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George refers to himself in the third person when under extreme stress (e.g. "George is getting upset!"), after befriending a person with a similar trait in " The Jimmy". Screen Actors Guild Awards". Daily Press. Newport News, VA. February 27, 1995. p.A2. Archived from the original on February 2, 2014 . Retrieved March 15, 2012. George often takes impressive measures to build and maintain relationships with women. In " The Conversion," he goes through the process of converting to the Latvian Orthodox Church as his girlfriend's parents would not let her date somebody outside their religion. The one relationship he holds long-term, with his fiancée Susan, is the one about which he is seemingly least enthusiastic, as shown by his ongoing attempts to postpone, and later cancel, their wedding, and his rather nonchalant reaction when she dies. Writer: Robin, Andy; Director: Cherones, Tom (March 18, 1993). " The Junior Mint". Seinfeld. Season 4. Episode 20. NBC.
Bull, Roger (February 16, 2005). "The 50 greatest sitcom characters of ALL time". The Times-Union. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009 . Retrieved August 3, 2009. George is a son of Frank, an Italian-American, and Estelle Costanza, who is Jewish. George twice mentions that he has a brother. Lloyd Braun is a childhood nemesis who George feels was the son his parents always wanted. [3] [4] George's best friend Jerry Seinfeld described Frank and Estelle as " psychopaths", [5] and said in " The Chinese Woman" that, if they had divorced when George was young, he "could have been normal". [6]
Margulies, Lee (January 6, 2001). "Morning Report; Arts and Entertainment Reports from the Times, News Services and the Nation's Press". Los Angeles Times. p.F2.
Writer: David, Larry; Director: Cherones, Tom (November 18, 1992). " The Contest". Seinfeld. Season 4. Episode 11. NBC. Vandelay Industries is a fictional company that George Costanza claims to have been interviewed for as a latex salesman in when applying for an extension at the unemployment office in the Season Three episode, “ The Boyfriend, Part 1”.Writer: Gammill, Tom; Pross, Max; Director: Cherones, Tom (December 9, 1993). " The Cigar Store Indian". Seinfeld. Season 5. Episode 10. NBC. Sepinwall, Alan (November 22, 2004). " 'Seinfeld' boxed sets: Much ado about 'nothing' ". The Star-Ledger.