The Puerto Rican Day

It was a rare late-series return to a "plot about nothing" style and filmed in real-time, a format more often seen in early seasons.

The episode follows the cast's misadventures as they try to escape from the traffic surrounding the Puerto Rican Day Parade.

Because of controversy surrounding a scene in which Cosmo Kramer accidentally burns and then stomps on the Puerto Rican flag, NBC apologized and had it banned from airing on the network again.

Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer head back to Manhattan after leaving a Mets game early, but have an altercation with a driver in a maroon Volkswagen Golf.

They head towards a one-way side street, but are blocked by the maroon Golf, whose driver refuses to let them cross over.

George leaves the car to see the movie Blimp in a nearby theater and repeat his funny comment for a new audience.

George can't see the man holding the laser and worries he will go blind if it touches his eye.

Elaine tries to get past traffic by walking underneath the viewing stands, leading a group of similarly distressed people trying to find their way out to a dead end.

Back outside, Kramer accidentally sets the Puerto Rican flag on fire with a sparkler, prompting Bob and Cedric and a mob of people to attack him.

[4] Sequences which were in the script but either not filmed or deleted before broadcast include Lamar explaining his anger at Jerry (their altercation caused the pasta Lamar was eating to slip off his lap onto his car's floor) and the crowd on the viewing stands stomping to "Rico Suave", causing food to spill onto Elaine and her companions.

Jerry Seinfeld recalled that when he asked a protest leader how he could know there was anything objectionable in the episode without having seen it, he replied, "We assume that it's offensive.

[3] The episode was added to the syndication package with the flag-burning scene unedited in August 2002, as Sony Pictures Television, which distributes the series, said that enough time had passed since the initial furor to merit its inclusion.

[8] The episode was declared Seinfeld’s worst by Vulture, with criticism aimed at both its racial insensitivity and perceived lack of humor.