its 9th year on Broadway at the time. Production Although the episode is credited as written solely by the writing team of Gregg Kavet and Andy Robin, the eponymous story arc was actually contributed by Peter Mehlman. Kavet and Robin had been working on a story involving the Yankee management, and had even cast Ben Stein for it, but felt the story was not working out and decided to instead use Mehlman's "comeback" idea, which Mehlman had been trying to get into a Seinfeld episode for years. Kavet and Robin consciously scripted the scenes where Jerry, Elaine, and Kramer try to talk George out of the "jerk store" comeback as a satire of the writing-by-committee method which was common in television (and which Seinfeld had just switched to after seven years in which individual writers and writing partners wrote their episodes largely in isolation). Regular Seinfeld director Andy Ackerman was on vacation, so the episode was directed by David Owen Trainor. The tennis match was set in an indoor court, but the crew were unable to book an indoor court in time to use it as a filming location. Instead, they used a crane to drape a tent over an outdoor tennis court, making it look like an indoor court. El Niño was affecting the weather patterns in the United States, resulting in heavy rain in Los Angeles on the week the crew shot the tennis court scenes. Rain collected on the tent, putting the cast and crew in danger of having hundreds of pounds of water dumped on them if the tent were to collapse, and seeped in underneath, creating electrical hazards. After filming of the master shots wrapped (by which time the crane's back wheels were lifting off the ground from the weight of the water), the cast and crew cleared out, and the remaining footage was filmed back at the studio on a makeshift half-court set. The role of Vincent was played by Danny Strong and voiced by Robby Benson, since the writers wanted Vincent to sound older than he was. In real life, Strong was knowledgeable about films from an early age. He would rent videos from Video Archives. Kavet and Robin were both big childhood fans of the TV drama Emergency!, and asked the casting staff to try to get Robert Fuller, who played Dr. Kelly Brackett on the show, to voice the doctor on