The TV Zone

Adios, Fidel.

With the news that the Cuban dictator is bowing out, many folks’ thoughts surely turned to such memorable moments as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I thought about “Seinfeld.”

Specifically the episode in which George Steinbrenner sends his flunky George Costanza to Cuba to look for baseball talent. As luck, would have it -- the episode airs tonight at 7:30 on WNYW/Ch.5

In Havana George ends up being invited to a party thrown by Castro (a nod here to Woody Allen attending the San Marcos’ dictator’s bash in “Bananas").

Fidel (played by Michael Sorich) is in a chatty mood and tells George why he doesn’t like parties:

“The problem with parties is that you have to eat standing up. Once at a party, I put my plate on someone’s piano. I assure you if I had not been the dictator, I could not have gotten away with that one.”

Fidel continues to rant and it’s even too much for George, who backs out of El Jefe’s office.

... What can I say, this is how my mind works.