George Costanza
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### Susan

George becomes engaged to [Susan Ross](/wiki/Susan_Ross "Susan Ross"), an executive at [NBC](/wiki/NBC "NBC") who approved his and Jerry's show\-within\-a\-show sitcom [pilot](/wiki/Television_pilot "Television pilot"). George and Susan date, during which time commitment\-phobic George is constantly trying to find ways to end their relationship without actually having to initiate the breakup with her. In "[The Engagement](/wiki/The_Engagement_%28Seinfeld%29 "The Engagement (Seinfeld)")", he proposes to her, despite him not having dated her for years. George tries repeatedly to weasel out of his engagement. In "[The Invitations](/wiki/The_Invitations_%28Seinfeld_episode%29 "The Invitations (Seinfeld episode)")", she dies from licking the [toxic](/wiki/Toxicity "Toxicity") [glue](/wiki/Adhesive "Adhesive") in their wedding invitations. When notified of her death at the hospital, George displays a combination of shock, apathy, and relief. A few moments after being notified of Susan's death, he says to Jerry, Kramer, and Elaine, "Well, let's go get some [coffee](/wiki/Coffee "Coffee")." Susan's parents appoint him to the board of directors of the Susan Ross Foundation.

George is very bad at meeting women and even worse at maintaining his romantic relationships and, as a result, his relationships usually end badly.

### Professional life

George's professional life is unstable, and he is unable to remain in any job for any great length of time before making an embarrassing blunder and getting fired, and thus he is unemployed for a large amount of time throughout the series. 

His original job when the series starts is as a [real estate](/wiki/Real_estate "Real estate") agent; he ends up quitting and getting re\-hired, but he is fired immediately afterward for drugging his boss. He always wanted to be an [architect](/wiki/Architect "Architect") or least "pretend to be an architect". He first mentions this desire in "[The Stake Out](/wiki/The_Stake_Out_%28Seinfeld%29 "The Stake Out (Seinfeld)")", and claims in "[The Race](/wiki/The_Race_%28Seinfeld%29 "The Race (Seinfeld)")" that he had designed "the new addition to the [Guggenheim](/wiki/Solomon_R._Guggenheim_Museum "Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum")".

Over the course of the series, he works for a real estate transaction services firm (Rick Barr Properties), a rest stop supply company (Sanalac), the [New York Yankees](/wiki/New_York_Yankees "New York Yankees") as Assistant to the Travelling Secretary (his longest\-running job), a playground\-equipment company (Play Now), and an industrial smoothing company (Kruger Industrial Smoothing). He briefly works with Elaine at Pendant Publishing but is fired for having sex with the cleaning woman on his desk in "[The Red Dot](/wiki/The_Red_Dot "The Red Dot")". He has a very successful interview to become a [bra](/wiki/Bra "Bra") salesman but upon leaving the interview he rubs the fabric of a woman at the elevator who turns out to be head of the company and is immediately fired.

When seeking another job, the interview gets interrupted in the middle and George does not know if he is hired or not, so he decides just to show up anyway, and is soon asked to work on a "Pensky File" that he knows nothing about. 

At one point, George works briefly as a hand model in "[The Puffy Shirt](/wiki/The_Puffy_Shirt_%28Seinfeld%29 "The Puffy Shirt (Seinfeld)")", and also for his father selling computers in "[The Serenity Now](/wiki/The_Serenity_Now_%28Seinfeld%29 "The Serenity Now (Seinfeld)")".

During Season 4, George gains experience as a sitcom writer as he helps Jerry to write the pilot for the fictitious show *Jerry*. While pitching the concept of a "show about nothing" to [NBC](/wiki/NBC "NBC") executives, George begins dating NBC executive Susan Ross until "[The Virgin](/wiki/The_Virgin_%28Seinfeld%29 "The Virgin (Seinfeld)")", when she is fired. The *Jerry* pilot is never picked up.

### Fashion and hairstyle

George has balding hair, which is less noticeable in "[The Seinfeld Chronicles](/wiki/The_Seinfeld_Chronicles "The Seinfeld Chronicles")" or a flashback in "[The Slicer](/wiki/The_Slicer "The Slicer")", but gets thinner as the series progresses. At the end of "[The Scofflaw](/wiki/The_Scofflaw_%28Seinfeld_episode%29 "The Scofflaw (Seinfeld episode)")", he starts to wear a toupee, until Elaine throws it out the window in disgust in "[The Beard](/wiki/The_Beard_%28Seinfeld_episode%29 "The Beard (Seinfeld episode)")". He also tries to restore his hair in "[The Tape](/wiki/The_Tape "The Tape")", in which he starts using a Chinese cream that is said to be a cure for baldness. His hair is rarely seen styled. His clothing is usually very plain. He frequently wears jeans and [Nike Cortez](/wiki/Nike_Cortez "Nike Cortez") sneakers. In "[The Trip, Part 1](/wiki/The_Trip_%28Seinfeld%29 "The Trip (Seinfeld)")", he mentions that his clothes are color\-coded based on his mood. Several times throughout the show, George mentions a desire to "drape" himself in velvet, which he does in "[The Doodle](/wiki/The_Doodle "The Doodle")". In "[The Bizarro Jerry](/wiki/The_Bizarro_Jerry "The Bizarro Jerry")", George can be seen styling his hair based on an [Andy Sipowicz](/wiki/Andy_Sipowicz "Andy Sipowicz") poster.


How does George meet Susan?