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The 'Seinfeld' Scene That Almost Killed Michael Richards

Summary by Vice
During a Reddit AMA from 2013, Jerry Seinfeld revealed that one of his favorite Seinfeld episodes to film was Season 8’s “The Pothole,” mainly because they got to set Newman (played by Wayne Knight) on fire. But the Newman sequence is one of many wild moments from the episode in question. The show kicks off with Jerry knocking his girlfriend’s toothbrush in the toilet, who ends up using it before he gets a chance to tell her. This results in the…

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Vice broke the news in New York, United States on Tuesday, May 5, 2026.
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