16. The decision to kill George’s fiancée Susan at the end of the show’s seventh season (by licking a poisoned envelope, etc.) came from a rather unlikely source: Louis-Dreyfus. As Alexander explained in a 2015 interview with Howard Stern, actress Heidi Swedberg, who played Susan, had comedic instincts that clashed with him. “I didn’t know how to play her,” he said, adding that by the time Seinfeld and JLD shared scenes with her, they had come to the same conclusion. “They say, ‘You know what? That’s just not possible. It’s impossible,'” he said, stressing that he personally has no animosity toward Swedberg. “And Julia actually said, ‘You don’t want to kill her?’ And Larry said, ‘Bag!’
17. The cast got into a bizarre feud with Roseanne Barr and her then-husband Tom Arnold when Louis-Dreyfus accidentally parked in Arnold’s parking lot on the CBS lot where both shows were being filmed. He left a note on her windshield that read, “What an idiot! Move your car, you son of a bitch!” This led to Alexander and David promoting the actress to confront him. After the encounter, she found “a Polaroid of someone’s butt left on the windshield and the word ‘c–t’ written in soap.” Barr then publicized the feud by calling JLD a bitch during an appearance on David Letterman’s Late Night Show, derisively adding, “They think they’re doing Samuel Beckett instead of a sitcom.” When Alexander was asked about this comment, as quoted in Seinfeldia, he replied, “I’m willing to bet she’s never read anything Beckett has written.”
18. Before Seinfeld landed on Junior Mint as Kramer’s candy of choice in the iconic episode “Junior Mint,” it was originally intended for him to drop popcorn on the patient he was watching in surgery. Writer Andy Robin told HuffPost in 2015, “I was on the phone with my brother, and he said, ‘No, that’s more interesting, make it Junior Mintz.'”
