One the many different adjectives that I could use to describe George Costanza is cheap. For example, in the episode “The Invitations”, George and Susan set out to go buy invitations for their wedding. George asks the manager to see a book of different invitations and she proceeds to tell him that they are ordered by price. George, disregarding Susan’s input completely, immediately flips to the back of the book and points to the cheapest type of invitation. George and Susan leave the invitation store, return home, and Susan begins to work on the invitations for their wedding. Susan is alone and begins to feel faint from licking the adhesive on the letters of the invitations and eventually passes out. She is rushed to the hospital where George, Jerry, Elaine and Kramer meet a doctor who informs them she has passed away because the invitations were poisonous due to the fact that they were old and cheap. Although the audience knows George is crushed, he does not display any extreme emotion toward the situation. So, in a sense, George’s cheapness had to do with his fiancés death. There are no characters that come to mind that share this characteristic with George. I believe that this characteristic is unique to George compared to characters in 1980s sitcoms and up to the most recent ones.
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Michael: you can think of absolutely NO characters on television that are cheap, frugal, stingy? I bet you can come up with at least one!
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