Heyman, who deliberately mispronounced his name as "Can't stand ya" and gave him wedgies. George was picked on by his gym teacher Mr. During their high school years, George and Jerry frequently hung out at a pizzeria called Mario's Pizzas, where the former, having the highest score "GLC", would play Frogger (although Frogger debuted in 1981, well after the pair's high school graduation in 1971).
He met Jerry during his youth, and they remained friends from that point on. In a previous episode he mentions he went to high school on Long Island. In " The Junior Mint", George states he grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he went to a public school. George's best friend Jerry Seinfeld described Frank and Estelle as " psychopaths", and said in " The Chinese Woman" that, if they had divorced when George was young, he "could have been normal". Lloyd Braun is a childhood nemesis who George feels was the son his parents always wanted. George twice mentions that he has a brother. George is the son of Frank, an Italian-American, and Estelle Costanza. Alexander reprised his role in an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, reuniting with Jerry Seinfeld and Wayne Knight (also reprising their roles as Jerry and Newman, respectively). The character was based on Seinfeld co-creator Larry David but is surnamed after Jerry Seinfeld's real-life New York friend, Michael Costanza. George appears in every episode except " The Pen" (third season). George and Jerry were junior high school friends (although in "The Betrayal", Season 9, Episode 8, George says the two have been friends since fourth grade) and remained friends afterward. He is friends with Jerry Seinfeld, Cosmo Kramer and Elaine Benes. He is also remarkably lazy during periods of unemployment he actively avoids getting a job, and while employed he often finds ingenious ways to conceal idleness from his bosses. He is a short, stocky, bald man who struggles with numerous insecurities, often dooming his romantic relationships through his own fear of being dumped. George Louis Costanza is a fictional character in the American television sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), played by Jason Alexander. Latvian Orthodox Church, Catholic (by upbringing) Representative for Kruger Industrial Smoothing Assistant to the traveling secretary for the New York Yankees