 The episode contained a number of references to pop culture . George explains that he broke the original statue when he was using it as a microphone , singing the song " MacArthur Park " , by Jimmy Webb ; in early drafts of the script , George broke it while singing Eddie Cochran 's " Summertime Blues " . The episode also contained numerous references to the 1960s television crime drama Dragnet , . This was because Larry Charles , who wrote the episode , watched a lot of reruns of the show when he was writing for Seinfeld . The cop Kramer pretends to be when he retrieves the statue was inspired by Joe Friday , the central character of Dragnet . Finland is also mentioned multiple times , as Rava is from there . At the end of the episode Kramer states " Well , lets put it this way , I didn 't take them to The People 's Court " , a reference to the judicial television show . 
