High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Jacket" is the third episode of the second season of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld and the show`s eighth episode overall. In the episode, protagonist Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld) buys an expensive suede jacket and has dinner with the father of his ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes. Elaine`s father Alton (Lawrence Tierney), a war veteran and writer, makes Jerry and his friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander) very uncomfortable. Elaine is delayed and Jerry and George are stuck with Alton waiting for her at the hotel.