Plot
At a job interview, George gets praised by the interviewer, Mr. Tuttle, as a quick study. Tuttle wants to hire George, but segues into something else that gets interrupted. George is left not knowing if Tuttle was going to give him good news, or bad news—such as the entire company board being under indictment. He is afraid to call back and ask if he was hired, which would mean that he is not a quick study after all.
Kramer and Jerry are regulars at the same corner barbershop, but Kramer is pleased with the younger barber Gino, while Jerry is merely putting up with Gino's uncle Enzo out of twelve years of loyalty. Since Elaine needs Jerry to have a good haircut for once for a bachelor auction for charity, Jerry takes Kramer's advice to get Gino on Enzo's day off. To Jerry's dismay, Enzo is at the shop and insists on taking time out for Jerry. Enzo gives Jerry a staid, outdated cut that stupefies George and Kramer, who demand that he end this "self-destructive" relationship.
With Tuttle away on vacation, George decides to start work assuming that he was hired, having nothing to lose except his pride. The other staff take his word for being hired. George chooses a small office over a big one to stay low-key, and gets assigned the "Pensky file". He fritters away each day doing nothing, and confuses everyone at an office birthday party by acting overfamiliar. Pensky himself visits, and is impressed by George's busywork putting his file in a new folder; he wants to hire George, but segues into something else that gets interrupted.
Jerry backs out of the bachelor auction when Elaine cracks up at his hair. Since Enzo is possessive and "crazy", Kramer sets up an under-the-table haircut for Jerry at Gino's apartment, behind Enzo's back. They only get one minute before Enzo arrives unexpectedly to apologize for misjudging Gino's beloved movie Edward Scissorhands . Gino hides Jerry, but Enzo recognizes Jerry's hair on the floor. Elaine has no choice but to auction off Kramer instead of Jerry; she struggles to name his redeeming qualities, while he struts onto an attendee's table and falls off.
Enzo, obsessed with proving his suspicions, flatters Newman and offers him free haircuts to collect hair from Jerry. Newman, astonishingly, finds not one stray hair in Jerry's bathroom, so he blatantly gets too close to Jerry to snip off some incriminating hair. Out for blood, Enzo catches Gino showing Edward Scissorhands to Jerry. With both barbers brought to tears over the movie, disaster is averted.
Tuttle confirms that he hired George, but notices that George slacked all week. George quits, assuming that Pensky had the same intent as Tuttle to hire him, only to find that Pensky meant to say that his entire company board is under indictment. Jerry, realizing what Newman did, finds Newman at the shop playing barber, and shaves his head.
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