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The Story behind The Script
IN EARLY 1994, THE TWO OF US, Glen Eric Reed and Michael A. Weintraub, had a great idea. While dining at Planet Hollywood in Washington, D.C., we began talking. The discussion was not about the weather, or politics, or even the latest sports scores. It was about ... coleslaw. Yes, coleslaw. After a good fifteen- or twenty-minute discussion on the merits of Planet Hollywood coleslaw, we realized what an idiotic conversation it had been. An idiotic conversation of the type often heard on one of our favorite television shows, Seinfeld. After dinner, we left and started writing.
Well, we didn't finish. At least not that night. The first half of The Slaw sat on Mike's computer for eight months. After a hectic day of watching Natural Born Killers (and threatening killing sprees and/or suicide), we finally decided to get back to work on our Seinfeld episode. Wisely, we waited until the next day to do so.
Eventually, we finished it. Not without difficulty, though. We were forced to entirely rewrite our Elaine subplot, since something quite close to our original idea ended up on the air, on a "real" Seinfeld episode. In fact, in the years that passed after The Slaw was finished, pretty much every plot except the one involving the slaw itself appeared on the air. George had his candy bar problems (though with Twix, not Mr. Goodbar) and Elaine insisted on "trying it out" in addition to "trying it on" (though with a dress, not sunglasses).
Yes, it's entirely possible that someone writing for Seinfeld actually did steal our ideas. Not that there's anything wrong with that. We've decided to take it as a compliment.
is copyright © 1994 by Glen Eric Reed and Michael A.
Weintraub.
The 
TV program and original characters are
copyright © Columbia TriStar.
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