The Pledge Drive (season 6, episode 3)

written by Tom Gammill & Max Pross, directed by Andy Ackerman
original airdate: October 6, 1994

Elaine’s friend’s high-talking boyfriend confuses everyone over the phone. Elaine witnesses Mr. Pitt eating a Snickers bar with a knife and fork and the trend catches on. George thinks everyone’s giving him the finger. Jerry hosts a PBS pledge drive.

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The Improv

Jerry’s Apartment
Kramer convinces Jerry to cash his Nana’s checks, leading to catastrophe when her account is overdrawn and she disappears. Elaine gets confused between speaking with Noreen and Dan (the high talker), eventually losing track and inadvertently telling Nana to drop dead.

Monk’s Café
Elaine mentions to the gang how Mr. Pitt eats his candy with cutlery, noticing a new trend around the coffee shop. Jerry asks a favor of George, to bring a Yankee player to the pledge drive.

Noreen & Dan’s apartment
New York, NEW YORK
Elaine constantly calls Noreen, spilling the beans about her life and relationship before realizing she is talking to Dan, the “high talker.”

Mr. Pitt’s
640 West End Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 96th Street (1,2,3)
Mr. Pitt introduces Elaine to eating a Snickers bar with a knife and fork, “the way these society types eat their candy bars.”

Yankee Stadium
George tries to pitch to Mr. Morgan on having a Yankee at the PBS pledge drive Jerry and Kramer are volunteering at.

WPIX Channel 11
220 E. 42nd St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Grand Central – 42nd Street (4,5,6,7)
Mr. Morgan claims he doesn’t want the Yankees to participate in the PBS drive, since the Yankees already do so much promotion for Channel 11. George’s response: “Forgive me for trying to class up this place – trying to have the Yankees reach another strata of society that might not watch ‘Channel 11.'”

Nana’s apartment
55 Leroy St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Houston Street (1)
Jerry’s Nana discovers that her Chemical account is overdrawn…and wakes up at 5:30 to go visit the bank. Uncle Leo later calls when discovering she is missing for a doctor’s apartment, where he claims that Nana hasn’t left her apartment in 25 years. Thanks Erkan B. for the tip!

Chemical Bank (now Chase Bank)
1251 Sixth Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 47-50th Streets – Rockefeller Center (B,D,F,M)
Nana gets lost trying to find an old branch of her bank, which burned down (“It burned! It’s gone!”), but gets directed to the Main Customer Service Branch on 49th St. by a friendly thug (“ask for Mr. Fleming…he’ll help you”) – this is the closest location to 49th St.

WNET Channel 13 (NOW CLOSED)
237 W. 58th St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 59th Street – Columbus Circle (A,B,C,D,1)
Jerry co-hosts a PBS pledge drive, while Kramer takes phone calls (in exchange for a free tote bag), and Nana makes a pledge, forcing Leo to interrupt the broadcast screaming “STOP THE SHOW!” “Notes About Nothing” on the Season 6 DVD lists WNET Public TV’s offices at 450 W. 33rd St, which was their address from 1998-2011, and they are now located at 825 Eighth Ave.

San Francisco, CALIFORNIA (map)
Kramer tries to sell Dan on “Amistead Maupin’s Tales Of The City,” a PBS miniseries based on “gender-bending and swinging San Francisco.”

Stonewall Inn
53 Christopher St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Christopher Street – Sheridan Square (1)
A very misinformed Kramer also tries to sell Dan on watching “Before Stonewall,” a PBS documentary “about those dark ages when you couldn’t come out of the closet, lest you be persecuted, because of your…you know.”

gas station
NEW YORK
George follows the middle finger driver to a gas station, where he discovers the man is in a cast with only his middle finger stuck up. George mentions to the driver that he followed him for about an hour out of Manhattan.