The beach photo idea was inspired by an incident that happened to Jerry Seinfeld while he was vacationing in Mexico with friends. A local offered to take an instant photo of them for a fee. The chemicals in the photo mixed incorrectly, causing Seinfeld's face to be completely blurred out. The photographer told them he would fix it, and returned minutes later with Jerry's face hand-drawn onto the photo. Darin Henry, who joined the Seinfeld crew as a production assistant during its fourth season before writing a handful of episodes during its last two seasons, contributed Elaine's alarm clock problem. When going on trips, Henry would always worry he had forgotten to shut off his alarm, and thought it would be funny to have a story which looked at that scenario from the other perspective. The scene where George discusses other possible jobs with Jerry was a deliberate imitation of scenes from the season two episode "The Revenge". In the scene where she is in her bedroom folding clothes, Elaine reprises her dance from "The Little Kicks" to Foghat's "Slow Ride." References External links Seinfeld (season 9) episodes 1997 American television episodes