10 Best Standalone Seinfeld Episodes
1. The Bubble Boy
The epitome of everything Seinfeld stands for (as a series, not the man), The Bubble Boy is an exercise in anything that could go wrong absolutely will in the most serendipitous of manners. Even with this knowledge, nothing can prepare you for the carnage that ensues!
Somehow developing from a fairly innocuous loves quarrel between Jerry and his girlfriend of the week, all the way to an inadvertent potential manslaughter charge courtesy of Costanza, this 21 minutes sets everything in its path ablaze and questions your immoral laughter as it does.
Just like the seemingly insignificant cigars that aren't being puffed, they're puffing and huffing a certain wooden house down.
The madness doesn't start there, as the titular Bubble Boy - who himself doesn't even appear until around halfway through the runtime - complements the subversiveness of the episode exponentially when we find he's not a bubbly boy. In fact, he's not a boy at all.
Just one of many great comedic setups offered on a platter here, with each being paid off in abundance.
Kramer's cigars, the "moops" and jokes that extend as far as the proceeding episode and even later seasons, all of these features certainly cement this as a must-see in the Seinfeld echelons.