S5E10 · The Cigar Store Indian

Jerry is deemed a racist when he purchases a Native American statue for Elaine. Kramer tries to get Elaine's company to publish his coffee table book. Elaine runs into a really creepy man on the subway who steals Frank's TV Guide and follows her to the Costanza's house. Meanwhile, George gets grounded when he has sex with a woman in his parents' bed.

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George makes Jerry drive him to refinish his parents' coffee table; as a result, George impresses a woman who does not know he lives with his parents, Jerry buys Elaine a cigar store Indian, and Kramer wants to pitch a coffee table book about coffee tables to Elaine's company. Jerry's kitschy gift starts him off on the wrong foot with Elaine's friend Winona, a Native American, and he must catch his own cultural insensitivity at every turn while dating her. Elaine takes Frank Costanza 's issue of TV Guide, rendering his collection incomplete, and causing a TV Guide enthusiast to fall for her.

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