Seinfeld wasn’t a present about relationships. At its core, it was a present about nothing. As 20-somethings residing and working in New York, Jerry Seinfeld and his friends did a good bit of relationship. If there was any core romantic relationship within the present, it was Jerry and Elaine Benes. Nonetheless, many of the romance occurred earlier than the sequence premiered. Whereas they dropped a number of hints about their relationship in the course of the present’s prolonged run, the clues don’t add up. Frankly, followers are nonetheless a bit confused concerning the relationship. No one is strictly certain how lengthy Elaine and Jerry actually dated.
Elaine and Jerry’s breakup was comparatively recent when ‘Seinfeld’ premiered
When Elaine made her debut on Seinfeld in episode 2, she and Jerry had already damaged up. All through season 1, it was made clear that Jerry and Elaine’s breakup was comparatively recent. Throughout her first look, Jerry persuaded Elaine to attend a marriage with him by agreeing to go to a party together with her. Later, he explains to his mother and father that issues round romance have been nonetheless “a little weird,” suggesting the breakup was nonetheless recent.
Later, Elaine revealed that she began relationship Jerry when she first arrived in New York. Elaine got here to New York in 1986, the identical yr Jerry moved into his residence. Even assuming that they broke up the yr earlier than Seinfeld aired, meaning they dated for round three years earlier than ending their romance.
The confusion is available in after a sexual admission
It will be straightforward to imagine Jerry and Elaine dated for about three years earlier than the sequence premiered. In spite of everything, that’s what the timeline would point out. Season 2 of Seinfeld threw the whole timeline off, although. Within the season 2 episode, “The Deal,” Jerry and Elaine try and navigate a associates with advantages scenario. Throughout their preliminary negotiations, Elaine reveals that she and Jerry slept collectively 37 instances throughout their relationship.
Seinfeld followers level out that the variety of instances they’d intercourse would point out a a lot shorter relationship, and they’d be appropriate. In keeping with NBC, a 2017 research discovered that the typical, sexually energetic grownup had intercourse about 54 instances a yr, which might be roughly as soon as per week. Assuming Jerry and Elaine have been collectively for 3 years, they’d have gotten intimate 162 instances in the event that they fell consistent with the typical. Each couple is totally different, however followers word the intercourse revelation, and their common demeanor suggests they’d a a lot shorter-lived romance.
Jerry’s mother and father additionally make it seem to be the romance was a short-lived one
Sexual exercise apart, Jerry and Elaine merely didn’t act like they’d been long-term companions. The individuals of their lives didn’t act prefer it both. Followers of Seinfeld level out that Jerry’s mother and father, Morty and Helen Seinfeld’s ideas on their relationship make it appear much more informal than a 3-year romance.
Within the episode “The Stakeout,” Morty can’t even keep in mind “which one” Elaine was. Whereas Helen remembered her, she appeared indifferent from Jerry’s romantic endeavor. That, argue followers, could be extra typical of a causal, short-term fling than a long-lasting partnership. Both approach, followers could by no means know.