S04E11 · SCENE 1/20 · 00:02
The Contest · Comedy Club
Stand-up: Parents & Adoption
Jerry jokes about not wanting to visualize parents having sex and the relief of being adopted.
00:02→00:43
in the episode · 0m 41s · S04E11
What happens
00:02–00:43Jerry performs stand-up comedy, musing on the discomfort of imagining one's parents having sex and the hypothetical relief of discovering one was adopted, implying parents might just be good friends.
Key lines
from this scene00:12JERRY: But you still kind of maintain the image in your head: "Well, I don't know. I'm not positive. I can't prove it.
00:32JERRY: Sex is great, but you don't wanna think your whole life began because somebody had a little too much wine with dinner.
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weights 0–1monologue
Beats
00:23Adoption joke lands
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