E-Mail This Article to a Friend TELEVISION A girl named Suey BY DAVID VALDES GREENWOOD

In the last episode of Sex and the City, a show known to push the boundaries of content for television, its writers finally — if unintentionally — wrote a truly tasteless moment: a segue from the infertile Charlotte’s saying she’d ordered Chinese food to her husband, Harry, announcing he had purchased something Chinese too: a baby for them to adopt.

Unfortunately, time constraints did not allow HBO to include the full scene as written. Only the Phoenix has the cut text:

Interior, gorgeous East Side Manhattan apartment, well above 60th Street. Harry hands Charlotte a photo of their Chinese daughter-to-be.

Charlotte: (Looking at the picture) That’s our baby! (She cries) I know it!

Harry: What shall we call her?

Charlotte: Shu Mai?

Harry: I don’t know — that’ll be hard for her prep-school teachers to spell.

Charlotte: You’re right. We need something slightly Chinese but still American.

Harry: A little yellow and a little red, white, and blue.

(They ponder. It hits them both at once)

Charlotte and Harry: Chop Suey!

(They murmur the baby’s name over and over to the picture, delighted with their good fortune.)

End scene.