'The Gum' is the 120th episode of NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the tenth episode for the seventh season. It aired on December 14, 1995.

Black Jack chewing gum was the first flavored chewing gum in U.S. Candy history, and the first available in individually wrapped sticks. Treating fans to delicious chewing since 1884, the nostalgic Black Jack Gum favorite was recently reintroduced, and its distinctive black licorice flavor is just as yummy as you recall. THE GUM is a dumb=comic dude. George's nemesis Lloyd Braun, who had a nervous breakdown after messing up David Dinkins' reelection campaign in 'The Non-Fat Yogurt', has a pack of Chinese chewing gum that Kramer insists everyone try. George begs off, stating that he doesn't chew gum. Dec 23, 2008  His character is named Charlie but IMDB just calls him Sleazy Guy. I know this because I wondered if that was Jack Black myself. He also had a short lived show on Fox called Colin After Dark.I mention this because that's the only place I could find a pic of him and sure enough that's the guy from The Strike who looks like Jack Black.

Plot[edit]

Kramer is active in the renovation and re-opening of the Alex movie theater. George's nemesis Lloyd Braun, who had a nervous breakdown after derailing the David Dinkins' reelection campaign in 'The Non-Fat Yogurt', has a pack of Chinesechewing gum that Kramer insists everyone try. George begs off, stating that he does not chew gum.

At the theater, Elaine feeling uncomfortable around Braun, does not want to sit near him during a showing of Spartacus, so she invents the story that she has to sit with Jerry close to the screen because he supposedly forgot his glasses. While watching the movie, Elaine's ivory button falls off, and she accidentally 'reveals herself' to Lloyd and Kramer. Elaine complains to a policeman about a florist's washing the sidewalk with a hose, and her exposed blouse convinces the policeman to tell the florist to disconnect the hose.

While in his parent's neighborhood, George encounters an old friend Deena, and her father, 'Pop,' who unbeknownst to George, had recently suffered a mental breakdown. Pop starts tinkering with George's car's engine and smashes it with a tool in confusion. Meanwhile, George believes the cashier at Monk's (Ruthie Cohen) kept a twenty-dollar bill of his that he had doodled on. He pursues her and has to buy a pack of gum to look inside the register, much to the surprise of Lloyd, who thought George did not chew gum. While he is confronting the cashier in her car on the street, George's 'Jon Voight car' catches fire due to the damage caused by Pop, and the florist can't extinguish the fire because his hose had to be disconnected.

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Jerry must wear glasses while around Lloyd to keep with Elaine's excuse. He exchanges glasses when the ones he got from the lost and found were discovered to belong to Geoffrey Haarwood (or, as Kramer says it, 'Harharwood'), a former Hollywood costumer who runs the 'Institute for the Preservation of Motion Picture Costumes and Wardrobes' (also known as 'The Institute'). The new glasses Jerry wears make it impossible for him to see clearly, and he inadvertently gives Lloyd a $100 bill to buy the Chinese gum. Lloyd tries to purchase a visibly old hotdog from the vendor, and the vendor asks Lloyd if he is insane, because the hot dog is 'from the silent era'; when Kramer hears this, he insists on eating the hot dog in an effort to show that Lloyd is not insane, which then makes him sick. Kramer throws up on the sidewalk, and the florist brings his hose back out to clean it up. Elaine confronts him about this, giving away the fact that she was the one who spoke to the police about stopping him spraying the sidewalk with the hose, and he accidentally sprays her when he calls to someone. When she comes to the Alex in a wet shirt, Lloyd once again believes that Elaine is trying to get his attention, while Kramer reprimands her because 'the Alex is a family theater and not one of her swing joints.'

George's friend Deena thinks he is showing multiple signs of mental illness, and when he tries to explain the true situation, it sounds increasingly ridiculous to her. George wears a Henry VIII costume borrowed from Haarwood for Kramer's premiere at the Alex, and discovers he had the $20 bill all along. Deena sees him in the costume and thinks he has gone insane as he yells that he got the costume at 'the Institute.' Elaine sees the ivory button on Haarwood's ascot and tries to undo it, making Lloyd and Kramer think she's flirting with him. Lloyd later comments that Elaine really needs to find a boyfriend.

External links[edit]

• 'The Gum' Full Script
• 'The Gum' on IMDb
• 'The Gum' at TV.com

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Black Jack is an aniseed-flavored chewing gum made by Mondelēz International, originally the American Chicle Company. As of July 2018 Gerrit's Brands, Inc. acquired the rights to Black Jack gum, along with Beemans and Clove, relaunching reformulated versions in November 2018.

In 1869, exiled former Mexican president and general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (famous for losing the Texas War of Independence) was living in New Jersey.^[1] He brought Mexican chicle with him in hopes of selling it to raise funds to help him return to power in his home country. He persuaded Thomas Adams of Staten Island, New York, to buy it. Adams, a photographer and inventor, intended to vulcanize the chicle for use as a rubber substitute. Adams' efforts at vulcanization failed, but he noticed that Santa Anna liked to chew the chicle, which the ancient Mayans had done.

Disappointed with the rubber experiments, Adams boiled a small batch of chicle in his kitchen to create a chewing gum. He gave some to a local store to see if people would buy it; they did and he began production.

In 1871, Adams received a patent on a gum-making machine and began mass-producing chicle-based gum. His first product ('Snapping and Stretching') was pure chicle with no flavoring, but sold well enough to encourage Adams in his plans. He began to experiment with flavorings, beginning with sarsaparilla. In 1884, he began adding licorice flavoring and called his invention Adams' Black Jack, the first flavored gum in the U.S. It was also the first gum to be offered in sticks.

Black Jack Gum was sold well into the 1970s, when production ceased due to slow sales. It was re-introduced in October of 1986.^[2]American Chicle was purchased by the Warner-Lambert Company in 1962, which became part of Pfizer in 2000. In 2002, Adams was purchased by Cadbury, which merged with Kraft Foods in 2010 and became part of Mondelēz in 2012 following the split.

Black Jack chewing gum returned to the market in the 2000s, in limited quantities, often sold in candy specialty shops.

In popular culture[edit]

In the book Deviant, author Harold Schechter mentions that American serial killer Ed Gein chewed Black Jack gum during his sanity hearing.In the TV series Homeland, Saul Berenson is fond of those chewing-gums. Black Jack gum was also used in the television show Boardwalk Empire. It was featured in Nucki's flashbacks in Season 5, Episode 6.

In Seinfeld Season 3, Episode 5 ('The Library'), Seinfeld is reminiscing with an old friend. He asks if they were chewing Black Jack gum. She says, 'Ugh licorice gum? Never!'

In the 1990 movie Pump up the Volume, Christian Slater's character prefers Black Jack gum .

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Referenced in the song 'back to the hotel' by SF Bay area group N2Deep.

In the Sanford and Son episode 'Coffins for Sale' Fred makes a reference to Black Jack Gum being chewed by General Pershing.

In Season 3, Episode 10 of the Showtime original series Homeland, acting director of the CIA, Saul Berenson ensures his secretary has an adequate supply during a tense moment. (Later it is referenced as his lucky gum). 'I'm out of Black Jack. Anymore out there?' Secretary brings him a pack from her desk. 'Is this the last pack?' Secretary: 'I've got you plenty more. Don't worry'.

Rage (1977) by Stephen King. In chapter 22 the lead character, Charlie Decker, says: 'Black Jack gum - there is no finer'

In Season 3, Episode 16 of the American TV series Northern Exposure, 'Three Amigos,' Ruth-Anne offers Maurice a pack of Black Jack gum to bury with their late friend, Bill. She said he always liked it. Then, before they completely finish Bill's burial in the wilderness, Maurice offers Holling a stick and then he stuffs the pack of gum between the rocks that are covering the burial mound.

References[edit]

1. ^http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/6-things-you-may-not-know-about-santa-anna
2. ^https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/25/business/new-revival-old-time-gum.html

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