Redditors Claim That They’ve Seen Numerous ‘Assman’ License Plates Inspired by ‘Seinfeld’ in the Wild

Nearly three decades after Jerry Seinfeld famously asked, “Who would order a license plate that says ‘Assman’?,” we may finally have an answer: Any Seinfeld fan with either $20 or a really good connection to the DMV.  

This Seinfeld-ian revelation all began late last month when Redditor Different_Wallaby660 popped by the sitcom’s subreddit with a glimpse of a rogue vanity plate they spotted in the wild. “Best damn thing that happened to me today was seeing this beautiful sight,” they captioned a photo of a blue Mercedes-Benz 450SEL featuring a Kramer-inspired Illinois license plate. “I’m the ass man, Jerry!!!”

Although it appears the sighting was likely a prank — databases returned no results for the proctology-themed vanity plate, and the Illinois DMV noted that an “ASSMAN” plate was unavailable — Different_Wallaby660 was far from alone. 

A few days later, Cutepelican126 shared a sighting of their own to the subreddit. “There’s one here too,” they wrote alongside a photo of a black VW boasting a replica of the iconic New York plate. 

While the post, much like Different_Wallaby660’s, received its fair share of skepticism and (separately) Seinfeld references — “It could just be a guy with a big ass,” speculated one commenter; another reiterated that “as far as the state of New York is concerned,” the driver is “the ASSMAN” — Reallyroundthefamily had another observation. “How many fucking ass man vanity plates are out there?” they asked. “It’s like we see a different one every week on here LOL.”

We may never know the answer to that question, but we hope those who do possess ASSMAN plates are really careful when driving with their friends’ mothers.