Jerry makes the fatal mistake of nodding along to a conversation he can’t hear with Kramer’s low-talking girlfriend. The result is a verbal contract to wear a ridiculously frilly, pirate-style shirt on national television for an interview with Bryant Gumbel.
Meanwhile, George moves back in with his parents and is recruited to be a hand model, a career that is tragically cut short by a hot iron. The shirt itself goes down in history as a monument to the dangers of polite agreement.