Household Cleaning Tips and Seinfeld

This post comes to you courtesy of my darling daughter, who spilled a cup of coffee on our carpet. As it turns out, the coffee stain was amazingly responsive to the following removal recipe:

1. Blot the area with a clean, white cloth to absorb all the liquid you can.
2. Mix 1 teaspoon clear, mild liquid dish washing detergent with 1 cup lukewarm water.
3. Sponge the area with the detergent solution. Blot again with a clean, white cloth.
4. Mix 1/3 cup white vinegar with 2/3 cup lukewarm water.
5. Sponge the area with the vinegar solution. Blot with a clean, white cloth.
6. Sponge the area with clean water. Blot with a clean, white cloth.

What does this have to do with Seinfeld, you ask? Well, let's just say that you don't necessarily have to risk brainwashing by Sunshine Carpet Cleaners to get rid of a little coffee stain:

Episode 114 - The Checks

GEORGE: (to the executives) Excuse me. Did you hire the Sunshine Carpet Cleaners
EXECUTIVE 1: Yes. Cleaned up the (points) coffee stain, left by Jerry Seinfield.

Wilhelm enters, dressed in the same yellow overall as the other carpet cleaners. George looks stunned.

GEORGE: Mr Wilhelm? Wha..what're you doing here?
WILHELM: I'm here to clean the carpets. Most of the world is carpeted. And, one day, we will do the cleaning.

George lets this sink in, then slowly turns to the leader.

GEORGE: (with incredulity) Him you brainwashed! (angry shout) What's he got that I don't have?!

The leader shrugs, as if to say 'You work it out.'

GEORGE: (urgent) Mr Wilhelm, listen. You've been abducted! Please, Mr Wilhelm, you gotta listen to me!
WILHELM: Wilhelm? (he raises the nozzle of his cleaner) My name is Tanya.

George purses his lips.

EXECUTIVE 1: (speaks Japanese) SUBTITLE: With these two idiots I don't know how the Yankees won the World Series.

The second executive shakes her head.