(born April 1959 ) is a Fictional Character on the US Television Sitcom '' Seinfeld '' ( 1989 – 1998 ), played by Jason Alexander .
George was Jerry Seinfeld's Neurotic best friend. He sometimes lived with his parents, Estelle and Frank Costanza , a bitter couple who were as Neurotic as their son. George mentions he has a brother ("The Parking Space"), although his name is never mentioned, and he never appears on screen. As a teenager, he was tormented by his gym teacher, who intentionally mispronounced George's last name as "Can't Stand Ya." George and Jerry attended Kennedy High together, setting the dynamic for their later relationship. George claims that he and Jerry met in gym class when George, climbing rope, fell on Jerry
George has numerous , habitual lying, low Self-esteem , sudden fits of anger, impulsive acts of ill-considered generosity, cheapness, selfishness, and sometimes living in a Fantasy world. Like Kramer , he would often concoct elaborate plots to weasel out of relational, financial, or legal obligations, always with unexpected and negative consequences. George's lying, however, an industrial smoothing company, and countless other places. He was fired from his job at Pendant Publishing for having sex with the cleaning woman on his desk (he professes he's always been attracted to cleaning women). His original job when the series started was as a Real Estate agent; he ended up quitting and then slipped his boss a Mickey . His dream job was an Architect , a job he would often pretend to have, and once claimed that he had designed "the new addition to the Gugenheim.", and another time sabotaged his young protege's efforts to further his career beyond architecture, to become a city planner. In one episode, Jerry told a girl George wanted to impress that George was a Marine Biologist . The plan backfired when George was called upon to save a beached Whale with a Golf Ball in its blowhole; he saved the whale, but the woman rejected him when he confessed that he was not, in fact, a marine biologist. George would often exclaim, "You know, whales are my favorite type of fish", to which Jerry would object "Mammal!", and George would reply, unamused, "Whatever."
George briefly gained experience as a sitcom writer as he helped Jerry to write the pilot for the fictitious show ''Jerry''. While pitching the concept of a "show about nothing" to NBC executives, George claimed to have written an off-off- Broadway play entitled ''La Cocina,'' about a Mexican Chef named Pepe. In ''La Cocina'', George claimed Pepe Mime d the preparation of Tamale s, and it was the mime aspect that made the play so funny.
George was engaged to Susan Biddle Ross , a wealthy executive at NBC who approved Jerry and George's show-within-the-show sitcom Pilot . George and Susan dated on and off for a year, during which time the commitment-phobic George was constantly trying to find ways to end their relationship without actually having to. George and Jerry needed an excuse to give to a woman on why they were waiting in the lobby of the office building where she worked. Their excuse was that they were meeting Art Vandelay, an importer/exporter, for lunch. His original name, before George changed it at the last minute, was Art Corvalay. In one instance ("The Boyfriend (Part 1)"), George tells the Unemployment office he is close to getting a job at "Vandelay Industries." The characters encounter a judge named Art Vandelay on the series finale. The name was also used as a fake boyfriend of Elaine. Here, Art is also an importer/exporter, and used as a cover story so Susan doesn't think that George and Elaine are having an affair. George also uses the pseudonym when interviewing for a job with Elaine's boss. When asked which authors he reads the answer is "Art Vandelay" from New York. In "The Serenity Now", George calls up fake customers, one of which is "Mr. Vandelay", pretending to get computer orders. Finally, in "The Puerto Rican Day", George pretends to be Vandelay (along with Jerry as Varnsen and Kramer as Pennypacker) to try and sneak into an open house after a Mets game.
At one point ("The Maid"), George wanted to be known as " T-Bone ", but his co-workers at Kruger Industrial Smoothing nicknamed him " Koko " because he flailed his arms like an ape when he demanded the nickname "T-Bone" back from a coworker. George deliberately hires a woman named Koko to work there, only to be nicknamed "Gammy" instead. George revealed that if he were to be a porn star, his name would be "Buck Naked." During a period of unemployment for George, Jerry calls George "Biff", referring to the Biff Loman character in Arthur Miller 's '' Death Of A Salesman ''.
George once assumed the identity of a man named Donald O'Brien in order to take his limousine ("The Limo"), only to later discover this man was the leader of a White Supremacist group aninds out that the colleague has left and is working in a different state. George actually follows him to his new company, and again attempts to recreate the scenario. The colleague insults him again, George uses his come back "well, the Jerk Store called, and they're running out of you!" only to have his colleague retort with "well, you're their bestseller!" George's final attempt at a comeback was "I had sex with your wife!" where it is then revealed that the man's wife is in a coma.
- He removes his shirt when going to the toilet. This is first noticed when he came out of Jerry's toilet buttoning-up his shirt, and Jerry questioned him about it. Later, he is at a party and goes to the toilet, but walks out into the party room without his shirt, having forgotten to put it back on.
- Eats an eclair out of the garbage, much to the consternation of an unfortunate witness
- Scrounges for change under a vending machine
- Is rarely seen paying for anything, at least not without a display of outrage at the cost of the goods or services purchased
- Is appalled at the notion of having to purchase gifts for friends, and only buys a Cashmere sweater as a gift for Elaine because it is at a low price because it is tainted by a red dot
- Inadvertantly causes the death of his fiancee by refusing to pay for quality envolopes featuring non-toxic glues
- Passed an incomplete IQ Test through an open window to Elaine in order to cheat to impress his one-time girlfriend on the other side of the door. Ironically, Elaine achieved a worse score than George would have due to distractions while at Babu's restaurant.
- Claimed to have won " The Contest ," though in the finale, he admitted to Jerry that he cheated.
- Invented a phony charity called the "Human Fund" ("The Strike"), as a way of giving Christmas presents to Kruger employees. (The cards, according to Jerry, read "A donation has been made in your name to the Humse company's name.
- In other episodes, Art Vandelay was described as an importer/exporter. Art Vandelay was also used as the name of Elaine's fictitious boyfriend, whom George invoked when telling Susan that he was meeting Elaine to discuss problems with "Art" when he actually was meeting Marisa Tomei. George and Elaine failed to fully develop the alibi, and Susan suspected George was having an affair with Elaine.
- Asked Elaine to get him a job at Pendant Publishing. Elaine's boss, Mr. Lippman, conducted an impromptu job interview with George, asking him what authors he liked. Pressed for specifics, George mentioned he liked the fictional Art Vandelay. According to George, Vandelay was an obscure Beatnik writer who wrote ''Venetian Blinds''.
- After using the name Art Vandelay until the show's final episode, a judge by that name presided over the trial of the "New York Four," in which the defendants broke the Good Samaritan Law in the Fictional Town of Latham, Massachusetts . Jerry and George take it as a sign that they will be acquitted, but after a swarm of previous guest characters (from Marla the Virgin to the parents of Susan Ross) testify against the four friends, Judge Vandelay sentences George, Jerry, Kramer, and Elaine to one year removed from society.
- Wore Kramer's father's wedding band to get women to flirt with him (the conjecture being that women were more attracted to married men). The theory worked perfectly, but none of the women believed him when he told them it was a sociological experiment.
- Lied about publishing an off-Broadway play when pitching the idea for "Jerry" to NBC executives.
- Took up Smoking and claimed it was something he had always done so that Susan would call off the wedding, but the cigarettes caused him to cough and vomit, and the wedding wasn't called off.
- Left his car parked at Yankee Stadium so that George Steinbrenner would think he was there working even when he washim funny, Jerry would seem funnier on his own and George would compare unfavourably in her eyes. Jerry acted morose and serious - in effect, lying for George - but this too backfired when the woman found Jerry attractive, calling him "dark and disturbed".
- Tried to become friends with a black man solely to prove to his (black) boss that he was not Racist .
- Performed a series of stunts at Yankee Stadium, such as wearing Babe Ruth 's jersey, Streaking across the field in a Body Suit (he instead gained popularity with the fans as "Body Suit Man,") and wrecked the team's 1996 World Series trophy with his car, all in an attempt to make Steinbrenner fire him so he can take a job offer from the New York Mets . In the end, George's boss, Mr. Wilhelm comes in and claims he made George do those things. Wilhelm is thus fired instead, and he is the one hired by the Mets.
- Called Marisa Tomei on the eve of Susan's funeral to arrange a date: "I got the funeral tomorrow but... my weekend is pretty wide open." She was no longer interested.
- During a fire that had been started accidentally at a child's birthday party, George ran across the house, pushing and knocking everyone and everything in his path (including an elderly woman with her walker), screaming "Fire!" as he ran to the door. Then once he got out, he held the door closed, trapping the people inside. When asked by a Firefighter how he could live with himself, George responded "It's not easy." He later swore to the homeowner, whom he was trying to date, that he had changed, but when a prop comic pulled out a water gun at the lounge she worked at, he repeated the panicked performance.
- Bought a car solely on the belief that it was once owned by Jon Voight but found later it was actually owned by the Dentist "John Voight".
- Discusses (with women no less, most notably [[Maensibly thought little of the ideas, and ridiculed them publicly as guests on the talk show while George was in the audience.
- When greeting NBC executives at the start of a meeting to finalize their deal for the sitcom, George absent-mindedly kissed Susan on the mouth. Susan was fired the same day because of the incident due to the Conflict Of Interest made evident by the kiss.
- Is upset when he learns of the amount of money he and Jerry would make for their sitcom '' Jerry ''. In response to this he guarantees that fellow NBC star Ted Danson makes more than him, even though Danson had been on the air for numerous years and the pilot for Jerry had not even been filmed yet.
- Coverage of a televised Tennis tournament showed him sloppily eating a Sundae .
- Pulled an eclair out of the trash and ate it just as someone walked in the kitchen door, catching him.
- The aforementioned incident with the cheese block
- Scarfs Finger Foods at the wake of a girlfriend's relative.
- "Double-Dips" potato chips during the same episode.
- After failing to please his girlfriend numerous times in bed George asks Jerry to teach him "the move." Jerry gives long, elaborate details all relevant to George's desire to never be alone again. The first time George attempts the move he fails giving his girlfriend the sensation that aliens are poking at her body. The second time George thinks ahead and writes "crib notes" on his hand to get it right. He succeeds but is caught when his girlfriend notices the black writing, is disgusted and leaves him.
- When Elaine's boyfriend David Puddy decides to stop doing Jerry's move and invent his own, Elaine is less than pleased and describes the bad experience with George and Jerry. George is intrigued and asks if Puddy's move involved "a knuckle." Elaine isn't surprised when George thinks it's his move that Puddy is using on Elaine.
===Misplaced seStand!]]" Both are mentioned in "The Pool Guy", and involved George's relation with Susan Biddle Ross .
The dates of each job indicate the air date of the episodes in which George worked those particular jobs.
- Dairy Queen employee for one summer, from which he was fired for putting his feet in the soft serve (dates unknown; mentioned May 1, 1997)
- Waiter for children at a Fat Camp (dates unknown; mentioned June 26, 1991)
- Real Estate Agent (at least July 5, 1989 to April 18, 1991, possibly much longer as this was the job he held at the start of the series)
- Parking cars (December 4, 1991)
- Reader at Pendant Publishing (December 11, 1991)
- Writer for a Sitcom pilot called ''Jerry'' for NBC (September 16, 1992 to May 20, 1993)
- Hand Model (until he burned his hands on an iron). (September 23, 1993)
- Sales rep at a rest stop supplies company with the Penske file (November 11, 1993)
- Assistant to the Traveling Secretary for the New York Yankees (May 19, 1994 to at least May 8, 1997) Despite this seemingly low-level position, George gets a spacious office and a personal secretary, attends high-echelon board meetings, and fraternizes with George Steinbrenner and Yankees team members. This was probably his longest lasting job.
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