8.1/103,505 votes#1 - The Foundation
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1996
Susan's parents act to preserve her memory; Kramer gives Elaine a confidence boost after Peterman puts her in charge.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer
7.9/103,414 votes#2 - The Soul Mate
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1996
Kramer falls for the woman Jerry's seeing; George suspects he's suspected of foul play.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Peter Mehlman
9.0/105,002 votes#3 - The Bizarro Jerry
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1996
Elaine hangs out with men who are opposites of Jerry, George and Kramer; Kramer stumbles into a white-collar job; Jerry finds a flaw in Elaine's beautiful friend.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: David Mandel
8.9/104,546 votes#4 - The Little Kicks
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1996
Elaine's staff loses respect for her after seeing her dance; George benefits socially when Elaine labels him a "bad seed"; Kramer's friend forces Jerry into crime.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Spike Feresten
8.6/103,773 votes#5 - The Package
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1996
Elaine regrets peeking at her medical chart; George takes dating advice from Kramer, who also hatches a scheme to improve Jerry's stereo.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
8.0/103,483 votes#6 - The Fatigues
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1996
An employee's military bent scares Elaine; Kramer cooks for a Jewish singles night; Jerry finds fault with his girlfriend's mentor.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Andy Robin, Gregg Kavet
8.0/103,442 votes#7 - The Checks
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1996
Jerry's popularity in Japan brings new friends to Kramer, and maybe new life to Jerry's TV pilot; Elaine's new beau won't share "his song" with her.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Steve O'Donnell
8.9/104,646 votes#8 - The Chicken Roaster
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1996
George loses an expensive hat Elaine charged to her business account; a neon sign prompts Kramer and Jerry to swap apartments.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer
9.0/104,526 votes#9 - The Abstinence
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1996
George's intellect thrives when thoughts of sex are shut out; Elaine wants her intern to become a doctor--stat; Jerry is bumped from a school's Career Day.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: David Mandel, Steve Koren
8.4/103,496 votes#10 - The Andrea Doria
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 12/19/1996
Jerry tries to help Newman get transferred; George trades tales with a shipwreck survivor to obtain a dream apartment; Kramer coughs like a dog; a minor insult has a major effect on Elaine.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Spike Feresten
8.3/103,632 votes#11 - The Little Jerry
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 1/9/1997
George finds a new romance--in a women's prison; Kramer buys a chicken, then puts his fowl to foul use; Elaine encourages her shaved-headed beau to grow back his hair.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.7/103,282 votes#12 - The Money
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 1/16/1997
Kramer's girlfriend disrupts his sleep; Jerry's parents think he needs financial aid; George ponders an inheritance.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Peter Mehlman
8.5/103,806 votes#13 - The Comeback
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/1997
Kramer arranges to die with dignity; Jerry learns his tennis consultant is a lousy player; George becomes obsessed with responding to an insult long after the fact; Elaine offends her video advisor.
Director: David Owen Trainor
Writer: Andy Robin, Gregg Kavet
7.9/103,395 votes#14 - The Van Buren Boys
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1997
Gang members protest George's handling of a scholarship named for Susan; some find Jerry's new girlfriend objectionable; Peterman wants Kramer's life experiences for his own autobiography, written by Elaine.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Darin Henry
8.6/103,764 votes#15 - The Susie
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1997
Kramer becomes the spokesman for a woman George wants to avoid; Jerry's bookie welches; a co-worker mistakes Elaine for someone else, who's reported as a problem worker.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: David Mandel
8.6/103,723 votes#16 - The Pothole
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1997
Jerry has an accident with his girlfriend's toothbrush; Elaine crams herself into a restaurant's delivery boundary; Kramer alters his "adopted" highway.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Steve O'Donnell, Dan O'Keefe
8.5/103,775 votes#17 - The English Patient
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 3/13/1997
Elaine's review of a film loses her friends; a woman mistakes George for her boyfriend; Jerry visits his parents in Florida.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Steve Koren
8.7/103,951 votes#18 - The Nap
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 4/10/1997
George crafts a place to nap at work; a new beau gives Elaine a mattress, which Kramer promptly soils; Jerry's kitchen is redesigned against his will.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Andy Robin, Gregg Kavet
9.0/104,864 votes#19 - The Yada Yada
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 4/24/1997
George adopts his girlfriend's verbal shorthand; Jerry suspects a comic motive behind his dentist's conversion to Judaism; double-daters Kramer and Mickey don't know whose date is whose.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Peter Mehlman, Jill Franklyn
8.0/103,408 votes#20 - The Millennium
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/1997
The Mets express interest in George; an inattentive saleswoman irks Elaine; Kramer prepares for his millennium party; Jerry jockeys for position on his girlfriend's speed dial.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
8.4/103,660 votes#21 - The Muffin Tops
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/1997
George pretends he's a tourist to bond with a tourism worker; Elaine's former boss steals her million-dollar idea, while Kramer promotes a bus tour about the life of Elaine's current boss; Jerry shaves his chest hair.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Spike Feresten
8.5/103,708 votes#22 - The Summer of George
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/1997
Kramer's job at the Tony Awards leads to a meeting with Raquel Welch; George helps Jerry date a high-maintenance woman; Elaine is labeled catty after making a comment about a co-worker.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer
The Best Episodes of Seinfeld Season 8
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Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Season 8 Ratings Summary
"The Foundation" is the best rated episode of "Seinfeld" season 8. It scored 8.1/10 based on 3505 votes. Directed by Andy Ackerman and written by Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, it aired on 9/19/1996. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Soul Mate".