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“The Subway”
Seinfeld episode
The friends all depart on different routes.
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 30
Written by	Larry Charles
Directed by	Tom Cherones
Original airdate	January 8, 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
List of Seinfeld episodes

"The Subway" is the thirtieth episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the 13th episode for the show's third season. It aired on January 8, 1992.

The episode was written by Larry Charles and was directed by Tom Cherones.

Each of the four principal characters has a unique experience during a subway ride. Jerry befriends an overweight nudist on his ride to Coney Island. George meets an enchanting woman who ends up conning him, missing his job interview in the process. Kramer gets a horse racing tip and wins big, helping to pay for his car fines (including "no door"), but is menaced by another bidder. Elaine misses a lesbian wedding she was to attend due to train delays, which make her very nervous along with her apparent claustrophobia.

• Julia Louis-Dreyfus was visibly pregnant towards the end of the third season's production, and the show went out of its way to conceal her gradually increasing midsection. Throughout this episode, for instance, Elaine is seen carrying a large wedding present in front of her stomach, thus concealing her pregnancy. When Julia went on maternity leave at the beginning of Season 4, Elaine's two-episode absence was explained through the other characters mentioning that she was vacationing in Europe.
• The same subway car set was recycled for all the subway scenes in this episode. The crew merely redecorated it with different posters to differentiate the scenes that featured the set. To create the illusion of a rocking subway ride, several stagehands stood on either side of the car's outside walls and rocked it back and forth slightly with 2x4s. The set was on loan to NBC from another studio, and on the set's return to its original soundstage, the truck carrying it accidentally destroyed it while traveling under an overpass that wasn't quite high enough.
• The horse that Kramer bets on, Papanick, was named after the show's key grip, Pete Papanickolas.