and returning to Jerry’s. The resulting debacle turns into a whole new thing, leading to the inevitable breakup at Monk’s. The place is just so central to the Seinfeld narrative.

5 Jerry Being More Successful Than George

When Jerry and George meet up at Monk’s for yet another one of their lunches, Costanza launches into a tirade about how Seinfeld refuses to help other people, questioning his motivations by asking him “what kind of a person” he is.

Here, Jerry falls back on his unique style of deadpan-but-deadly wit, telling George that he’s “pretty much like you — only successful.” The fact, accurate as it is, screams of bleakness and misery, standard Costanza trademarks.

4 The Equal Employment Opportunity Debacle

Elaine, in one of her repeated attempts at social justice, demands to know why Monk’s suddenly has a number of waitresses with rather specific physical dimensions. She believes that the manager is to blame, and invents this whole scenario in her head where she outs him for discrimination just because he doesn’t hire her immediately.

Elaine tries to get the attention of the Equal Employment Opportunity department, but that turns out to be a bust, so she accuses Mr. Visaki directly. Imagine the egg on her face when he proudly declares that all of them are his daughters.

3 George Does The Opposite

George Costanza laments that nothing ever goes right in his life (as if that’s news to his friends), exclaiming that “every decision [he] has ever made … has been wrong.” When Elaine mentions that a woman sitting at the coffee shop counter has her eyes on him, he first dismisses her and then decides to take a chance doing the opposite of what he would normally do in this situation.

It turns out that women like honesty, which isn’t surprising to anyone other than George, because Victoria appreciates the fact that he tells her the truth about his sad life.

2 “Fake, Fake, Fake, Fake.”

At Monk’s, George says that his girlfriend fakes her orgasms, and asks if Elaine has ever done it. She confirms this and Jerry snidely states that it has never happened with him.

That’s when she turns his ego upside down, claiming that she has never once had a single orgasm in their three-year relationship. Jerry denies the possibility of such a thing, still hanging on to the vestiges of his “masculine pride,” but Elaine’s revelation has seriously destroyed his sense of self-worth.

1 George Costanza, Velvet King

George meets a woman he finds ideal and she actually likes him, even though she thinks that “looks don’t matter” to her. He is initially resistant, saying that if appearances are inconsequential, then she shouldn’t mind him wearing indoor clothing on outings.

She blankly responds with “you can drape yourself with velvet for all I care,” words George has been hoping to hear his whole life. He later waltzes into Monk’s dressed from head to toe in a velvet outfit, to the embarrassment of his friends.

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