During the nine years that Seinfeld was on the air, there were a number of ideas that didn’t end up making it from script to screen. One of the better-known examples was a story about Elaine buying a gun . She argues with Jerry about it before getting a fake one as a gag and accidentally pulls it out at an airport. About 20 minutes into the table read, the cast decided not to do it, and a new script had to be written in just two days.

Other ideas were similarly rejected because there were concerns that the shows might be perceived as racist. According to an article in the New York Post , one unfilmed script involved George getting in trouble after saying he’d never seen a black person order a salad.…