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...twist on the typical working-at-the-Gap scenario by having Vicki be intense, yet self-aware in her dedication to the job. After masterfully folding a sweater, she declares, "People just don't realize what it takes. They just don't". Also, she salvages the potentially tired AIDS subplot in one of the funniest scenes in the movie, in which she discusses her plight in terms of the characters of Melrose Place...
...making a secret assignation with Gino. Meanwhile, George, unsure whether he has the job, decides to show up at work anyway. The tricky part is getting the show's other main characters, Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Kramer (Michael Richards), into the action. Robin comes up with a subplot involving a barber chair that they both want...
Seinfeld and David like the episode, but have problems with the second half. "Act Two," says Seinfeld, "is what separates the men from the boys." The chief problem is the Kramer-Elaine subplot, which doesn't seem to go anywhere. They decide to replace it with an entirely new story line, in which the barbers' nephew arrives from Italy to claim the chair that once belonged to his late father, only to find that Elaine has bought it, precipitating a family crisis...
...remedy they come up with is drastic: they junk the entire story about the nephew from Italy (the barber brothers become nephew and uncle) and look for another subplot that will utilize Kramer and Elaine. David assembles the few writers who are around on Sunday for an emergency brainstorming session. Robin suggests that Jerry's bad haircut force him to cancel some plans with Elaine. Larry Charles proposes a bachelor auction for charity; when Jerry can't go, Elaine has to take Kramer instead...
Unfortunately, with so much of the film perfectly fitting Tim Burton's talents, it suffers from Burton's perenial downfall: weak continuity. Poor Jack's character shifts a few too many times for comfort. The romantic subplot is weakly developed, tedious and extraneous. Interestingly, in Burton's book version of the film, Iushly illustrated by the author himself, the romance angle is completely excised. It is tragic that with every other aspect so fully realized, Burton could not muster up a solid storyline once...