Joe Davola
Posted on 17. Sep, 2011 by admin in Characters
Also known as ‘Crazy’ Joe Davola. He is noted for stalking Jerry Seinfeld, for whom he develops a pathological hatred, beginning with the episode, “The Pitch”, where they meet him at the NBC offices; Davola wrongly believes, after his own ideas are rejected by the studio, that Jerry somehow sabotaged him.
It continues in “The Ticket”, where Jerry and George hide from him in a restaurant, waiting for an unsympathetic policeman to finish eating so he could escort them out safely. Throughout the fourth season (the season which focused on Jerry’s failed television pilot), Davola appears frequently, including both parts to “The Pilot”. In the first part, both Jerry and George attempt to hide, but are seen by him when they are leaving for NBC. In the final part, he is noted for shouting “Sic semper tyrannis!” (incorrectly translated by Jerry as, “Death to tyrants”) and then jumping off the stands during the taping of Jerry (the show within the show, based on Seinfeld) and into the set in an attempt to attack Jerry, a clear parody of John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater.
Elaine Benes once dated Davola’s psychiatrist, who is concerned about Davola not taking his medication. She inadvertently starts dating Davola while trying to break up with the doctor (“The Watch”), not knowing that he was, in fact, the same “Crazy” Joe Davola terrorizing Jerry. She becomes a target, and in a surprisingly tense scene for a comedy series (“The Opera”), finds herself trapped and cornered in the psychotic Davola’s apartment while trying to break up with him and only escapes after spraying Cherry Binaca in his eyes.
Davola is in exceptional shape. Tall and muscular, he keeps fit by lifting weights (sometimes while crying) and practices martial arts, which he uses (while dressed as Canio from Pagliacci) to beat up a gang of hooligans in Central Park and to deliver a roundhouse kick to the side of Kramer’s head when he spotted him on the street. (“The Pitch”)
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