Acquaintances of Susan Mayer

Acquaintances of Susan Mayer

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Desperate Housewives is an American television series developed by Marc Cherry, and is broadcast on ABC (American Broadcasting Company). The series focuses on the lives of several residents living on Wisteria Lane in the fictional town of Fairview, Eagle State. Teri Hatcher stars as Susan Delfino, one of the four protagonists of the series. Many characters that have been introduced in the series play important roles in Susan's storylines. Most notably, James Denton portrays Mike Delfino, Susan's main love interest whom she marries twice in the series, and Andrea Bowen and Mason Vale Cotton appear as Susan's children, Julie Mayer and M.J. Delfino, respectively. The following is a list of Susan's relatives, love interests, and other characters that are relevant to her storylines.

Immediate family

Mike Delfino

James Denton stars as Mike Delfino, Susan's primary love interest throughout the entire series.
Main article: Mike Delfino

James Denton plays Mike Delfino, Susan's second husband and most prominent love interest in the series. In the pilot episode, Mike has just moved to Wisteria Lane with a secret agenda.[1] Throughout the first season, Mike attempts to solve the mystery of his former girlfriend's disappearance while maintaining an on-and-off relationship with Susan. The couple marry in season three.[2] Soon after, Susan gives birth to their son, Maynard James, nicknamed M.J.[3] Susan and Mike divorce during the five-year time jump in between seasons four and five; however, they rekindle their romance soon after and remarry in the season six premiere.[4]

Karl Mayer

Portrayed by Richard Burgi, Karl Mayer is Susan's first husband and the father of Julie Mayer, as well as a successful lawyer of family law. The couple divorced a year prior to the series as a result of Karl's affair with his secretary, Brandi.[1] In the season one episode "Move On", Karl ends his relationship with Brandi and asks Susan for a second chance, but she declines because of her commitment to Mike.[5] By the second season, Karl has been dating Susan's neighbor and frenemy Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan) for several months and is now living with her.[6] Throughout the season, Karl continues to pursue Susan and even sabotages her romances with Mike and Ron McCready (Jay Harrington).[7] When Susan needs a splenectomy operation, Karl offers to remarry her so she can take advantage of his medical benefits.[8] When Edie learns of their sham marriage, she demands that Karl propose to her and throw her a lavish wedding;[9] however, Karl leaves her soon after.[10]

In the fourth season episode "Opening Doors", Karl is newly married to a law professor named Marissa (Sunny Mabrey) and expecting a child with her.[11] In the fifth season, following a five-year time jump, Karl reveals that Marissa has left him and their son, Evan (Sawyer Church), because of the stresses of motherhood.[12] Bree Hodge (Marcia Cross), Susan's friend and neighbor, hires Karl as her divorce lawyer.[13] When Bree's husband, Orson (Kyle MacLachlan), blackmails her into staying in the marriage, Karl and Bree begin an affair.[14] Their affair continues into season six until Karl dies when a small airplane crashes onto Wisteria Lane.[15][16] In his will, Karl leaves Susan his partial ownership of a local strip club.[16]

According to Cherry, casting the role of Karl was difficult because he "wanted a guy that was nice looking and seemed like he would have been married to Teri, but was also someone you wouldn't like."[17] The character was portrayed by another actor in a series of non-speaking flashbacks in the pilot episode, but the role was recast once the direction of the character changed.[17]

Julie Mayer

Andrea Bowen portrays Susan's responsible and compassionate daughter, Julie.

Andrea Bowen plays Julie Alexandra Mayer, Susan and Karl's daughter. Susan and Karl share custody of Julie,[18] although she chose to live primarily with Susan.[19] Julie is characterized as "bright and self-sufficient and extremely mature for her age."[20] Julie often acts as the parental figure in her relationship with Susan, especially following Susan's divorce from Karl.[21][22]

In the first season, Julie begins dating Zach Young (Cody Kasch), the troubled son of Susan's deceased friend, Mary Alice (Brenda Strong). Julie harbors Zach in her room when he escapes from a mental institution for teenagers.[23] Susan eventually discovers Zach hiding in her house and sends him back to his father, which Julie considers an act of betrayal.[20][22] Eventually, Susan bans Zach from seeing Julie due to his increasingly disturbing behavior, but the two continue dating in secrecy.[24] Soon after, Julie breaks up with Zach because of his sadistic mentality.[25] In the second season, Julie recognizes that Zach has changed and rekindles their romance until Zach's father, Paul (Mark Moses), forbids Zach from speaking to Julie out of fear that Zach will discover Mike is his biological father.[26]

In the second season Julie was the voice of worry for Susan's re-marriage to Karl, but agreed to it because she wanted Susan to have her surgery to remove her wandering spleen. As an act of kindness towards Zach and Mike, she invited Zach bowling with them, to try and help Mike and Zach bond. Their friendship was ruined when Paul Young forbid Zach to ever speak to them ever again. She also catches Susan in bed with her dad Karl, and she is forced to sleep in a small van with Susan when their house is burned down by Edie Britt, Karl buys them a new house, but Susan refuses.

In the third season, Julie befriends Edie's nephew, Austin McCann (Josh Henderson), who has moved in with his aunt.[27][28] After the two are held hostage in a grocery store, they begin dating.[29] Julie loses her virginity to Austin in an attempt to keep him interested in the relationship;[30] however, when Julie learns that Austin had been cheating on her with her close friend, Danielle Van de Kamp (Joy Lauren), she breaks up with him.[31] Eventually Julie agrees to give him a second chance, but when Danielle learns that she is pregnant with his child, her stepfather, Orson, instructs Austin to leave town.[32] Throughout season four, Julie is suspicious of her childhood friend, Dylan Mayfair (Lyndsy Fonseca), who has moved back to Wisteria Lane and has no recollection of her childhood.[33] She also adjusts to having Mike as her stepfather.[34] In the fourth season finale, Julie is accepted to Princeton University.[35]

After the five-year time jump, Julie reappears in the fifth season episode "City on Fire" and introduces Susan to her boyfriend, her thrice-divorced college professor, Lloyd (Steven Weber). Susan is uncomfortable with Lloyd's intention on proposing to Julie, but Julie rejects his proposal, stating that she does not believe in the concept of marriage following her mother's string of bad luck.[36] Julie returns to Wisteria Lane for the summer in season six to help her mother prepare for her and Mike's second wedding, during which time she forms a relationship with Danny Bolen (Beau Mirchoff), who has moved in across the street with his parents. The relationship is short-lived and when Julie is strangled outside her house and becomes comatose, Danny is arrested.[4][37] As the other characters work to reveal the identity of Julie's attacker, her affair with Danny's father, Nick (Jeffrey Nordling) and a related pregnancy scare prior to the attack are exposed.[38] Several months after waking up from her coma, Julie decides to visit her relatives on the East Coast until her attacker is caught.[39] In the episode "Epiphany", Julie's attacker is revealed to be Eddie Orlofsky, who mistook her for Susan and was planning on punishing Susan for rejecting him and marrying Mike.[40] Julie is not seen again until the seventh season episode "Where Do I Belong" when she visits Susan in the hospital after she has her kidney removed.[41]

Prior to being cast in the role, Bowen did not think she would get it, explaining, "they were looking for a 12-year-old brunette ... and I was a 13-year-old blonde."[42] As a result, Bowen was asked to dye her hair for the role.[42] Bowen was initially attracted to the series because of the amount of attention paid to the younger characters. She stated, "If you watch a lot of other television shows, the kids don't have that much [of a] part in it. On this show, the writers give us each our own individual storylines that have a lot of layers to them."[42] For the show's third season, the character's storylines began revolving around rebellion and angst. Bowen commented: "She’s going to have, you know, primarily one love interest, and he’s a bit of a bad boy. We’re going to see if she has a positive effect on him, or if he has a negative effect on her. I’m definitely very excited about it ... because you kind of get to see a different side to her."[43] At the beginning of the series' fourth season, Bowen commented on the possibility that her character would be leaving the show for college, stating that the writers had briefly alluded to the character's departure early in the season but removed it from the script. She continued: "Do I want my character to go off to college? No, I'm very happy where I am but I wouldn’t be too devastated if it happened because none of us feel too secure with their jobs being that people get killed left and right. I think we all live with the suspicion that we're going to be going."[44] The Julie character was written off the series for the fifth season. Hatcher expressed disappointment in the decision, but Cherry promised that Bowen would return to the series.[45] Bowen returned to the series for one episode during season five and rejoined the main cast as a series regular for the sixth season.[46]

Bowen's performance throughout the course of the series has received mixed reviews. Entertainment Weekly's Annie Barrett identified Julie as a TV character she irrationally hates. She criticized the character as being one-note and inconsequential and opined that Bowen "started off the series in an awkward phase and then we realized the awkward phase was going to last her entire life."[47] Following the announcement that Bowen would be rejoining the cast for the sixth season, Michael Slezak of Entertainment Weekly wrote that Bowen's performance is "so deeply unconvincing [that she risks] getting upstaged if there's so much as a house plant in a scene with [her]."[48] He also criticized the performances of other young actresses on the series and raised the question, "how come Desperate Housewives has such a dreadful track record with younger actresses?"[48]

M.J. Delfino

Mason Vale Cotton as M.J. Delfino, Susan's second child (and first son)

Mason Vale Cotton portrays Maynard James "M.J." Delfino, Susan and Mike's son. He is born on Mother's Day in the fourth season episode "Mother Said", shortly before the five-year time jump. His first name honors Mike's maternal grandfather while his middle name comes from Mike's paternal grandfather.[3] M.J. struggles in school, which prompts Susan and Mike to enroll him in private school.[49][50] When Mike begins dating Susan's friend and neighbor, Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany), M.J. resents their relationship;[51] however, he grows fond of Katherine as her romance with Mike progresses.[52] M.J. becomes the target of a murder scheme when Dave Williams (Neal McDonough) attempts to get revenge on Susan for killing his wife and daughter in a car accident several years earlier.[13] However, Dave spares M.J.'s life after experiencing overwhelming guilt.[14]

Extended family

Sophie Bremmer-Fickman

Lesley Ann Warren portrays Susan's energetic and dramatic mother, Sophie.

Portrayed by Lesley Ann Warren, Sophie Bremmer-Fickman is Susan's mother. She is obsessed with youth,[53] and she often tells others that she and Susan are sisters.[54][55] She is characterized as "a drama queen who tends to exaggerate."[53] Sophie became pregnant with Susan as a teenager and raised her alone. Throughout her childhood, Sophie told Susan that her father was a United States Merchant Marine who died in the Battle of Hanoi during the Vietnam War.[56] Prior to the beginning of the series, Sophie has been married four times, including two marriages to the same man.[57] She first appears in the first season episode "Children Will Listen". She decides to stay with Susan indefinitely after alleging that her boyfriend, Morty Fickman (Bob Newhart), became violent during an argument.[54] Her visit becomes an imposition for Susan, as Sophie continually flirts with strange men and tries to set up double dates for her and Susan.[55][58] Eventually, Sophie and Morty reconcile and become engaged.[57] In season two, Sophie and Morty marry. At their wedding reception, Sophie admits to Susan that her father did not die in the Vietnam War and is actually local businessman Addison Prudy (Paul Dooley), with whom Sophie had an affair while working as his secretary.[56] Sophie reappears in the seventh season episode "Assassins", while Susan is in the hospital awaiting a kidney transplant. Susan feels betrayed when her Sophie does not volunteer to be her kidney donor; however, Susan soon discovers that Sophie has breast cancer and does not want Susan to know because she is trying to make up for years of being self-centered.[41]

Warren was cast in the role because of her similarities to Hatcher, who commented, "It's almost scary how much we are the same person."[59] Series creator Marc Cherry, who had become a fan of Warren following her performances in Cinderella and Victor Victoria, deemed her "the Teri Hatcher of the '70s".[53] James Denton recalled that "Lesley Ann looked at some episodes, came in and basically is Susan."[59] Warren was initially turned off by the thought of portraying the mother to Hatcher's character, as there is only an 18 year age difference between the actors; however, she was comforted when Cherry assured her that Sophie "would be portrayed as girlish and flirtatious."[59] Entertainment Weekly's Ann Hodgman criticized Warren's four-episode storyline in the first season, opining: "Every time she's on screen ... the show devolves into generic sitcom and becomes an old Bewitched episode where Endora drops in uninvited."[60] Hodgman stated that guest actors "breach the security" of the "claustrophobic, sealed-in quality" of the series.[60] Tanner Stransky of Entertainment Weekly praised the return of Warren as Sophie in the seventh season and called her final scene in the episode "touching."[61]

Morty Fickman

Bob Newhart plays Morty Fickman, Sophie's boyfriend and fifth husband. In the first season, Sophie leaves Morty after he throws a book at her. When Susan attempts to help the couple reconcile, Morty says he has grown tired of Sophie's antics and wants to focus his attention on his growing pancake restaurant chain.[54] Nevertheless, Morty proposes to Sophie soon after.[57] In the second season, Morty and Sophie marry.[56]

Addison Prudy

Paul Dooley portrays Addison Prudy, Susan's biological father. He is a philanderer and has admitted to cheating on his wife several times.[62] When Sophie was 18, she worked as Addison's secretary and the two had an affair, resulting in her pregnancy with Susan. Sophie raised Susan alone after receiving child support from Addison. She told Susan that her father was a Merchant Marine who died in the Battle of Hanoi in the Vietnam War. However, Susan eventually learns the truth.[56] In the episode "That's Good, That's Bad", Susan applies to work at Addison's horse feed and supply store in an attempt to get acquainted with him. Upon revealing her identity, Addison suffers a heart attack.[62] Addison is hesitant to embrace Susan's attempts to form a relationship, which are complicated when Addison's wife, Carol (Joyce Van Patten), suspects Susan of being Addison's mistress. In "Coming Home", Addison tells Susan that he needs to repair his marriage but hopes to form a relationship with her in the future.[63]

Carol Prudy

Played by Joyce Van Patten, Carol Prudy is Addison's wife, on whom he has cheated several times.[56] When she sees Addison spending time with Susan, she suspects that the two are having an affair. She eventually learns that Susan is Addison's daughter when she confronts Susan at the supermarket.[63]

Nick Delfino

Robert Forster portrays Nick Delfino, Mike's father. Nick appears in "Now I Know, Don't Be Scared" when a pregnant Susan learns that he is alive and incarcerated, having previously been told by Mike that he was dead. Susan demands that they visit Nick in prison, where Nick reveals that he killed his boss. Susan accuses Nick of being evil, as he seems to show no remorse or guilt. When Susan visits Nick again, he says that he ignores his guilt over the murder but does feel bad that his conviction affected Mike's childhood so heavily.[64]

Adele Delfino

Played by Celia Weston, Adele Delfino is Mike's mother. She appears in the episode "Mother Said" in order to spend Mother's Day with Susan and Mike and help prepare for M.J.'s birth. Her traditional Southern values and ideals put her at odds with Susan's shortcomings, including her poor housekeeping and cooking skills. Adele decides to move in with the couple, to which Susan protests greatly.[3]

Tim Bremmer

Portrayed by Chris Carmack, Tim Bremmer is Susan's cousin who appears in the episode "Sunday" to help Susan with her taxes. During his visit, he and Katherine rekindle an affair they had while he visited once summer when he was 16, though Susan suspects that he is instead sleeping with Katherine's underage daughter, Dylan (Lyndsy Fonseca).[65] Entertainment Weekly's Gretchen Hansen called the character and his storyline "creepy," though acknowledged that it "was good for one thing, filling in some Mayfair mystery blanks."[66]

Marissa Mayer

Sunny Mabrey plays Marissa Mayer, Karl's second wife. She is a law professor and an author. She appears in the fourth season episode "Opening Doors" when both she and Susan enroll in the same Lamaze class.[11] In the fifth season, Karl reveals that Marissa left him and their son, Evan, because she was overwhelmed by the stresses of motherhood.[12]

Evan Mayer

Portrayed by Sawyer Church, Evan is Karl and Marissa's son. He is first introduced in the fifth season episode "A Spark. To Pierce the Dark." when Karl inadvertently enrolls Evan in Susan's art class at Oakridge Academy. As a result of his mother leaving him, Evan illustrates violent images in the class.[12] In "Bargaining", Karl attempts to secure Evan an invitation to M.J.'s birthday party after M.J. accuses Evan of being a bully.[13]

Claire Bremmer

Valerie Harper plays Claire Bremmer, Susan's aunt and Sophie's sister. She appears in the episode "Where Do I Belong" when Susan awaits a kidney transplant. She informs Susan about Sophie's breast cancer but begs her not to mention it to Sophie, who is keeping her condition a secret in an attempt to stay out of the center of attention.[41] Tanner Stransky of Entertainment Weekly enjoyed the casting of Harper but argued that the character's introduction was pointless: "And the casting of Valerie Harper as Susan’s aunt Claire was a smart move, too, although at first I couldn’t help but think: Why is Claire even here?"[61]

Season 1 introduced acquaintances

Deirdre Taylor

Jolie Jenkins portrays Deirdre Taylor, Mike's ex-girlfriend. Her death, which occurred before the series' timeline, plays an integral role in the first season mystery, which focuses on Mary Alice's suicide. Dierdre came from a wealthy family, but rejected it after becoming addicted to drugs as a young adult.[57] During this time, she dated Mike, a drug dealer at the time. Their relationship ended after Mike was incarcerated for killing a corrupt police officer who attempted to rape Dierdre.[57] Soon after, Dierdre gave birth to Mike's son without his knowledge. She later sold her son to Mary Alice, who worked as a nurse in a rehabilitation facility in Utah.[67] Mary Alice and Paul fled town and raised Dierdre's child as their own. Years later, Dierdre tracked down the Young family and attempted to take Zach back, but Mary Alice killed her in an attempt to stop her.[67] Mary Alice and Paul chopped up Dierdre's body and buried it underneath the cement of their swimming pool.[67] Although Jenkins did not appear onscreen until the first season finale, which was filmed in April 2005, she was cast in the fall of 2004 because earlier episodes required photographs of the Dierdre character.[68] Because no material had been written for the character at the time of casting, Jenkins did not have to audition for the role.[68]

Noah Taylor

Played by Bob Gunton, Noah Taylor is Dierdre's father. In the first season, Noah finances Mike's mission to discover what happened to Dierdre. Throughout the first season, he often checks on Mike's progress, and briefly fires Mike when he feels his focus has been pulled.[69] Noah simultaneously discovers that he has a cancerous tumor and only has one more year to live.[69] In the second season, Noah is on bed rest.

Kendra Taylor

Kendra Taylor (Heather Stephens) is the older sister of Deirdre Taylor, and older daughter of Noah Taylor. Kendra first appeared in the episode "Anything You Can Do", where she came to check on Mike’s investigation and the progress of his work, making Susan and Edie think she was an ex-girlfriend. Susan expected to come into conflict with Kendra over Mike, but it never happened. Edie would have been rooting for Susan, as she thought it would be easier to steal Mike from her than from the glamorous Kendra. After settling in at Mike’s place, Kendra made it very clear that she was fed up with talking and thinking about her sister's disappearance when she told Mike to stop looking for Deirdre. However, she (against her father's wishes), told Susan the truth about Deirdre's drug use and Mike's arrest.

Detective Copeland

Detective Copeland (Conor O'Farrell) is the investigator of Mrs. Huber’s murder who strongly believed Mike was the culprit. He questions Susan twice about Mike and she becomes his alibi by saying they slept together the night Mrs. Huber was killed. He mentioned to her that people do stupid things when they're in love and that he'd know because he’s been married four times.

Detective Sullivan

Detective Sullivan (Nick Chinlund) is a corrupt police officer in charge of Mrs. Huber's murder case and an underling on the Deirdre Taylor murder case. He is actually a puppet and confidante of Noah Taylor. The eyes and ears of the notorious criminal underworld Taylor family inside the Fairview police. He first appears in "Impossible", where Noah pushes him to reveal Mike Delfino’s case file to Susan at her interrogation for Mrs. Huber's murder. They are successful, she takes the bait, and they break up. This was arranged solely to eliminate a "time distortion" in order to find Deirdre more quickly. He appears once more in episode 19, "Live Alone and Like It". Noah bribes Sullivan to get Deirdre’s case file to Mike and to get Mike off Mrs. Huber's murder case. The two meet in an underground parking garage where the two exchange the case file. Sullivan has a bitter attitude towards Mike and makes a comment about how it is wrong for him to get off with a short prison sentence of 5 and a half years since he was a “cop-killer”. Mike strikes back attacking him for being hypocritical since Sullivan was participating in it, and getting himself off the Huber murder case. Sullivan repays his backlash with a gun and two fists to the face, giving Mike a black eye. Sullivan makes a comment, "this file was misplaced, understand, if even a whisper of this gets traced back to me, there will be one less cop-killer on the street." Sullivan slams down the file and walks off. Mike gets it and drives home, seeing Paul Young on a purchase list for the toy chest setting him to his target. In season two, he tries to discover who is Noah's grandson.

Season 2 introduced acquaintances

Ron McCready

Dr. Ron McCready (Jay Harrington) is a surgeon at Sacred Heart Hospital, Ron became Susan’s love interest midway through the second season, despite a somewhat clumsy beginning to their relationship. A difference in age between the two has been shown as a possible issue. (In reality, Jay Harrington, the actor portraying the character, is just under seven years younger than Teri Hatcher.) They date anyway.

When he begins to perform Susan’s splenectomy, he tells her that he loves her. Susan, under the influence of anesthesia responds by saying “Aww, that’s so sweet. I love Mike.” At that moment, Nurse Heisel tells him that she is married to Karl. Susan tells Ron she was probably hallucinating about a guy that didn’t exist, and that she married Karl for health insurance. The second part was true. Their relationship goes smoothly until Karl makes a clog and tells Mike to come over, as a plan to break up Susan and Ron. After Ron finds out she was lying, he broke up with her and told Edie about their marriage.

He was also mentioned in 12th episode of the fifth season when Susan locked herself with Edie in the basement. Edie made a calendar of Susan's lovelife. When Edie's sure she's done, she reminds herself that she may forget about one of Susan's lovers and asks Susan if she dated someone after she stole Karl from her. Susan confirms that she dated Ron at the time. When she's done, Edie reveals that Susan was single only for 41 days.

Season 3 introduced acquaintances

Ian Hainsworth

Ian Hainsworth (Dougray Scott) is a British man who became depressed after his wife, Jane, was put into a coma after a horseback riding accident. He met Susan when she cared for Mike, who was comatose too. After a few dates, they spent a few days in one of his houses on the mountains. One thing leading to another, they slept together but soon after learned that Mike had woken up. Susan broke up with Ian, but Mike, manipulated by Edie, no longer returned her feelings and she reconciled with Ian. However, they were both still in love with other people and their relationship got more complicated.

When Mike was imprisoned for Monique Polier's murder, Ian agreed to help get him out if Susan promised not to see him again. Despite Ian's wishes, Susan saw Mike again but they reunited when she said that she loved him for the first time. After finding out that his wife's health was declining and might not live until he returns, he asks Susan to be there when she dies. Later in the season, Ian proposes to Susan at the opening of the Scavo Pizzeria. She accepts and they are happily applauded by the surrounding crowd. In the next episode, Mike discovers that the only reason that Ian actually proposed to Susan so quickly is that he saw the engagement ring that Mike bought for Susan. However, they come to an agreement that if Ian won the poker game that they were playing at the time of this tension, Mike would leave him and Susan alone. Luckily for Ian, he won the poker game. However, it became clear that Mike still feels strongly about Susan. In episode 17, Ian immediately worries that Susan will damage his reputation with his parents. Following various incidents including Susan setting Ian's mother on fire, he and his parents try to make Susan sign a prenuptial agreement and although she agreed, she has lost faith in Ian. After Susan caught Ian's father wearing her underwear, she made him help her not to sign the agreement.

Later, Ian proposes that he and Susan relocate to London and she agrees but later changes her mind, realizing that Ian is simply trying to get her away from Mike. After this heated argument, she walks over to Mike's for consolation, and they share an intimate kiss. This renews Mike's belief in the possibility of winning her back, so he constantly forces his way into her and Ian's lives, even confessing to what occurred at the poker game. After learning this, Susan sends them both away and cancels her wedding to Ian. Ian and Mike continued to pursue Susan but are shot down with each attempt. Eventually, Susan announced that she would marry Ian. While celebrating, Susan decided to check her messages and listened to a message from Mike which made her realize that she was still in love with both Ian and her former boyfriend, but loving Mike just a little more. Ian called off the wedding and returned to England.

Jane Hainsworth

Jane Hainsworth (Cecily Gambrell) was Ian's wife, who is in a coma after falling off a horse. She is in the coma ward where Ian meets Susan. She later dies without regaining consciousness. Despite being romantically involved with her husband, Susan visits and helps care for Jane at the hospital.

Season 4 introduced acquaintances

Jackson Braddock

Jackson Braddock (Gale Harold) is Susan's on/off boyfriend in the fifth season. He is a painter and gets along well with Mike and M.J.. At first, Jackson and Susan did not want a serious relationship and Susan keeps it a secret, but as the season progresses, he wanted her to introduce him as her boyfriend to her friends. However, Susan does not want to go public but eventually introduces him as her boyfriend. They eventually agree to return to the original state of the relationship. Jackson suffers minor injuries during the fire in Warren Schilling's club, started by Dave Williams. When Jackson moves away during season 5, he invites Susan to come with him. She agrees but later changes her mind so she can be alone for the first time in her life. Eventually, Jackson returns and proposes marriage because otherwise he believes he will be deported to Canada. Dave, who suspects Jackson is a potential witness to his arson, tips off immigration when he finds out that Jackson is there illegally. When Susan and Jackson are about to leave for City Hall to be married, immigration takes him into custody. He is later questioned by the police about the fire, and what he knows about Dave. His current whereabouts are unknown but he told Susan that his deportation papers were being processed.

Season 5 introduced acquaintances

Principal Hobson

Principal Hobson (John Rubinstein) is the Principal at the school where Susan worked, and M.J. Delfino and Juanita Solis attend.He fired Susan in the season 7 for her 'after school job'

Season 7 introduced acquaintances

Maxine Rosen

Maxine Rosen (Lainie Kazan) is Susan's landlady, after moving out of their home. She tempts and eventually hires Susan into working for her company, where women do housework in their lingerie. She later fires Susan for driving away a customer.

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