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| Art Vandelay first appeared in the episode "The Stakeout" when George and Jerry needed an excuse to a woman on why they were waiting in the lobby of the office building she worked at. Their excuse was that they were meeting Art Vandelay, the importer/exporter, for lunch. His original name, before George changed it at the last minute, was Art Corvelay. | Art Vandelay first appeared in the episode "The Stakeout" when George and Jerry needed an excuse to a woman on why they were waiting in the lobby of the office building she worked at. Their excuse was that they were meeting Art Vandelay, the importer/exporter, for lunch. His original name, before George changed it at the last minute, was Art Corvelay. | ||
| For a brief period George was engaged to Susan Biddle Ross, a wealthy woman who used to be one of the executives at ] who OK'd Jerry and George's show-within-the-show sitcom pilot. She was indirectly killed by George, who intentionally selected the cheapest envelopes (not knowing they |
For a brief period George was engaged to Susan Biddle Ross, a wealthy woman who used to be one of the executives at ] who OK'd Jerry and George's show-within-the-show sitcom pilot. She was indirectly killed by George, who intentionally selected the cheapest envelopes (not knowing they contained toxic glue) for their wedding invitations. Susan's parents never forgave him for this, and appointed him to the Board of Directors of the Susan Biddle Ross Foundation to keep him trapped in their influences. | ||
| George had an unusual affinity for ]. When he was dating a woman who had velvet-covered furniture but lived with a man named Scott, he desired to replace Scott so that he could be "ensconced in velvet". His scheme had unintended consequences, because when Scott moved out, he took all the furniture (complete with the velvet) with him. In another episode, George stated that if it were socially acceptable he would "drape" himself in velvet. He dated a woman who had absolutely no interest in physical appearances, so he started wearing a velvet jogging suit. | George had an unusual affinity for ]. When he was dating a woman who had velvet-covered furniture but lived with a man named Scott, he desired to replace Scott so that he could be "ensconced in velvet". His scheme had unintended consequences, because when Scott moved out, he took all the furniture (complete with the velvet) with him. In another episode, George stated that if it were socially acceptable he would "drape" himself in velvet. He dated a woman who had absolutely no interest in physical appearances, so he started wearing a velvet jogging suit. | ||
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George Louis Costanza is a fictional character on the US television sitcom Seinfeld (1989-1998) played by Jason Alexander.
George was Jerry's neurotic, annoying, and often juvenile, best friend. He sometimes lived with his parents, Estelle and Frank, a bitter couple who were almost as neurotic as their son.
In dealing with his friends, George was usually cheap and selfish. Along with Kramer, he would often concoct elaborate plots to weasel out of relational, financial, or legal obligations, often with unexpected and negative consequences.
It is said that the character of George is based partly on the show's co-creator, Larry David. In the first couple of seasons, George was fairly normal. But as the series went on, he became even more outlandish with schemes and with his personality.
George's professional life was hilariously unstable and he was unable to remain in any job for any great length of time before making an embarrassing blunder and getting fired. Over the course of the series he worked for the New York Yankees, an industrial smoothing company, and countless other places. He was fired from one job for having sex with the cleaning woman. His original job when the series started was as a real estate agent; he ended up getting fired after he poisoned his boss. His dream job was an architect, a job he often gave to his alter-ego Art Vandelay.
Art Vandelay first appeared in the episode "The Stakeout" when George and Jerry needed an excuse to a woman on why they were waiting in the lobby of the office building she worked at. Their excuse was that they were meeting Art Vandelay, the importer/exporter, for lunch. His original name, before George changed it at the last minute, was Art Corvelay.
For a brief period George was engaged to Susan Biddle Ross, a wealthy woman who used to be one of the executives at NBC who OK'd Jerry and George's show-within-the-show sitcom pilot. She was indirectly killed by George, who intentionally selected the cheapest envelopes (not knowing they contained toxic glue) for their wedding invitations. Susan's parents never forgave him for this, and appointed him to the Board of Directors of the Susan Biddle Ross Foundation to keep him trapped in their influences.
George had an unusual affinity for velvet. When he was dating a woman who had velvet-covered furniture but lived with a man named Scott, he desired to replace Scott so that he could be "ensconced in velvet". His scheme had unintended consequences, because when Scott moved out, he took all the furniture (complete with the velvet) with him. In another episode, George stated that if it were socially acceptable he would "drape" himself in velvet. He dated a woman who had absolutely no interest in physical appearances, so he started wearing a velvet jogging suit.
George Costanza Moments
- Taking up smoking so that his fiancee Susan Ross would call off the wedding, but the cigarettes caused him to cough and choke.
- Inventing a fictitious company named "Vandelay Industries" where he said he had a job interview, in order to keep getting his unemployment benefits. The company was run by the fictitious Art Vandelay. Vandelay Industries is, according to George, a latex manufacturing company based out of Jerry's apartment. Art Vandelay was also an importer/exporter as well as an architect. The judge in the final episode of the series was named Art Vandelay, which George interpreted as a "good sign".
- Passed an incomplete IQ test through an open window to Elaine in order to cheat on it, all with his one-time girlfriend on the other side of the door. He did this so she'd think he was smarter than he really was. Elaine ends up getting a worse score than George would have if he hadn't cheated.
- Proposing a sexual relationship with his cousin to get his parents' attention, which she agreed to.
- Wearing Kramer's father's wedding band to get women to hit on him. It worked, but none of the women wanted a married man.
- Telling Susan that he was meeting Elaine Benes to discuss problems about her (made-up) boyfriend Art Vandelay when he actually was meeting Marisa Tomei. George and Elaine failed to develop the story enough and Susan suspected George was having an affair with Elaine.
- Calling 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".
- Leaving his car parked at Yankee Stadium so that George Steinbrenner would think he was there working even when he wasn't. Another similar scheme involved sleeping under his desk during the day, which ended because every time George came to it, he thought there was a bomb in Yankee Stadium, followed by a bomb robot sawing the desk in half.
- Turning the space underneath his desk into an area suitable for napping (see previous moment for what happened).
- Getting ensconced or draped in velvet.
- Faking a handicap so that he could get his own private bathroom.
- Trying to get money back for a book he read in a bookstore bathroom. He was forced to pay for it because the book was "flagged" at all the area bookstores.
- Recording a telephone message, and singing it to the tune of the hit song "Believe it or Not" (from The Greatest American Hero). The message is sung this way:
- Believe it or not, George isn't at home
- Please leave a message at the beep
- I must be out or I'd pick up the phone
- Where could I be?
- Believe it or not, I'm not home.
- Trying to get the Frogger game to his house from Mario's Pizzeria, where he and Jerry used to hang out when they were younger. The game is running on batteries, because George wants to preserve his score on the console (the highest all-time score on the Frogger machine featured on the show was recorded by "G.L.C.", which were his initials). Unfortunately, while George tries in vain to get the console to the other side of the street after performing a series of maneuvers resembling the game itself, a truck destroys the machine, after which Jerry remarks, "Game over".
- Continuing to use the name Art Vandelay until the show's final episode, when a judge by that name presides 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 Biddle Ross) testify against the four friends, Judge Vandelay sentences George, Jerry, Kramer and Elaine to one year removed from society.
- Demanded that an area hospital pay for his damaged car after a person landed on it after jumping off of the roof.
- Tried to convert to Latvian Orthodox religion in order to keep a girlfriend.
- Was supposed to read the book Breakfast At Tiffany's for a book club his girlfriend set him up with, but decided to rent the movie instead. When he realized the movie was checked out, he got the address of the people who had checked it out and was allowed to watch the movie with them. That is until he spilled grape juice on their couch.
- Pretended to have severe eyesight problems so that he could get a certain textbook on tape, his reasoning being that whenever he reads a book he hears his own voice reading the words. But when he gets the tape, he realizes the narrator sounds exactly like him.
- Developed back problems because of his oversized wallet. The wallet finally exploded out in the street.
- Competed for an apartment with an SS Andrea Doria survivor by telling the board about his horrifying life. He lost the apartment to a boyfriend of Elaine's who had paid the board $50.
- Was briefly employed as a hand model before he burned his hands on an iron.
- Agreed to play Trivial Pursuit with Donald the Bubble Boy in upstate New York. Got in a fight with Donald when George insisted the answer was "Moops" but Donald said it was "Moors" (the card was a misprint). Susan ended up deflating the Bubble Boy and George was accused of trying to kill Donald.
- Tries to become friends with a black man to prove to a co-worker that he's not racist.