In the “Seinfeld” episode “The Red Dot” (December 11, 1991) George (Jason Alexander) complains that he is unemployed. Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) manages to secure a performance in a publisher for whom he is completely grateful. During his work in the company, George beats it with a woman named Evie (Bridget Sienna) who works on the caretaker of the building. Almost instantly, George and Evie initiate a hot love relationship and regularly copy to George’s Desk after hours. It should be noted that the matter is not permitted by management. It is rude that the employees sleep with the caretaker’s staff and vice versa.
George is of course broken. Mr. Lippman (Richard Fancy) calls his office from the George affair to dress up and a clean termination. When George is confronted with his relationship, he asks Mr. Lippman well whether what he did was against the rules. “Was that wrong? Shouldn’t I have done that?” he asks. George points out that he has worked in offices in which the Interoffice coupling is common. “I have to address this matter ignorance,” he says. He had no idea that “something like that was frowned upon.” However, Georges faked ignorance does not save him. Mr. Lippman fires him immediately.
In An interview 2024 with the Daily MailAlexander declared this only moment to favorites. Of all the moments to “Siefeld”, in which Callow George really showed its true colors, was that “was that wrong?” The moment in “The Red Dot” was the most honest. George, like All four information from “Seinfeld”, Was sneaking, neurotic and petty. Alexander found “The Red Dot” the smallest – and the best – George was ever.
Jason Alexander loved how sniffing George was
Alexander particularly loved George because the character was a kind of villain. “George was hoisted on his own Petard so often and had to dig out of a hole or not dig out of a hole,” he said. George had a huge ego, a lot of anger and honesty gave a very low priority. Alexander loved to tiny and cheated all the time and was caught almost every time. It was “the red dot” that immediately occurred when he was asked about his favorite moments “Siefeld”. He said.
“The one I remembered so clearly because I kept it so brilliant was in an episode in which George worked at the publishing company, and he had sexual relationships in his office with the cleaning woman and he was caught … ) If you write this scene and you do: ‘Okay, I have this guy George Costanza, what happens next?’ Whatever they would imagine, it would not be what they came up with.
Alexander loved his nine years on “Seinfeld” and was an important contribution to the long success of the show. He even had to lead once. George was very directly based on “Seinfeld” Mitshöpfer Larry David, in which you can see unaffected The series “Curb your enthusiasm”. If you look at “curb”, Alexander’s performance is only more impressive. “Seinfeld” always aimed at deconstructing traditional sitcom standards by popping one with only minor characters. The joke worked well for nine years.
