[2] In this episode, Jerry learns his girlfriend is a nudist, George tries to get an apology out of his old friend Jason Hanky (played by James Spader) through Hanky's participation in Alcoholics Anonymous's twelve-step program, and Kramer gives up on keeping his showers short, opting to instead spend all day in the shower.
While initially amused by Melissa's quirk, he finds that certain commonplace actions, such as coughing and squatting, make her nudity repulsive.
George gets angry when Jason moves on to Step 10 without apologizing for embarrassing him at a party a few years earlier.
George asked to borrow his sweater, and Jason refused, saying the neck would be stretched out, which made everyone else laugh.
Jason goes to the anger management class after snapping at George and some teenagers at his job at an ice cream shop.
He buys a waterproof phone, and installs a garbage disposal in his bathtub drain so that he can prepare meals in the shower.
Club praised David Puddy's scenes, as well as Kramer's live-in shower and how it ultimately ties in to the Elaine story.
[4] Social science writer Eric Horowitz cited the situation between George and Jason as "a fairly accurate representation" of how a person's desire for an apology stems from feeling angry and wanting assurance the transgression won't happen again, and of how perpetrators want to make an apology when they regret the action.