The jokes submitted to the The New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest possess a humor all their own. In the episode from 14 years ago, Elaine gripes It depicted a pig at a complaint department saying "I wish I was taller". Elaine goes to The New Yorker to seek an explanation for the cartoon. The cartoon is an opportunity to deconstruct funny, as Mankoff does in his blog. In the final season of Seinfeld, Elaine can't figure out why a certain New Yorker cartoon is funny. Two of my favorite things came back together this week: the TV comedy Seinfeld and The New Yorker magazine. With Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander. The piggy at the complaint department is back. Directed by Andy Ackerman. Elinoff, the fictional New Yorker cartoon editor played by Paul Benedict in this Seinfeld episode written by writer-cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan, explains to Elaine why he can't explain the cartoon that's driving her crazy. In the episode, Elaine visits Mankoff's TV double, The New Yorker's cartoon editor, who admits that sometimes he doesn't get the jokes, either. Discovering that the editor didn't understand the cartoon either, he liked the kitty. He admits that even he doesn't understand some… The New Yorker is republishing the cartoon featured—and mocked—in the 1998 Seinfeld episode, "The Cartoon." It was even funnier if you knew that the script was written by Bruce Eric Kaplan, a TV writer who also draws cartoons for the New Yorker — cartoons that he signs BEK. She gets a meeting with an editor and asks him directly. This week a familiar cartoon showed up on the The New Yorker’s last page as part of its continuing Caption Contest.The cartoon, of a pig at a complaint department, was drawn by Mick Stevens, who has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker for thirty four years .. Why was the cartoon familiar? Elaine's complaint, gets her the opportunity to do her own cartoon for the magazine. In its final season, the TV sitcom Seinfeld did a send-up of the cartoons in The New Yorker.The magazine's comics are distinctive – short, quippy, topical, understated. Simply put, they're smart George's new girlfriend looks just like Jerry. Sally Weaver makes fun of Jerry. The New Yorker is giving you a chance to caption a cartoon featured on Seinfeld yourself — if they like your entry, it’ll be published in the magazine. He offers a cartoon summary of the Seinfeld episode for those of us who can't remember the pig. Seinfeld New Yorker Pig Cartoon September 10, 2010 1:30 PM Subscribe. I'd like a copy to print out for my cubicle but can't find it anywhere. The magazine is asking readers for their ideas in this week's cartoon caption contest. In the Seinfeld episode "The Cartoon" Elaine submits a cartoon idea to the New Yorker (that she steals from Ziggy). Elaine gets a job drawing cartoons for the New Yorker. Sally opens her new one woman show about "Jerry Seinfeld- the Devil." 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