Elaines Seinfeld Cartoon Was Actually Published by The New Yorker [Video]

Elaine Benes held a number of different jobs over the course of Seinfeld’s nine seasons: copy editor for Pendant Publishing, executive assistant to Mr. Pitt, professional sombrero enthusiast for The J. Peterman Company. In addition to her various day jobs, the episode “The Cartoon” found Elaine briefly entering the field of professional doodling after she complains to The New Yorker about one of their cartoons that “made no sense.”

Elaine’s contribution to the visual arts was a sketch of a pig at a complaint desk stating, “I wish I were taller.” While the joke turns out to be an inadvertent rip-off of a Ziggy comic (thanks to Puddy’s subliminally influential bedsheets), Jerry and Kramer aren’t thrilled with the results, and offer their own suggestions for the caption, including, “I can’t find my receipt, my place is a sty,” and “My wife is a slut.”

The episode was written by Bruce Eric Kaplan, who actually was a cartoonist for The New Yorker, …