The Movie (season 4, episode 14)

written by Steve Skrovan & Bill Masters & Jon Hayman, directed by Tom Cherones
original airdate: January 6, 1993

Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer keep missing each other when they try to meet at the movies. Jerry’s delay is compounded by annoying comedian Pat Buckles.

FEATURED LOCATIONS

Jerry’s Apartment and Monk’s Café are not featured in this episode.

The Improv
Jerry’s timeslot gets bumped, and he then misses the slot altogether at 11:00, where he is replaced again by Pat Buckles. In a deleted scene, Buckles is later shown doing his terrible set about historical figures being stuck in traffic.

Loews Paragon Theater (now AMC Loews 84th Street 6)
2310 Broadway, New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 86th Street (1)
The gang goes to see the movie “Checkmate,” which is sold out, leading to a wild chain of events that ends up with the gang somehow back together to see the erotic “Rochelle, Rochelle.”

Catch A Rising Star (NOW CLOSED)
1487 First Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 77th Street (6)
Jerry misses his set slot due to his delayed taxi, and his slot is given to Pat Buckles. Catch A Rising Star moved from this location to 253 W. 28th St. in the late 1990s, as shown in “The Butter Shave.”

Paradise Twin Theater (NOW CLOSED)
64 E. 4th St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Second Avenue (F)
The gang originally goes here to see Checkmate, but all end up seeing Rochelle, Rochelle. Elaine complains about the Paradise being a miniplex, as its “like a room where they bring in POWs to show them propaganda films.”

Papaya King (actually Gray’s Papaya)
2090 Broadway, New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 72nd Street (1,2,3)
Kramer, in desperate hunger after waiting in line for the movie, gets a hot dog from here, and later spills mustard on Elaine’s jacket in the theatre.

W. 55th St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
Jerry pleads with the taxi driver to take the Park, but Buckles insists on the driver sticking to W. 55th St. to get to the theatre, which is packed with traffic.

Central Park W., New York, NEW YORK (map)
Jerry pleads with the taxi driver to take the Park, but Buckles insists on the driver sticking to W. 55th St. to get to the theatre, which is packed with traffic.

Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NEW YORK (map)
Where Buckles tells Jerry that his family moved from when he was 12.

Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, NEW YORK (map)
Where Buckles tells Jerry that his family moved to when he was 12: “the whole atmosphere stunk from fish.”

Milan, Lombardy, ITALY (map)
The gang all ends up (in very different ways) seeing the movie “Rochelle, Rochelle,” about a young girl’s strange erotic journey from Milan to Minsk (which, for the record, is a 1003 mile journey).

Minsk, BELARUS (map)
The gang all ends up (in very different ways) seeing the movie “Rochelle, Rochelle,” about a young girl’s strange erotic journey from Milan to Minsk (which, for the record, is a 1003 mile journey).

Red Sea, EGYPT (map)
In a deleted scene, Buckles does a set about historical figures being stuck in traffic, including Moses talking about being on his way to part the Red Sea to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.

Ford’s Theatre
511 10th St. NW, WASHINGTON, D.C. (map)
In a deleted scene, Buckles does a set about historical figures being stuck in traffic, including John Wilkes Booth, in a rush to make it to Ford’s Theatre to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.