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30. Jimmy
 Jimmy is the first person we meet in TV history who speaks in the third person. It takes a while for the main characters of Seinfeld to realize that Jimmy is refering to himself as his own name when speaking. Elaine especially is confused by this when seeking a name of a "hot guy" at the gym. How could Elaine have known that Jimmy was referring to himself when he said "Jimmy's got the hot's for you!". Jimmy would prove to be one of the more peculiar characters in Seinfeld history not just for his 3rd person parlance, but also for his riddelin-induced personality, always on his toes and ebullient about the smallest of YMCA basketball games. Jimmy would be hospitalized by slipping on some of Kramer's water that was spilling out of his mouth. This in turn would lead to a scene with Jimmy punching Kramer in the mouth leading to Kramer's further appearance as a mentally disabled person living on his own in New York City. Among other 3rd person referentials conspicuously coming out of Jimmy's mouth were "Look who put the bread out of Jimmy's mouth!", "Jimmys going into shock!", "Hand's off Jimmy! Everyone, Don't touch Jimmy!". Anyone who talks like this has to be included not only on a "Best characters of Seinfeld" list, but a "Best TV characters of all time" list. Who among us would not take the chance to befriend someone in real life so odd? Imagine all the people you could confuse if you had a friend who naturally spoke like this?
29. Ramon "the Pool Guy"
 In case anyone forgot, Ramon is the "Pool Guy", and as a "Pool Guy", it's understandable that he may not have a lot of friends. After seeing Jerry outside a movie in the 7th season, he asks Jerry to hang out which Jerry casually accepts. Little did Jerry know that Ramon would turn this befriending request into a full on "best friends forever" relationship. Ramon's nerdy friends giggle at Jerry when they see him asking him "How did it go with Ramon?" as if Jerry and Ramon were 8th grade daters. It's on a fateful day in the subway though that Jerry gets in the subway before Ramon can get in, with Jerry quipping "I'm sorry Ramon, but I already have enough friends", disparaging the lonely friend-seeking Poolman into a hissy fit on par with the most love-sick of teenage girls. Jerry would have trouble shaking Ramon at the gym where he swims and works out with Ramon interfering in Jerry's swimming every time he went across the middle of the pool. Ramon would crash the pool stick against Jerry's swimming for Jerry's ostensible apostasy. Ramon is an un-self-conscious character just looking to have simple fun, not worrying about how girly he can come across sometimes in his friendship. Little did he know that he was dealing with the most critical of self-conscious New Yorkers.
28. Franklin Delano Romanowski (FDR)
Franklin Delano Romanowski (FDR) was a friend of Kramer's who had it out for Kramer. We don't know why he had it out for Kramer for much of the episode, but we see FDR's blowing out of candles at his own birthday party looking shifty eyed at Kramer when he was appearably making a wish. We learn later that he wished Kramer to "drop dead" putting Kramer in a tizzy. Kramer would go on to seek Newman's birthday wish to counter-act FDR's wish for Kramer to drop dead. Hilarious scenes developed with both FDR and Kramer pulling out there eye lashes to counter-act each others wish for Kramer to drop dead. Kramer would try to up the deadly wishes of FDR by wishing on a shooting star when no one was around, but we learn that FDR also wished on that shooting star knowing that Kramer may wish back for his life on it. This childish behavior could only strike at the childishness of the viewers who saw this absurdity as pure entertainment. We learn at the end of the episode that 2 years ago, Kramer threw a mighty snowball at FDR outside of the coffee shop they usually eat in. It's this snowball that caused havoc on Kramer's life and put him in serious jeopardy of FDR's lugubrious wishes. Seinfeld viewers all wish they could see more of FDR.  Keith Hernandez becomes the bee's knees and arch enemy for the main characters of Seinfeld. For Newman and Kramer, he was a wretched, abject baseball player willing to spit on fans that dislike his play. For Jerry and Elaine, he was a marvelous baseball player with a nice thick mustache and handsome looks! Jerry develops a sort of man crush on Keither when they meet at the gym and Keith tells Jerry that he likes his act. After all the coquettishness, Keith asks Jerry to "hang out". He doesn't call Jerry for awhile evoking Jerry into a frantic school girl disposition. This becomes even further developed when Keith meets Elaine and they start to hit it off making Jerry wildly jealous asking Elaine, "Did you even watch game 7?" Keith proving to be the consummately sought-out man's man would not be providentially recognized by everyone though. Kramer and Newman remember being spitted on by Keith at a game they attended because they quipped at him "Nice game pretty boy". The reconstruction of the whole event parodying JFK, even made Jerry reenact a crime scene to show how impossible it was for spit to hit Kramer and then ricochet into Newman. We learn that the real spitter was Roger Mcdowell and all is well again with Kramer and Newman joining the "I love Keith Hernandez" club by helping him move his furniture out of his current residence. What do we learn from Keith Hernandez in Seinfeld? Not much...Just that both men and women can have crushes on famous baseball players.
26. The Caddy
 The Caddy appears in episode 122 when we witness Kramer befriend this greensmith for improving his golf game. From this point on, Kramer seeked the advice from the Caddy on everything beyond the game of golf much to peril of Kramer and Jackies Childs lawsuit against Sue Ellen Mischke, the heiress to the "Oh Henry" candy estate. The Caddy, feeling somewhat audacious after his help in drastically improving Kramers life and golf game, decides to take on the role of a trial lawyer at the end of a trial that would cost Child's and Kramer a prize of millions of dollars. The trial, based on the impertinence or non-impertinence of wearing "just a bra" in the middle of the public daylight would come into the favor of the Kramer/Child's symbiosis only to be lost by The Caddy's "advice" that Kramer so assiduously seeked at the end of the trial, looking for a closing argument. The Caddy's advice to "have her try the bra on" would prove to be deleterious to the great opportunity in their grasp. The bra didn't fit, mostly because Mischke had plenty of clothes on underneath, much to the vexation of Child's who tells Kramer at the end of an episode "I've been in this business for a long time, and you listening to a caddy!" Nonetheless, The Caddy did improve Kramer's golf game and came across with the type of stoic demure needed to eventually become a good trial lawyer, but for now he is on our list mostly for creating a bad ending to one of Kramer and Child's forays into cheap lawsuits.
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