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The ‘Seinfeld’ Scene That Almost Killed Michael Richards

A bit of improv nearly cost the actor his life back in 1997.

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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 girlfriend locking Jerry out of his own apartment and telling him that she stuck one of his belongings in the toilet.

Elsewhere, George realizes that he dropped his keys in a pothole that was paved over by the time it dawned on him. In........

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