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“The Red Dot”
Seinfeld episode
Elaine tries on the sweater with the red dot.
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 29
Written by	Larry David
Directed by	Tom Cherones
Original airdate	December 11, 1991
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
List of Seinfeld episodes

"The Red Dot" is the twenty-ninth episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the twelfth episode for the show's third season. It aired on December 11, 1991.

Elaine gets George a job at a publishing company; to repay her, he buys her an ostensibly expensive cashmere sweater that has a minor flaw (the flaw is visible to the characters but not to the camera) where Elaine spots it and becomes furious at George. Elaine immediately returns the cashmere sweater to George. Jerry inadvertently reintroduces Elaine's boyfriend, Dick, a recovering alcoholic, to liquor. This causes Dick to return to his alcoholism thus losing his job at the same publishing company where George and Elaine work. Later, a drunk Dick heckles Jerry during one of his stand up comedy acts. While George was working at his new job, he becomes sexually attracted to a cleaning lady (George later explains to Jerry that he is fond of cleaning women) and has sex with her after they both drink Scotch. The next day, the cleaning lady gets upset of what happened the previous night and threatens to report what happened to the boss of the company. George tries to compensate with her by offering the flawed cashmere sweater. The cleaning lady is extremely overjoyed by the gift but unfortunately for George, she identifies the red spot and thus George gets fired. As George was packing his things from the office, he is met by Elaine and Jerry. After they get into an argument, they suddenly hear Dick rampaging through the office hallway, drunk, coming to gain his revenge on Jerry for losing his job. The threesome quickly hide under George's desk and wait as the drunkard approaches them. Just then, George offers the cashmere sweater to Dick, this manages to calm down Dick's rage until he sees the spot. The episode ends when the viewers see Jerry doing his usual last part of his stand up comedy act before the end of the episode. Dick is among the audience, happy, sober, and with a non-alcoholic drink in his hand. Jerry and Dick are seen getting along, apparently putting their feud behind them (although the episode does not explain how this happened).

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• The concluding stand up comedy act in this episode actually merges with the plot. According to the Red Dot "Inside Look" on the Season 3 DVD, Glenn Padnick, a Castle Rock Executive, requested that Dick gain control over his alcoholism by the end of the episode. This was accomplished by placing a sober Dick amongst the audience in Jerry's last stand up comedy act of the episode. This would happen a couple more times on the series but only as short bits.
• Jason Alexander considers the scene in which George reacts to getting caught having sex with the cleaning woman in his office, the defining moment for the George character.
• George refers to Art Vandelay when trying to come up with an author he reads, the same Art Vandelay who George and Jerry were meeting in "The Stakeout".

Jerry to Kramer: "Would you do me a favor?"
Kramer: "Okay"
Jerry: "Would you take a drink and let us [he and Elaine] smell you?"
Kramer: "You can smell me without the drink."

Kramer doing Hennigan's Scotch ad ideas: "Say you got a big job interview, and you're a little nervous. Well, throw back a couple of shots of Hennigan's and you'll be as loose as a goose and ready to roll in no time. And because it's odorless, why, it'll be our little secret. [winks] In style of Irish jig music: "H-E-double N-I..."