Thinking he's having a heart attack, George goes to the hospital where he ends up needing to have his tonsils taken out. Kramer convinces George to see his holistic healer Tor Ackman to save money. Jerry tries to figure out a note he wrote late at night to see if it's good material. Elaine gets a date with George's doctor, who's a little too obsessed with the tongue.
Tropes:
- Ambulance Cut: When George visits Kramer's holistic healer and he drinks a special tea, this happens with him purple, screaming "I'm an eggplant!"
- Big "SHUT UP!": While in the hospital, George is next to a man in great pain with the former lamenting about being in the hospital and the latter responds to him with one. He does this again at the end of the episode, which George responds to by throwing his ice cream container at him.
- Continuity Nod: The jacket Kramer wears in the ambulance is the suede jacket from "The Jacket."
- Driver Faces Passenger: After the ambulance driver beats up his partner and leaves him in the street, Jerry and Kramer blast him for this, prompting him to turn around to threaten to fight with them, even as they're both now yelling at him to watch the road. They all continue screaming at each other until the scene cuts to black and we hear the sound of a crash.
- Hollywood Heart Attack: Subverted as it was George's Hypochondria taking effect after watching a special about heart attacks on PBS.
- Hospital Epilogue: The end has George in the hospital, recovering from having his tonsils taken out and injuries from the ambulance crash.
- If You Die, I Call Your Stuff: Played with by Jerry after he talks to the doctor and finding out George didn't have a heart attack, and he asks if he can have his jacket and a girl he's going with. Elaine gets in on it too, and she asks about his apartment.
- Offscreen Crash: Happens to the ambulance while Kramer argues with the driver, resulting in Jerry and George having neck braces, with the latter having his tonsil surgery.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Larry Charles was inspired to write the ambulance scene by a news report about an ambulance driver and EMT who stopped an ambulance in the middle of traffic so that they could get out and have a fist fight, leaving a dying patient in the back.
- Serious Business: Chuckles candies for the paramedics. The EMT and driver stop the ambulance just to get into a fistfight over who ate the red one.
- Show Within a Show: The Flaming Globes of Zigmond, the cheesy sci-fi flick that Jerry catches on TV in his dream, and sees again in the hospital at the end.
- Skewed Priorities: The paramedics would rather fight over a supposedly stolen Chuckle than to get a sick patient to the hospital. Not even Jerry's offer to just buy a new pack of Chuckles can dissuade them.
- Spice Rack Panacea: Tor Ackman, the holistic healer Kramer takes George to so he can get help from his tonsilitis. The latter drinks an herbal tea that results in the ambulance cut mentioned above. On the contrary, Kramer sees him after the crash and he ends up better, or so he claims considering he doesn't appear for the remainder of the episode...
- The Tonsillitis Episode: While George didn't have a heart attack, he does however need his tonsils taken out. He had them taken out as a kid, but they've grown back.
- Vorpal Pillow: Played with when George pondering about "dying" and asks Jerry to kill him this way. He goes with it with George panicking the second the pillow is on his face and stops when Elaine comes in, in shock.
- You Get What You Pay For: George balks at spending $4,000 for a tonsillectomy at the hospital, and takes Kramer's advice to spend $38 on a holistic healer. The "treatment" sends him to the hospital with a purple, swollen face, and a sprained neck after the ambulance he's riding in crashes. When Jerry cheerfully asks him how much his treatment is costing, George (who can't talk) mirthlessly signals that it's over $6,000.
