George later recounts the incident while he, Kramer, Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Jerry are at the coffee shop where they usually eat. He gives an impressively long monologue that begins: “The sea was angry that day, my friends.” Jerry Seinfeld says those two plots were never supposed to connect.

Jerry Seinfeld says Jason Alexander memorized the iconic beached whale-golf ball monologue in just a half hour. During a recent interview, the comedian revealed that he and Larry David wrote the Seinfeld scene the night before filming it.