The
New York Mets management secretly asks
George to leave the
New York Yankees and become their head
scout, but he needs to get fired first. He decides to go out in a blaze of glory, but his efforts only end up making him look better. He wears
Babe Ruth's uniform and deliberately gets food stains on it, but
Mr. Steinbrenner praises him, thinking it shows an "out with the old, in with the new" mentality. George runs through
Yankee Stadium during a game, wearing a flesh-colored body suit, that wins the enthusiasm of fans. He destroys a Yankees'
World Series trophy by hitching it to his car and driving through the parking lot while screaming insults with a
megaphone. That finally raises the ire of Steinbrenner, but
Mr. Wilhelm takes the blame for ordering the destruction of the trophy, getting fired and taking the job with the Mets.
Elaine tries to run an ethnic-themed clothing store called "Putumayo" out of business after receiving bad
customer service from the owner. She shops extensively at a competing store, "Cinco de Mayo", only to discover that the same woman owns both stores. She schemes with
Kramer to change all the Putumayo price tags to 99 cents, but he accidentally breaks the pricing gun before he can finish. Instead, he takes the
desiccant packs from the clothes. When he eats some chips the store gives out to customers, he unknowingly drops one of the desiccant packs in the
salsa. Kramer and
Newman are planning rival
millennium parties. Newman's party is called "Newmannium". Fearing all his friends will go to Newmannium, Kramer accepts an offer to co-host Newmannium instead, but Newman insists that they do not invite
Jerry. However, moved by loyalty to Jerry, Kramer resurrects his own party and gets Elaine to come. Newman decides to allow Jerry to come to Newmannium to ensure that Elaine will be there. Jerry points out to Newman that since he booked Newmannium for the Millennium new year, the hotel would have scheduled it on December 31, 2000, due to there being no
year zero, while
millennium celebrations are held almost universally on December 31, 1999, making Newman's party a year late. After a sub-par date, Jerry notices his girlfriend, Valerie, has moved his number on her
speed dial from number 7 to 9. He takes her on an extravagant date and is rewarded by getting his speed dial "ranking" boosted up to 1. Valerie's domineering
stepmom is furious that she's lost her number 1 spot and puts Jerry on her speed dial. When Valerie sees that, she takes her stepmom off her speed dial altogether. Valerie gets Jerry to negotiate to get himself off her stepmom's speed dial in exchange for Valerie restoring her, but her stepmom only concedes to hiding Jerry's number as one of her emergency speed dials. After her stepmom is poisoned by eating the desiccant-contaminated salsa, Valerie uses the phone to call
poison control. When Jerry answers, Valerie hangs up in disgust. ==Production==