stands alone with his punchline failing

General Audiences ¦ No Archive Warnings Apply ¦ Seinfeld (TV 1989)

Gen ¦ for meownacridone ¦ 100 words ¦ 2022-09-11 ¦ the lamb ¦ AO3

Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Cosmo Kramer, Elaine Benes

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

"I told him I owned the place."

"Did he believe you?"

"Did he believe me? Of course he didn't believe me. I didn't have a sexy secretary trailing behind me endorsing my every move. That's the trouble with these executive types - they think you're utterly incompetent if you don't have an assistant not-so-secretly doing all your work for you."

"But...wouldn't that make them incompetent?"

"Hey, Jerry- oh, George-- I'm a workin' man!"

"...in multiple ways."

"I've had it."

"Did you get the job?"

"No, I did not. They said they hired a man! Now where's the sex in that?"