To celebrate Seinfeld’s 30th anniversary and the woman who made the show what it was, we’ve rounded up 30 of Elaine’s best moments from throughout the series.

Elaine Becomes Convinced That She Has Rabies (Season 5, "The Glasses") Here's a "fun" fact about rabies: as soon as a person starts showing symptoms, there is a 100 percent fatality rate.

Elaine, in the episode, is thrown into a crisis. Now that she’s been shown an alternative, her everyday existence—the show Seinfeld, that is—suddenly seems unbearable.

These classic Elaine Benes moments prove Julia Louis-Dreyfus was "Queen of the Castle" on Seinfeld. I often have trouble deciding on my favorite of the Seinfeld characters, but Elaine Benes has a ...

Now it's tough to imagine "Seinfeld" without the (badly) dancing, big salad-eating, John F. Kennedy Jr.-spotting, pal-shoving Elaine Benes, but the character wasn't part of the pilot.