Larry David, Jerry ‘Seinfeld’ NBC Controversy: Network Canceled “Politically Incorrect” Scripts About Assassination & Race, Masturbation Episode Okay to Air

Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David's 90s baby Seinfeld had a brilliant way of stepping around controversial topics and tackling them straight on in a SFW sort of way that no other sitcom could do. The perfect example would be "The Contest"––the masturbation episode in which Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer enter a contest to see who can be "master of their domain." And while it seemed nothing could top that, apparently the heads over at NBC gave the axe to a couple of episodes they deemed too controversial for the airwaves. While David, Seinfeld, executive producer Larry Charles, and a number of other writers wrote the two scripts, the network decided it best to cancel them and not even film due to them being politically incorrect.

One of the more controversial scripts was titled "The Bet" which is also known as "The Gun." This one reportedly centered on Julia Louis-Dreyfus's character (Elaine, duh) and a racy joke in which she placed her hand to her head in the shape of a gun and makes a joke about assassination.

The above was one of the more famous Seinfeld scripts not to be filmed but there has recently been talk of another via an article in The New York Post. This script reportedly had Jason Alexander, who played the ever-so Larry David-like George Costanza, commenting, "You know, I have never seen a black person order a salad."

And, well, NBC wanted nothing to do with that...

But center an entire episode around masturbation? Okay, sure, that's fine.

Check out more of the report about these scripts over at The New York Post.