use glue for the wedding invitations since the adhesive in the envelopes takes a lot of moisture to work, Susan keeps licking envelopes until she passes out. George returns to his apartment, finds that Susan has collapsed, and takes her to the hospital. After the examination, a doctor informs George that Susan is dead from licking the envelopes, since the adhesive is toxic. George, Jerry, and Elaine seem puzzled by their own lack of emotional response to her death. The tables have turned since Jerry is now unhappily engaged and George, with the death of Susan, is not. George calls Marisa Tomei, tells her his fiancée has died, and asks her on a date. She hangs up on him. Production The episode's writer, Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, originally came up with George's plan to move to China for the season two episode "The Ex-Girlfriend". It was cut from that episode prior to broadcast, so he repurposed the material for "The Invitations". Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, long portrayed on Seinfeld by the voice of Larry David, filmed scenes for a guest appearance in this episode, but footage for the episode ran well over its allotted 23 minutes, so his scenes were all cut for time. Other cuts made to fit the episode within its time slot include some sequences from the Jerry and Jeannie montage, Jerry and Jeannie's conversation after making out, and Jeannie joking that she's only marrying Jerry to get her green card. The cast reading for the episode was on March 31, 1996. Filming commenced on April 1, and the majority of the scenes were filmed before a live studio audience on April 3. This episode was temporarily pulled from syndication in the wake of the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States in October. The episode returned to syndication in the summer of 2002. This is the last episode to feature Larry David as executive producer. He returned to write the two-part finale, and voiced the character of George Steinbrenner for three episodes of Season 8. On June 3, 2015, Jason Alexander said during an interview on The Howard Stern Show that Swedberg's character had been killed off due to incompatibility with the other stars' comedic rhythm on the show, and the decision was made to cut Swedberg after Jerry Seinfeld and Julia Louis-Dreyfus acted alongside her. The following day, Alexander apologized on Twitter for his comments,