Jerry thinks he has too high standards towards his girlfriend, which causes George to return to his ex, Susan, and propose her. However, Jerry breaks up with his girlfriend, so George starts having second thoughts... Elaine cannot sleep from a dog barking, so she has Kramer and Newman kidnap it... An African who overslept the Olympics stays at Elaine for a New York marathon, but Jerry wants to make sure he wakes up on time and doesn’t trust Elaine’s alarm clock... George doesn’t want to share his credit card password with Susan... Jerry gets the phone number of a woman he liked from an AIDS walk list... George is angry that a friend wanted to hook him up with Marisa Tomei, but he is already engaged... George becomes his boss’ favorite employee when he keeps buying him Calzone, but then George is banned from buying in the Italian restaurant... While licking the adhesive for their wedding invitations, Susan is accidentally poisoned, and thus George’s wedding is canceled.
Season 7 of "Seinfeld" is a bit weaker than seasons 4 & 5, since a certain sense of mechanical routine entered these stories, yet it still has more than enough fresh humor and 'sleaze charm' to entertain better than some modern comedy shows. Some moments still have that typical sharp observations about life, such as in the episode “The Wink” where Jerry asks Elaine what percentage of the people is attractive and suitable to date, and her estimate is “25%”, but Jerry doesn’t agree: “No way, it’s more like 4 to 6%! It's a 20 to one shot!” The dinner with the Ross family also has some fine lines, such as the wife commenting on her husband, the writer: “If I had a dime for each time he wrote a book, I would be broke.” In the episode "The Shower Head", Seinfeld has a sense for dark humor while talking to his Uncle Leo: “Look at you, you're disgusting. You're bald, you're paunchy, all kinds of sounds are emanating from your body twenty-four hours a day. If there's a woman that can take your presence for more than ten consecutive seconds, you should hang on to her like grim death. Which is not far off, by the way!" - "But she's an anti-Semite!" - "Can you blame her?!”
Other episodes also have funny moments: in one, George plans to name his future kid Seven. George’s dad finally buys himself a pool table in the house, but when playing with Kramer, they realize the room is too small for them to swing or manoeuvre cue sticks, as they always hit them on the wall. Julia Louis-Dreyfus has consistently been better and better with each season as Elaine, and reached a zenith here, since she is in best comedy shape and manages to outshine almost anyone of the regular cast. Some of her facial expressions and sassy behavior really is brilliant. On the other hand, numerous episodes feel underwhelming. "The Soup Nazi" episode has gained such a high reputation and was referenced from "Scrubs" to "The Thundermans" that when watched it feels below all this hype. It is good and mildly amusing, yet much more could have been made out of the concept of an ultra-strict cook who punishes any client's untypical behavior vaguely interpreted as inobedient by banning him or her ("No soup for you!"), though Elaine is perfect when she "breaks" him in the final scene. Several epsiodes are only mildly amusing in this season. One wonders why "The Bottle Deposit" episode had to be a two-part episode when it is mediocre and leads into nothing. And the ultimate fate of Susan, George's fiancee, in the final episode is misguided and unworthy for her. It is more cringe than funny, and is the rare time when George isn't sympathetic anymore, but despicable. Seinfeld was feeling exhausted by coming up with new episodes by that time, yet the viewers can still find many situations from everyday life they can identifiy with.
Grade:++
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