Which Seinfeld episode features the line “These pretzels are making me thirsty”?

The Seinfeld episode featuring the line “These pretzels are making me thirsty” is “The Alternate Side.” Kramer says the line after landing a small speaking role in a movie being filmed in New York by Woody Allen.

Kramer first gets an extra role and amuses Allen with a pratfall. He is then given the pretzel line, which the characters repeatedly test in different deliveries. George turns it into a dramatic lament while working as a temporary car parker, and Jerry and Elaine later use it to express frustration about their own situations.

“The Alternate Side” aired on December 4, 1991, as season 3’s eleventh episode. The phrase became one of Seinfeld’s earliest widely recognized catchphrases, and fans reportedly threw pretzels during Jerry Seinfeld’s stand-up performances after the episode aired. It is easy to confuse the quote with “The Pitch,” another episode connected to the show’s later meta-comedy, but the pretzel line belongs specifically to “The Alternate Side.”