10 Things You Only Notice Rewatching Seinfeld
10. There's A Copy Of Pretty Woman And Child's Play 2 On Jerry's Shelf
On the surface, this seems like an extremely extraneous detail to pinpoint as something remarkable, let alone interesting, but if you yourself are a connoisseur of '90s film and TV, then you'll notice straight away that this is either a brilliant meta joke or simply a foolish mistake.
The reason for this is that George Costanza, who is portrayed by Jason Alexander within the Seinfeld series, also plays the snarky, repugnant Phillip Stuckey, Richard Gere's righthand man who attempts intimacy with Julia Roberts' Vivian Ward in a less than romantic way in Pretty Woman. Similarly, in regards to the other film that released in 1990, which is perched on Jerry's shelf for the majority of the show's run, another actor was cast into a role that questions the existence of the two films.
Ironically, the latter refers to George's betrothed fiancé, Susan, or at least a close relative of hers within the fictional universe of Seinfeld. Her mother, played by Grace Zabriskie, who despite playing a nuisance of a parent on Seinfeld, was actually a more caring, stand-in surrogate mother to Andy Barclay in the second Child's Play film.