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Kramer is arrested when he is mistaken for “The Smog Strangler,” a serial killer roaming the streets of Los Angeles. Jerry and George contact the police to vouch for their friend. Two policemen in a police cruiser come to pick them up and take them back to the station. On their way, the officers see a man trying to break into a car. They arrest him and put him in the back with Jerry and George.

Kramer is taken to the police station and is interrogated by the lieutenant. He has a nervous breakdown in the interrogation room and is reduced to hysterical sobbing, making it seem like he did the stranglings. While he is being questioned, the lieutenant receives a phone call stating that the Smog Strangler has killed another victim, and so Kramer is allowed to leave. After Kramer is exonerated, Jerry and George decide to return to New York, and Kramer eventually follows them.

42, Season 4 Hollywood, Smog Strangler

Jerry is offered two free tickets to Hollywood to appear on The Tonight Show. He offers one to George and they decide that while they are in Los Angeles they will track down Kramer, who is in LA to become an actor. A dead body turns up in another part of LA and Kramer’s script he had given to the woman is found on her person. George thinks end ups annoying guests on The Tonight Show.  Jerry can’t remember the wording for a joke and blames the hotel maid, Lupe, who threw it away while cleaning the room. As Jerry and George leave the Tonight Show, they see Kramer’s picture on the news. He is the main suspect for the “Smog Strangler”.

41, Season 4 Hollywood, Lupe, Smog Strangler, The Tonight Show

Jerry, Elaine and George volunteer to help the elderly. Jerry gets assigned to a nasty old man with a foreign housekeeper that he claims is trying to steal his possessions. Elaine is repulsed by the goiter problems of the woman she is visiting and George depresses his assigned senior citizen by questioning his outlook on dying. Kramer and Newman try the business of selling some of Jerry’s old records to a used record store but are not satisfied with the results. Meanwhile, Elaine discovers that her old woman had an affair with Gandhi, and one of the stories she tells directly mirrors what George had said to the housekeeper about him ‘dipping his head in oil and rubbing it all over your body’.

58, Season 4 Elderly, Goiter problems, Jerry' Records

Jerry dumps his girlfriend Sidra after Elaine says her figure is the result of breast implants. Kramer claims to have seen Salman Rushdie at the health club. By accident, Elaine later discovers the breasts are real when she trips and grabs them for balance. George accompanies his current girlfriend to Detroit for her aunt’s wake. While there, he tries to get a copy of her death certificate so he can get a 50% discount on the airfare. He argues at the funeral reception with his girlfriend’s brother Timmy when accused of double-dipping a chip.

59, Season 4 Death certificate, Double-dipping, Teri Hatcher

Jerry, George, George’s girlfriend Susan, and Elaine plan to travel to Susan’s family’s lakeside cabin. Before then, Jerry and Elaine meet a kindly trucker who describes the sad life of his son Donald, who lives in a plastic “bubble”. As Donald is a fan of Jerry’s, Jerry is forced by Elaine to visit Donald on the way to the cabin to cheer him up. However, Jerry gets lost and George and Susan arrive before him. While waiting for Jerry to arrive, they play Trivial Pursuit with the “bubble boy,” who is in fact actually an adult, and not a mere boy. The Trivial Pursuit game ends prematurely when George disputes the answer to the question “Who invaded Spain in the 8th century?” The boy answers with “the Moors”, but the question card says “the Moops” due to a misprint, and George refuses to give Donald credit. Donald attacks George and the “bubble” is punctured and depressurized in the struggle.

47, Season 4 moops, Susan's cabin, Trivial Pursuit

Kramer suffers side effects from his head injury because “Crazy” Joe Davola kicked him in the head. NBC gives Jerry and George another meeting and on the way, Jerry throws out a watch his parents gave him. He then meets his Uncle Leo, who picks the watch out of the garbage. Kramer agrees to be an alibi for Newman’s trial on a speeding ticket. George and Jerry meet with NBC executives and they give the go ahead for a pilot. Later they hide in the coffee shop, afraid of an attack from “Crazy” Joe Davola. Elaine’s shrink realizes that he didn’t leave an extra prescription for Joe Davola, for the time while he’s on vacation.

44, Season 4 Kramer's head injury, Speeding ticket

NBC executives ask Jerry to come up with an idea for a TV series. George decides he can be a sitcom writer and comes up with “nothing.” Kramer trades a radar detector for a helmet, and later Newman receives a speeding ticket. While waiting to meet the NBC executives, George and Jerry meet “Crazy” Joe Davola, a writer and “a total nut” who goes to the same therapist as Elaine. Jerry, searching for conversation, mentions Kramer’s party, to which Joe was not invited. While discussing the disaster of the meeting with NBC, George focuses on starting a relationship with the female executive, Susan Ross. Kramer drinks spoiled milk and vomits on her. The helmet saves Kramer from an attack by “Crazy” Joe Davola. This attack leaves him suffering of hemispatial neglect (forgets to dress half of his body properly, forgets to shave half his face, etc). While all this is occurring, Elaine is in Europe with her therapist.

43, Season 4 George meets susan, Hemispatial neglect, NBC sitcom pitch

George meets a female Chinese lawyer who thinks he is very funny, so he tells Jerry not to be funny around her. Jerry adopts a dark and disturbed persona which ends up attracting the woman too. The lawyer ends up being the cousin of Ping, the Chinese food delivery boy whom Elaine had encountered in “The Virgin”. Kramer returns early from baseball fantasy camp, where he accidentally punched Mickey Mantle. A mix-up with Jerry’s mail, which Elaine was supposed to pick up, causes Babu Bhatt to be arrested for not renewing his visa. Jerry tries to get the lawyer to help Babu, but George’s honesty, when his relationship is threatened, causes Babu to be deported to Pakistan and Elaine to still be sued by the delivery boy, Ping, whom she had previously hit. Babu Bhatt wants revenge on Jerry whom he calls a “very bad man.”

55, Season 4 Babu Bhatt, Chinese lawyer, Mickey Mantle, Ping

Jerry schedules two stand-up acts in the same night and afterwards goes to the movie theater to meet everyone. George gets in the wrong line for tickets. George, Elaine, and Kramer decide to go to another theater to see the movie Checkmate. Kramer waits outside for Jerry but also wants a Papaya King hot dog. Jerry misses his first show, then goes to movie theater to tell everyone he won’t make the movie, but no one is there. Through a comedy of errors, everyone (but Kramer) misses the movie they were originally going to see.

54, Season 4 Checkmate, Movie theater, Papaya King

While at Monk’s Cafe, Elaine notices two women in a nearby booth eavesdropping, and as a prank speaks to Jerry and George as if they were a closeted gay couple. The eavesdropping woman turns out to be Sharon, a New York University reporter who is planning on interviewing Jerry.  Eventually, they recognize her from the coffee shop, and strenuously deny that they are gay, conditioning their denials with “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”

57, Season 4 "Not that there's anything wrong with that"