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“The Boyfriend, Part 1”
Seinfeld episode
Kramer is hit with spit.
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 35
Written by	Larry David & Larry Levin
Directed by	Tom Cherones
Guest stars	Keith Hernandez
Original airdate	February 12, 1992
Season 3 episodes
Seinfeld - Season 3 September 1991 - May 1992
The Note The Truth The Pen The Dog The Library The Parking Garage The Cafe The Tape The Nose Job The Stranded The Alternate Side The Red Dot The Subway The Pez Dispenser The Suicide The Parking Space The Fix-Up The Boyfriend, Part 1 The Boyfriend, Part 2 The Limo The Good Samaritan The Letter The Keys
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"The Boyfriend, Part 1" is the thirty-fifth episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the 18th episode for the show's third season. It aired on February 12, 1992 as the first part of a two-part episode, followed by "The Boyfriend, Part 2."

Jerry meets Keith Hernandez and wants to make a good impression. Meanwhile, George is out of time on his unemployment and he works harder than ever on his scheme to get a 13-week extension. He tells the unemployment office he was close to a job with Vandelay Industries, a company that makes latex products and whose main office is Jerry's apartment. Kramer and Newman take Hernandez back to a time when they were allegedly spit on by him; however, Jerry supports the "second-spitter theory" that Hernandez was not involved. Keith asks Jerry about Elaine's status. Keith makes a date with her and breaks a date with Jerry.

• Keith Hernandez: I love your bit on Jimmy Olsen.

NEWMAN: June 14, 1987.... Mets Phillies. We're enjoying a beautiful afternoon in the right field stands when a crucial Hernandez error opens the door to a five run Phillies ninth. Cost the Mets the game.
KRAMER: Our day was ruined. There was a lot of people, you know they were waiting by the player's parking lot. Now we're coming down the ramp ... (cuts to a flashback filmed in the same style as the Zapruder film) ... Newman was in front of me. Hernandez was coming toward us, as he passes Newman turns and says, " Nice game pretty boy." Keith continued past us up the ramp.
Newman: Then a second later, something happened that changed us in a deep and profound way from that day forward.
Elaine: What was it?
Kramer: He spit on us.... and I screamed out, "I'M HIT!"
Newman: Then I turned and the spit ricochet off him and it hit me.
Elaine: Wow, what a story.
Jerry: Unfortunately the immutable laws of physics contradict the whole premise of your account.
Allow me to reconstruct this if I may for Miss Benes as I've heard this story a number of times.
Jerry (cont.): Newman, Kramer, if you'll indulge me.
According to your story Hernandez passes you and starts walking up the ramp.
Then you say you were struck on the right temple.
The spit then proceeds to ricochet off the temple striking Newman between the third and fourth rib.
The spit then came off the rib made a right turn hitting Newman in the right wrist causing him to drop his baseball cap.
The spit then splashed off the wrist, Pauses... In mid air mind you...-
Makes a left turn, and lands on Newman's left thigh.
That is one magic loogie.
Newman: Well that's the way it happened.
Jerry(To Kramer): What happened to your head when you got hit?
Kramer: Well. uh, well my head went back and to the left
Jerry(Repeats line a few times): Back and to the left. Back and to the left
Elaine: So what are you saying?
Jerry: I am saying that the spit could not have come from behind ... that there had to have been a second spitter!
Jerry(cont.): Behind the bushes on the gravelly road.
If the spitter was behind you as you claimed that would have caused your head to pitch forward.
Elaine: So the spit could have only come from the front and to the right.
Jerry: But that is not what they would have you believe.
Newman: I'm leaving. Jerry's a nut!

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Wayne Knight in Magic Loogie Theory scene from Seinfeld episode "The Boyfriend, Part 1" (Top) and Magic Bullet Theory scene from JFK (film) (Bottom).

• The working title for this episode was "The New Friend" Part 1.
• The baseball game referenced by Newman and Kramer never actually took place. The Mets did play on June 14th, 1987, but this was a road game in which they defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 7 – 3. [1]
• According to the special introduction by Jerry Seinfeld available on the DVD, this (and part two) was his favorite Seinfeld episode (at the time).
• The spitting scene was a reference to the John F. Kennedy assassination and the magic bullet theory, as dramatized in the movie JFK, in which Wayne Knight (Newman) played a supporting part. He played the same role in both the Seinfeld episode and the JFK movie.
• Though Jerry first spoke the immortal line "Hello, Newman" earlier this season in "The Suicide", this episode marks the first time that he says it with his familiar atonement of loathing, which he would use for all subsequent utterances of the phrase.
• The events of a Hernandez error are based on a game in Philadelphia in 1985.
• After Newman and Kramer put their differences with Hernandez behind them, they both state their reasons as to why Roger McDowell spat on them. Kramer says that they were in the right field bleachers yelling at him in the bullpen. This would mean that the game would have had to have been played at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia since Shea Stadium has no right field bleachers.