Marcia Cross: They were at the point of being their finest. They were like an orchestra. So you come in and you're just in awe, watching that symphony play. Then you try to jump in!

Christine Taylor: What I thought was really fantastic about the environment on the Seinfeld set was all of the guest stars hung out on the stage together all day.

Kristin Bauer van Straten: I remember meeting the man who played my hands. I keep wondering where he is. He and I are living this shared reality, and he's out there, walking aroundwith those hands!

**Jennifer Coolidge: **Lisa Edelstein, who later starred on House, and I were both in the same episode. Lisa said, "Hey, the whole cast goes to this restaurant after the show, and this writer invited us." And so Lisa and I show up, and it's just Jerry, Larry David, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Jason Alexander. I have to say, there was this awkward moment. When you do a show, you forget that they've already shot 3,000 episodes, and you're just one of many people who passed through. Lisa and I thought that we were going to have our coming out party. Then we sat down at the table, and we knew instantly that we shouldn't have been sitting there. I mean, it couldn't have been more uncomfortable. This was their private time!

Jami Gertz: They were a very tight-knit group. They knew each other's rhythms. When you see a show that's been that successful, and that these actors have attained that success together, it can either be a very cohesive group or a very dysfunctional group. And they were extremely cohesive.

Jennifer Coolidge: They were all incredibly nice! Just don't, like, go to their after party.

THE AFTERMATH

Kristin Bauer van Straten: I have particularly delicate hands and I'm so grateful for that because for years people would go, "You're Man Hands!" And then their eyes would go straight to my hands. Thank God I got my mom's hands and not my dad's. And any women who have man hands themselves always come and find me to show them to me. I met one recently! She was talking to me, and I was thinking, Wow, now those are some man hands. And then she said, "I have to show you somethingI have man hands." I just said, "You do!"

**Lori Loughlin: **The day after my episode aired, I was at the mall or something. I was sporting a new haircut in that episode, and people kept coming up to me to say, "Oh my goodness, I loved your haircut last night!" I've never experienced that level of attention in one day.

Jane Leeves: I was in New York last year and someone came up to me and said, "Oh my God, you're Marla the Virgin!" I just thought, That was years agoI've done a few things since!

Jami Gertz: The pinnacle was when Vice President Gore was running for president. I was at a fundraiser, and there was a reception line that he'd go through to greet people. When I went up to shake his hand, he looked and me, and he said, "Can you spare a square?"

Marlee Matlin: Many years later, while driving down a highway, a man frantically waved to me from the next lane as if something was wrong with my car. We pulled over and he jumped out and came up to me excitedly and said, "You're the lip reader!"

Jennifer Coolidge: After my episode aired, all these people, all these casting directors that would never let me through the doorwell, it kind of changed a lot for me. Seinfeld and American Pie really opened the doors. Years later, I was up for a pilot, and it was between me and another girl, and I think they were leaning toward the other girl. But then the producer told me a rerun of my Seinfeld episode had aired that night, and everyone had seen it, and it had gotten me the job. Thank you, Jerry!

Teri Hatcher: It's like we all got the "Jerry's Girlfriend" patch for our Girl Scout sashes.

Lauren Graham: You know, I think I've done as much press for my one episode of Seinfeld as I've done for anything else I've been on! [laughs]

Lori Loughlin: For me, I'll always love that after nine seasons, my character is the one that made Jerry cry.

Kristin Bauer van Straten: Every few years, I would run into Jerry randomly someplace, at like the hardware store or who knows. And every time I'd see him, I'd think, Well, he had a million guest stars. Should I say hello? He probably wouldn't remember my name. So I guess I'll have to go up to him and say, "Hi, I'm Man Hands." So that's what I do! It's my only choice! And he's so sweet about it. So another five years will roll around and I'll see him at a Starbucks, and I'll think, I guess I'll do it again! And I do! I'll be 70 one day, going up to Jerry, saying, "Jerry, it's me, Man Hands!"