That morning, Jerry woke up and had a shower. Afterwards, he was going to do what he and his group of friends did almost every morning, meet up at Monk's café (which had its sign say Tom's restaurant, for some reason), have breakfast and moan about anything until they had something else better to do.
But this morning was different. Jerry wasn't sure why at first, but as he was taking his shower, he realized what it was. He decided to talk to George about it when he met him later.
Jerry finished his shower and got dressed. He was surprised and relieved that Kramer hadn't burst into his apartment like usual this morning, like he usually did. Jerry didn't really care though, as long as Kramer was still in his apartment. He remembered what happened last time he tried to stop Kramer coming into his apartment, it led to a whole California fiasco. While Jerry was still confused as to why Kramer returned to New York after opting to remain in California, but it didn't matter. All that mattered was that Kramer was living across from Jerry once again.
But Jerry had more important matters on his mind. So he threw his coat on and left the apartment, and went off to Monk's to meet George.
After meeting with George and getting breakfast, Jerry and George sat down and started talking. Eventually, George ended up talking about croutons because he was eating them, which put him in a surprisingly happy mood.
"I love croutons. I could eat my weight in croutons." George announced happily as he ate more croutons.
"Yeah croutons, you've got to love croutons." Jerry said uninterested.
George noticed Jerry's disinterested tone, but he wanted to finish eating before pointing it out, so he continued talking and eating. "I wish you could order croutons as a meal, or at least an appetizer." He said, eating the last crouton.
"Yeah, At least an appetizer." Jerry replied, sounding very bored.
"What‚s wrong with you today, you seem so disinterested and bored." George pointed out, slightly concerned for his best friend.
"Look at us! We‚re talking about croutons!" Jerry said in the loudest, but at the same time, not loud voice.
"Well, what do you want to talk about?" Asked George, failing to realize what was wrong.
"All we ever do is talk. I don‚t think there‚s anything left to talk about. I mean look at this pathetic little world of ours. We get up, you come over to my place, we come here, we eat crappy food, and drinks with rubber bands in them, and yap about nothing. Frankly, I‚m getting tired of it. There‚s got to be something more to life than this." Jerry replied, finally feeling relieved he got that feeling off his chest. He had had the feeling for a very long time.
However, this reminded George of something, something that had caused him to have a slight grudge against Jerry ever since, and realizing this was the perfect time to bring it up, George said "Hey bucko!" he said before taking a deep breath and continued. "Need I remind you that we‚ve been down this road before. We were going to mature. We were going to grow up, become men, get engaged. We shook hands, WE HAD A PACT! And you reneged." He said with slight bitterness.
Jerry merely retorted with. "I did not renege. I got engaged to what‚s her face. The female me." (F.Y.I her name was Jeannie).
George however, was unimpressed. "You were engaged for a cup of coffee for God‚s sake."
"Yeah, well you didn‚t exactly make it to the altar either." Jerry pointed out.
George protested. "Susan died from licking toxic envelopes! I can‚t be held responsible!"
"Yeah, I‚m sure you had nothing to do with it." Jerry replied in a very accusing tone.
"Are you implying that I killed Susan?" George asked in an ever so slightly shocked tone.
Jerry just ignored George's stupidity and retorted with. "No, that‚s not what I said."
George decided it was a perfect time he had invented a long time ago "Well you said it in a very accusational manner."
Jerry quickly realized what word George just used and pointed out "Accusational is not a word.
"Sure it is." George responded, failing to realize that there was something wrong with just making up words.
"No it‚s not." Jerry said, pointing out the obvious.
"It‚s a perfectly cromulent word." George protested.
Jerry shook his head in disbelief before pointing out ""Cromulent isn‚t a word, either."
"Care to make it interesting?" George asked.
Jerry realized where this was going and decided to end it as soon as possible. "No, no I don‚t. Let‚s just drop it!"
George however, was confused "Why are you so agitated? Did you take a shower today?"
Jerry was heavily relieved that he can finally talk to George about what he had felt in the shower "Yeah I took a shower and I got this feeling."
"Feeling? You have a feeling?" George asked.
Jerry tried his best to explain the feeling "It‚s difficult to explain. I just get a sense like this chapter of our lives is about to end, and another one is going to begin."
"That‚s a little ominous, don‚t you think?" George asked, slightly nervous.
"Is it?" Jerry asked.
"I‚m scared now. WATER! I need WATER!" George shouted.
By some miracle, everybody but Jerry ignored him and Jerry did his best to reassure George. "It doesn‚t have to end badly."
"Yes, yes it does! If there‚s one thing that I‚ve learned, it‚s that EVERYTHING ends badly!" Cried George, who's outright panicking at this point.
"Well, perhaps things just end badly because you think they‚re going end badly."
George calmed down before saying "I don‚t follow."
"If we‚re determined to end it well, maybe we can pull it off." Jerry said hopefully.
George thought of the perfect response "So how the hell are you going to end this chapter well?"
Jerry thought about the question for a bit before answering "I don‚t know. Maybe I‚ll get engaged again."
George couldn't believe his ears "Yeah? To who?"
Jerry knew the perfect response to wind up George "I don‚t know. Elaine."
George was very happy upon hearing that "That‚s great! All these years, I‚ve always wanted to see you two get back together. You‚re perfect for each other. You‚re soul mates. You‚re like Superman and Lois Lane!"
Jerry laughed slightly before responding back. "Jeez, Georgie, I was kidding."
George decided he had waited long enough for Jerry and Elaine to get back together, so he responded with one of his smartest responses ever "Yeah well, you should. I mean think about it. You think you‚re going to have a better relationship with another woman than the one you have with her? You‚re not friends with any of your other ex-girlfriends. You date a different girl every week, but Elaine‚s always been there. For the last nine years, you‚ve been looking for the perfect relationship, and what do you have to show for it? Face it, Elaine is it!
Being a natural-born comedian. Jerry only saw the humor in that response "She seems like an it."
George saw the humor in Jerry's statement, so he merely responded with "She's at it as you get. Imagine bumping into her on the street in five years with a husband. And she tells us he's a sculptor, they live in Vermont... We'd have to kill him."
Jerry realized something. "Haven‚t we had this conversation before?"
George just went along with it since he wanted to get this part of the conversation over with as fast as possible before going back to trying to convince Jerry to marry Elaine. "You think?"
"I think we have."
"Yeah, maybe we have. Anyway, I think you two should get married." George said with some level of determination.
Jerry shook his head "I'm telling you, I don't see it happening. Besides, she‚s with Puddy, again." He said with some jealousy and hatred in his voice.
"Is she? I thought they broke up?" George asked with confusion.
"Oh, who the hell knows?" Jerry had given up on trying to count how many time Elaine and Puddy had broken up and gotten together again. They might as well be a broken record at this point.
"Well, tell you what. If you don‚t propose to her, I‚m going to!" George said with faked braveness in his voice.
"Yeah, okay, and I‚ll propose to Kramer." Jerry responded sarcastically.
"I‚m serious. I could see the two of us married." George said with some obvious lies.
"And what, are you going to do? make a spin-off out of it?" Jerry responded.
"A spin-off? Of what?" George asked, confused.
"Of our current series of events." Jerry responded.
"What an odd thing to say." George responded, this whole conversation was starting to go a bit meta. They both sat in silence for a moment before Jerry thought of the perfect way to end the conversation. "You ready to go?"
"Year." George respond before realizing he had to tell Jerry something. "Kenny Bania‚s new show debuts tonight on NBC. Are you going to watch it?"
"I can‚t believe they gave that clown his own show. And in such a cushy time slot." Jerry replied with obvious dislike in his voice.
"Well I‚m looking forward to it." George replied as he and Jerry got up and headed for the exit. Then Jerry asked "Hey, do you really think you have the guts to ask Elaine to marry you?"
"I wish" George replied as he and Jerry exited Monk's before heading back to Jerry's apartment.