S04E20 · SCENE 1/21 · 00:02
The Junior Mint · Comedy Club
Stand-up: Marriage Government

Jerry compares single life to dictatorship and marriage to bureaucracy.

00:02→00:51
in the episode · 0m 49s · S04E20

What happens

00:02–00:51

Jerry performs stand-up comedy, contrasting the absolute freedom of single life with the committee-based decision-making of marriage, and the impeachment of divorce.

WhereComedy Club
DriverJerry
Positioncold_open · setup
ThreadHandicap Parking Disaster

Key lines

from this scene
00:24

When I give the order to fall asleep on the sofa with the TV on no one can overrule me.

00:41

That's what so painful about divorce: You've been impeached. You weren't even the president.

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Scene DNA

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deadpan0.8
social rule violation0.3
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Beats

00:16Dictator vs committee analogy
00:41Divorce as impeachment joke

Scene in the episode

00:02–00:51
A · Handicap Parking Disaster
B · TV Gift & Breakup
C · Kramer's Wheelchair Romance
D · George's Butler Servitude

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