In the second season of "Seinfeld," series staff writer Larry Charles wrote an episode titled "The Bet," a.k.a. "The Gun," which revolved around the purchase of a firearm. The script's A-story involved a bet as to whether or not Kramer (Michael Richards) had sex with a flight attendant like he claimed, while the B-story had Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) declaring she wanted to buy a handgun after a neighbor in her building gets mugged. Elaine is initially very excited — even sexually aroused — at the thought of purchasing a gun and jokes whimsically about shooting Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) in the head. Elaine loses interest, however, when she actually starts going through the process of acquiring a weapon. Notably, she doesn't like having to get one from a shady friend-of-a-friend in his apart

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