“It is funny how many people still remember me from that,” Walters told people at the ‘Young and the Restless’ 13,000th episode celebration

Susan Walters’ Seinfeld role is proving to be memorable even almost 30 years later.

At the Young and the Restless 13,000th episode celebration in Los Angeles, Calif. on Thursday, Oct. 24, Walters, 61, spoke about how her appearance in the 1996 episode “The Foundation” cemented her in Seinfeld lore.

When asked about how her time on Seinfeld still follows her around, she said that she has the name nonsensical name “Mulva” to thank.

“It is funny how many people still remember me from that,” she said. “Or when they make the connection, they like me a lot more, you know what I mean? Yeah. It is funny.”

“I’ve gotten it years after it had aired,” she continued. “The first time I got a pilot that wasn’t even comedic because the director loved that episode so much, he’s like, “Well, let’s hire Mulva!'”

“You know what, taking it back to The Young and the Restless and you’re saying it’s iconic. That was iconic,” she said of her Seinfeld role. “So I am really lucky that I’ve been part of some iconic things in the entertainment industry.”

As fans may recall, Walters appeared in two episodes of Seinfeld. In 1993’s “The Junior Mint,” she was the “Mystery Woman” Jerry was dating. In the episode, she says that her name rhymes with a part of the female anatomy, but Jerry never bothers to learn it.

He avoids trying to use it and attempts to get her to say it throughout the episode to no avail. Jerry and George muse it could be something like Bovary or Mulva, or even Gipple.

Towards the end of the episode, she realizes he doesn’t know her name. Jerry takes a shot in the dark and (incorrectly) guesses it as Mulva. She storms out of his apartment and dumps him. He then remembers — her name is Dolores.

Fast forward to the 1996 episode “The Foundation,” Walters appears as Dolores again and reunites with Jerry at Monk’s, ultimately realizing he hasn’t matured since their last interaction.

Since her appearance on Seinfeld, Walters joined the cast of The Young and the Restless as Diane Jenkins in 2001 until 2004, and then returned to the long-running series in March 2022 to reprise the role after Diane had faked her own death.

“It just felt like we had just done this, you know, it didn’t feel like 20 years have passed,” she said in 2022 on an episode of the Dishing with Digest podcast. Walters has appeared in over 400 episodes of the soap opera.