45 Plot Holes and Unresolved Loopholes in Seinfeld That Have Been Bugging Us for Years

You’ve seen it happen on several different shows. All of a sudden, a character starts only appearing from the waist up. During Seinfeld’s run, Julia Louis Dreyfus was pregnant twice in real life. However, because her character, Elaine, was not pregnant, the show had to devise various ways to hide Julia’s pregnancy.

In some episodes, Elaine can be seen in oversized clothing or physically hiding behind furniture. In fact, in one episode, she gets stuck on the subway and is almost exclusively filmed from the waist up while she stands in a throng of people. That also explains the ridiculously large gift she’s carrying. There’s not much else to do, though, when reality and fiction collide.