While Jerry dozes on his couch, his television shows a science fiction B movie, Flaming Globes of Sigmund.
Eckman performs a number of hand gestures to identify George's ailment, which he concludes has nothing to do with his tonsils, but with his "imbalance with nature".
He then concocts a tea containing cramp bark, cleavers, and couch grass that would cure him, also prescribing that George stop using hot water entirely.
Jerry notices the same B movie on the hospital television and realizes that he wrote down its title, then remarks that it isn't funny at all.
[3] The doctor's tongue fetish was more extreme in Charles' original draft, but these scenes were cut over concerns that they were too dark.
"[3] In a bizarre coincidence, the episode seemingly makes an outlandish prediction when Jerry attempts to have Tor translate the note he wrote.
[7] St. Louis Post-Dispatch critic Eric Mink also reacted very positively on the episode, praising the Shakespeare reference and Michael Richards' performance in particular.