Script for
The Susie

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The Susie
The Television Transcript Project
Seinfeld
Written by David Mandel
Episode #149 [8-15: season 8, episode 15], 13 Feb 1997.; directed by Andy Ackerman.
The Cast
Character Actor
Jerry Seinfeld Jerry Seinfeld
George Costanza Jason Alexander
Kramer Michael Richards
Elaine Benes Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Mike Moffit Lee Arenberg
Peggy Megan Cole
Allison Shannon Kenny
J. Peterman John O'Hurley
Wilhelm Richard Herd
When I printed this, it took 26 pages.
Notes:
I had to get the first half minute of the first act [up to Mike saying ".. either of you guys want to place a bet: I'm your guy"]
from a syndicated re-broadcast, but I think nothing was cut for that. I assume the syndication cut out the teaser [probably
about a minute], so that's completely missing. :-[The rest is from a regular broadcast.
Small, teal text is notes about camera movements, positions, and whether it was close-up [CU], medium-shot [MS], long
shot [LS], two shot [2S], long-medium shot [L-MS], or full shot [see all of people's bodies]. This is just intuitive
terminology [CU meaning very close, MS as anything from that to seeing most of someone's body, LS as an establishing
shot, the layout of the scene/place]. It's a terminology we all can understand.
They probably have only four cameras available at once, from what I hear.
It is very probable that the non-facial close-ups, the establishing shots, some reaction shots, and especially shots without
people visible in them, are done at a separate time [I label such likely cameras a, b, c, instead of 1, 2, etc.] And of course
there's the issue of mixing shots from different takes and splitting one set of action into two scenes. [An example here is I
think that when Kramer came into the ballroom divided that scene into two scenes, so they really didn't need seven
cameras to do that scene]. Again, these are only my deductions. Try it, sometime. It's interesting. :o]
I put the total number of cameras in parentheses at the start of the notes. When there were extra cameras [those labeled
a, b, c, etc.--see above], I add them. Example: "[4+1]" means four cameras plus one separate shot.
"Over X's shoulder," at least here, means you can see part of the given person [X]--sometimes it's his/her head. Unless
otherwise noted, the shoulder is the person's left shoulder.
Unless otherwise noted, the cameras are stationary.
Catch the daylight/night continuity errors. ;-]
Braces {} enclose unclear speech.
Transcript by: Suzanne via VCR tape and micro-cassette tape.
[4] 1: high LS following Jerry and Kramer walking; 2: MS on J and K; 3: full shot on Mike at shop window; 2: MS on J and K; 4: MS on
J and K [more in profile than cam. #2]; 2: MS on J and K; 3: pans with M coming over; 2: MS on J and K, now over M's sh.; 3: MS on M;
2; 3; 2: MS on J and K, over M's sh; 3: MS on M; 4: MS all three, J crosses right, leaving; 3: MS on M; 2: MS on K and M; 3: MS on
M, over K's rt. sh; 2: MS on M; 4: K and M, M crosses left, leaving; 2: K puts watch away, walks rt.

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