The Best Episodes Written By Peter Mehlman

The conclusion of a two-part collection of highlights from the first 100 shows includes the characters' concern about their self-images. Also: the evolution of "the contest"; how "marine biologist" George saved a beached whale.

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.

Elaine fails a drug test--twice--and loses her job; Jerry talks about his Uncle Leo on "The Tonight Show."

Jerry and Elaine see opportunities for themselves when George causes a couple to separate; Kramer can't remove his new jeans.

Jerry adopts Elaine's opinion about a woman he's seeing; then Elaine changes her mind.

Flashbacks trace the evolution of Jerry, George and Elaine's disastrous trip to a wedding in India, and Kramer's desperate need to barter for a birthday wish.

In the Hamptons, George's date sunbathes topless; Kramer steals lobsters; and a handsome doctor compliments Elaine, or does he?

George fails to keep a secret about a friend; Kramer fingers Newman as a scofflaw.

Jerry's girlfriend poses as his wife to get in on his dry-cleaning discount.

Jerry makes a blind date; Kramer makes a change to increase his sperm count.

Elaine holds a monopoly on the contraceptive devices that Susan prefers; Kramer refuses to wear a ribbon on his AIDS walk.

Elaine's area code is changed; a co-worker steals George's desired nickname; Jerry sleeps with his maid; Kramer endures a "long-distance relationship" when his girlfriend moves downtown.

A lawyer George dates could help Jerry's pal, who's facing deportation, thanks, in part, to Kramer's trip to Florida.

An odor in Jerry's car seeps into the love life of Elaine.

Kramer falls for the woman Jerry's seeing; George suspects he's suspected of foul play.

Kramer's girlfriend disrupts his sleep; Jerry's parents think he needs financial aid; George ponders an inheritance.

Jerry's masseuse-girlfriend doesn't like George; Elaine's boyfriend shares a moniker with a mass murderer.

Kramer tries mousse in his hair. Jerry gets Elaine an opportunity to get the apartment right above him, before he realizes the possible implications. George tests the "man with a wedding band" theory of meeting women.

Kramer is the catalyst for George to urge his otherwise wonderful girlfriend to get a nose job, while Jerry dates a beauty whose brain is a beaut.

Jerry witnesses an accident--and is attracted to the victim and the perpetrator.

Jerry courts a woman with a tame past; George makes a bad move at a meeting; a man disagrees with Elaine.

The first of a two-part collection of highlights from the first 100 shows includes the characters' ambitions and outside relationships; and George explaining the "show about nothing."