- Jerry and George stake out the lobby of an office building to find a woman Jerry met at a party but whose name and phone number he didn't get.
- Elaine drags Jerry to a birthday dinner for one of her friends where he meets an attractive woman. He promptly forgets her name and refuses to ask Elaine who she is but remembers where she works. Jerry's parents are in town to go to a family wedding and his Dad suggests he stake-out the lobby around lunchtime. George tags along but they can't quite seem to get their stories straight. Elaine hears about it making them both uncomfortable.—garykmcd
- Jerry and Laney (Elaine Benes) (Julia-Louis Dreyfus) have just ended their relationship but chosen to remain friends. Elaine invites him to a birthday party; he agrees to go on the condition that she accompanies him to a wedding to which he and his parents have been invited. Jerry's parents are coming into town for the wedding.
At the party, Jerry meets an attractive woman named Vanessa (Lynn Clark). During the party, Laney tries to tell Jerry about a dream she had, which featured him. Jerry tries to end the conversation. Jerry wants to flirt with her but is uncomfortable doing so in Laney's presence, as he thinks that Vanessa thinks that Laney is Jerry's date. Plus, Vanessa has also come to the party with a male escort, whom Jerry assumes to be Vanessa's date. The woman leaves with another man before Jerry finds out her name; however, he learns that she works at a law firm called "Sagman, Bennett, Robbins, Oppenheim and Taft" and is a lawyer. Jerry cutting off Elaine in the middle of her "dream" discussion results in an argument after the party is over. Elaine says that Jerry needs to work on his manners as he couldn't wait to get back to his conversation with Vanessa.
Back at his apartment, Jerry's parents, Morty (Philip Burns) and Helen (Lix Sheridan), sleep over, with Jerry sleeping in Kramer's apartment. He talks about the party and claims that he can't get the phone number of the woman from Laney because he doesn't talk about other women with her; additionally, she's still angry with him. Jerry claims that he and Elaine broke up as they fought a lot for some reason. There was also a problem with their physical chemistry. Elaine was just not the one.
Morty suggests that Jerry "stake out" the woman by waiting outside her office, an idea which Jerry likes. Morty says that Jerry needs to stand by the elevator and wait for Vanessa to come down for lunch. When Jerry meets Vanessa he will pretend that he bumped into her. The following day, Jerry and George perform the stake out, pretending that they're coming to see someone else in the building named "Art Corvelay", but under pressure, George insists that they make it "Art Vandelay". Art is an importer exporter. George pretends to be an architect who designs railroads. They meet the woman, who says the man with whom she left the party was her cousin. They then decide to go out on a date.
Later that night, Jerry finds out from Helen that Laney knows about the stake out. She left a note for Jerry saying that she hoped his meeting went well with Art Vandelay. Jerry is nervous. On the day of the wedding, Laney tells Jerry that the reason that she was angry was that it was the first time she saw him flirt with another woman. They decide that they have to be able to talk more about their relationships if they wish to remain friends. Laney then reveals that she's recently met a man using a stake out.
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