Kramer is at Pendant Publishing discussing his idea of a coffee table book about coffee tables with Elaine and her hyperenthusiastic co-worker Toby, whom Elaine can not stand. Kramer invites Toby to see Jerry's act, where she variously cheers, boos, and hisses him, thinking this to be part of the stand-up comedy experience. Out of consideration for Kramer, Jerry refrains from making any retort against her and becomes flustered, earning a bad review from a major magazine critic. George suggests that Jerry get the "ultimate comedian's revenge" by going to Toby's place of work and heckling her in return. George attends his girlfriend Robin's son's birthday party. He panics when a small grease fire breaks out in the kitchen and pushes down everyone in his path, including Robin's son and mother and an elderly woman with a walker, in his rush to get out. The birthday clown, Eric, puts out the fire with his shoe. George pathetically tries to justify his actions by saying he was acting bravely as their leader, an explanation nobody buys. Disgusted by George's cowardice, Robin dumps him. Jerry goes to Pendant Publishing and heckles Toby. Upset, she runs out of the building where her foot is run over by a street sweeper, severing her pinky toe. After an ambulance takes her away, Kramer finds and ices the toe, boards a bus, and fights a gunman to get to the hospital, where her toe is successfully reattached. To Elaine's indignation, Toby receives a promotion that Elaine had wanted because her boss felt sorry for her because of the accident. Toby's first order of business is getting Kramer's coffee table book published. Jerry convinces the critic to return to the comedy club to judge his performance again. Inspired by Kramer's heroic toe recovery, George approaches Robin at the club and asks for a second chance, saying he has changed. However, when he spots a prop comic holding a fake gun, he screams, panics and runs away (as he did with the fire), ruining Jerry's act.