High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Phone Message" is the ninth episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, and the fourth of the show`s second season. The episode concerns protagonist Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld) dating a woman who likes a commercial for cotton Dockers he dislikes. Meanwhile, his friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander) leaves an obnoxious message on the answering machine of his girlfriend, and has to go to a lot of trouble to prevent her from hearing it.