![]() It's not fair if he's engaged and now George isn't. During the season, Jerry has tried to grow. George smiles and almost laughs with a sigh of overwhelming relief. "So I guess you're not getting married?" Jerry says. "I'm so sorry, George," Elaine says, her tone almost a question. When he tells his friends the news they don't know what to say. He's kind to the doctor, but there's relief behind his eyes. George's reaction seals the way this will go. The audience laughs, confused about how to react. It is awkward, yes, but Seinfeld loves its awkwardness. It should be a tragic moment when the doctor tells George that his fiancée is dead, but it's not. That leads to Susan being poisoned by the toxic glue on them that she licks over and over again until we watch her drop dead in the season finale aptly titled "The Invitations." Would the audience still be on George's side though if they killed off his bride-to-be, especially when it was his fault? George, being the cheapskate he is, gets the cheapest wedding invitations he can get. ![]() No longer would George and Susan be getting married, because, well.Susan had to die. That off-hand remark by Julia Louis-Dreyfus sealed Susan's fate (no pun intended). The idea to put George and Susan together, and even have them get married, was all Seinfeld creator Larry David, who actually loved their pairing, because as he told Alexander, “What said was, what Heidi brought to the character is, we could do the most horrible things to her, and the audience was still on my side." And she would do something, and I would go, ‘OK, I see what she’s going to do - I’m going to adjust to her.’ And I’d adjust, and then it would change.” Alexander didn't like it either when he found out that his character would be getting engaged to a woman whose actress he felt that he had no chemistry with. Her instincts for doing a scene, where the comedy was, and mine were always misfiring. "I couldn’t figure out how to play off of her. Instead, it had to do with their differing styles as actors. It wasn't that he had anything against her as a person. In 2015, Jason Alexander told Howard Stern it was "fucking impossible" to work with Heidi Swedberg. George is happy until Jerry tells him he decided to break up with his girlfriend and is not going to change after all. What about her lesbianism? "It didn't take." George shows up at her door and blurts out a proposal, which Susan accepts. He admits that he still thinks about Susan. She wouldn't be seen again until the Season 7 premiere, "The Engagement." It's there that Jerry and George decide they can't stand living their lives alone anymore. She even started dating another woman, which George is convinced is because of their failed relationship. A kiss from George got her fired from NBC. Kramer vomited on her, and if that wasn't enough, he accidentally set fire to her dad's cabin. She became George's girlfriend, but during her time with Costanza, the poor woman suffered. Susan first showed up in Seinfeld during Season 4 as an NBC exec when Jerry and George are pitching their show about nothing.
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