Tropic of Cancer - On episode No. 22 "The Library" on the sitcom SEINFELD/NBC/1990-98 comedian Jerry Seinfeld received an overdue notice from the New York Public Library claiming that he checked out a copy of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in 1971 but never returned it to the 42nd Street Branch Library. Jerry clearly thought the library was in error but that didn't stop the NYPL from sending Bookman, the Library Cop (Philip Baker Hall) to reclaim their property and to collect on the fine. Bookman, an overzealous 25-year veteran, who had no time for hippie's burning library cards, Abby Hoffman or people stealing books abruptly told Jerry in no uncertain terms "Don't mess with me or I'll be on you like a pit bull on a poodle." But the end of the episode Jerry paid the fine after remembering that he gave the book to his friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander). George had failed to return the book because he dropped it in the locker room at JFK High School when he was given an underwear wedgy by his mean high school coach, Mr. Hayman (Biff Yeager) who alway ridiculed George's last name of Costanza by saying "Can't stand ya." In the final scene of the episode, we see Coach Hayman, now a homeless man, lying in an alley with the copy of Tropic of Cancer by his side. TRIVIA NOTE: The short story "The Library Policeman" written by Stephen King appears in a collection of his short stories entitled Four Past Midnight. On episode No. 302 "He Thought He Could" of the sitcom MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN, shoe salesman Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) finally returns the copy of The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper that he checked out from the library in 1957 while in Elementary school, and encounters the same fat librarian that was there when he was a kid. See also - COOKS & COOKBOOKS: "The Soup Nazi"