The Movie - Cultural References

Cultural References

• The fictional film Rochelle, Rochelle ("a young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk") makes its first appearance in this episode. George later rents it from the video store in Season 4's "The Smelly Car", and it is turned into a Broadway musical starring Bette Midler in Season 6's "The Understudy". A fan writes that this "is, indisputably, the number one fake movie in the Seinfeld universe."
• Jerry tells Kernis that "I'm doin' Letterman Monday." This episode aired on January 6, 1993, and Letterman's Late Night with David Letterman ran until June 25, 1993.
• George is described by the ticket-selling lady as looking like "Humpty Dumpty with a melon head". Kramer is described by Elaine as a "tall, lanky doofus" with a "bird face" and "hair like the Bride of Frankenstein".