The Heart Attack

As is often the case in this show, there are vignettes that function on their own. While in the usual restaurant, George thinks he is having a heart attack. After five minutes of convincing his friends he is serious, he's in the hospital. While there, he is there it is discovered he needs his tonsils out. This is expensive and Kramer talks him into seeing his friend (recently released from prison) who is an herbalist. It gets truly wacky from that point on. Try not to fall apart in the scene with the pillow.

Helo there.

This review was made on June 10th of year 2023rd in century 21st.

What was this episode of Seinfeld about?: George has health problems and see's a holestic wizard.

Jerry tries to figure out a joke after watching Larry David on TV.

Elaine likes a doctor

Kramer... Does Kramer.

The story and the production overview: A very nice episode. The holestic wizard did a fantastic job.

Highlight: The holestic wizard scene. He should have returned for at least one more run. Also parademics fighting. I also like how Jerry and Elaine atmre rude to George by asking for his things.

Villian: The health industry

Overall: a very great episode.

What can be learned?: do your research before you see a holestic wizard or you may be turned into an egg plant

Verdict: Dem catch heart attack!

Not much to say here really. I think this was a turning point in Seinfeld.

When George is purple in the back of an ambulance...strange but hilarious.

Seinfeld is the perfect sitcom for this very reason. It makes nothing seem so funny.

Kramer is great in this episode, as he persuades George to go to a herbal healer.

The healer reacts perfectly to the other characters. Like Curb Your Enthusiasm the comedy is superbly crafted.

Another classics, much like all the episodes.

Situational comedy at it's best.

Throughout its run, Seinfeld centered some of its most memorable jokes around doctors and hospitals (most notably in the Season Four episodes The Contest, The Outing and The Junior Mint), a trend that began hilariously in The Heart Attack.

As is often the case, the premise is related to one of George's misadventures: this time, he thinks he had a heart attack while talking to Jerry and Elaine. As it turns out, there was nothing to worry about, at least as far as the heart is concerned: his tonsils, which were removed when he was a kid, have grown back and are heavily inflamed. Surgery would be required, weren't it for Kramer, who is fascinated and repulsed by the subject at the same time and advises George to see Tor Eckman (Stephen Tobolowsky), a "talented" herbalist.

The show's notorious "no hugs, no learning" rule is depicted at its edgiest in this episode: while other examples of shallowness are perfectly believable, the sight of Jerry and Elaine exploiting George's paranoia to scare him borders on downright outrageous. Then again, this is Seinfeld, so such notions as rationality should be tossed outside the window, never more so than when Kramer is on screen - his description of a guy who became autistic during a hernia operation is insanely inspired and instantly amusing. Equally funny, which is generally impossible (I mean, how do you compete with Kramer?), is Tobolowsky's one-scene appearance, a mixture of all the things that make phony doctors look and sound fake, from the odd stare (the actor's trademark in later TV appearances) to the pseudo-philosophical reflections on his patients (upon learning George was born in April, he comments:"You should have been born in August").

Oh, almost forgot: this show also introduces the recurring gag of Elaine dumping her boyfriends for the silliest reasons. The crime in this case? He prefers talking about the tongue rather than jamming it down her throat (okay, maybe it's not that silly). Outstanding.

I watched Curb Your Enthusiasm before Seinfeld. In addition to this episode being a decent episode with two nice stories, appearance of Larry David even in a very short scene made me smile.