S06E24 · SCENE 3/25 · 02:18
The Understudy · Monk's Cafe
Elaine Late to Nail Salon

Elaine arrives late at the nail salon after being thrown off a bus and suspects the manicurists are mocking her.

02:18→02:43
in the episode · 0m 25s · S06E24
Elaine Late to Nail Salon

What happens

02:18–02:43

Elaine arrives late at the nail salon after being thrown off a bus. She observes the manicurists laughing and using a word she heard applied to a dog. She suspects they're calling her a dog. Sunny tells a knock-knock joke.

WhereMonk's Cafe
DriverElaine
Positionact1 · setup
ThreadBette Midler injury

Key lines

from this scene
02:25

So they threw me off the bus.

02:31

Well, how long is that gonna take? I have, like, a million things to do.

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01:48Kramer calls understudies shifty

Scene in the episode

02:18–02:43
A · Bette Midler injury
B · Korean nail salon
C · Frank Costanza romance
D · Elaine meets Peterman

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