[1] In this episode, Jerry unintentionally terrorizes a bookie, George avoids all contact with his girlfriend so that she cannot break up with him, and Elaine ends up leading a double life at the office after a co-worker starts mistakenly calling her "Susie".
George is excited about Steinbrenner's ball because he wants to make a grand entrance with his girlfriend Allison with her wearing a backless dress.
Peterman proposes establishing a foundation in Susie's honor, so Elaine finally tells him the truth.
The impetus for the episode's story was when one of writer David Mandel's co-workers on Saturday Night Live called him the wrong name.
Mandel said he was struck by the fact that there was no one on Saturday Night Live with that name that he knew of, inspiring "The Susie"'s core idea of a misremembered name leading to a belief in a non-existent person.
[2] George's answering machine message, a George-sung parody of "Theme from The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not)", was also based on real-life events.
[2] Mandel later said he considers "The Susie" one of the weakest TV episodes he has written, feeling that the bookie plotline didn't go anywhere.