The Stock Tip

"The Stock Tip" is the fifth and final episode of the first season of the American television sitcomSeinfeld.^[1] It first aired on NBC in the United States on June 21, 1990.^[2] In the episode, George drags Jerry into buying a stock on an insider trading tip, and Jerry takes his girlfriend on a weekend getaway to Vermont.

The episode was written by series creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, and was directed by Tom Cherones. When it aired, it received enough ratings and praise for NBC to commission a second season.

At Monk's, Elaine is beleaguered by failing to find a dropped grape in her kitchen, and by allergies from dating a cat owner. Jerry wants a weekend getaway with his girlfriend Vanessa, and Elaine recommends a bed and breakfast in Vermont. George is following rising stock prices for Centrax, which makes technology for "televising opera", thanks to an insider trading tip that his friend is getting from a man named Wilkinson. George invests $5,000 and convinces Jerry to put in $2,500 until Wilkinson says to sell. Elaine shames Jerry out of ordering tuna due to dolphin by-catch, but George, not listening, orders the same.

Jerry sells Vanessa on the Vermont trip to speed their relationship into "phase two", while anxiously following Sendrax's now-falling price. Kramer smugly offers his own "tie dispenser" as a better investment, then asks to bring over some anarchists he met at a rock concert while Jerry is out. Wilkinson is suddenly hospitalized, leaving George and Jerry in the lurch. A dry cleaner stonewalls Jerry's complaint about a shrunken shirt until Jerry finally settles for admitting, unrepentantly, to shrinking it.

Jerry turns down Elaine's invitation to help kill or shave her boyfriend's cats. Kramer spies on a woman downstairs through binoculars and decides to pick her up. George visits Wilkinson in the hospital, but Wilkinson, on the outs with George's friend, throws George out. Jerry sells at a $1,500 loss, while George clings to his sunk cost.

في النزل، حُبس جيري وفانيسا طوال عطلة نهاية الأسبوع بسبب المطر، ونفدت مواضيع الحديث لديهما. اكتشف جيري أنه خسر 4000 دولار لأن سيندراكس قد رحل. لم يُعجب فانيسا بالنزل، فظنت أن جيري بخِل بسبب خسارته. أمضى جيري بقية الرحلة وهو يسأل فانيسا عن اسم عطرها، لكنها تركته بدلاً من إخباره.

يتباهى جورج بربحه البالغ 8000 دولار، ويدعو جيري وإيلين لتناول الطعام وهو يرتدي بدلة ويدخن سيجارًا. اختار حبيب إيلين القطط عليها. يُفضي جورج بنصيحة أخرى تتعلق بالأسهم لشركة "جزارة آلية". يدفع الفاتورة دون قراءتها، ثم يُعيد المبلغ المدفوع بالزيادة.

تم تسجيل "نصيحة الأسهم" أمام جمهور حي في استوديوهات رين مار في هوليوود، كاليفورنيا ، في 12 مارس 1990. ^{[ 3 ]}

تحتوي هذه الحلقة على أول إشارة إلى سوبرمان في مسلسل ساينفيلد ، والتي ستصبح سمة متكررة في حلقات لاحقة من المسلسل. في مسودة سابقة للحلقة، كان جيري يجادل بأنه في حالة وقوع كارثة نووية ، عندما يكون الجميع في حالة اكتئاب شديد ، يمكن لسوبرمان أن يُدخل البهجة على قلوبهم بـ"فكاهته الخارقة". رد جورج قائلاً إنه لن يضحك أحد لأنهم سيلومون سوبرمان على عدم منعه الكارثة من الأساس. ^{[ 3 ]}

ظهرت شخصية فانيسا لأول مرة في وقت سابق من الموسم الأول في حلقة " المراقبة ". وهي واحدة من صديقات جيري القلائل اللواتي ظهرن في أكثر من حلقة. ووفقًا للاري ديفيد ، أحد مؤلفي الحلقة، فقد عادت شخصيتها لأنه لم يُذكر أي انفصال في حلقة "المراقبة"، وبالتالي كانا لا يزالان على علاقة. ^{[ 4 ]} ويعود بنجامين لوم ، الذي يؤدي دور عامل البقالة، للظهور بدور ساعي بريد في حلقة " هندي متجر السيجار " من الموسم الخامس . ^{[ 3 ]}

عندما بُثّت حلقة "نصيحة الأسهم" لأول مرة في 21 يونيو 1990، حققت نسبة مشاهدة بلغت 13.5/24 وفقًا لتصنيف نيلسن ، ما يعني أن 13.5% من الأسر الأمريكية شاهدت الحلقة، وأن 24% من أجهزة التلفزيون المستخدمة آنذاك كانت موجهة إليها. ^{[ 3 ]} بعد هذه الحلقة، تم إنتاج الموسم الثاني من مسلسل ساينفيلد ، وأُعيد بث الحلقة التجريبية . ^{[ 3 ]}

Critics praised several elements of the episode, including Jerry's confrontation with the dry cleaner. Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide said that the episode "succeeded in a few ways. For one, it includes DVD One's [The first disc of the 'Seinfeld Seasons 1 & 2' DVD boxset] funniest bit: Jerry's confrontation with a dry cleaner. In addition, the episode offers our first look at a program that tries to branch out substantially beyond just one story. The prior shows went with one overriding plot, but "Tip" indulges equally in the stock and Vanessa elements. It's still not a great show, but it provides some advancement."^[5]

David Sims of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B−. He praised the acting, if not the writing: "Kramer's non-specific glee and Jerry's passive frustration at it are both different tones for the characters, and it's fun to see the show play with the archetypes they've already set up. Later on, after Jerry has cashed out with a loss but George hangs on to make a profit, George's incongruous happiness (replete with cigar, suit, and him daintily picking up the check) is equally amusing. But script-wise, it's again apparent that David and Seinfeld are pretty new to the concept of actually sketching out coherent plots... The whole thing kinda just moves along until it isn't moving along anymore. It's not unfunny, and there's some choice dialog, like Jerry and George having the first of many Superman conversations about whether he has super-humor powers."^[6]

Steve Schrider wrote, "While neither the strongest nor the second-strongest show of the first season, The Stock Tip proves that the show has come a long way, even after only five episodes. With this first season, the show's main issue is that it didn't equally utilize all four of its main characters... Jerry and Larry are the first to admit that they went into Seinfeld with little to no writing experience, but they were always very good about recognizing weaknesses and addressing them as needed."^[4]

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