In "The Shoes", Elaine catches the eye of NBC president Russell Dalrymple by wearing a dress with a décolletage. She breaks off the relationship after one date, sending Russell into an emotional spiral that causes him to quit his job and join Greenpeace to impress her. Russell's departure from NBC causes George and Jerry's pilot to be rejected, and it is implied at the end of "The Pilot" that Russell dies at sea during a Greenpeace mission. In "The Van Buren Boys", J. Peterman suggests that when Elaine writes the "romantic escapade" section of his autobiography, she can feel free to throw herself into the dialogue. In "The Strike", Elaine is at Tim Whatley's holiday party and sees that she is being eyed up by a man in a denim vest and states that her "fake number" is coming out. She later realizes that she wrote her fake number on a sub sandwich punch card, so to get the free sub has to go to the Off-track betting parlor where the phone number she wrote belongs. When she gets there she meets the bookie at the window and Charlie, two men whom she scammed with a fake number (among many). She then gives out the number for H&H Bagels which is where Kramer is working. She dates baseball player (and Kramer and Newman's nemesis) Keith Hernandez in "The Boyfriend". She also dates Tim Whatley, a dentist who appears in several episodes, most notably "The Label Maker". Over several episodes in Season 4, she dates Joe Davola, who is simultaneously stalking Jerry, unbeknownst to her until "The Opera". In "The Masseuse", she dates a man named Joel Rifkin, who shares the same name as a notorious serial killer. In "The Sniffing Accountant" she dates Jake Jarmel, an up-and-coming writer and star client of Pendant Publishing. She dumps him because of his reluctance to use exclamation points. They get back together in "The Opposite", but he dumps her for stopping to buy Jujyfruits after hearing he was in a car crash. Later, in "The Scofflaw", Elaine taunts Jake by wearing glasses that are identical to his—he is upset because he thought he had the only pair. She then gives them to Mr. Lippman, Jake's publisher, who inadvertently angers Jake by wearing them to a book promotion. In "The Bizarro Jerry", she dates Kevin, the nice, kind antithesis of Jerry whose friends Gene, Feldman and Vargas are polar opposites of George, Kramer and Newman, respectively, each described as coming from the backwards Bizarro World of Superman comics.