The Deal (Seinfeld) The Deal (Seinfeld) "The Deal" is the ninth episode of the second season of NBC's "Seinfeld", and the show's 14th episode overall. The episode centers on protagonists Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) who decide to have a sexual relationship, with a set of ground rules. However, as their "relationship" progresses, they experience difficulties maintaining their original friendship. Series co-creator Larry David wrote the episode in a response to NBC's continued efforts to get the two characters back together. The main inspiration behind the episode was a similar agreement David once made with a woman. The episode, which
Jerry Seinfeld the 40th anniversary special of "Saturday Night Live". In January 2017, Seinfeld signed a comedy deal with Netflix. As part of the deal, all episodes of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" would be made available on the streaming service, in addition to a new twenty-four episode season. The deal also included two new Seinfeld stand-up specials and the development of scripted and non-scripted comedy programming for Netflix. On September 19, 2017, Netflix released the standup comedy special "Jerry Before Seinfeld". Seinfeld wrote the book "Seinlanguage", released in 1993. Written as his television show was first rising in popularity, it is