The Little Kicks (season 8, episode 4)

written by Spike Feresten, directed by Andy Ackerman
original airdate: October 10, 1996

Elaine horrifies her co-workers by dancing at an office party. George acts like a bad seed to impress Elaine’s secretary. Kramer’s friend, Brody, a movie bootlegger, hands Jerry the camera during a film and Jerry finds himself enjoying his new role as a “filmmaker.”

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The Improv is not featured in this episode.

Jerry’s Apartment
Jerry scores sneak preview tickets for a movie, but Kramer invites his friend who forces them to bootleg the movie. He is enthralled with Jerry’s technique, and hires him full-time to bootleg. George reveals he saw Elaine dance, and Elaine videotapes herself “dancing” after Kramer tells her she stinks.

Monk’s Café
George invites himself to Elaine’s Peterman party, and later discovers he’s been labeled a “bad seed” by Elaine to her coworker Anna. Jerry, on George’s new “bad” title: “You’ve been the bad employee, the bad son, the bad friend, the bad finace, the bad dinner guest, the bad credit risk, the bad date, the bad sport, the bad citizen…the bad tipper!”

Greenwich Village, New York, NEW YORK (map)
Kramer mentions living here in 1979, referencing his roommate John Grossbard first mentioned in “The Airport.”

Puck Building
295 Lafayette St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Broadway-Lafayette Street (B,D,F,M)
Elaine unleashes her “little kicks” on the J. Peterman holiday party, “like a full-bodied dry heave set to music.” George meets Elaine’s co-worker Anna, who only becomes interested in him when she discovers George may be a “bad seed.”

J. Peterman
Elaine’s staff begin imitating her, forcing her to place the blame on George, and inadvertently setting up George with one of her coworkers.

Guild 50th Street Theatre (NOW CLOSED)
33 W. 50th St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 5th Avenue – 53rd Street (E,M)
Jerry, Kramer and his friend Brody go to see a sneak preview of “Death Blow,” and Jerry is threatened with a gun and catapulted into the world of illegal movie bootlegging. Jerry later demands too much from Brody, taking him “off the project!” in filming “Cry, Cry Again.” The theatre is now a Nautica store, but the marquee still exists outside the store.

W. 94th St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
Kramer mentions how he met Brody the bootlegger through his friend Corky Ramirez, when playing Pachinko on 94th St.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
George (and his father’s 1968 Pontiac GTO) meet Anna in the park, until Elaine whisks her away in cab, telling George to stay away.

HAWAII (map)
Kramer believes the final death blow from the movie “Death Blow” went to “that Hawaiian guy…yeah, he had it coming…”

Yankee Stadium
Anna, late for work, says she got held up…and Elaine assumes it was at Yankee Stadium, with George.

Art Greenwich Twin (NOW CLOSED)
97 Greenwich St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Rector Street (1)
Jerry commissions Kramer to bootleg “Cry, Cry Again,” but he is forced to reshoot it when Kramer butchers the bootleg.

W. 96th St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
Jerry tells Kramer he wants to continue bootlegging for the kids, as he saw a kid on 96th St. asking for a bootleg like “Death Blow”: “That’s who I care about. The little kid who needs bootlegs, because his parent or guardian won’t let him see the excessive violence, and strong sexual content you and I take for granted!”

Beekman Theatre (NOW CLOSED)
1254 Second Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 68th Street – Hunter College (6)
George gets arrested for bootlegging, as Kramer tells Jerry: “He went down at the Beekman…he tried to lam, but they cheesed him!”

Eiffel Tower
5 ave. Anatole France, Paris, FRANCE (map)
The tower is clearly seen in Jerry’s bootlegged copy of “Cry, Cry Again”…before Elaine’s little kicks cut off the film.

New York Police Department – 10th Precinct
230 W. 20th St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 18th Street (1)
Elaine goes to pick up Anna, and an infuriated Frank comes to bail out George, before Frank and Elaine come to blows in the famous “you want a piece of me?” speech.