Morty Seinfeld
Posted on 16. Sep, 2011 by admin in Characters
Morty made a living selling raincoats under a man named Harry Fleming for 38 years, and considers his greatest accomplishment to be the invention of “the beltless trenchcoat” (also called “theExecutive”). Morty refuses to let Jerry pay for a meal any time they go out to eat, even if he has no money to pay the bill.
He always sticks up for Jerry when he feels like his son is being slighted, even when Jerry himself isn’t bothered at all. (The most notable instance of this was in “The Pen”) He hates velcro because he can’t stand “that tearing sound” it makes when separated and refused to use it on any of the raincoats he sold. Morty is somewhat of a cheapskate, as noted in the episode “The Raincoats”, where he refuses to let Kramer get more than 25% of the money they get from the raincoat deal.
He hates the idea of appointments not being kept, and complains about having to have filled out forms and wait over 20 minutes while at the doctor’s office “The Wallet”. He is also shown to be technologically ignorant, as when he believes the Wizard Jerry buys him in “The Wizard” is just a tip calculator. Another example of Morty’s frugal ways was in the episode The Puffy Shirt, when Jerry tells George of his father “my father has never thrown anything out…ever”.
He and Helen are retired and have lived in a series of condos in Florida, the most memorable of which was Del Boca Vista. He was the president of the tenant’s board at Phase Two of the Pines of Mar Gables for many years, until Jerry bought him a Cadillac Fleetwood, arousing suspicion among his neighbors that he was embezzling from the board coffers. He was impeached and resigned when the tie-breaking voter turned against him upon remembering that Jerry had stolen a loaf of Marble Rye bread from her (in a previous episode). He was replaced by his rival, vice-president, Jack Klompus. His impeachment scene included a parody of Richard Nixon’s famous wave.
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