Meanwhile, a chance encounter with David Puddy leads to Elaine renewing their relationship, George sticks with a job where his co-workers all hate him because he has a one-year contract with the company, and Kramer hires an intern and works with him on creating an oil bladder system.
However, after Puddy comments on how much he prefers their casual sex arrangement to dating her, Elaine officially renews their relationship to spite him.
Finally Elaine tells Puddy that she's realized they are meant to be together and should stop the on-off pattern of their relationship, but he wants to break up.
He gets an intern named Darin from New York University to assist him with his corporation, "Kramerica Industries," leaving him free to develop ideas such as a rubber bladder to prevent oil tanker spills.
As Kramer and Darin push the ball of oil out a window, Jerry notices Claire waiting for him just below.
Claire files a lawsuit which drives Play Now into bankruptcy, leaving George unemployed and without severance pay.
[3][5] After the writing staff incorporated it into an episode, Jerry Seinfeld decided to change it to her belly button talking to him, so that it wouldn't appear to be a cheap joke.
[3] Feresten told his girlfriend about the voice and that they were making an entire Seinfeld episode around it, and she became offended and walked out on him.
When told about this, Seinfeld said they should use it as a scene in the episode and encouraged Feresten to talk to his girlfriend again and write down what happened.
The writer already on staff refused to quit and continued to show up to work despite the antagonism of his bosses, since his contract required that he be paid for a year.