Sue White

Infobox character
colour = #6ef7a7
name = Sue White


first = Caroline's First Day
last = The Special
nickname = Sue
gender = Female
occupation = Staff liaison officer
episode = 20
portrayer = Michelle Gomez

Susan 'Sue' White is a character in the British sitcom "Green Wing", played by Michelle Gomez.

History

Sue, a Scot, is the staff liaison officer at East Hampton Hospital Trust. Her job is, "To soothe, to bathe, to listen to the workers' woes". However, most of the workers' woes seem to be about her.

Sue is not the best person for her job. She is rude, unhelpful, greedy, lustful, jealous, tight-fisted, completely insane and a misanthrope. For example, when a crying member of staff came in asking for help, Sue gave her a book with the comment, "Take this, 'Dealing with difficult people', now fuck off!"

Sue's office is a place where almost anything can happen, and often does, from camel riding, to elongated arms, and ping-pong balls that stay in mid-air.

When working with the staff, she is generally rude. She will either give advice which is clearly useless, or worse will try to solve the problem in an incredibly stupid way so as to humiliate the person and make sure they never return. For example, she once insisted on only helping someone by speaking in crow language.

The only person in the entire hospital that she does care for is Mac the surgeon, the one man that Sue loves more than any other. She will try anything to make him her own. She once raised £10,000 for Comic Relief so that she could kiss his arse, but Mac managed to escape from her. Whilst Mac was in a coma, Sue stole some of his semen to make herself pregnant. She called her child "Simba" and later apparently gives birth to him, while singing "The Circle of Life". It turns out that Simba is a lion cub, a reference to the film "The Lion King". This also ties in with Sue's nickname for Mac's hair, the 'Lion's Mane'.

However, her attempts to make Mac love her only put him off even more, and drive him towards Sue's biggest nemesis, Dr. Caroline Todd. This has not stopped Sue, who has directed several lesbian remarks towards Caroline (and did manage to kiss her briefly, at her housewarming party), and has even tried to murder her on many occasions. Another rival was Mac's former girlfriend Holly Hawkes, who told Mac that he was a father to a four-year-old son, Mackenzie, who had the same kind of hair as Mac. Sue however, managed to discover Holly was lying and she broke up the relationship. But any chances of her getting Mac's attention were stopped when he issued a restraining order against her. However, when Mac married Caroline (she was a bridesmaid) she decided to lower her standards. She now has a boyfriend called Jeremy, who appears to have a large penis.

When Joanna went on the run, Charles, the hospital CEO let her take over Joanna's job, but only for a temporary basis. The fact that Sue was dressed as a squirrel was probably one of the reasons she was not given the full postiton. Sue refers to her ponytail haircut as, "The Squirrel."

In private, Sue likes to wear clothes taken from the "Dead Box", which contains clothes that comes with the corpses that enter the hospital. She also likes funk music, and is quite a good artist. She has painted Dr. Martin Dear in the nude (claiming he had a very large penis) and made a sculpture of Mac naked which she straddles.

Relationships

Caroline

Of all the staff, Sue hates Caroline the most. Her initial approaches are vaguely sexual, even managing to kiss her during the housewarming party. Caroline later becomes increasingly annoyed with her, even considering reporting her for "Meddling", and suing her for slander.

Caroline really attracts the wrath of Sue after she starts to fall in love with Mac. Sue goes to the extent of trying to murder her, failing to do so three times - first with a crossbow, second by trying to make her trip down a flight of stairs, and third via poison.

When Sue gets possession of the tape of Guy and Joanna having sex, she tries to make Guy break up their relationship, which works with only limited success. She also asks Angela to break up the relationship, but again fails. Sue however does manage to stop them by making herself pregnant with Mac's semen which she stole whilst he was in a coma, but she ended up giving birth to a lion. At the wedding, Sue is one of the bridesmaids.

Guy

Guy is the most confrontational character with Sue. This might have originated from their one night of passion which he once let slip in front of Caroline. Sue often teases him about it.Since then, Guy has often been the rudest person Sue has encountered. He once walked into her office, told her that he liked "fuck all" about her, and just left.

There have been a few times when Sue has had the upper hand in their relationship. She once bought him in a charity slave auction for £30, and made him wear a ginger wig to look like Mac. When she had possession of the tape of him and Joanna having sex, Sue demanded that Guy give her the secret of fire and try to break up Mac’s relationship with Caroline, but he failed.

Mac

Sue is totally obsessed with Mac, but he shows no such affection towards her. He will do anything to avoid her advances. Sue never gives up. She once took off all her clothes and waited for Mac to arrive into the office, but instead Alan entered. When Mac did enter, he insisted that Sue put her clothes back on.

During Mac’s coma, Sue was technically given the opportunity to do all the things she wished to do with Mac that he would not do if he was awake. She conducted her own wedding, and she even stole some of his semen so that she could make herself pregnant. She did, but in the end she gave birth to a lion.

After Mac married Caroline, Sue lowered her standards and got herself another boyfriend called Jeremy (played by Jeremy Sheffield). She hinted (indiscreetly) that he had a large penis.

Alan

Sue is often visited by Alan, mostly to complain about his badge being vandalised or to report some other form of abuse. Sue normally responds by ignoring his request and making him leave. Sue once set fire to her desk to make Alan leave, and accidentally set Alan's arm alight. Alan ended up running through the hospital setting fire to things as he went, and extinguishing his arm by diving into an occupied birthing pool.

In one deleted scene, Alan took his revenge on Sue by urinating in her office, claiming that he was, "Doing what you have been doing to me metaphorically all these years".

Joanna

Sue and Joanna fight their own little war between which of them is the more superior, particularly in the area of who does what in the hospital.

Their biggest scrap took place when a documentary crew came to film the hospital. Sue wanted to be in charge, but Joanna took charge. When Sue managed to discover the tape of Joanna and Guy having sex, she used it as blackmail to put her in charge of the project, and forced Joanna to make her fly around the office.

Martin

Martin often asks for personal advice, such as how to make the patients like him. Once, Martin asked her help for finding clothes for Caroline's housewarming party. After rejecting the "dead box," Sue eventually gives him a shirt with spikes on the sleeves that light up in the dark.

At one point, Martin was threatened by Guy when he gave him the tape of him and Joanna having sex. Martin told Sue about the threat and the tape, which Sue promptly stole from him.

Other relationships

Most of the staff try to avoid Sue. None of the human resources staff go to her office. In a deleted scene, Boyce came to see her, whilst she was sitting in a pram, seeing if it would support her baby. He later saw her, hoping she would provide information for the whereabouts of Alan and Joanna, for the price of one bushel. However, unable to find a bushel, he instead paid using a furlong of bras. Sue was unable to find any information however, so Boyce took the bras back.

Angela only came to see her about moving to another job. Sue only allowed her to do so providing she lied to Mac about Caroline having a disease, but Angela did not do so.

The only other staff member to meet her is Holly. Sue is very keen to make sure that Holly does not get together with Mac again, and managed to get her kicked out of the hospital by discovering that Mackenzie was not Mac's son.

Other

Sue White was a nomination on Channel 4's "50 Greatest Comedy Characters" poll, but failed to make it into the top fifty. [cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/C/comedy_characters/nominations/d.html|title=50 Greatest Comedy Characters - D|publisher=Channel 4|language=English|accessdate=2007-09-08]

References

External links

* [http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greenwing/sue.html "Green Wing" microsite biography]
* [http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/C/comedy_characters/nominations/s.html 50 Greatest Comedy Characters Description]