"The Cartoon" is the 169th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 13th episode for the ninth and final season. It aired on January 29, 1998. In this episode, aspiring actress Sally Weaver becomes a success with a show where she vilifies Jerry, Elaine struggles to see the humor in a cartoon that appears in The New Yorker, and George is disconcerted when Elaine and Kramer point out that the woman he is dating looks a lot like Jerry. Plot Kramer reveals Jerry's low opinion of Sally Weaver's acting directly to her when they meet on the street. After Sally claims that Jerry has ruined her life and she's quitting show business, Jerry is driven by guilt to recant his comments and encourage her to keep trying. Revitalized, Sally opens a new one-woman show called "Jerry Seinfeld, the Devil" where she complains about him, comically exaggerating his earlier criticism. The show is an instant success, consistently playing to sold-out crowds and appearing in TV clips. In private she is apologetic to Jerry, but in public she uses his petitions and legal maneuvers for her to stop as fresh material for her show. Jerry eventually wises up and cuts off all communication with Sally. Elaine obsesses over the meaning of a cartoon that appears in The New Yorker. Elaine goes to The New Yorker offices to seek an explanation, but the editor doesn't understand the cartoon either. Elaine rails against the New Yorkers nonsensical cartoons; impressed, the editor hires her. She is frustrated that none of her friends or co-workers find her first New Yorker cartoon funny, until she shows it to her boss J. Peterman, who recognizes that it plagiarizes a Ziggy comic. Elaine supposes that she copied it subconsciously. Peterman publicizes the plagiarism, and a new Ziggy strip parodies Elaine's cartoon. George begins dating a woman named Janet who looks like a female version of Jerry. Elaine and Kramer point out the resemblance, making George and Jerry uncomfortable, particularly after Kramer suggests that George is dating Janet because he has a repressed crush on Jerry. After Jerry rebukes Kramer for talking openly about such sensitive subjects, Kramer decides to stop talking and communicate non-verbally. George clings to vague memories of his first conversation with Janet, but she reminds him that the conversation was largely about how familiar she looks. She gets gum in her hair and cuts