Over the years, there has been much talk on the Internet about the various irregularities in Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment on Seinfeldfrom his apparent spatial impossibilityto the bookshelf full of Nintendo games and pirated VHS pornBut Jerry’s bachelor pad isn’t the only unusual apartment at 129 West 81st Street.
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In addition to the MC Escher-esque weirdness of Jerry’s house and the hot tub-equipped nightmare of building code violations by Kramer, Jerry’s neighbor and arch-enemy Newman Also rented a particularly bizarre unit.
For starters, Fans have noticed that Newman’s apartment, which confusingly serves as both 5E and 5F, once had a food bowl, although there is no other indication that he had a pet. Most likely this invisible being was a cat, considering that Newman had a passionate dislike/murderous rage towards dogs.
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The production design behind Newman’s apartment is a chaotic feast for the eyes, full of strange, ever-changing details. In later episodes, the food bowl seems to have disappeared, but suddenly Newman owns various food-themed posters, including one with a picture of a baked potato drenched in butter. Oh, and for some reason he has a photo of a monkey on his wall?
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He also has a kind of nutritional table in his living room, accentuated by a VHS copy of the martial arts B-movie Ulterior motives with Karate Kid Part III And Cobra Kai Villain Thomas Ian Griffith.
Speaking of VHS collections, Newman’s apartment also contains several films owned by Castle Rock, such as The Prince’s Bride And Necessary things. Which is not surprising. What Is What is surprising is that he apparently owns a tape from the 90s Babysitters Club television show.
The Seinfeld The team also placed several dinosaur-themed items on set, including dino pillows and a tyrannosaurid poster, presumably as a nod to Wayne Knight’s role in Jurassic Park.
And we haven’t even mentioned the myriad eclectic props that populate the rest of the apartment, including a kitschy duck lamp, several street signs, ice cream paraphernalia, decorative masks adorning the walls, a vintage stamp machine, what looks like a police siren, ceramic pigs, and of course, a cowhide-patterned slow cooker. Oh, and the hot dog phone. How could we forget the hot dog phone?
There could be a very good in-universe explanation for Newman’s wide range of crap. As one fan on Reddit suggested, Newman could have easily acquired all of that stuff if it came to the post office without labelsBecause, as veteran postal worker Jerry explained in “The Label Maker,” unlabeled packages that arrive at the post office without an addressee are considered “freebies.”
So it’s more than likely that this is how Newman was able to amass this huge collection of junk. Heck, he probably never had a cat, he just found this food bowl in an unmarked package.
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