What if Shelley got to play
Cheryl the lawyer on Seinfeld?
an artwork of Shelley (playing Cheryl)
with Jerry Seinfeld on the Seinfeld episode "The Visa"
Cheryl Fong (played by Maggie Han) is a character from the hit '90s TV sitcom Seinfeld that appeared in two episodes - "The Visa" (season 4 episode 15, aired January 27, 1993) and "The Pilot, Part 2" (season 4, episode 24, aired May 20, 1993). Cheryl was introduced as a lawyer who finds George Costanza (Jason Alexander) funny and starts going out with him. But when Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) run into George and Cheryl at a restaurant and joins them at their table, Cheryl begins laughing at Jerry's jokes. George is then afraid Cheryl would find Jerry funnier than him and would lose interest in him. So while Cheryl was away from their table, he asks Jerry to stop being funny in front of Cheryl. To indulge George, Jerry becomes sullen for the rest of the evening. Later, Jerry, still playing it sullen, meets with Cheryl over lunch to consult with a legal matter. But when Cheryl meets George after that, she confesses that she is attracted to Jerry's dark and disturbed personality. According to the book Seinfeld Secrets: 1500 Fun Facts about the Show by Dennis Bjorklund, Shelley Hack auditioned for the role of Cheryl. What if Shelley got the part of Cheryl? Of course, the character would be modified a bit to suit Shelley. But wouldn't it have been fun to see Shelley in the biggest sitcom of the 1990s?
Shelley in a promo pic from 1993
