The Heart Attack
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| “The Heart Attack” | |
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| Seinfeld episode | |
 Elaine and Jerry visit George in the hospital. |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 13 |
| Written by | Larry Charles |
| Directed by | Tom Cherones |
| Original airdate | April 25, 1991 |
| Season 2 episodes | |
| Seinfeld - Season 2 January - June 1991 |
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"The Heart Attack" is the thirteenth episode of Seinfeld. The episode was the eighth episode for the show's second season. It aired on April 25, 1991.
[edit] Plot
George thinks he is having a heart attack but actually needs a tonsillectomy, leading Kramer to recommend a holistic healer as a better alternative. Jerry warns George that the healer Kramer is recommending had spent time in prison ("The medical establishment, see, they tried to frame him," explains Kramer. "It's all politics.") After comparing the cost of an expensive operation in the hospital ($4000-$5000), and the holistic treatment he would receive (Kramer says "First visit, 38 bucks"), George decides to go with Kramer's advice.
Meanwhile, Elaine dates a doctor she met at the hospital. He shows off his knowledge of tongues by holding Elaine's tongue and pointing out the different parts of it. She is subsequently turned off. Jerry tries to decrypt a humorous note he wrote to himself in the middle of the night after watching a B-movie, presumably that he was going to use in one of his stand-up segments later.
George, Kramer and Jerry, who is only there for comic material, meet the holistic healer (played by Stephen Tobolowsky). Tor performs a number of unorthodox methods to determine George's real ailment, which he concludes has nothing to do with his tonsils, but with his imbalance with nature, claiming that the word 'tonsilitis' is Chinese for "an invasion of heat and wind". Tor also tells Jerry he is eating too much dairy products. Tor then concocts a tea containing "couchgrass," "cleavers," and "crampbark" that would remove his ailment, also prescribing that George is to stop using hot water entirely. George starts drinking the tea, and in the next scene he is shown being transported by ambulance with a purple face, while screaming "I'm an eggplant!". The ambulance gets into an accident after the EMT and the driver get into an altercation over a missing Chuckle, that the driver thought the EMT ate. Later George and Jerry are found in the hospital in neck braces. George indicates that he had the tonsillectomy, and Elaine is in the hospital only briefly to give George some ice cream, indicating that she is avoiding "Doctor Tongue".
[edit] Superman reference
- When Jerry visits George in the hospital, to comfort him, he patronizingly asks George if he would like a Superman comic book to read.
[edit] Trivia
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- A deleted scene available on the Season 1 & 2 DVD contains an entire mini-subplot concerning Elaine and a magazine that the hospital staff won't let her take home.
- This episode marks the first mention of Kramer's friend, who is never seen, Bob Sacamano.
- In the hospital scene, George deviates from the script and clearly calls Jerry a "jerk off" (a phrase usually not allowed on TV).
- This episode features the first of Larry David's many onscreen cameos. In this, he appears as the star of a cheap science-fiction film (regarding which Jerry writes the note "Flaming Globes of Zigmond," which he found funny while half-asleep but incomprehensible while awake). David's next cameo was off-screen as the voice of an elderly diner saying "what did she say? what did she say?" Several times in "The Chinese Restaurant" three episodes later.
George: I look like an eggplant, my face is on fire. Get me to the hospital.
Ambulance driver: You want me to pull over?
George: No, I'm a mutant.
Ambulance driver: I didn't take his chuckles, I don't eat that gooey crap.
George: Why can't I have a heart attack? I'm allowed.
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