A Seinfeld Episode describing 'Taking The Juice For Free'

                                             (Jerry, George)

ACT ONE

SCENE B



INT. JERRY'S APARTMENT - DAY (1)

JERRY TALKING TO GEORGE, WHO IS SITTING ON THE COUCH.
GEORGE LOOKS DISTRESSED.

JERRY

So what happened?

GEORGE

Well, we were sitting there and he just 
starts talking about some sports event he 
missed that he was really upset he couldn't 
watch.  The soccer championship or something.  Well,  
I was bored out of my mind and not really paying  
attention and I think I ended up telling him that  
I was at the event.

JERRY

That you were at the event?

GEORGE

Yes!  At the event.

JERRY

And then what?

GEORGE

Well, he started getting all excited asking me "Really? 
You were there?  How awesome is that!"  I couldn't 
turn back, Jerry!  I told him I was there.  I had to 
keep going with my story.  And he kept getting more 
and more excited.  And I kept getting more and more 
nervous.

JERRY
So you finally told him that you made it up, right?

GEORGE

What?  How could I?  He was too excited!

JERRY

(EXASPERATED) You didn't tell him?  You didn't tell 
him that you weren't at the game?  You know what you 
did, don't you? 

GEORGE

I know, I lied.

JERRY 

No - you didn't just lie.  You took the juice for free!

GEORGE

(LOOKS AT THE REFRIGERATOR)  I what?

JERRY

The juice!  You took the juice for free.  He had it, you 
stole it.  You took it!

GEORGE

I did not take the juice for free!  I am not a juice taker. 
Never have been, never will be!  I am not a juice taker.


KRAMER ENTERS.  SEES GEORGE SITTING ON THE COUCH, SWEATING.


KRAMER

(TO JERRY) What's going on here?

JERRY

George took the juice for free!

KRAMER

(TO GEORGE) I always knew you were a juice taker!

GEORGE

No I'm not!

KRAMER

(TO GEORGE) Ooooohhh yeaaa!  You're a juice taker.  Look
at yourself.  You go around telling people how you saw 
this, how you were at that.  You never have any 
consideration for the other person's feelings.  How low 
have you sunk?  Juice takers are the worst kind of people!

GEORGE

(GETS UP, LOOKS AROUND THE ROOM, PANICKING) I am
not a juice taker!  Not a juice taker!


GEORGE RUNS OUT OF THE APARTMENT.


                                             
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                                             (Jerry, Elaine)
ACT ONE

SCENE C



INT. COFFEE SHOP - DAY (1)


ELAINE

So what's going on with what's her name?

JERRY

Tanya?

ELAINE

Yea, Tanya.

JERRY

Oh, nothing.  We broke up.

ELAINE

You broke up?  Why?

JERRY

She had weird knuckles.

ELAINE

Weird knuckles?  What's wrong with you?

JERRY

Her knuckles were just weird.  They were like 
hockey player knuckles.  Big, blue, bruised, ugly.

ELAINE

So what?

JERRY

What do you mean so what?  Every time I held her hand. 
Every time she handed me something, I had to look at 
them.  It's no fun having to look at ugly knuckles. 

ELAINE

So you broke up with her because she had ugly
knuckles?

JERRY

I can't date a girl with ugly knuckles, Elaine!

ELAINE SHAKES HER HEAD WITH DISAPPROVAL.

KRAMER ENTERS.  SITS DOWN NEXT TO ELAINE.


JERRY

(TO KRAMER)  What's going on?

KRAMER

Nothing.  I still can't believe what 
George did.

ELAINE

What did George do?


GEORGE ENTERS.  SITS DOWN.

JERRY/KRAMER STARE AT HIM.

GEORGE

(TO JERRY/KRAMER)  What?

JERRY

(TO ELAINE)  George was having a conversation 
with someone yesterday who was telling George 
about a soccer game that he missed seeing on TV. 
George told him that he actually was at the game.

ELAINE

Yea, so what's wrong with that?

JERRY

Well, our pal Georgy-boy was never there.  He 
proceeded to make up a whole story about a soccer 
game that he never attended.  The person he was 
talking to, of course, got excited, got his juices 
flowing.  You know what that's called, Elaine?

ELAINE
(TO GEORGE)  You took the juice for free!

GEORGE

GETS UP.

I did not take the juice for free!  I DID NOT
TAKE THE JUICE FOR FREE!

GEORGE RUNS OUT OF THE COFFEE SHOP.