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Character Analysis

Heidi Swedberg

Susan Ross

Played by Heidi Swedberg

44 jokes across 21 episodes of Seinfeld

WAR

10.2

Total Jokes

44

Avg Craft

6.8

Avg Impact

6.6

Comedy Style

Cringe/Discomfort

Susan delivers 44 scored jokes across 21 episodes of Seinfeld, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.6 on impact for a career WAR of 10.2. Their comedy leans toward cringe/discomfort. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Susan Lines

All Jokes — 83 total

S4E03

Susan · Kramer · Jerry · George:Kramer, are you drinking that milk? / Yeah. / What's the expiration date on that? / September third. / The third? / The third?

7.78.3
S4E03

Susan · Jerry:I can't believe she took the money. / Why? / I offered to pay. She should have said no. / She did. You insisted.

7.47.3
S4E04

Susan:Susan about the vomiting incident: 'It was only vomit.'

7.57.5
S4E05

George · Susan:'Is Ted Danson's deal standard?' / 'You're not Ted Danson.'

7.77.8
S4E05

Susan · George:Susan: 'You're a writer. You'll think of something.' George: 'Oh, yeah. I'm a writer. I forgot.'

7.36.8
S4E07

Susan · Donald's Mother:So then he makes his own bed? — Well, that's one of the things we fight about.

7.47.2
S4E07

George · Jerry · Susan:Bubble boy tried to kill me. — What? — Susan, tell them. — It's a long story.

7.27.2
S4E07

George · Susan · Jerry · Elaine:Do you smell something? / Yeah. Smoke. / Yeah. Definite smoke. / Look, it's a fire! / Holy cow, look at that! / It's my father's cabin! The cabin is on fire.

8.18.3
S4E08

Mr. Ross · Susan:I didn't care much for his jokes. — Daddy never laughs. — What is that? What is the point of opening your mouth and going: [laughter sound] — What is that?

8.18.2
S4E08

Susan · George:The cabin is kind of... — George? — Burned.

8.08.2
S4E08

Mr. Ross · Susan · George:Burned? — The cabin burned? — Burned? — Burned.

7.27.3
S4E08

Susan · George:This is my brother Ricky. He's home from college for the weekend. — Hey, there, young fella. — What's your major? — I don't have one. — Well, you should always consider podiatry. Nothing wrong with the feet.

7.16.8
S4E08

Jerry · Susan · Mr. Ross:From — From John Cheever! — 'Dear Henry... last night with you was bliss. I fear my orgasm has left me a cripple... I love you madly, John. P.S. Loved the cabin.'

8.89.0
S4E13

George · Susan:George: 'Two weeks ago, I tried a soft-boiled egg. Never liked it before. Now, I'm dunking a piece of toast in there and I'm loving it!' Susan: 'I'm not a soft-boiled egg.'

8.38.5
S4E13

Susan · George:Susan: 'Why were there so many cockroaches?' George: 'Because there was a lot of cake lying around the house, just sitting there with all the excess milk from all the experiments.'

8.18.3
S4E21

George · Kramer · Susan:George and Kramer discover Susan — George's ex — holding hands with a woman named Mona at the video store

7.88.2
S4E21

George · Susan:George asks Susan how long this has been going on. She says 'Since you and I broke up.' Beat. George: '...went that way?'

8.18.5
S4E21

George · Susan:George asks Susan if he's responsible for her '...metamorphosis.' The word choice — 'metamorphosis' — is immediately undercut by a $98 bill interrupting them.

7.47.2
S4E21

George · Susan:George asks Susan: 'If you and Mona were ever to dance, how do you decide who leads? Do you take turns? Do you discuss it beforehand? How does that work?' Susan: 'You're an idiot.' George: 'Why? That's a legitimate sociological question.'

7.67.5
S4E21

Susan · George:Susan: 'Oh, and George, by the way, you stink. You need a bath.' George: 'It's not me! It's the car!'

7.57.5
S4E21

Jerry · Kramer · Susan:Kramer asks Jerry to smell him. Jerry starts to, then is interrupted by Susan banging on the door demanding to know why Kramer stole Mona.

7.68.0
S4E21

George · Susan:George spots Allison — a woman he dated after Susan — and she's now visibly interested in Susan. George: 'Oh, my God. It's Allison. I dated her right after you. She was obsessed with me.'

7.77.8
S4E21

Allison · Susan · George:Allison compliments Susan's vest. George and Susan watch the obvious attraction develop between Allison and Susan.

7.87.8
S5E06

Susan · George:All right. George, it's you. / You are damn right it's me.

9.09.3
S5E06

Susan · George:I'm sure you do it very well. / Yes, well, unfortunately, you'll never get the chance to find out.

8.18.0
S5E06

Susan · George:George's father calls Susan's mother to report seeing George eating ice cream on TV — the chain of humiliation extends to his parents.

6.76.5
S7E01

George · Susan:How come you eat your peas one at a time? / Well, what's the hurry?

8.28.3
S7E01

George · Susan:George, what is it? / Will you marry me?

8.28.5
S7E01

Susan · Estelle:I just want you to know that I love your son very much. / You do? / Yes. / Really? / Yes. / May I ask why?

8.69.0
S7E01

George · Susan:I am ready. / You're wearing that shirt?

7.27.3
S7E01

George · Susan:Did you like it? / Yes, it was very, very good. / Do you think he'll ever find her? / Oh, I sure hope so. / How about when Ford jumped out of that plane and was shooting back as he was falling? / What about the underwater escape?

7.17.0
S7E01

Jerry · Susan:MSG's rerunning the Yankee game. / George, are you coming to bed? I taped Mad About You.

7.37.3
S7E02

George · Susan:The George/Susan scene: exact mirroring of the George/Jerry conversation about the day starting with 'Hey. / Hey. How was your day? / Good. Good day. / How was your day? / Oh, it was okay.'

6.95.8
S7E02

Susan:If you don't wanna marry me, George, just say so. Just say so!

7.27.3
S7E02

George · Susan:Mirrored domestic dialogue: 'Hi. / Hi, how was your day? / Good. Good day. / How was your day? / Oh, it was okay.' repeated verbatim in George and Susan's apartment before the second postponement attempt

7.56.8
S7E02

Susan:Oh, George, George. Of course. Of course it can wait till March if that's what you want.

7.27.0
S7E03

George · Susan:I don't like it. It's red. It's too flashy. — Well, you could use a little flash. — All right, don't change me. Susan, don't change me.

7.16.8
S7E03

Susan:Name one.

7.88.0
S7E06

George · Susan:Because I love you so much, and I want you to be happy. Okay, sweetie? / Oh, George, you're so sweet. / Well, I can be a little sweetie-tweetie-wheetie-wheetie.

8.07.8
S7E06

Susan:Just knowing that you're not afraid of those things... it's such a great step forward in our relationship. Because you love your little Kiki, don't you?

7.87.8
S7E06

Jerry · George · Susan · Soup Nazi:I think it's great that you're so open with your affections in public. See, we had that. But the mental thing... But, anyway... / I'll see you. / Yeah. / See you. / Go on, leave. Get out! / But I didn't do anything. / Next.

7.06.3
S7E07

Susan:Well, from now on, I'll keep you apprised of my cycles.

7.77.5
S7E07

George · Susan:Please. / Anything else? / We're out of Bosco.

8.98.7
S7E08

George · Susan:Yeah, we got along real well. Because, you know, she has no female friends. / You know that, don't you? / Something strange about a woman whose friends are all men.

7.06.5
S7E08

Susan:Elaine opened up her vault.

7.06.8
S7E08

George · Susan:Did you just say 'vault'? / Yeah, why? Did I use it wrong? / You got that from Elaine? / Yeah. So what? / Well, it's a little strange. Are you gonna start to talk like Elaine from now on?

7.67.3
S7E08

Elaine · Susan · Jerry · George:Look who I ran into. / Great. / Yeah. / Yeah.

7.47.0
S7E08

Susan · Elaine:'George. Elaine and I went to see Chunnel with Jerry.' / 'Love'? / Yeah. / 'Love, Susan.'

7.06.7
S7E08

Movie · George · Jerry · Elaine · Susan:The English Channel Tunnel... / Jerry. / ...or Chunnel runs 32-- / Where are you? / With two openings. / One here. And another here. / I know you like to sit back here.

7.57.2
S7E08

Jerry · Susan · Elaine:Good, huh? / What'd you think, Susan? / I don't know. I couldn't hear anything. / You two talked the whole movie. / Oh, well, come on.

7.77.8
S7E08

Jerry · Susan · Elaine:Good, huh? / What'd you think, Susan? / I don't know. I couldn't hear anything. You two talked the whole movie. / Frankly, I don't know how you can stand it.

8.38.5
S7E08

Jerry · Susan:You wanna go grab a bite to eat? / No, I don't think so. / Why not? / Well, you know, all you guys ever do is sit around the coffee shop talking...sit around Jerry's apartment talking. Frankly, I don't know how you can stand it.

7.77.7
S7E09

Susan · George:You know, I really like those new jeans Jerry was wearing. He's really thin. / Not as thin as you think.

7.27.2
S7E09

Susan · George:What? Oh, how could he be so vain? / Well, this is the Jerry Seinfeld that only I know.

6.86.5
S7E09

George · Susan:I can't believe I just told you that. / Why not? / Well, Jerry doesn't want anyone to know. / It's all right, I'm your fiancée. Everyone assumes you'll tell me everything.

6.86.5
S7E09

Susan · George:Can we stop by a drug store first? / What for? / I'm out of birth control stuff. / Oh, yeah. / Where am I gonna park? / No, don't park. I'll just sit in the car. You can run in. / Me run in? Why don't you run in? / You don't know what I use for birth control, do you?

6.76.5
S7E09

George · Susan:Of course I do. / You do? What? / You know, you use the: / The what? / You know, the:

8.28.7
S7E09

Susan · George:Just get me some Sponges, please. / Wait a minute. Wait a minute. They don't have them anymore. / What? / I just found out they're off the market. / Off the market? The Sponge? / So you gotta use something else. / I can't. I love the Sponge. I need the Sponge.

7.37.3
S7E09

George · Susan:Elaine and her Sponges. She's got like a war chest full of them. / I don't see why you can't just use condoms. / Oh, no, no. No, condoms are for single men. The day that we got engaged, I said goodbye to the condom forever.

7.57.5
S7E09

George · Susan:I can never get the package open in time. / Well, you just tear it open. / It's not that easy. It's like Beat the Clock. There's a lot of pressure there.

7.27.2
S7E09

Susan · George:Come on, George, just rip it open. / I'm trying, damn it. / Tear it from the side. / I tried to tear it from the side. I can't get a good grip. You gotta do it like a bag of chips. / Give it to me. / Wait a second. / Give it to me. Give it to me. / Wait a second. / You see? You see? I got it. / Come on. [19:57] It's too late.

7.67.8
S7E09

George · Susan:Good morning. / Good morning. / How did you sleep? / Great. / You? / Fine, fine. / Everything okay? / Yep. / No regrets? / Nope.

6.66.0
S7E09

Susan · George · Elaine (implied):What are you doing? / Oh, I don't think so. / Why not? I thought you said everything was fine. / I wish I could help you, but I can't afford two of them.

8.99.5
S7E11

Frank · Estelle · George · Susan:Frank Costanza panics over Susan's zipper: 'All right. All right. Let's not get into panic mode! Let's not make a big deal out of this, or we'll never get through it.'

7.67.7
S7E13

Susan · George:They're naming their baby Seven. / What? They're stealing the name? That's my name. I made it up.

7.67.8
S7E14

Susan:Boy, she's beautiful, don't you think? I wish I looked like that.

7.17.0
S7E14

Susan:Turn it off. You're making me jealous. I'm gonna think you like her more than you like me.

7.06.8
S7E14

George · Susan:Yeah. Yeah, I have a thing for Marisa Tomei. / Like she would ever go out with a short, stocky, bald man. Like that's her type.

7.27.3
S7E14

Susan · George:Are you having an affair with Elaine? / Right, come on. I'm having an affair with Elaine? If I was having an affair with Elaine, I wouldn't tell you I'm seeing Elaine. I would make up another person to tell you I would see and then I would go see Elaine.

8.18.2
S7E14

Elaine · Susan:George felt that I was too adamant in my stand that Art should focus on the exporting and forget about the importing. / Wait a minute. I thought that Art wanted to give up the exporting. / What did I say? / The importing.

7.67.5
S7E14

Susan · Elaine:So, what does he import? / Chips. / What kind of chips? / Potato. / Some corn. / And what does he export? / Diapers.

7.98.0
S7E18

Susan · George · Houseguest:Susan: 'Hey sweetie, how was your day?' — immediately after George already answered that question

6.05.5
S7E18

George · Susan:Susan catches George mid-negotiation with the woman; George says 'Hi, honey' with complete composure

6.86.8
S7E18

George · Susan:George's entire speech about cultivating doubt with Susan — insisting she should doubt him even though she says she has no doubt

7.67.5
S7E21

George · Susan:George? Yeah? Can I talk to you for a minute? Yeah, sure, sure.

6.76.8
S7E21

Susan:I've been doing a lot of thinking about the wedding and all... and I've decided to go with the chicken.

7.67.7
S7E22

George · Susan:George points to the cheapest, ugliest invitations. Susan: 'Oh, no. George, that's so ugly. We don't want that.' George: 'What's the difference? You just read it and mail it right back.'

7.26.8
S7E22

George · Stationer · Susan:Why don't they make them anymore? 'Well, for one thing, the glue isn't very adhesive. It takes a lot of moisture to make them stick.' 'So we pick up some Elmer's.'

8.08.2
S7E22

Kramer · Susan:Kramer calls Susan 'Lilly.' She corrects him. He insists: 'Well, you look like a Lilly.'

7.87.8
S7E22

George · Susan:Susan catches George smoking. George: 'I've always smoked.' Susan: 'I've never seen you smoke.' George: 'Oh, yeah, well, big smoker.'

7.47.3
S7E22

George · Susan:George presents the prenup to Susan. She laughs. George: 'What's so funny?' Susan: 'You don't have any money. I make more money than you do.' George's silent reaction.

8.59.0
S7E22

Susan:Susan, signing the prenup while laughing: 'Yeah, give me the papers, I'll sign them.'

8.08.3
S8E17

Kramer · Susan:Kramer: 'By the way, I saw that English Patient film last night. It was extraordinary.' Susan: 'Oh, yes, it was so romantic.' Kramer: 'It ravished me.'

7.16.8