- George is angered when an old acquaintance withholds a 12-Step-mandated apology; Jerry's girlfriend is too comfortable with her nudity; Elaine works with a germaphobe.
- George goes out of his way to seek an apology for an insult; when Elaine is insulted that a fellow co-worker is scared of her germs, Puddy admits that he's a fellow germaphobe; Jerry dates a nudist and learns the difference between good naked and bad naked; Kramer installs a garbage disposal in his shower.—halo1k
- When George learns that Jason 'Stanky' Hanky has joined AA and is successfully going through the 12-Step Program, he expects him to apologize for a joke he made at George's expense several years before, and he typically overreacts when he doesn't get it. Elaine has trouble with co-worker Peggy, a germaphobe, then learns that Puddy is a former germaphobe and tries to be more tolerant of Peggy. Meanwhile, Kramer practically lives in his new shower, and Jerry's new girlfriend goes around the apartment naked.—garykmcd
- Jerry Jerry begins dating Melissa (Kathleen McClellan), a woman who is comfortable being naked in his apartment in nonsexual contexts. She walks naked into the kitchen to eat waffles and is also naked while playing board games. While George is envious, Jerry soon grows uncomfortable with Melissa's quirk. George says he has had bedroom naked, walk to the bathroom naked, but never living room naked. Jerry finds her unattractive when she does anything naked that involves her muscles contracting. Like Jerry finds her unappealing when she coughs naked. This is an example of bad naked. Hair brushing naked would be an example of good naked. Melissa continues to do all things naked, and Jerry says that he can't look at her anymore as he has seen too much. George asks Jerry to show her the bad naked. Eventually, Jerry tries casual nudity himself, but Melissa does not support male nudity ("bad naked"). Elaine later explains that the female body is art while the male body is just utility. Ultimately Jerry convinces Melissa to wear clothes more often but regrets his decision when he cannot stop thinking about how good she looks naked. Unfortunately, Melissa cannot stop thinking of how bad Jerry looks naked, and the relationship is ruined.
George George learns that Jason Hanky (James Spader), a childhood friend of his nicknamed "Stanky Hanky", is a recovering alcoholic and, as part of Step 9 of the Alcoholics Anonymous's Twelve Steps, is apologizing for all his old misdeeds. George gets angry when he does not receive an apology from Jason for having insulted him at a party a few years earlier by refusing to give George a sweater for fear it would be stretched out by George's "large" head. But Jason refuses to apologize, saying that the largeness of George's large head is a fact, and that the sweater was expensive.
Hanky: No way, you would've completely stretched it out. George: You're an alcoholic! You have to apologize. Step Nine! Step Nine. Hanky: All right, George, all right. I'm sorry. I'm very, very sorry. I'm so sorry that I didn't want your rather bulbous head struggling to find its way through the normal-size neck hole of my finely knit sweater. Now George wants an apology for the apology and the original apology. This enrages George so much that he complains to Jason's sponsor. George is brought to an anger management class by the sponsor. Jason calls George to the ice cream parlor where he works. Jason accepts his mistake, but never says sorry to George. George says he wants a real apology, which Jason refuses to give. Jason loses his temper, turns to alcohol and throws George out of the store.
Kramer and Elaine Kramer decides he enjoys showers so much that he is going to spend most of his time in his shower, even going as far as to buy a waterproof phone, prepare a dinner there and install a garbage disposal in his bathtub drain.
Elaine's co-worker Peggy (Megan Cole; also seen in the episode "The Susie") is a Germophobe who dislikes Elaine because she thinks she is promiscuous and therefore full of germs. Insulted, Elaine takes revenge on Peggy by going to her office and rubbing the keyboard on her rear end, her stapler under her armpit, and finally coughing on Peggy's doorknob. Eventually, Peggy gets sick and is bed ridden for several days.
David Puddy (Patrick Warburton) reveals to Elaine that he too is a recovering Germophobe. Later, Elaine makes up with Peggy by inviting her for over for a dinner cooked by Kramer. But when Kramer reveals that he prepared the dinner in the shower, they are all horrified and Peggy and Puddy have to go back to Germophobes Anonymous, with Elaine now joining them.
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