'Seinfeld' Killed Off Susan Because Actress Was "Fing Impossible"

[quote] Oh for fuck's sake. Is this another Vaginas-uber-alles

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Giving an opinion on an old television series = genital supremacy?

Where did THAT come from, Mommy? Errrr....I mesn, "OP?"

It was a rude thing to say about anyone on the air. We all talk trash about our coworkers past and present ----- but you don't do it to an audience of hundreds of thousands of people. It's unprofessional and in really bad taste.

The Susan character didn't fit at all into the show's core group. She wasn't supposed to. That was the best part of Seinfeld -- it was one of the only american sitcoms to deal with social discomfort.

Man hands, a two face you don't want to be seen with in public, a date whose name you can't remember, working with someone who walks like a robot, accidentally insulting a family elder in front of a roomful of people, double dipping, preferring to nod noncomitally at neighbors rather than getting to know them. We don't admire the characters. We dislike them and we squirm at their lack of finesse and social grace, but it's funny. It's funny how badly they mangle interpersonal relationships

Susan comes along and she and George find they're not a good fit, so they break up. Good. But George finds out Susan is in a lesbian relationship. His friends laugh at him. He turned her off men, that's how bad he was! George is determined to win her back, which we know is going to end in disaster. The disaster happens and he can't get out of it. George is usually in control -- scheming, lying, insulting, cheating. But for once, he's the one feeling the discomfort because he doesn't know how to safely get out of this relationship. The audience enjoys seeing weasely George trapped. Susan is clueless and thinks everything is fine and aboveboard.George doesn't know how to convey to her that this is, in fact, a huge disaster. Of his making. He can't confess because he pursued her with deviousness.

I think it was brilliant. The tables were turned on a main character. The relationship between George and Susan made us laugh because of the supreme discomfort we know George is feeling. There was a real sense of "WTF?" And who hasn't seen this in real life? Two people totally wrong for each other. We can see it a mile away, but one or both of the people in the relationship can't see it at all. It happens in real life with friends, relatives and coworkers and we laugh when they walk out of the room, but we also think, "Oh godddddddd, no!"

Both actors did a great job conveying all iof that to the audience. They made i us laugh and squirm, which is what Seinfeld was all about. A bunch of losers eternally messing up their lives.

So there was no reason for Alexander to have done what he did on Stern's show in front of a microphone. I actually think the actress's ability to confuse and annoy Alexander played a part in his ability to convey George's discomfort.

By telling tales out of school, he seems really George-like. We don't want him to be George Costanza in real life. Save that for the stage, not for live radio interviews. Especially since he and other cast members have done so very, very well financially while this actress had to leave the business because she couldn't make it. Don't gloat, Jason. As Maude Findlay would say, "God will get you for that."

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