George becomes obsessed with the notion that he is so similar to Neil that, with only one minor change, he too could be dating women like Danielle.
Peterman responds by firing her, but she convinces him to let her keep her job by agreeing to take a trip to Tunisia (the filming location of The English Patient) and living in a cave.
His attempt to start a business in Cuban-quality made-in-America cigars fails when investors recognize they are from the Dominican Republic.
Even though she agreed to move in with George, Danielle changes plans, taking Neil to an overseas clinic similar to The English Patient.
Elaine's plane to Tunisia is about to show Sack Lunch, but is hijacked by the angry Dominicans, who are all wearing "#1 Dad" T-shirts.
[3] The people who appear on the theatrical poster for Sack Lunch are Seinfeld producer Tim Kaiser and his family.
In this respect The English Patient serves as Schindler's List does in "The Raincoats" (5019), as the movie that everyone is supposed to admire.
Club wrote, "Who bears more responsibility for the declining reputation of The English Patient: Elaine Benes, or Harvey Weinstein?
"[5] David Sims, at the same website, reviewed the episode with a certainty that Elaine is its "real hero": "Her finest moment is when Peterman, having gone on about loving the movie, asks her if she's seen it, and she just can't bring herself to lie and say she liked it, instead telling the fatal, but nobler white lie that she hasn't seen it yet.
That means Peterman drags her to it again, of course, but then we're treated to the sight of Elaine sprawled in her seat, bored to the point of death, so we the audience are the real winners."
movie lumbering and muddled can watch over and over again in reruns Elaine Benes' (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) derisive dismissals of and active assaults on The English Patient.