Who are they?

Jan 10, 19998 posts by 7 posters
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Fans discuss crew members whose names were used for Seinfeld characters, identifying multiple instances including writers, producers, and production staff commemorated through character names.

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Dave

You know the names.

Suzie Mammann-Greenberg, Tom Sartori, Pete Papanickolas, Jeffrey Stott, Greg Kavet, Andy Robin, Spike Feresten, Wayne Kennan, Eugene Lew, Karen Wilkie, Janet Ashikaga...

Just some of the OTHER people that made Seinfeld, the show, what it was.

And as for that trivia question asking which TWO characters got their names from crew members, well.

Alec Berg (played by Mark DiCarlo) "The Face Painter". Gave Jerry hockey tickets. Named for Alec Berg, writer/producer.

Stevie Koren (played by Jed Rhein) "The Van Buren Boys". Selected by Susan Foundation. Named for Steve Koren, production crew (I'm not sure what he did).

Mr. Elinoff (played by Paul Benedict) "The Cartoon". Gave Elaine job at 'the New Yorker'. Named for Jed Elinoff, production assistant.

Christine NyHart (played by Helen Carey) "The Puerto Rican Day". Showed apartment to Vandelay, Varnsen and Pennypacker. Named for Christine Nyhart, script supervisor.

Fred Yerkes (played by Fred Stoller) "The Secret Code". Elaine dated him because he couldn't remember her. Named for Jeff Yerkes, script coordinator. Stoller should count double, because in addition to his bit parts, Fred was also a story writer for the show.

You should have asked which five.  And I'm not entirely sure there's
only five.
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SteveDave

Very interesting. What I meant in the question was who had identical names. I never knew that there was such a long list of names with similar character names.

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In The Wink - Elaine and her cousin refer to their grand mother - what was the grand mother's name? Was it something like... grandma mammann? Or am I confusing that with something else - I'll ask Dave - no time to check my tapes. :-) Thanks

daphna mamanThe News Guy(Mike)

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I don't remember Elaine's grannie;s name, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't Mamann.. It's a proper Jewish name, and it's mine, however :)

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Hi, :) Elaine and her cousins grandmother's name was "Gramma Mamma"...and by the way, what is mutton anyway ;)

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That was Grandma Mimma. (Jerry hid the mutton in Grandma Mimma's napkins.)

It's possible that they got the name Susie (from "The Susie") from
Mammann-Greenberg but there's not enough evidence to suggest that this
was another "character" named after a production person..
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grand mother's name?

It sounded to me something like Grandma Mimma.

Cris

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I believe it was Grandma Mimma.