re: Why did Newman want a transfer so bad?

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Yeah, George was pretty resentful of Kramer during most of the show.

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Yeah, I think it was because Kramer never had to work but he also never worried about money....ever. He was a mooch, but he never implied he was a mooch because he had money problems.

I think Kramer's money situation -- like most other things -- was a running joke on the show that they just weren't going to bother explaining because that was the point of the joke, just like Kramer's litany of friends who are never introduced.

I always loved the way they dealt with that. In that one scene, Jerry asks "You mention all these friends all the time, why have I never seen any of them? Kramer responds "they wonder the same thing about you!"