The Barber (Seinfeld) forcibly shaves his entire head. Throughout this episode, the familiar "Seinfeld" slap-bass incidental music is replaced with selections from Gioachino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" overture. The Barber (Seinfeld) "The Barber" is the 72nd episode of the NBC sitcom "Seinfeld". It is the eighth episode of the fifth season, and first aired on November 11, 1993. At a job interview, George's interviewer, Mr. Tuttle, is cut off mid-sentence by an important telephone call, and sends George away without saying whether he has been hired or not. Mr. Tuttle told George that one of the things that make George such an
The Barber of Seville (1944 film) is lifted from Woody's first starring appearance in the 1941 cartoon "Woody Woodpecker", in which Woody was voiced by Mel Blanc. Ben Hardaway, also the co-storyman on "Barber of Seville", provides Woody's voice for the first time (replacing Kent Rogers, who was killed in a World War II plane crash three months after this short's release), and Lee Sweetland performs as Woody's singing voice. Hardaway would become Woody's sole speaking voice for the remainder of the decade. Finally, "The Barber of Seville" was the first Woody cartoon directed by veteran animator James "Shamus" Culhane, who had been working on Lantz's