In the episode, Jerry and George both become mentors, Kramer asks for Frank's help cooking for a Jewish singles night, and Elaine promotes a fatigues-wearing J. Peterman employee because she is too intimidated to fire him.
Frank refuses, still haunted by memories cooking for the army during the Korean War, when he sickened troops by over-seasoning three-week-old meat in an attempt to make it palatable.
Their files get mixed, and Bania delivers Abby's summary of risk management (which earns good laughs) and George reads Jerry's routine on Ovaltine.
The filmed content ran long over the allotted 23 minutes, even by the standards of the typically packed Seinfeld episodes, and they said that the broadcast cut felt like a bare bones runthrough of the essential plot points.
[2] At least one piece of deleted content was cut for reasons other than length restrictions: Initially Frank's flashback scene included close-ups of the soldiers spewing vomit towards the viewer, with a plastic shield to prevent the camera lens from being dirtied.
The network ordered these shots removed, stating that they crossed the line of good taste, which director Andy Ackerman said in retrospect was the right decision.
[3] While most of the risk management book's quoted text was scripted by Kavet and Robin, actor Jason Alexander added on the line "And what makes it so risky?