Seinfeld (1989 – 1998): Show Cast vs. Swedberg
Seinfeld, the “show about nothing” centered on a New York comic, his friends George and Elaine, and his oddball neighbor Kramer, as they interacted with the people and places around them. George is engaged to Susan, played by Heidi Swedberg, in season seven. But things quickly went awry. Her comic chops weren’t compatible with Jason Alexander, who played George. They found it hard to work off each other. As Alexander put it in a book by Warren Littlefield, “If I went slow, she’d go fast. If I paused, she’d jump in too early. Loved her. Hated Susan.” Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who played Elaine, suggested killing off the character. They killed Susan off in a peculiar way. Susan was licking the cheap, deadly glue on the envelopes for their wedding invitations. Alexander has made it clear that they didn’t have anything personal against Swedberg, it was just incompatible comic sensibilities.