Tom's Restaurant Keeping Kramer Poster

For anyone wondering, Tom's Restaurant, immortalized as "Monk's," the diner where Jerry and the gang met and noshed in Seinfeld, has decided to keep its poster of Kramer. Tom's co-owner Pete Pappas told amNew York, "The picture we have on the wall is a character of a fictitious show." Plus, he's spoken to his customers about Michael Richards's racist rant, and the customers agreed with him about keeping the poster: "If I felt that it was offensive to a lot of my customers, I would take it down."

The poster hanging there is the painting of Kramer from the episode, The Letter. (Art collectors on the painting: "I see a parasite." "A sexually-depraved miscrient, who is seeking to gratify only his
most basic and immediate urges." "He is struggled, he is man-struggled. He lifts my spirit!" "He is a loathsome, offensive brute, yet I can't look away.")

Photograph by wallyg on Flickr