Why didn't Audrey (Jerry's girlfriend) eat the apple pie?

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In Seinfeld's episode The Pie, Audrey, Jerry's girlfriend refuses to eat or even taste the apple pie he was offering her. This happened when they were eating at Monk's Cafe. She seemed very frightened while denying.

Later on she admits that she has eaten the apple pie many times which Poppie, her father, makes at his restaurant.

Kramer later tells Jerry that he saw Audrey eating apple pie at Monk's itself.

Jerry himself was going crazy over not knowing the reason of why she didn't eat the pie when he had offered it to her. The episode never explains it either.

Why didn't she eat the apple pie for the first time? Did you ever come across any related comment from the writers in their interview/DVD commentary?

(I've already read few related threads/articles: Reddit, AV Club. Nothing convincing there.)



Best Answer

We're not supposed to know, and that's the beauty of it.

You have to know everything, don't you? (Kramer to Jerry, The Parking Space)

There's no explanation provided in the DVD extra dedicated to this episode, but the episode's writers (Tom Gammill & Max Pross) say it was based on a similar incident from Jerry's life, where a woman refused to taste his pie and it drove him mad. They thought it was a funny thing to be angry about.

And Jerry's frustration is exactly what's funny. The show could easily supply a mundane explanation, but chooses not to, not only so we could share his frustration, but also because it's beside the point. Instead, through Jerry's incident with Poppie and George's botched job interview, it cleverly shows us that there could easily be an explanation for Audrey's behavior, but Jerry will never get that because he's incapable of putting himself in someone else's shoes, and blindly prefers to scrutinize others.

In fact, Jerry's so blind to this, that it's easy to come up with a simple solution to this enigma just by drawing on his own experiences. Like, maybe Audrey saw someone sneeze (a la the pasta primavera) or cough (a la the babka) on his slice, was embarrassed to tell him but later decided to risk it anyway. Maybe (again, like the babka) it had a small hair or bug on it. Or, even more plausibly, maybe she just didn't want a bite out of someone's half eaten pie - note that she refuses right after Jerry double-dips his fork into it. A germophobe like Jerry should've understood her reluctance and drop the whole thing.

Jerry, however, is more prone to obsess over a mystery until it drives him insane and often costs him a relationship. After all, this isn't the first or last time this formula was used. He relentlessly tried to discover why Newman was turned off by his date, why everyone thinks his great girlfriend is a loser and why the woman that he's seeing keeps wearing the same dress - and these mysteries were never solved in those episodes either, because a big part of the series (right up to the very finale) is about the pitfalls of neurotic obsessions, where trying to know the social unknown never ends well.

Jerry: Well, I think we've proven who the psycho is.

Elaine: (sarcastically) We certainly have.




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How many girlfriends did Jerry have on Seinfeld?

According to the ninth-season DVD release of the series, Jerry has had 73 different girlfriends seen or alluded to over the course of the series.

Who played Audrey on Seinfeld?

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Did they really eat on Seinfeld?

Jerry, George, Kramer and Elaine spend a lot of time in Jerry's apartment gathered around his kitchen, but they never actually eat there, preferring to go to Monk's Coffee Shop.



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Answer 2

The reason is because he began eating it first and she doesn't share food and is grossed out by that. The transcript makes it clearer by stating "Jerry starts eating" before he asks her to share and she is "disgusted". Her going back to Monk's and eating the pie later (something Jerry wouldn't have done with Poppie's Restaurant) shows that Jerry was the reason.

I disagree with the other answer that "Jerry will never get that because he's incapable of putting himself in someone else's shoes", the whole reason he's interested is because he's putting himself in her shoes trying to understand. It's about Jerry letting criticisms of people's behavior overshadow a relationship. Also, Jerry's ego would likely not have him ever consider himself as the gross thing.

I also disagree that the show could've only provided "mundane" answers, as that seems a very uncreative thought to have, even more ridiculous considering the episode shows funny answers. There's always ways to make things funny. It would've been good to have her tell Jerry it was because of him, just to see him immediately move on to nitpicking that and still be in the same situation.

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