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Jerry Seinfeld and the Number Nine

All too often people develop an attachment to various things or objects. Some people have even gone as far as documenting their attachment with tattoos, a trinket, or fixation that either motivates them or signals them to a particular direction in life. Jerry Seinfeld is one of these people. You may or may not know that Jerry has a connection with the number nine.

Jerry Seinfeld divulged his love for the number 9 in an interview that he had with Vanity Fair magazine in 1998. He exclaimed that “Nine is cool. By the end, we will have done 180 shows (1+8=9).” What is the whole purpose behind the nine? The number 9 in numerology is a number of completion and thus the last show ended up being show number 180.

What Was Jerry Seinfeld’s Favorite Episode of Seinfeld?

Any Seinfeld fan you talk to will be able to tell you about their favorite episode. With an iconic work like Seinfeld, even the show’s namesake had his own favorite episode. Jerry Seinfeld has said that his favorite episode is “The Marine Biologist.”

In this episode, George Costanza pretended to be a marine biologist in order to impress a woman he had a crush on in college. He pulls a golf ball from the blow hole of a whale to save the whale’s life. As George tells this story to his friends, Kramer exclaims that the ball was a “hole in one.” Hilarious!