TODAY'S EPISODE
The Engagement
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SYNOPSIS
After breaking up with their girlfriends, Jerry and George worry that they're destined to spend their aging years as lonely old men. As a result, Jerry resolves to make up with Melanie, while George sets out to find Susan, the NBC executive he used to date. Meanwhile, when Elaine's sleep is disturbed by a barking dog living near her new apartment, Kramer offers to get Newman to take care the noisy pet once and for all.
While Jerry hears Kramer's warning about the pitfalls of marriage, George doesn't. And inspired by his fond memories of their relationship, George heads to Susan's apartment where he proposes on the spot. After breaking the news to his incredulous parents, George arrives to tell Jerry the news. However, when he learns that Jerry's reunion with Melanie was cut short because of her annoying eating habits, George has second thoughts about his proposal to Susan.
Although she's against killing it, Elaine does agree to let Kramer and Newman kidnap the annoying dog and joins them on a mission to relocate it far from home. But after taking a bite out of Kramer's shirt, the dog finds its way home, where a telltale tag leads to Kramer, Newman and Elaine's arrest. Finally, when his plan to join Jerry for a movie is derailed, George's concerns about marrying Susan grow, especially after he can't watch an exciting baseball game on TV.
"Happy, Pappy," the expression used by Susan which drives George to break up with her, is a real expression regularly used by the actress. After a performance, Heidi Swedber would turn to Larry David and ask if it was a good take by asking, "Happy, Pappy?"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus shot her scenes shouting at the barking dog the day before shooting the rest of the show. The actress lost her voice performing the scenes and the loss of her voice was then added to the script.
The montage in which we see George reminiscing on his time with Susan was actually made up of scenes specially made for this episode.
Jerry and George's references to Susan's 'rosy glow' and 'pinkish hue' were actually callbacks to the memorable conversation they had in season three's "The Fix-Up."
Jerry's scene with his friend Mario featured Mario Joyner, a close friend in real life. Joyner would return to the show as a different character in season nine's "The Puerto Rican Day."
Kramer reveals that he doesn't wear a watch because he can tell time based on the position of the sun and that at night he can usually guess it within a couple hours.
GEORGE:
"You know who I think about a lot? Remember Susan? The one that worked for NBC?"
JERRY:
"Hmm. I thought she became a lesbian."
GEORGE:
"No. It didn't take."
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